It's now mid-August, and the past 3 months have been fun. Baby Emma is now quite chubby and a ton of fun. She's learned to roll over from her back to her stomach, and now does the "turtle", lifting her head up and looking around. She loves to "eat" her toes, but only on her right foot, not her left. She laughs quite frequently, especially when we're being goofy with her, and her cute dimples are simply adorable.
Here's a family photo of us from the Fourth of July this year, which we spent in Chester, CA and Reno, NV this year with family:
During the end of May and early June we watched a whole slew of Jane Austen films, including:which we previously hadn't seen. Some are part of the BBC Jane Austen Collection:
We had, of course, seen all the 'popular' Jane Austen films (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma), but hadn't found these lesser-known ones before. All were good except for Northanger Abbey, which seems dark and oddly out-of-place in her works (in my opinion).
Becky celebrated her 7th birthday party at Water Tower Park in Caldwell. She had a small party with friends from school, and it was refreshing on a nice, sunny, summer day. The party featured water balloon tossing, pin the tail on the donkey, croquet ball racing, and more! Her grammy and grandpa came up from Reno for the occasion, and everyone had a lot of fun.
I recently watched "ABC Wide World of Sports: 40 Years of Glory" on fullscreen DVD, featuring some great footage and commentary on Muhammad Ali and a tribute to recently deceased Jim McKay. I'm not normally a huge sports fan, but this particular title was only 50¢ on clearance at Wal*Mart. And for Father's day, I got a copy of "Transformers" on widescreen DVD, and it was a great film, too. Shia LaBeouf is hilarious, as usual! :)