Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Exersaucer!

This pic is a little blurry, but you can see how happy Harriet is in the exersaucer. We're borrowing it from some friends.
















Exersaucer love runs in the family...this is a picture of Josie at almost the exact same age that Harriet is now enjoying the exersaucer at the gym that I used to go to in Chicago.

Big kid swing

Josie is starting to get the hang of the big kid swing.

















She's also happy to be sporting her new owl shirt that Nana just sent her in the mail.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Harriet's first solid food


Harriet had her first solid food when we returned from our trip to NH. She likes it.

Those darn whistle pigs!

Here's a candid of one of the *five* groundhogs (AKA woodchucks or whistle pigs) that, until recently, have been making themselves comfortable under our deck. Once they started gnawing on our porch posts (literally chucking our wood), eating our plants and roaming fairly fearlessly around our backyard, we decided it was time to call Critter Control. So far, they've trapped four and we're just waiting on what (we think) is the last one. Then we have to figure out a way to secure our deck so that it doesn't become a Wild Kingdom condominium hot spot.

A versatile napper

Asleep at Nana's house.

















More sleeping at Nana's house.

















Asleep in the stroller back home again.

Back home

Josie on the swing.

















Harriet, the crazy hat baby, on the swing.

A few more pix from NH

Picking clov-ah in Dov-ah

















Josie and Daddy at the beach.

Harriet all gussied up

Pretty dresses

Hey, your dress looks like my dress!

















Yeah, you're right!

















It's nice to have matching dresses!

Uncle Bob


Uncle Bob had a chance to meet his lil'est niece before heading off to Japan.

More Nana love


Harriet loves her Nana.

More pix from NH--baby love

Harriet was treated like a demi-goddess by her cousins. Here they all sit around her and try to make her smile or laugh. As usual, she only has eyes for her big sister, Josie.

There was a lot of time spent like this, circled around Harriet and waving toys and making funny faces. It was kind of like a baby cult.











Cousin Isabella holds the prize for now.

















And here's a shot of cousin Cassandra enjoying some Harriet-time.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Nana Meets Harriet

Nana and Harriet had some quality time together....

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Cousins!

The cousins had some quality time together as well...















Harriet got a lot of attention...














Hanging out in the backyard...
























This picture looks like Josie is leading a group of explorers in an old painting or something..

Onstage in Dover

The Children's Museum in Dover was closed the day we went, but Josie enjoyed the playground and empty pavilion anyways...

Hampton Beach




In Portsmouth





Wednesday, June 22, 2011

In Boston

Here are some photos of our trip to New England .
We had a brief (rainy) stay in Boston before heading to NH.

Crossing the river to Cambridge...























In Copley Square

Monday, June 6, 2011

Josie and the kid run 2

Here's a picture of Josie just "after" the Dexter-Ann Arbor kid run. I say "after" because they ended up starting the kid run a little earlier than the original time (due to imminent thunder storms, I think), so by the time we got to the track there was already a stampede of toddlers heading towards us (the next heat was the bigger kids). She still managed to get a medal and even a piece of bagel. You may remember her first Dexter-Ann Arbor kid run from last year which she ran the day before I did the half marathon (about four months pregnant with Harriet at the time). This year I downgraded my registration from the half marathon all the way to the 5K...turns out that chasing around after two kids, working full time, breast-feeding, trying to finish writing a book and occasionally sleeping for an hour or two at a time doesn't leave a lot of time for training for a half marathon. I've got high hopes for next year though...stay tuned.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Hi big sis!

Harriet wakes up from a nap...
























and sees Josie!