First Somersault

Neely did her first somersault today. Ha. It was awesome. She was doing the usual headstand, looking at me and Caso from underneath her legs, and she just leaned forward a little too much, and suddenly her momentum carried her over into a somersault. She landed on her back and just stayed there a second in shock, and then looked at me and started to laugh. I think I saw her try it a few more times during the day, when she did headstands, but she'd get nervous and stop before she started to roll.

She also did a faceplant off of Cason's little toddler sized arm chair. She was sitting in it, playing a sort of peekaboo game with Cason, and suddenly popped up to standing and did some crazy sideways move before I could even react. She fell over the arm of the chair right onto her face. I of course was sure her neck was going to be broken or something, and called Jess to come home. He got there in time to have her grinning at him as he walked in the door. He comforted us for a few minutes and went back to work. She had a rugburn on her little nose though, poor girl.
She's a crazy dancer the last few days, dancing on her knees as usual, but it's evolved into more of a bouncing move like Cason likes to do. She gets all excited about the music too and squeals and screams and laughs while we all dance.

She's been wearing cloth diapers for a few days now. I've always kind of wanted to try them, but was intimidated. But our kids all seem to have sensitive skin and get rashes from about 6 months to 2 years, no matter which disposables I try so I thought I'd finally try cloth. So far it seems pretty simple, especially since you have your choice of all different kinds now. I should have started much sooner, would have saved us a lot of money, not to mention how much less trash we'd be creating. She looks awfully cute in them too.
Paige was sick last night, so we spent the first half of our day being lazy.
But she felt better all day, so eventually we realized how beautiful the weather was, and spent our afternoon outside.
I even got to cuddle a napping baby on the porch swing. That swing has to be one of my most prized possessions.

The weather's been awesome for several days. A few days ago it was rainy outside and cozy inside.
And so cool out today. Some days I feel too lazy to make it outside, but every time we do I remember how much better it feels out there and tell myself to do it every day.