The first thing we noticed upon arriving in St.Louis was the humidity. When we opened the car door in the Cooper driveway, I felt like we were in a rain forest. It was so sticky and steamy out! But it did not take long to get used to the different climate and we had a great time that week. Ava LOVED exploring the inside and outside of Papa's house.
The second week we took our family vacation. First we spent the weekend meeting up with my parents, sister, grandparents, great uncle, and cousin. It was so neat to see everyone. We shared a condo with my parents and sister, and my grandparents and cousin had another condo across the street from us. This was the first time any extended family has had the chance to meet Owen. Ava had also changed a lot since our last visit. I wish we could see everyone more. Wisconsin to Oklahoma is a long, long, long drive.
Owen also had his first swim while we stayed at the condo! He really like splashing and kicking in the water. He exclaimed "geee!" a lot. Here's a pic of his cute little board shorts.
We also made a little trip to a blueberry farm about 45 minutes away. We were about a week too early to pick a bucket full of blueberries, but we were able to find a few ripe ones. We thought Ava would really like it, but she wasn't too interested. at all. Owen dug it, though.
After the weekend with extended family we attended a Family camp through Kanakuk Kamps. It. was. wonderful. I would stay all summer if I could. The facility is so nice and clean, there are tons of activities to do (or not do), the food is delicious (and plentiful...very important) and the staff is great. The staff really set the experience apart from any other vacation option we could pick. They are 100% helpful, polite, friendly, eager to help with the kids,and wonderful. And making the whole trip possible: both kids kept to their eating and sleeping schedule beautifully, which was an answer to much prayer, and everyone was healthy the whole time. Here's a goofy pic of our fam headed into the pirate event at Kamp!
After our week at Kamp, Steve worked another 3 days from the St. Louis office before we packed it up and came back to WI. We arrived home at 9pm, and the first thing we noticed when we opened the car door in our driveway was how cold and dry it was. Aaaah....home sweet home. It reminded me of the road trips we'd take to CO, when we would arrive at Woodland Park and realize we were way under-dressed for the weather! Such a great feeling! So we're still wearing our fleeces and jeans up here, esp in the evenings. LOVE IT.
On the kid front, which I know is the only reason my 3 readers even look at this blog...
Owen is crawling! He's been sitting up by himself for a while, even moving from his tummy to sitting all by himself. In fact during our trip, he was sitting up in his pack and play after his nap when I came in to pick him up. It was a very strange sight for this mama. Having mastered sitting, he started "crawling." This included doing an army crawl and the use of his head as another limb. Knee, knee, hand, head, hand, knee, knee. After about 3 weeks of this action, he finally did some official crawling this morning, without the assistance of his noggin. It was very exciting. Ava was cheering him on. "Come on, buddy! You're almost there!" His source of inspiration and motivation was a hot wheels toy. Making daddy proud already. Ava's motivation to finally do some legit crawling was my mother's silver James Avery bracelets. The kid liked the bling at an early age.
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