Baby Blessing and fun pics

Logan's cousin Terry blessed his and Heather's baby this last Sunday in St David. Titan is such a cute boy. I sm jealous!! I am glad I was able to go - it is a happy plus that we live close to Heather's parents in St David. Now we hope we will see more of their family. I was really glad to see Doeshann there as well. It has been too long since I've seen her! Here are some pictures.

Heather, Titan and Terry

Terry, Doeshann, and Grace


Libby sitting in her highchair eating noodles - she loved 'em!


Grace in our field of weeds. At least the weeds are green!

Swimming Fun

We spent the day at Conan and Chrissy's house last weekend and had a really fun time. They had some friends and their kiddo's there, and it was a fun little kid party all day. Here are some pictures of Grace swimming and going down the slide. She is fearless!!

Da, Daddy, Dabby?

Grace is spouting off words as if the dam burst, and all the things she has wanted to say are just spilling out. It must be exciting for kids to finally figure things out and learn to talk. Grace has turned into an even happier girl now that she can get her point across in words. I wonder at some things though. She will spout off a new word and get all the syllables correct, and then degenerate the word down to just its first syllable. It was fun to listen to her say "triangle" for the first time. Now it is just "tri."

Another thing (and the name of this post) is what she has called Logan. For along quite a long time she called him "Da." In the last few months, has called him "Daddy," which I think is cute. The last two days, however, it has degenerated to "Dabby." What???? She will ask, "Where's Dabby?... Dabby? Dabby? Dabby?" and look around. Hmmm. I am sure it will fix itself (with the help of me repeating Da-DEE everytime). Anyway - that is what has been going on at the Beach home lately!

Creeped Out!!!

Just look what I found on my front porch the other day!



I screamed - and not for ice cream. I have not been the same since. Now I am just sure that they are everywhere. Every time I feel something on my leg, or back, or arm I freak out. I need to get it together.

We understand that these great little creatures are a lot more active during the monsoons, so we shouldn't have to deal with them all year. Comforting? Not to me. I will just have to figure out how to tarantula proof our home and yard! Or move.