Ball

Well, Rachel says that Chiara crawled a step (or whatever you call crawling movement). I know she scootches very well and she's a champion roller. So the other day she was all with the crawling and Rachel decided to tape it. No crawling to be seen but 35 seconds into a 2 minute tape (this is only the relevant 18 seconds), she did say "ball." Take a listen.

Weekend pictures

Happy July 4th to everyone even though it's not the 4th anymore. I hope everyone had a safe and exciting day or weekend. We enjoyed our weekend very much. It included a visit from Deborah, Katie, and Zach. We also went over to LD & Joey's 10th Anniversary/July 4th party and had a great time.

Asher really enjoyed playing with or snuggling Zach:


He also stole my hat off my head and walked around with it on saying that it was his hat (causing some trash talk from Katie...)



Zach enjoyed snuggling with Lucy:


and jumping on the trampoline:


Chiara enjoyed looking cute and modeling some new clothes from Nana Ina:


Asher also declared for the first time that he wanted to eat his corn from the cob and did a great job of it:



And this one is from the other day. Asher was playing with his doll, "Doll" (yes, that's his name), and declared that Doll was upset and crying and needed to nurse so Asher nursed him. Well done, Ash!

Your Arm is a Map of the World is a Map of the World

We took Chiara to her six month doctor's visit today. We waited in the waiting room (appropriate, huh?) for longer than usual while I sat and paced and obsessed over how incredibly crookedly their bill of patient rights and posters about babies needing tummy time and other decorations were. Then the nurse came to the door and called "Sierra" and I sat there while Rachel looked around and said, "That's us!" Wow. I'm glad she got it because I'd still be sitting there in the waiting room. Guess that serves us right though for the whole unusual name choice.

Everything was perfectly fine of course. Chiara is doing everything they asked about except eating any food and she was happy and all that. Right up until the vaccines but that's pretty reasonable. Then we headed to get something to eat and ended up at Trudy's. So one of the servers went by with a tray on his arm and we spotted his tattoo. Knowing how much Ash would have wanted to see it, I flagged him down (with a very cool, "hey, Dude!") and asked to take a picture. He of course said sure and peeled back his shirt. He did point out that its missing Sri Lanka and Madagascar which Asher will certainly notice as well. So thanks to Bryan for letting us take a picture. His arm is a map of the world is a map of the world.