Throughout the time that we were in the park this weekend we saw buffalo, elk, a coyote, a huge wolf, bald eagles, pronghorns, cranes, squirrels, and ducks.
On Friday the other Reading clan (Jeffrey, Keri, and Maddie) joined us. We began our day by seeing Old Faithful and the geysers around it.
Natalie sure enjoyed having her cousin with her throughout this trip!
Then we hiked to Lone Star Geyser.
Mike and Natalie hiking to Lone Star Geyser.
The two kiddos were so tired that they eventually gave in and took naps and let their daddies do all the hard work.
We took our picture with the Lone Star Geyser while it was doing one of it's minor eruptions.
Lone Star Geyser is an awesome geyser that has a couple of minor eruptions and then a major eruption. The major eruption happens about every 3 hours and after it is done it has a huge steam let off. It was an impressive sight watching it all!
On Saturday we went to Mammoth Hot Springs and wandered around. We did the lower and upper terraces area near there.
Mike and I got a kick out of watching other people's reactions when they saw Maddie pushing her baby around in her stroller. Maddie had to have her stroller since Natalie was in hers.
Natalie and Mike checking out the Artists Paintpots.
Can you tell that this girl loves water?
And wandered around the Bean Museum at BYU.
(Don't worry, right after she learned to do this her crib was put down as far as it could go. Don't you just love the crazy nap hair too!)
A few things about Natalie:
- She loves to eat! She doesn't like commercialized baby food and only wants "big people" food and gums it since she doesn't have teeth. She likes to eat anything we do, but she really favors peas and strawberries and absolutely LOVES bread!
- learned how to drink out of sippy cup a little over a week ago. She prefers the sippy cups with straws.
- is crawling around more and faster. She still does her army/inchworm crawl if she wants to get somewhere faster. But she is learning to crawl using one knee and the other foot.
- learned to pull herself up standing about 2 weeks ago. She also learned to get from her stomach to a sitting position about a week and a half ago.
- is VERY social and loves looking and interacting with other children. She is also social with adults too.
- is a little jib-jabber and will babble all the time until she is around a group of people and then she is usually quiet and watches them.
- she is waving more now to others than just to Mike and I.
- is starting to throw tantrums when she doesn't get things her way.
- gives the best loves after waking up in the morning and after naps!
- loves being outside, swinging, and going for walks.
