7 months

Gloria is seven months old today. She's been eating up a storm this past month and has tried pretty much every food you can think of. She's getting much better at her pincher grip and can now feed herself pretty well.

 We had a fun but quiet month of July. Charlotte had a week of frozen dance camp while school was out. She came back after break as a fuzzy bunny meaning that she is officially a pre-kindergartener. This is a big and exciting step for her, and it also means that she leaves her lovey at home when she goes to school! She has also been continuing her amazing progress at swim class, jumping into the pool, swimming the entire length under water! It's been truly amazing to watch her just turn into a little fish. 

We had a visit from our cousins Ronnie and Elliot and we celebrated nanny's 70th birthday. We've also been getting to know our new nanny Melanie. Gloria loves her and smiles every time she comes in the room. Charlotte is a little more tentative and is still getting to know her but I think they will become fast friends. 

I have been back at work for three weeks and it has been going fairly well. The first week or so I was kind of disoriented and had trouble finding all those professional epidemiology words which I had not been using for the past six months, but now I'm back in the swing of things.

The biggest news is we bought a house. It's in Matthews Beach walking distance to the beach park and adjacent to the Burke Gilman trail. We're pretty excited about it, but not looking forward very much to moving our stuff at the end of September.