Summer update

Once again I have gone a long time without posting. This time it is because we have been traveling - we went to Montana to meet up with my family and then to Yosemite with friends. Lots of car time for Abel! He didn't really like it too much, though you can't tell from the picture.

Montana was great! It was a lot of fun to see my family and good for Abel to see everyone, and vice versa. My sister and brother (and their spouses) hadn't been around him since he was two months old, so he had changed a lot. He loved my niece - every time she came close to him he would start giggling. It was really cute. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures because my sister had the good camera and I can't figure out how to get Snapfish pictures onto the blog - they turn out really small when I try to upload them. I'll have to ask about that.

We went to Yellowstone one day - here we are in front of Old Faithful.

Yosemite was fun too. J climbed Half Dome with some friends. It's a 17-mile hike, and they did it overnight. Impressive! I stayed back with Abel and we slept. :) This was our second time visiting the park and I was reminded how much I like it - I think we have decided we will go back every year.
Abel is good! He's getting really close to crawling - he has his army crawl down pat and can get up and crawl for a bit, but just needs to decide to do it. He's eating all sorts of foods now. It seems like eating takes up a lot of our day. He will be 9 months old tomorrow. Time is flying!

I took two pictures to show his crazy hair. I combed it down at first and then tried to get it to all stick up. After a bath it looks pretty funny.


He's starting to pull himself up on things. Sadly, we don't have too many things around for him to pull himself up on, so he's going to get bored quickly. He uses me a lot. Poor kid.