A couple tricks...

Joella waves for us...



She claps too!



And today she surprised us again by standing for the first time on her own (pulling herself up onto something and holding on). Our friend Chelsa said it best when she said that it's amazing how quickly kids learn new skills! Two weeks ago Joella didn't even know how to sit up on her own.

For those of you wondering if she has started "actually" crawling yet...nope! She still does her lizard/army crawl everywhere! She's so efficient with it that I don't think she has much incentive to do the hands-and-knees thing.

SeaWorld

We felt like getting out as a family yesterday, so we drove to SeaWorld in San Antonio.

The water rides looked so fun but we stayed inside as much as we could to avoid the heat. Joella didn't care all that much about Shamu, but she did have fun watching the penguins, dolphins, and fish.

Her favorite -- she tried to catch this little guy through the glass.

I take that back. Her favorite was actually waiting for the car to cool down and getting to "drive."

Easy to please!

Livin' it up

The last is Joella's signature face... She does it because she thinks it makes us laugh. It does.