Instagram and other random photos June-July, 2012

I am getting behind!!  Here are some photos from June and July.  Some are from Instagram, some are not.

We went for a walk in the rain because we thought it would never stop raining anyway.  Jeralyn was warm and dry in her stroller under the plastic rain guard.

I went to the coffee shop...alone!

A pie I made!

Baby slipper/booties I knitted.

Waiting for the 4th of July parade to start.

Watching the parade.

The best fresh donuts I've head in a long, long, long, long time!

Jeralyn playing outside.

Pointing and saying, "Gah!"

Biscotti from the coffee shop.  A little treat for me!

I went to a play with a friend.  Before the play they served a crab dinner.  The crab was really good--the play was not.

Jeralyn and Presley playing together during the play date in Seattle, Washington.

Downtown Seattle--went to Seattle for a couple of days with Jeralyn for a meet-up with some friends.

The space needle.

I loved the way the clouds looked on our walk one evening.

Jeralyn and Quent on the ferry from "nowhere".

Her expression reminds me of what I looked like when I was younger.  Here we were waiting in the airport to fly to Juneau.  We had a slight delay, but it was okay.  The airport police officer commented on how well-behaved she was.  She is a GREAT traveler! Makes her mama so proud!

A view from the airplane!

Little girl in the red dress 7.8.12

I'm getting behind in posting.  I was waiting on Quent to upload his 4th of July photos, but he has been so busy and I don't even know where his camera is hiding.  So those photos will be postponed.  As I have said so many times before, "The show must go on!"  After this post it may be a little while before I post again because I am going to Juneau to visit family (see you soon, Annie!).

Jeralyn playing with her one puzzle.

Then she spotted me and had to come over to say hello.

She makes this face a lot.  It's her concentrated, "What are you doing?" expression mixed with, "I'm about to involve myself in what you are doing".

I've been looking on Pinterest for ideas to keep this girl busy.  She's a very "oral" baby, so everything goes into the mouth.  Because of that most of the great ideas I have found will have to be put on hold.  I thought this "painting" project would be fun.  I put paint into a Ziploc, sealed it, and then taped it to her high chair.  Then she could play with it without getting paint on her or eating it.  Well, she wasn't too impressed (as you can see in the expression on her face in the photo above).  Silly baby!

Pointing 7.6.12

This isn't the greatest quality (taken with my iPhone), but it's still cute!  She wakes up in the morning and from naps inquiring about everything in her room, especially her rocking horse from Grandpa & Grandma Smith.  She points and says, "Gah?" or "Da?"  She just started doing this July 5th.  I love how she's getting more curious about the world around her.  She's starting to sign things to us, too, such as "milk" and "all done".  It's pretty amazing!!

Red, white, and blue 7.4.12

Here is Jeralyn sporting her red, white, and blue colors for the 4th of July!  More pictures to follow!

Eating at the table 7.3.12

I thought I would try the high chair at the table and see how Jeralyn would do.  Big mess!  But that's expected and I'm okay with it!  And the cats help clean up sometimes too!  Here she is eating cottage cheese and vegetables from a vegetable soup. She's a dairy, vegetable, and fruit eater.  She doesn't care for meat too much at this point, but I continue to offer her meat.

Snack Trap 7.2.12

Months before Jeralyn was born I bought a "snack-trap" cup with the idea of putting Cheerios in it someday.  The contraption is to help keep the cereal from spilling out, but she has to get her hand into the container to get the cereal.  Well, someday has come!  She finally figured out how to get the Cheerios out!  Yeah!

Stuck! 6.30.12

I knew this moment would come!  Jeralyn somehow pulled the chair over her and so then she was on her back.  Then she turned over and she wasn't able to get out from under the chair.  I saved her before she got too upset...and I just happened to have the camera near me.  Oh, and the lovely blue stuff on the floor is my little blanket and tape contraption to keep her from picking at the sub-flooring.  Quent took a half-wall out recently and hasn't had a chance to work on the floor yet.

I gave her a pan and lid to play with and make noise!  She enjoyed that!  She's getting more and more busy! I'm realizing I need to add more activities and "structure" to her day to keep her out of things she's not supposed to be playing with.  So sometimes I give her pots, pans, and Tupperware to play with when I'm busy in the kitchen.

