Wanted to update on the latest. For the 4th of July (which also happened to be the day Ashley turned 6 months old), we visited Aunt Kristyn in Virginia for the weekend. Grandma had flown in to visit with Kristyn, so we drove and met them and spent the weekend together. On July 2nd, it was Matt and my 5 year wedding anniversary. Grandma gave us $ for a gift which we used to go out to a nice dinner while they babysat Ashley for us. Aunt Kristyn happens to live 2 blocks from the beach, so it was awesome. We spent time there. Although Ashley had seen the beach when we went to the boardwalk in Ocean City NJ last month, this was her official 1st trip to the beach, and going in the ocean. We had a great time. I was so happy to see that Ashley is a beach bum like her mom and dad. Matt and I could spend the whole week relaxing at the beach, and we had said that we hoped our child(ren) would enjoy it as well. Ashley had fun lounging in her tube, she even had her feet up at one point...lol. She also had lots of fun in the water. She was kicking and splashing. It's the most excited she's been so far in the water (aside from her bathtub, haha). She also had fun sitting at the shore, and digging her feet and hands in the sand, and trying to catch the waves as they came in. Lots of fun memories! When we weren't at the beach, we were playing with Ashley (she was the star of the show), hanging out catching up, and playing some fun games. Daddy and I also took Ashley to meet the Reinhart family, which is a friends family that lives in VA. It was a fun trip. Unfortunately we had to drive back on the 4th of July, and Ashley slept through the fireworks that we saw in passing...however the night before we saw some going off near Kristyn's apartment, so she got to see those at least. Grandma drove back with us and stayed for the past week. She had lots of fun quality time with Ashley, she can't get enough of her!
Other fun updates:
-Ashley is learning how to sit up. In fact, on her 6th month birthday she sat up for a good period of time on her own before tipping over.
-She has been discovering more foods--lots of veggies, starting to introduce fruits, and cereal. She is enjoying most of them and become more skilled at eating them.
-She is noticing Maddie the dog a lot more now. She smiles and reaches out to her. Maddie also comes up and gives kisses. It's cute--they'll be friends.
-A few weeks ago she added "ba" or "ba ba" to her vocabulary.
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