It's already June?!?

It's hard to believe that Archer will be 6-months old on Friday. I'm amazed how fast each day flies by and how much he's changing. It's, once again, been a crazy couple of weeks. Aunt Mandy, Chayse and Ava visited for a fews days at the end of May. Archer had a blast playing with his cousins! Then, Uncle Brett visited for Memorial Day weekend and Uncle Mikey came up for the last part of the weekend. It was great to have a house full of boys!

Last weekend we had a Tour de Iowa (Iowa's french, right?!) attending two weddings. We set up camp in Okoboji on Friday night, woke up Saturday and drove to Ft. Dodge to see John & Julie Gaffey's beautiful ceremony, then drove back to Okoboji to enjoy Matt & Jodi (Simpson) Connolly's reception at the Pavilion at Arnold's Park. It was really great to see a lot of old friends who we don't get to see as often as we would like. Best wishes for love and lots of laughter to both couples!

This past weekend was full of a lot of much-needed downtime at home (a.k.a. endless loads of laundry, cleaning and yard work).

In the past few weeks we've pulled the solids from Archer's diet and switched to soy formula. We're in the process of trying to figure out what was causing a rash on his chest and figured we'd start back at square one. He's continued to have a stuffy nose and some coughing... so there I'm starting to think that he may have some reaction/intolerance to something he's eating/drinking. We've chatted with the doctor a few times, but since he's not having any serious side effects, we're taking steps/changes slowly. We'll chat about it more after his 6-month checkup in a few weeks.

All that aside, Archer is still the amazing, funny, good-natured little boy that he's always been. Lately he's had a lot of fun playing with his feet and making all sorts of noises. He's nearly sitting on his own (with a little teetering and tottering here and there). Check out dropshots for the most recent pictures.

We hope summer is finding you all happy and well! We hope to see many of you at the Sims Family reunion in Okoboji next month. And we're excited to have Grandma Cindy babysit for the first two weeks of July while daycare is on vacation! We're so blessed to have all of you to share our lives with!

P.S. Congratulations to Nick and Alison on the birth of their little man (who we were lucky enough to meet at the Gaffey wedding) -- Reuben Anton! What a gorgeous little boy blessed with two great parents! We look forward to lots of fun with you guys!