Teeth, Swimming Lessons, and Our Garden

Our first big news is Liam's first two teeth! Both of his bottom front teeth cut through two Sundays ago so he got to go to church and show them off. We had noticed Liam was teething for the last couple of months but he wasn't too bothered by it so we were surprised when they suddenly popped up! He's a happy and easy going little guy.

Last week, Mattie and Ella both started swimming lessons for the first time ever. They both attend at the same time and in the same pool but in different classes. After only five classes, they both are doing so great. It helped a lot that their best friends from church (that's Ella's friend Olivia with her in the first picture) are in class with them. After two days, Ella was under the water more than she was out of it-without holding her nose!

Also, for the past two weeks our garden has been producing vegetables abundantly. Here are pictures of Mattie and Ella posing with our first cucumber and Mark and the girls (and a neighbor kid) holding up our potato harvest. We've been enjoying fresh peas from the pod every day as well as zucchini and beans. Yumm! I've also included a couple of pictures from recent outings-the first one is of the girls and I posing with my favorite superhero, Wonder Woman, at Marine World (now Discovery Kingdom). And the second picture was taken at an exhibit at the Marin County Fair last week where Mattie and Ella got to meet Storm Troopers-also some of our favorite movie characters! I'm sure both times the girls were wondering who in the world are these strange people and why are mom and dad so excited about taking pictures of them?

We'll be back with a new post in two weeks when we get back from our trip to Newman Lake, WA with Mark's parents. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer vacation!