Bentley plays the shadow game - but I'm the shadow

Bentley and I were sitting down for lunch and I just started copying her head bob. This turned into a riotous shadow game where Bentley would watch to see if I was copying her. I have never heard her hard giggle before until this funny game. There is one moment early on in the video where you can hear her deep uncontrollable chuckle. Imagine this several times over and longer, and that is what took place before I finally got out the video camera, hoping to capture it again. A couple of notes as you watch. Whenever Bentley plays with my wedding ring, I always tell her "Dada gave this to me" and then whenever she eats YoBaby yogurt, we always point to where the baby is on the container. She likes to point to babies too in her books or my magazines. At the end of the video she bites her own finger, I just had to leave it in the video. If you can't stand to see her cry, just watch the beginning of this video again :)

What the Websters have been up to...

Uncle Josh goes Skydiving - Don't tell mom!
June 12

Bentley and I drove up to Snohomish to watch Josh skydive with friends. I put Bentley in her backpack as we stared at the sky waiting for Josh to 'float' down. Josh and his tandem instructor called out "Bentley!" from the sky - it was sweet. We didn't tell mom that Josh went skydiving until we got home and he was safe :)





A Date night to Remember...
June 20

About three weeks ago now, Drew and I and two of our friends (another couple) entertained ourselves with a unique date night. It boiled down to this: $10 at Bargain World, buying outfits for each other (I picked out Kathy's and vice versa and Drew picked out Alex's and vice versa), the vast greatness of the Tacoma landscape and my self timer and tripod. Here were the results:









Week with Cousin Aya (and Jill :)
June 22

Drew's cousin Jill came to Tacoma for a week with her daughter and we went to the Zoo twice, had a steak dinner to celebrate a belated Father's Day, a couple play dates and a end of week photo shoot. Here is our time in photos:








Taste of Tacoma
June 28

I went to the Taste of Tacoma with my mom and Bentley one of the days and Bentley had amazing time dancing to the music while mom and I ate our traditional yearly Piroshky. The next day, I went with Drew and our neighbors/friends Mike and Brandy. We had a night of good food, music and wine tasting. Despite it being crazy close to Bentley's bedtime, she did so well! and nearly crashed out in her stroller (previously unheard of!)



Bentley was covered in Goat cheese (part of her dinner)





An Off-Roading 4th of July
July 4

We packed up the baby girl and drove to Coos Bay, Oregon to join Vanessa, Chris and Simon and Chris's parents for a weekend of s'mores, 4-wheeling on Sand Dunes, relaxing in the jacuzzi, rousing games of Hearts and Apples to Apples hilarity. Adding to the joy was Bentley peeing directly on me, (stream visible and everything). But oh I still love that baby girl so much. She had a blast with Simon in the jacuzzi 'swimming' and floating around. What could be better than a big huge bathtub?

Drew's First Official Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day first by attending our church gathering this morning. One of our elders, Jeff, spoke about God as our father and He is the only perfect father. Our father's will fail us, and we, as father's will always fall short. Through this we can see God's grace acting as the perfect father. Drew's parents came over and brought a pot roast and I cooked up some soap-covered asparagus. (Drew was in mid-cleaning of the dishes and I thought they were done, so I used the steamer for the asparagus - whoops.) We played Pinocle (a Webster family game tradition where we typically play 'boys' vs. 'girls') and ahem, the girls won, sorry fathers ;)




To top off the evening, we gave Bentley a bath and as we sat her up next to the tub just before we were going to put her in, she surprised us by peeing standing up! A final lovely father's day gift to her dad.

Here she is post-bath with her freshly towel-dried do.


(Too bad this one is slightly blurry, it is my favorite)

Bentley likes to 'Walk'

Bentley is really enjoying holding our hands and walking around the house. Her favorite: Walking from the living room through the dining room through the kitchen, through our back room to the stairs so she can climb up them. In this video, Drew is walking outside with her. You also hear the sounds of summer: the ice cream truck. It frequents our street. Oh what I would give for a Drumstick right now.



Our neighbor kid Cameron ran out to get an ice cream sandwich and the ice cream man gave Drew a free popsicle for Bentley. She has never had sugar before, so Drew let her have a few licks. It was quite cold, she kept switching it between hands. The popsicle was shaped like two crayons attached together. So Drew split it with Bentley.

Bentley is "SO Big"

Last weekend, my mom, Bentley's Grandma Diane, taught Bentley how to do "So Big".