Crawly 4th of July

We celebrated our nations independence with burgers, rifftrax, and Paul declaring his own independence in his sudden accelerated interest in crawling. Earlier this week he was barely struggling along like this:

It only took another day or so to get to this slightly more coordinated effort:

And now he suddenly has the energy to crawl all around the house! Paul was surprisingly okay with fireworks. A little scared at first, but he got used to them. Our sweet little neighbor Kate gave me a lot to look forward to in how excited she was about the fireworks. Hopefully Paul is equally as enthusiastic in a couple years. Here Lee and Paul are excitedly waiting to start lighting things on fire!

And lastly, we share our new soothing technique for our worked up little guy: