Smile...

Aw, those eyes...

Practicing for her 6 month photo shoot

Milestone

She's rolling from back to front. Yeah!

And now also front to back! I think babies usually roll front to back first, so I guess Lydia just likes doing things in reverse order. We'll see how this plays out in the future. Hm...

Pfft! Lydia & Raspberries

and she'll do this all day long!

Airplane

It's a Bird...

It's a Plane...

It's Lydia!

Grandma Linda was our babysitter while we celebrated our 3rd anniversary in Door County.

She had her up past her bedtime~Grandma's notorious for getting Lydia riled up~but I guess we can let that slide at Grandma's house.

Here Lydia's being silly and sucking on her lower lip.

Lake Michigan

We went to the Sheboygan beach. Yes, the water was freezing cold. No, Lydia did not go in.

She looked out at the crashing waves.

with Daddy.

and wore her sun bonnett.

and took some time to lounge. Lydia's favorite thing to do at the beach, though, had to be sucking on her swimsuit skirt!

HyVee

Among the Peaches We went to the grand opening of a new grocery store in town. I carried Lydia into the store without her car seat but with courage to try sitting her in the front of the cart. Turns out, she was great with it! 'Just put a blanket down and strapped her in. That head and torso control is showing its advantages: she could see all the activity--and believe me there was a lot of activity (a band, workers, shoppers, samples, displays)--exchange smiles with everyone around, and Mom gets more room in the cart. We like grocery shopping! A kind lady even let us ahead of her in line to reduce the chance of Lydia getting cranky with the long wait. Lastly, I was glad to have a bagger, because that's just good service.