I was ambitious and purchased two big boxes of fruit one peach and one plum... not sure exactly what I was going to do with them. I asked Marcie for help and she she spent the afternoon showing us how to can fruit, make jam, make freezer pies, baby food and other fun fruit-filled activities. We completely demolished her kitchen, but had a blast discovering our inner domestic divas.
This last month has been a busy one for Lyric. She has mastered sitting, gotten two precious teeth, has added the word dadadadada to her vocabulary, loves to play peek-a-boo and has been intently trying to crawl. Six months has flown by, and we have been loving watching her little personality develop.
My parents came down for a little visit and to babysit our kids while we went to see Brian Reagan. Davis and Tatum provided them with a constant supply of book reading requests, and as Tatum puts gleefully puts it, "Grr reads me the really long books and she reads all the pages and says all the words." (I guess when it comes to the obnoxious Disney novel-length picture books, I am not as sneaky as I thought.) Lyric ate-up all of the extra attention and became quite attached to my mom. Davis loved going on walks with Papa and entertaining him with his cool moves and tricks. We really enjoyed having them here and we were all sad to see them go. 
While my parents were here we enjoyed a perfect Californian summer evening outside at a Dos Lagos, a park near our house.
I bought a chocolate bundt cake from Costco, after the kids had gone to bed. I woke up the next morning to Davis' excited squeals. He came in and told me that he wanted some "chocolate fudge bundt cake for breakfast." I have never made or purchased bundt cake, so I am not sure where my two-year-old picked that one up. I don't know who else to credit but the Food Network???
We spent a long weekend camping on Doheny Beach with our friends from AZ, the Carter's. Lots of dirty, sandy fun!
