Little Yeds

by Teri

Our craziness of never being stationary for the next 20+ years has begun. Rachel is crawling everywhere and wants to get into anything that belongs to Mommy and Daddy. We have had some whirlwind couple of weeks. In the last 2 weeks we have been to and from Illinois visiting Jeff's extended family and were accompanied on the trip by Grandma Lehmann and Aunt Megan. We had our share of fun and even left her with a non-family member babysitter for the first time. Amazingly, we weren't very apprehensive. Of course when you realize how small the world really is, it's easy to leave your child(ren) with a stranger who's a friend of family friends, even if you're 1,500 miles from home!!

On a busy note, Rachel has learned to pull up. Not only to her knees, but all the way to standing. I turned my back earlier today and turned back around to find her like this.....

Well, the picture was actually of the second time she stood up on the bookcase. At some point during the day she also pulled up to hold onto the coffee table. She also decided to stand up in her crib this evening when we put her to bed so she cried for a while and we went to check on her thinking she might be hot (since our A/C doesn't work!!), but instead we found her standing there, so we promptly moved her crib down as low as it can go.

Since Rachel is a Lehmann, she has to learn to be a good traveler and we certainly put her to the test over the last 9 days. She met all kinds of new people and slept in strange places and did it with a mostly happy attitude. She's been a trooper.

On a side note, the adults also had fun on the trip to Illinois. We saw some cool clouds, I tried to take some cool pictures (though quite unsuccessfully), we made strawberry rhubarb jam(picture below for those who don't know what rhubarb is) , went to Jeff's cousin's wedding (isn't she beautiful?).....

We also ran across this RV that we had passed sometime before we stopped for lunch. He had a little car trouble so we managed to pass him again.

Well, I'm sure there's more excitement in our lives, but we'll post another update soon! Welcome to summer!!!

The Lehmanns