Any Day Now...

Gracyn is so close to crawling! She can get up on all fours and rock back and forth. She will lunge forward, fall, then army crawl. It's just a matter of time!


Gracyn has also spoken her first word...Dada! Lately we hear a lot of Dadadada Dadadada. I think this must be her favorite word!



FAREWELL MEGAN!

Our good friend, Megan, made her move to the UK this past Monday. Last Friday, we all got together for some BBQ at her parent's house. Saturday, we all went out to Eureka Springs to the Kings River and went floating. Gracyn got to spend the whole day with Ma. Clint and I had a lot of fun, but was ready to get back to Baby G. That was the longest and farthest I had been away from her. I don't think she was phased at all though.


And....this is Megan!


HANGING OUT WITH CAROLINE!

Last night, we went down to Fort Smith to have dinner with Katie, Eric, and Caroline. We went to Bravo, a nice, quiet Italian restaurant. Wonderful Food!


Today, Katie and Caroline came up to Fayetteville for a fun-filled day of shopping! The girls played while we got stuff loaded up. It's insane how much stuff you have to take just for a day of shopping!



It really comes in handy to have the same car seat base. We just put both of mine in my car and loaded the girls up.

And we're off!

Shopping has exhausted this little girl!

Modeling her new headband...as she eats her bug!

New Shoes!!!

Dang Gina!

I've discovered a new blog! Dang Gina Give-Aways. Her blog is all about promoting business's so she is constantly doing reviews of some great shops and having giveaways. I just entered a give away from Avery Marie and Me Creations. The prize....a big letter G!

I have been on the hunt for a HUGE letter G to go above Gracyn's dresser. The biggest I have found is 20". AM&M has 24" letters!!! I'm really hoping I win! Baby girl needs some art on her walls!

I have Dang Gina's button on my blog so check it out!!!

Happy Independance Day!

Our holiday weekend started off with a trip to the doctor. Gracyn woke up about 6 that morning with a fever. I had to go into work for a couple hours so Clint took her to the walk in clinic. They said she had an ear infection in both ears. The doctor and nurses were surprised how happy she seemed to be even though she was sick. We had made plans to go swimming that day but canceled. Jeffie came over that afternoon and we just hung out at the house and made some tacos!

That evening we went down to Van Buren to see Katie, Eric, and Caroline. Clint had smoked some ribs and Eric had grilled some hot dogs. We all ate dinner then went outside to shoot off some fountains and let the girls do some sparklers. We had a perfect view of the fireworks down at The Field of Dreams so we got to see a great show!


Gracyn and Caroline were more impressed with this amazing shoe than they were the fireworks!


Cute Family!


Gracyn doing her SPARKLER! She kept trying to reach for it.

We have a very busy July so should have lots of posts this month! This coming weekend we are going to Tulsa to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday! Graycn will get to see her Great Great Aunt Bert and finally get to meet her Great Aunt Karen!

PARTY!!!!

Caroline's 1st birthday was last Wednesday and her party on Saturday. I'm pretty sure everyone was in awe at how fabulous Caroline's party turned out...not that anyone expected less from Katie! : ) She did an AMAZING job! She had been planning for months and all her hard work showed. Here are just a couple of shots of the decorations.







Great family shot!


Here is Kaeleigh. She was more concerned about getting back out to the jump around than she was in having her picture taken.


Heather and Gracyn


Gracyn crashed about half way through the party. She missed Caroline opening her gifts and eating her cake :(





After the party, we stayed around to visit for a little while. Gracyn is sitting up so well now and is able to interact more with Caroline. Here they are playing tea party.

Happy Father's Day...

To the best Dad ever!!!! These are some of my favorite pictures from the past couple of months.

Dad holding his new baby girl right after she was born.


Reading Gracyn her first book, "If You Give a Pig a Party."


Asleep on the couch.


In style on Valentine's Day.


Looking good at G-rise's wedding.


Gracyn is so lucky to have such a great Daddy! She is going to be a Daddy's girl, for sure!

Ready for the Hogs!

Gracyn is ready to call the Hogs!


We met up with some friends at Guido's to watch the Diamond Hogs take on the Sun Devil's at the super regional. Unfortunately we lost in the 12th inning when ASU hit a home run.

Gracyn sitting up all by herself in the high chair. It didn't last long. I think she was bored.


Gracyn has gotten some new toys this past month. We finally got around to buying her exersaucer. She hasn't really figured out how to move forward, instead she moves backwards.



When we are on the computer we usually put Gracyn in her swing (we moved it to the computer room.) Sometimes she thinks she needs to be sitting on our lap and then she'll bang around on the keyboard. I decided that she needed a computer of her own. I bought her the Vtech, my first laptop. It lights up and plays music. I don't think she realizes that the buttons is what causes the music to play and the "screen" to light up. She is always trying to grab the flashing lights on the screen and ends up closing it instead.

Look What I Can Do!!!

Gracyn has outgrown her tub! Well, let's just say we moved it to the big tub so that she doesn't splash water everywhere. That was the problem when putting her tub in the sink. She would kick her feet and slap her hands in the water and I would always end up wetter than she was. I tried sitting her in the sink, but that didn't work very well. Here she looks like she is all kicked back in a hot tub! She isn't quiet sure what that thing is that's floating in her water!


Gracyn is at that stage where she doesn't want to lay down, she wants to be sitting up and looking around. This is not a good thing while I'm trying to cook dinner or pick up around the house. Problem solved! I just open the door and sit her in front of it and she has a blast! Of course, I can see her at all times.


She is really starting to keep her balance while trying to sit up on her own. She is still pretty wobbly but can hold a sitting position for a good 30 seconds!


I've noticed she has been trying to hold her own bottle for awhile, but today she took control and fed herself! Of course, I was right there so that every time she dropped it I could put it back in her mouth. I'm not sure I'm ready for her to start holding her own bottle. It just means she is growing up too fast! We haven't even started baby food yet!



HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

I had a very good first Mother's Day! Gracyn and I stayed Saturday night at Nonna's (my mom) and cooked her breakfast Sunday morning. Then later that afternoon we got to visit with Ma (Clint's mom.) Katie, Eric, and Caroline came up that evening and the dad's took us new mommies out for sushi at Shoguns then to have frozen yogurt at Orange Mango! YUMMY!