Scouty Crawls.

I was planning on being so good at blogging once Scout got here! I was going to document all the little things she did so I would never forget. Because she is the first, and you have loads more time with your first than with any other...

Yeah...that was wishful thinking.

It makes me sad though because I have this beautiful little girl, and very few records of when big things happened. Well, we do have iphone pictures. So those will have to do.

One thing I do remember and can document is the day Scout learned to crawl. For Labor Day Weekend, Tay and I coordinated with a few of my family members and made the trip to San Diego to stay with my grandma. This is my mom's mom, and the only grandparent I have left. She is 87 years old and is still kicking. She was diagnosed with colon cancer a year ago and survived that like a champ. Sadly, her age is beginning to catch up with her and her mind is starting to get confused. She forgets things quickly and has quite a few falls in the last little bit. Anyway, we decided to make the trip to visit her since we hadn't seen her since Christmas. 

Tay and I left Friday morning (September 4) and drove the quick 5 hours to grandma's house. When we arrived we knocked on her door and she stared at us through the screen and asked "do I know you?" Classic. I had to tell her who we were and then she opened the screen and was excited to see us. Apparently, my mom had decided to make our stay with her a surprise, but forgot to tell us. So it was a little awkward when we started bringing our bags in and talking about what we were going to do over the weekend. But grandma was a good sport about it all. 

That afternoon we just sat and talked with grandma while we waited for mom, Ethan and Megan to arrive. But this is also the afternoon that Scout legitimately crawled for the first time. Grandma has a bar in her family room that has a mirrored wall behind it. Scouty loves seeing herself in the mirror, and when she saw herself she took off for the wall. She fell over and army crawled a few times, but she nailed actual crawling for the first time! It was so exciting and depressing all at the same time. She learned something new that she has been working on for what felt like months, but she was also now mobile which makes my life so much harder ;)

Mom, Ethan, Megan and Maddox got there that night and the party began. We went to the beach everyday which is what we were most excited about. Having grown up in Southern California it's weird how quickly I forgot how much I love the ocean. Sitting in the sand. Diving under waves. Basking in the warm summer air. It was so relaxing. 

A trip to California isn't complete for me without eating at my favorite places: The Chicken Pie Shop and Filippi's Pizza. So we had our fill of both. I ate a disgusting amount, but hey it was a holiday!

Tay and I left Monday night since he had school Tuesday, and the rest of my family left Tuesday morning. It was a quick trip but so much fun! We were happy to see Grandma and reconnect with our Utah family in the place where we grew up.