For the love of ice cream...

So, I mentioned Harper's love for ice cream in my last post, but the description just doesn't do it justice... you have to check out these pictures and just imagine her chasing everyone down for a bite.... and note, she is not yelling here... she just walks around with her mouth open, waiting for the next bite...

Happy 4th of July!

We had quite a nice and festive 4th of July! All of my best girlfriends from college and their husband's came to visit for the long weekend. It total there were 10 adults and 2 one year old little girls at our house! It is times like these that I am so thankful for having the space that we do to accommodate everyone! (It is times when I am cleaning the large space that I am not so excited). It was wonderful to have everyone together and always feels like no time has passed when we get together. We ate lot's of wonderful food, played in the sun, roasted marshmallows over the campfire and laughed A LOT! We even got in on the fireworks action and set off a few mild fireworks and sparklers!

The best part for Harper was eating ice cream! The girl LOVES it and followed everyone around with her mouth open, begging for more.... here are a few pictures of our weekend.

(N)annie

So, after much thought and consideration, Hugh and I decided to pull Harper from her current childcare situation, which has been a wonderful in home daycare, located about 2 miles from our house. They take care of Harper like she is their own and love her even more. So, as you can imagine, it was a very hard decision to change up the routine. But, the cool thing is, is that my sister, Annie (thus (N)annie nickname), is now Harper's full time Nanny! Pretty cool. Today is the first day of the new gig and it was great to wake up and not have to rush a sleepy baby through the morning routine in order to get her out the door in time! Annie got to our house a little before 7am, and Harper was all smiles to think that there was a party with her cousins this morning! There was only a short amount of crying as I walked out the door, but Annie assured me that it only lasted 30 seconds! Just long enough to make me feel like the worlds worst Mama! :) So, it is great to have Harper with my sister which is the next best thing to me or Hugh being able to stay home with her. Not to mention the ease of morning and evening transitions that Harper has seemingly had a hard time with lately. And, the other great thing is that it helps my sister and her family out with some extra spending money which is always nice!

So, day one of (N)annie is off with a bang! :)