Karis is almost 6 1/2 mos old already! She has grown and changed so much over the past month. I don't know how much she weighs, but we'll find out at her check-up in a few days. I'm guessing she's about 15.5 lbs or so. She's sitting up really well and even started scooting on the floor today. Not exactly a crawl yet, but she's getting really close.

Look at those long, beautiful eyelashes - she and Caleb both get those from their daddy.
She also gets those big round eyes from her daddy - love those big blue eyes!

She is so funny when she gets excited - looks like she's about to take off

Karis has been sleeping better over the last 2 weeks, thank goodness. We've had a few rough nights, like the one a few nights ago when I was up with her for 2.5 hours in the middle on the night, and then once I finally got her down, Caleb woke up at 5:30am - so I only got 3 hours of sleep that night! That was brutal. But last night she slept for 9 hours straight - that was glorious. Now that she can roll over, she obviously prefers to sleep on her tummy and has been sleeping longer this way.
The Bumbo is such a great invention...
This is from the 4th of July, but it's one of the few good pics I have of me and her
Karis thinks her brother hung the moon. She laughs harder and more often for him than anyone else.
Such a good pic of Karis and her Mimi
She's getting so long!
Sleeping in the Beco at a baseball game

She is constantly chewing on her fingers or anything else she can get her hands on. We should have a tooth pretty soon.
I love this picture and her beautiful blue eyes!!!

Conversations with Caleb

Where to begin? This kid is hilarious! It has been so much fun to watch Caleb's imagination take off over the last month or so. I think I laugh more now on a daily basis than I ever have before.
Here are some of my Conversations With Caleb: (warning, the last one may be a little crass to some people, but hopefully the humor will outweigh the rest)

- Marc took his preaching classes over the summer and Caleb got to watch him practice. A few weeks ago I left my Bible sitting on the couch and got up to do something. Caleb went over to my Bible and started turning the pages and this is what I hear:
C: "Sermon, sermon, sermon. Direction our life. Sermon, sermon, sermon"
L: "Are you preaching a sermon about the direction of our lives?"
C: "YEAH! Sermon, sermon, sermon..."

- Caleb has started to tell us stories. The other night at the dinner table this is what we got:
C: "God pushed daddy. God pushed daddy and daddy fell on ground. Daddy fell down."
(where he got this, we don't know!)

- Caleb has a stuffed monkey that he always sleeps with. The other day while putting him down for a nap, he lifted up his shirt and started trying to "feed" his monkey. He even burped monkey after and exclaimed "oh, that was good burp monkey!"

- We've been introducing Caleb to potty training and decided to use the anatomically correct terms. So, he's really fascinated by it all and these are the conversations we get:
C: "Mommy, that's my tuna!"
L: "No, Caleb, that's your penis"
a few days later....
C: "Mommy, you no have your penis?"
L: "No, Caleb, I do not have a penis."
and the next day...
C: "Mommy, you no have your penis?"
L "No, Caleb I don't have one"
C: "Mommy, go store buy penis!"


At a Rough Riders game with Gramps and Grammy

Caleb has a new cousin, Rylee Richards! She is beautiful.

I have never seen Caleb and Grayson have as much fun playing together as they did the other day. It was so special to watch, and I can only imagine the trouble those two will cause together when they get older!

Helping me make cookies
Love, love this sweet boy of mine
He loves to vacuum and is actually pretty good at it!
The other day Marc let Caleb play with the bubbles by himself, and this is what we got: our kid using bubble solution as shampoo :)