Love these, obviously

* Just reminiscing about our summer at home.......

*more to come.....

Happy Janey/ Sad Janey

This post is to dispel any rumors that our plane crashed on our way back to Hawaii. The truth is we've been slacking on the blog, SORRY! I recently took the MCAT and Ashley has basically been a single mom. Now I get to look forward to applying to schools and the sweet sting of rejection. Jane is growing so big, she's a lot more fun and interactive now. She's losing her hair but we still think she pulls off the cute baby look quite nicely.

This video was made when Jane reunited with her friend Alysha from down stairs. It might have been all the Tylenol she was on from having her 4 vaccination shots or it might have been that she just really thinks hair loss is funny, or she thinks Alysha is the funniest thing around one thing is for certain though, and that is we have never been able to produce this level of laughter with Jane again.


I thought it would be fair to show our happy little baby's other side too, She can do a pretty convincing Sad Clown (AKA French mime) impersonation. I don't understand it, when we were in Washington my mom did this and her face lit up and she was so happy every time my mom did the How big is the baby routine. I blame it in the ty, ty ty ty ty Tylenol wearing off.

4th of July parade

We attended the Bainbridge Island 4th of July parade with the rest of the Van Aken Family

I don't know how she did it but Jane managed to sleep through most of the event even the noisy police cars and fire trucks. (She gets that from the Frandsen side of the family)

Ashley and I got to meet our nephew Jaden for the first time

The majesty of pyrotechnics

The 3rd of July we went to Liberty Bay's firework show which was pretty awesome, because it was fireworks at a place named Liberty

The 4th we had our own fireworks show. Basically all the money that was spent on mortars and other neat arial fireworks was eclipsed by the cheap yet child friendly fireworks Ashley picked out.

a berry good time

We recently went to Sequim with Dustin, Kristin, Tiffani and kids and had a blast picking our own strawberries and raspberries and eating some along the way.

Jane even helped

we were rather proud of our produce if you couldn't tell

our little monster is developing quite the personality

Jane is starting to develop into a little person. She is definitely a morning girl and that is when the majority of her happy pterodactyl talk comes out, as opposed to her baby profanity, which comes out the rest of the day especially at night when she's sleepy. She must be teething because she can be a little fuss monster and will bite on her hands till they are puffy and raw. Jane is starting to grab things, recognize when her mother is not holding her, and is constantly drooling. In the past 2 days she pooped on me twice once at church all over my one dress shirt I brought with me from Hawaii and the other was right before I left for work in the morning. Although she is a monster we sure love her and enjoy having her in our family (I guess we'll keep her).

She found a use for her headband. To keep the light out of her eyes during sweet sleepy bye.

She is always flashing people

and there is the dribble about to fall off her lip

the bouncy toy

Jane was so funny in this contraption. She just went in circles and tried walking to the kitchen but her socks were to slippery on the tile

The evolution of the 'scry

I thought kids loved it when you said "BOO!" but it seems to trigger Jane's signature Scream-Cry aka the "Skry" I may be a mean parent but it was too funny to not capture on camera

Our little Janey is growing up so fast

The Blessed day!!

Sunday was Jane and Lydia's blessing day. Both of them were so good, no crying. Jane looked so beautiful in her little white mu'mu with her matching headband her mother so lovingly made for her the night before and the silver bracelet we found at the swap meet right before we left.

Jane's first ball game

Although everyone said it had been like 80 or 90 degrees the whole week until we came to Seattle it sure didn't feel like summer when we got here. On Saturday we went to the Mariner game with my grandma (who is a die hard Mariner fan). It was great to be in Safeco again and see the Mariners pull out with a W. Ichiro is her favorite, probably because he went 3 for 4 and scored both runs in a Mariners 2-1 win over the Twins

Landon sporting his exited face because he love Ichiro too (you can't tell because of the sweatshirt but he's wearing his Ichiro #51 shirt) when asked who were the Yankees Landon replied without hesitation "oh they're the bad guys" (with a I'm surprised you didn't know that DUH! tone in his voice) These little ones are so smart.

Jane and Lydia meeting for the first time. They didn't coordinate it this way but they must be cousins or something because they are both wearing pink. (thanks Dustin and Kristin for the pink infant mariners cap, she's a real fan now!) If you couldn't tell Lydia is tipping her cap to me for taking such a great picture.