Such a common post title around here, unfortunately.
July passed without much in the way of blog posts, but I have quite a few pictures from the end of July that I finally got around to uploading.
In July, Scarlett turned 10 months old! It’s hard to believe that she is almost 11 months old now, and that she will be a year before I know it. She’s a lot of fun right now – she’s into clapping, waving, saying mama and dada, as well as getting into everything. She also loves to swim, refuses to even attempt to walk, and eats more than Jackson on a regular basis. Oh and she’s still as suspicious as ever.
Towards the end of July, we traveled to Indiana to visit Jeff’s family, and then we stopped in on our way home to visit my parents. When we were in Indianapolis, we HAD to fit in a trip to the Children’s Museum because of their newest guest… BUMBLEBEE!
Jackson was a little intimidated by his favorite Transformer and insisted Jeff hold him for the picture, too. Despite his fear, he was pretty excited to see Bumblebee, and I have to admit, it was pretty cool. This Bumblebee is an actual prop from the movies, and it was huge! It’s actually in the entrance of the Children’s Museum, so you could go check it out even if you weren’t interested in going into (and paying) the actual museum. Jackson also spent a lot of time at the dinosaur exhibit. We’ve been to the museum a few times in the past year, but this was the first time we checked out that particular exhibit — I’m surprised we hadn’t spent more time there before.
Scarlett didn’t think the dinosaur exhibit was all that exciting, so I took her to the new Dora exhibit. I thought there might be an area that was more appropriate for her age, and I was right! There was a little garden that she could play in, and she really had so much fun exploring and playing with some of the other littles!
Scarlett and I met back up with the boys and we decided to take a family carousel ride. Scarlett, however, was having none of it.
So, we all road on the bench together, which made Jackson very happy.
Before we could leave the museum, Scarlett had to pretend to be Bumblebee!
Finally, we made a pit stop in Kentuckiana, and we got to see some friends! It was definitely time to update our group photo, because not only do we have two new additions (Scarlett and baby Lara), but the other kiddos have grown quite a bit since the last one!
from L-R: baby Lara, Gill, Kramer, Rece, Jackson and Scarlett
It’s kind of hard to believe that I met all these kids’ mommys when I wasn’t much older than Jackson! 
Oh and here are Jackson and Rece – I am not quite sure what they are doing, but I am pretty sure that they are being a little mischievous, if you can believe that! They might have been playing Jackson’s favorite game (being Jackdog – i.e., pretending to be puppies) or perhaps they were trying to get away from their baby sisters…
In case you can’t tell by the photos, we had a pretty good July! Here’s to hoping there are more blog updates in August!
Should have gone to the Children’s Museum with you…I want my picture taken with Bumblebee too. Maybe next time…