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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Father's Day and Florida

We celebrated Grant's first Father's Day this year, yay! Harper bought daddy a new set of golf clubs and he is excited about learning to play golf. I also took Harper out to have a surprise mini-session with the photographer I used for her newborn photos - Jennifer Knapp. He absoltuely loved that as well. I hope to have the proofs to post from that soon so you all can see what a ham she is in front of the camera.

I threw together a little slide show of our recent vacation to Florida with Mom, Todd and Landon. Harper had her first plane ride and did wonderful. It took me a little bit to get her to sleep on our night departure flight out because she's nosey and there was so much to see and hear. But eventually she caved and I won :) We spent a whole week in Florida and didn't want to come home! The beaches were beautiful, the sun was hot and we got to spend some wonderful time with the fam. We didn't see any oil or tar balls however they did have some just a few miles up the beach. It was perfect. Harper loved the water and was such a trooper throughout her schedule being out of whack and teething.

Speaking of teeth, she almost has a full tooth up. It's the bottom, second left tooth. Weird that her front teeth didn't come first but we'll take it! We can see the front ones coming through so I'm sure she'll have a mouthful soon. It's like they're all coming in at once. We have had a few cranky moments and sleepless nights but all-in-all it really hasn't been that bad. I'm probably saying that because I have such a supportive husband who gives me a break when I need it! Harper has tried all types of foods lately as we have literally skipped over the baby food. She wasn't having it and I was okay with it. She likes sour things like lemon, pickle, lime etc. I don't give her a lot of it but an occasional lick here and there doesn't hurt. So far we have had good luck with broccoli, bread - like her gigi, sweet potato, peas, carrots, apples, pears, peaches - lots of different types of foods. She even tried gnocchi and veal marsala - ha ha! She is crawling everywhere and pulls up on whatever she can whenever she can. She'll just hang out holding on with one hand like she's the star of the show. Like I said before, she's fearless! She'll go from the ottoman to her toy basket to the couch in the blink of an eye. Harper has a new found love for hearing her own voice. She screams at the top of her lungs and thinks it's so funny! or if she doesn't want to be in the jumperoo she'll let you know very quickly with a high pitch squeal. When we were flying back from Florida she kept screaming then would laugh at herself. I guess it sounded funny in such close quarters but I didn't catch any others around us thinking it was too funny. Hope you enjoy the pictures. We had so much fun on our vacation!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Memorial Day Weekend

The Nail family has been super busy lately. Harper is such a joy and so precious. She is crawling ninety-to-nothing and pulling up on everything. I am sure she will be walking in no time. She is a confident and determined little girl! You can't leave anything within her reach or she is into it in seconds. She says mama, baba, papa and her newest word is uh-oh and she says it for everything. We have yet to hear da-da but I'm sure it's coming. Today we have her 6 month appointment (almost a month behind) for shots and to recheck the ear infection she's had. We haven't seen any teeth yet but I am pretty sure they are on their way. She has been fussy off and on lately and that is very unusual for Harper. She doesn't even cry when she's wet or dirty. Our little angel baby.

We kicked off the summer celebrating Memorial Day Weekend and my Pap's 49th birthday - uh oh!! All of my siblings were able to make it up to the lake and it was wonderful to spend time with them. Here are a few pictures:

Daddy and Harper

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Lando

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Shwimmin in the Lake with Pap

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Al and Walker - Big Boy!

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Miss Thang

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Lando's First Time to Wakeboard and He Was A PRO

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Our attempt at a photo

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Walker Tuckered Out

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Mimi and Harper

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Happy Baby

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She Totally Knows What a Camera is

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Sisters Day

My sisters and I had a girls day two weekends ago and took some pictures of the kids at the park. It was fun for us to spend the day together and catch up. Walker and Harper are getting be to so much fun. It's so neat to watch them grow up together. Sweet cousins!

We had a follow-up appointment for Harper's hemangioma and the tumor is shrinking. We are VERY happy about this news and now know that we are on the road to it being gone. The red area may need some laser treatment at the end but I am relieved that we are most probably not going to have to use medication to shrink the actual tumor.

Harper is such a joy for us. Such a happy little clam. She is talking a lot and becoming mobile - scooting her way around the living room. It won't be long before she's crawling. I will love it and hate, I'm sure. She is growing up too fast!

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