Silly! 6.30.12

I cannot remember exactly what she was doing, but I know she was being very silly.  She was bouncing and waving her arms.  She is a delightful baby!  I told Quent the other day that she must have more of an easy-go-lucky personality like him.  She doesn't take things too seriously like her mama does, and she's just in a good mood most of the time (not that I'm a bad mood, but hey, I have my moments!).  She has her moments too, but really, she's a very good-natured little girl!

Wrangell Friends 6.24.12

Jeralyn turned 10 months this day!  WOW!  We went to church (was so good to be "home") and then we went to our friends James and Laura's house for lunch.  The day started out in the mid-70s and by mid-afternoon it was cooler and the clouds were back.  Back to normal once again!  Ha!

From left to right: Helen (that's "Mom" away from home--we stayed at her and Bob's house), Everett, Clara, Jeralyn, and me.

Jeralyn ate lunch outside on the lawn.  How do you like my "capris"?

Me and Laura

After Jeralyn's afternoon nap we drove over to see our friends Nate and Alicia.  They had their second child (a girl named Lily) in April, so it was really great to meet her and hang out with them for a bit.  It was a tricky  getting a picture of the four of us...babies move a lot!

The next day we took the evening ferry and arrived home at 12:15 am.  Jeralyn did great with being transferred from ferry to her crib.  Yeah!  I will admit I shed a few tears leaving Wrangell.  I miss it--I miss its beauty and the wonderful people!

Wedding 6.23.12

Quent and I were the photographers for the wedding, so Jeralyn went to a sitters (Paula Rak) for most of the day.  It was so weird to be without her, but I knew she was in good hands.  It was a record warm day of 84 degrees!  Seriously, it was beautiful, but we were HOT!  We aren't used to warm temps like that!  We took at least 1,500 photos and we probably won't share much of them on here, and if we do, it will be at a much later time.  I quick-edited the photo below to show Jeralyn and I together at the wedding reception.

Ferry to Wrangell 6.21.12

We went to Wrangell for a few days for my friend Joy's daughter's wedding.  We took the ferry over with our truck.  Here is our journey in photos:

Waiting in line to get on the ferry.  You have to get to the ferry terminal 2 hours early to line up.  Jeralyn ate her lunch in the back of the truck.  She was having a good ole time!  Her tooth popped through the day before, so she was happy!

Some people from somewhere (I'm not sure where they were from) were heading over to Wrangell to spend their another year enjoying Wrangell's amazing 4th of July celebration.  They are chain-saw carvers. Interesting folk.  We saw them again later in Wrangell.

When we got on the ferry we watched a float plane fly over numerous times.  Quent thinks the guy was either just having fun entertaining the ferry tourists or had a photography op going on.

Quent enjoying the solarium deck.  It was a GORGEOUS day!

Jeralyn had a good nap inside the ferry in that little tent we bought.  So she was ready to enjoy the solarium and eventually dinner.

Wrangell--how we have missed you!

Quent's beloved Castle Mountain.

Shelly 6.20.12

Jeralyn sleeps with only one stuffed animal in her crib (yeah, I know, so boring--I have my reasons).  And it's a turtle named Shelly (says so right on the tag).  She used to have a giraffe with a cape, but the cape tore a little and I found her crib full of stuffing from the giraffe.  So we had to switch.  Anyway, this turtle has really cute sad eyes that makes even mama want to snuggle with it.  She loves it!  I caught her sleeping like this with Shelly.  So sweet!

Play Table 6.19.12

(Happy birthday, Dad!)

Jeralyn has been standing quite a bit, so I thought it would be fun to have a little play table to stand up alongside and play with.  She thinks it's a lot of fun, especially when I hide little treats inside the little compartment.  This was the day she started to not feel well because of her 4th tooth coming through.  She had a mild fever and just wasn't herself.  Mama gave her lots of love and snuggles!

Father's Day 6.17.12

Quent's first Father's Day!

Cream Cheese 6.17.12

One of Jeralyn's favorite foods is a rice cake with cream cheese spread on top.  She likes to pick or lick off the cream cheese first.  And paint her face with it...