I guess every 3 months is about all I have time for on our blog! The babies are growing up so fast, it is crazy. Here are some highlights!

April 24- Jocelyn's first erupting lower central tooth
April 13- Jackson rolled from back to belly
April 30- Jocelyn sits up by herself
May 2- Jackson gets two lower teeth and Jocelyn gets second tooth
May 2- Jackson sits up by himself
June 4- Jocelyn rolled from back to belly
June 7- Jackson said mama
June 9- Jackson said dada
June 15- Stranger danger for Jocelyn begins (right in time for our family reunion)
June 30- Jocelyn is so happy and grew out of stranger danger
July 3- Both babies can hold their bottle up by themselves
July 4- Jackson pushed himself forward from crawling position repeatedly to get to a ball
July 4- Joceyln held her arms out for me
July 15- Jocelyn left central incisor showing: Jackson's upper two lateral incisors showing
July 22- Jackson's left upper central incisor showing
July 24- Jackson pulls himself into sitting position from rolling
July 30- Jocelyn says baba, mama, dada
August 2- Jackson repeats mama after me
August 2- Both babies crawl up my legs to be held

We went on an awesome vacation to Utah for a month this summer and loved every minute of it. We spent a week in Aspen Grove with the Cope family reunion, a week in Hobble Creek for the Hilton Family reunion, a few days in Zion's with the Cope immediate family, and spent the rest of the time hanging out with friends in Provo and catching up with everyone we are dearly missing out here in Cleveland. Since we've been back, it's been great to get back into a schedule, though it means that Austin is back in school again. Now he is a second year at Case Western and I am a soon to be dentist's wife and president of CADA, a dental-student spouse association. It's been a bit of work but it's fun being involved in something with the other student-spouses and planning the activities and dental-education opportunities we will have here in Cleveland. While Austin has been gone, the babies and I have gone to the zoo and to the beach (and running several errands everywhere else of course). The babies loved the beach, sitting on the edge of the lake with me, watching the waves roll over their little legs and onto their bellies, pushing them back a little. But mostly they loved grabbing the sand and the rocks and trying to eat them while I spent most of my time preventing this. They are so cute in their little swimming suits. They were tuckered out by the end of the day. They did really well at the zoo too considering it was blazing hot outside and they didn't really understand the concept of looking at animals.

The babies are growing so many teeth and are so active. It's gotten a little bit more tiring now that Jackson is mobile and Jocelyn rolls around everywhere. Jackson pretty much does the inchworm everywhere, scootin' up on both knees and then back onto his belly. On July 26th Jackson took a tumble down two of our stairs. He wasn't hurt and didn't even have any bumps, but he was scared for sure. I was probably more scared than he was! That will never happen again, because now we know to always close those double doors that lead to the stairs. Jocelyn has become a happy little lady that loves to laugh and smile, especially when Jackson is playing next to her. They both cry when I leave the room and laugh and smile when I come back in. They definitely know who their mama is! They both love bath time and laugh at each other the whole time while they are splashing around. Jackson splashes so hard the water splashes right out of the tub. Jocelyn laughs whenever he splashes her in the face. Jocelyn splashes her hands a little more ladylike. It is so fun to see them together. They love being with each other, and can tell it's not the same when the other one is not playing on the floor with them. They both eat solid foods like champs and eat little puffy snacks and love them. They are really excellent babies, I could not ask for better.