Conversations with the Ocean and Standing on Her Own Two Feet

Christianna and I were teaching Sylvie how to "listen to the ocean" in a seashell. Sylvie held the shell up to her ear and listened quite intently. Then with a gasp and a smile she took the shell from her ear and put it over her mouth and said "Hello ocean!"

Grace, brave one that she is, is now letting go quite often while she's standing up. She pushes her little walker cart all over the house. A good portion of my day is spent removing her from the side of the oven and taking her to another part of the house only to find that she's beat me back to the oven. It's all a great deal of fun for her.

We hit the pumkin farm again this year. This time Papa Alessi got to go with us. Here are a few pics.