My how times just flies...

So many things have happened since the end of February. Helen made her first road trip, started eating solid foods, learned to sit up on her own, took a day trip to Japan, and went swimming!
We planted Helen a tree in honor of her first year of life. It started out a little bigger than her, but at the rate she's growing we expect her to catch up to it quickly. That all depends on how much rain we get here though.





She's starting to like being on her stomach more,








but this is the closest that we've come to seeing something that looks at all like crawling.







We all loaded up in to the rented minivan and went to Lafayette so that Helen could visit Grandma and Grandpa and she also got to meet a lot more new relatives and good friends.






The weekend after we got back we decided to hang out in the pool with our new neighbors. Mom may not be back in a bikini, but Helen seemed to have no problem sporting hers.






Then we took a day trip to Japan. Ok, the Japanese Gardens in Fort Worth. We find it hard to go to the supermarket some days, let alone Japan. But we thought it was fitting since Uncle Joe and Aunt Nerdo were actually in Japan.





They did bring Helen back this cute outfit. The second she put it on, she started moving FAST, like a ninja...see??










But in all seriousness, we are all having a great time and hope to see even more of our family and friends in the near future. As always, I have uploaded even more images onto our Flickr page, so please feel free to go and check them out.