this week in pictures

rayna's taken up a new instrument this week, trombone. she's also getting really good at pulling herself to sitting, she's not exactly crawling, but she's kind of invented her own version of scooting/army crawling/rolling to get just about wherever she want's to go, it's sorta cute, but hard to video :). also today at church she pulled herself from sitting on the bench next to paul to standing and looking at/playing with the kids behind us. i missed it :( i can't believe how fast she's starting to really get around, and she's not quite 8 months!

i know, today's katharine's birthday, not grandma's, but afton was singing this song all week, and i finally had to get it on video,. so a little premature, but happy birthday grandma! *also please note the little orange thing in her hand, it's play-dough stuffed into a water bottle cap that she made herself and called birthday cake. i'm not exactly sure where the ideas of birthdays (or especially the song came from, we haven't had any in our family in a while, except for jacob's over christmas, i'm guessing maybe nursery?)

i mostly just love it that afton's actually singing now. she's also started singing her ABC's ("a-b-c-d-e-f-g-e-e-e-e-double-x-y-B-Y-U!") and a few others. music to my ears!