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So, I'm a little behind. We've been busy with visitors and traveling, so it's been a whirlwind around here! It is a rare treat when we get visitors, but last month we had four different people come to stay with us on four separate occasions! The boys were thrilled to have visits from their Uncle Jordan, Aunt Lisa, Grandma and Grandpa! The visits were just too short, so you all have to come back!

After our visitors, we did a bit of traveling of our own. Jared took a week off, and we went to Atlanta to visit with Nana & Guka. While there, we went to White Water, and the boys had a great time! Aidan rode on a water slide (by himself!) where he rode down on his stomach on a mat down three hills. Jared and I took turns riding in the lane beside him, and when I rode down, I spent the whole time panicking because I was helpless to do anything if Aidan needed me. He had a huge grin on his face the whole time, so I worried for nothing! He wanted to go again and again, but Mommy & Daddy eventually tired out from carrying the mats up the hill each time.

The boys are definitely becoming best friends. We all know that with being best friends comes being best enemies, and they are no exception to that rule! I spend a lot of time each day breaking up fights over who hit whom or who pushed whom off the couch. If I'm cooking or cleaning, I can poke my head around the corner and see the boys playing so well together. If I watch long enough, I'll always get to glimpse a little shove or slap too! Neither of them do it any more often than the other; Austin is just much more brazen about it! Aidan will try to slyly shove Austin over (as I watched yesterday when I was watching them play so "cutely" together), but Austin will hit and shove right in front of me. He's gotten very familiar with time out lately. He will even hit Aidan sometimes and then run and sit on the stairs because he knows that where he's heading! :-) Austin is a HANDFUL, but that sweet face makes you forget it pretty easily!

Austin is really talking a lot now. He'll repeat almost any word we ask him to say, so we're happy he's finally decided to join in on all the conversation here! His legs are long enough to reach the pedals on his bike now, so we've been practicing that a lot more. He does ok with the pedals, but he has no clue when it comes to the steering. He definitely has not put it together that turning the handlebars affects the bike; we'll get there though! He wants to keep up with Aidan, so he'll catch on quickly!

For Fourth of July, we went to a festival on Hilton Head Island. It was both the boys first times staying awake for fireworks, and they handled it wonderfully! They ran around the big open field, jumped in the jump house and ate lots of pretzels from our friends' pretzel shop waiting for the fireworks to begin. It really could not have gone any better, and Jared and I just kept remarking to each other how great the boys were the whole night!

I'll update with pictures as soon as I upload all the new pictures we've taken!