Happy 4th!

This day has been awesome - we didn't host a barbecue this year (as we did last year) but we headed out to one in Medford at the home of one of our small group members' apartment. It was a neat mix of people we knew and people we didn't know, and Eden was very patriotic, rockin' a cute little red jumper and some sweet shades:


We got to hang out with Jeremy and Carol and Soren, who are leaving next week for Indy... Here's Eden lovin' on her buddy:


We hung out there for a couple of hours before Eden got a little warm and tired (Boston finally realized it was SUMMER!) and we took her home, gave her a quick bath to cool her down, and she headed down for a quick nap before dinner. When she woke up, she had dinner and then the three of us were playing in her room, and guess what happened? She STOOD UP!! ALL BY HERSELF!!* (Sorry, we didn't get a picture of that one...) She was leaning toward me, sitting down, and then she just decided to stand, and she slowly got there. I scooted away and she just stood there grinning, holding a toy!!

We then commenced squealing with excitement (which seems to be what we do with milestones), and she smiled really big and kept on standing. Then she slooooowly crouched down to sitting, and we commenced kisses and snuggling (which is what we do all the time...). Then we spent the next half hour trying to get her to stand up again, or walk. Of course she didn't but we were excited so we didn't really care!!

She went happily off to bed, and now I'm taking some time to blog (finally!) and sipping on a fuzzy navel while my husband watches some TV - ahhh, relaxation. Later we'll watch the fireworks and hit the hay in preparation for our usual crazy Sunday!

Happy Independence Day!!!

*This was particularly funny to me because I had just this morning read Lag Liv's post about her weekend and noted that Landon had done the same thing on the 4th last year (well, technically, the 5th, but close enough)! Must be something about Independence Day, I guess!