Esme at the Pool

The title is more exciting than the video actually is...I have been meaning to get more video of Esme at the pool but we live in Seattle so our sunshine is limited.  Anyway, I wanted to get this up before the summer is over...

A visit from Faith and Esme rides a bike!

Last week we were very fortunate to get a visit from my wonderful niece Faith.  She was up here all week and took great care of Esme.  We even got out for a couple of walks!  Thanks Faith!

Then the other night we were at our good friend's having dinner and chatting and Esme took it upon herself to get her helmet on and try to ride this bike!  She is quite the overachiever since you can tell from the video that the helmet is still a little too heavy, let alone the bike.

Esme Helps out Around the House

Esme has become quite the helper.  She is always willing to clean up after herself and she always wants to help her dad clean up.  And I am not being sarcastic, she really is a great cleaner.  Here's the proof.

An oldie but a goodie

So, I was looking back through some of my pictures and decided that I had to post these ones.  They are from a few months ago but I thought the last one was too funny not to post.  On our walks we usually pass a little wooden bridge.  One day Esme decided that she wanted to start climbing on it and these photo's ensued...

This the one I had to put in.  I was busy getting great photo's for the blog while Esme was busy taking a little tumble...no baby's were injured in the making of this post :)

Esme and Stanley

Esme continues to grow and develop and with that comes a pretty good independent streak.  She has now decided, as evidenced by this video, that she should walk Stanley down the trails.  Check it out....

4th of July...Part 2

Here is a little video clip of Esme enjoying the 4th of July parade with her Aunt Lara and her Cahoon cousin's.

Sorry for the finger in the video....amateur, I know.

4th of July...Part 1

When I noticed that I had an extra day off of work during the 4th of July I decided that Esme and I needed to make a little trip down to see her Grandma and Grandpa Cahoon and all her aunts, uncles, and cousins in Utah.  We had a great trip and a lot of fun.  We did not get to see the fireworks together however because Esme is a big fan of Benjamin Franklin, you know....early to bed, early to rise....Anyway, we had a lot of fun and can't wait to see everyone in Utah again soon!

We started off at Grandpa and Nana Cahoon's

 We had a lovely visit with Ashley, Esme's birthmother

 Spent some quality time with the cousins...this is Emily

 And Aunt Chris

 Cousin Ellis

 We enjoyed some delicious breakfast

 And we saw a parade...more to come on this in the next post

 Aunt Lara

 Uncle John

 Nana Cahoon