Rebekah Irene Griswold

Rebekah has been to the zoo!  Daniel and I took her to the Detroit Zoo for the first time earlier this month.  We had a great time.  Rebekah seemed more interested in people watching than she did in looking at the animals.  Maybe she just had a hard time figuring out what the animals were; [...]

Rebekah is six months old!  She is 27 inches long and weighs 18 pounds 13 ounces.  We can’t believe how much she has grown!  The doctor was surprised to see how well she’s crawling around already.  She loves to screech as loud as she can, and she has started incorporating consonants in the mix.  When [...]

We gathered up in Grand Rapids for a reunion with Daniel’s side of the family.  It was fun visiting with aunts and uncles and cousins and showing off Rebekah.  She got to spend some more time with her cousin Hunter, who is only a few months older than she is.  We also spent some time [...]

As Rebekah nears that all-important six month birthday, it has been fun to see what she’ll do with solid food.  We started her out on a small teething buscuit one night.  Since everything else goes right in her mouth, it wasn’t surprising to see she knew exactly what to do with it.  I’m not sure [...]

It’s getting hard to keep Rebekah in one spot lately.  When she started crawling, that was pretty exciting.  At first, she was just moving around in the living room, but then she discovered the world beyond the edge of our couch.  As she’s picked up speed, it is getting harder and harder to keep up [...]

Havilah and I picked a half-way point in Lansing for our most recent meet-up with the girls.  We grabbed lunch at a neat cafe and let the girls play in the front lawn.  It’s so fun to see them interacting, even if, to Rebekah, the biggest attraction was Julia’s head, which was covered first [...]