June 23, 2015

We spent another day out at the condo with Chris and Carrie in Orange Beach… totally playing hooky from our real lives.  Miss Selah June had more fun playing in the pool with the kids.  We skipped swimming lessons for the day, and I didn’t push her to practice anything.  We just enjoyed the water.

For dinner we tried to go to LuLu’s, but the wait was crazy!  Two-and-a-half hours!!!  So we just spent some time in the arcade with everybody else and made our exit.  McDonald’s chicken nuggets never tasted so good.

She’s been doing so many little new things lately.  She now will wave at herself in the mirror.  We all say “hey, baby!!” and she waves and grins from ear to ear.  She’s also really into a routine we’ve developed before bed.  Daddy fixes her a bottle and gives her to me in the recliner with her soft green blanket (that matches Sebastian’s red blanket and Satie’s yellow blanket).  I can try to give her her bottle, but she won’t have anything to do with it until that magic moment when Daddy gets YouTube on the tv to play Elmo’s Song.  Then and only then is everything right with the world.  She smiles at Big Bird and Snuffy.  We cuddle and watch our sequence of about 6 Sesame Street songs before she’s fully ready to go to sleep.  It is pretty magical.

She’s also started really hugging.  I noticed it just the other day.  She’s more purposefully holding onto us for comfort.

Today at swim lessons, I laid her down on my legs to change her from her onesie and diaper into her swim diaper.  She just relaxed and turned her head to one side to let the sun shine down on her cheek.  Her eyes were closed, and I realized she really was just bathing in the sun.  It was pretty cute.  We spent a few extra seconds that we didn’t have to soak it in…  The rest of the day would happen soon enough.