4th of July

As a new stay at home mom I've decided I want to learn how to bake... without burning something or leaving out an ingredient! I needed a reason to bake and the 4th of July was a good one! We invited our friends, the Shockleys and Williams, over to be the guinea pigs for my baking debut! I decided it needed to be festive so I went with a blueberry pie. Yum! Besides overbuying blueberries (apparently the ounces on the container aren't in mass).... at least I had common sense enough to know when I was measuring it out that it looked like too many blueberries and rethink the measurement. Luckily Jamie was close by to teach the difference in mass and volume! (yes I teach that in 3rd grade... but it's much different in reality than concept!) All in all, it was a succes!! And tons of fun to make the lattice top and Jamie taught me how to "fork it"!

We discovered that our neighborhood is the place to be for the 4th! Since we're on the Ohio, we can see Newburgh and Evansville's firework shows, and lots of others. One of our neighbors had his own display that we wondered if we should pay a fee to watch since they were so elaborate. Beck didn't really know fireworks were going off all around him, but he got his first pic with them to prove it! He and his BFF, Mason Shockley, enjoyed playing together though. He also played his first game of cornhole with Daddy!

Also on the 4th weekend, Beck learned to roll over (yaaayyyy!!) AND sit in his Bumbo! We were at Mom's... Beck was taking a nap... he had been crying for a while... so I went in to check on him and found him face down in his crib. Since Mom had put him down I checked with her, but she said she had put him on his back. So, he turned on his own!! I felt bad then for making him cry so long- but hey, he survived!! Now he turns all the time on his playmat, trying to grab onto his toys. He doesn't always get his arm out from under him, but it's a work in progress! Then he saw his bestie, Mason, sitting in his Bumbo, so Beck decided he wanted to give it a go. We had tried 2 weeks ago but he fell over. Well by gollie all he needed was a little time (and a pep talk from Mason) and he got it! We were so excited- Daddy even sang him his favorite song to celebrate!

He is loving his thumb! And so is Mom!!! No more pacifier! I take a pic as often as possible because he's so darn cute sucking his thumb!

Check out what all Beck can do on his videos below!!