Wow, I feel llike I haven't written in forever and there is so much to share, but I am sure I will miss a few things. The end of the summer came very fast for us. We enjoyed our pool a whole lot this summer, especially now that Harper takes swimming lessons every week. He goes to Nana and me classes at the local swim school. He is also still very happy about the gym classes he attends at My Gym. It is neat to see him interact with others and meet other parents (though it is a small world and lots of people I already know there). School started back and things have finally started to settle down, there were a few classes with 46 kids! Now we are down to about 40 in Spanish 1. For the most part they seem to be a good batch:)
One of the last vacations we took for summer was to Reno to visit the aunties:) We had a great time and it was so nice to have a little mommy and daddy time while Casey, John, Pat and mom and dad watched Harper. Brendan and I were able to celebrate our June anniversary in August at our usual-Harrah's steakhouse in Reno, and it is always worth it! On the way home we had a brief visit with Jenny and her two boys Caleb and Landon.
At the end of summer Brendan's brother Matt and his family came to visit and the girls are always so loving with Harper, too cute. We had a famly reunion with the Tweedy side and Harper was able to feed the horses along with the other cousins.
Labor day weekend we had won a silent auction for a sailboat ride on Huntington Lake, so we took my mom and dad and Katie, Brendan's cousin with us. We headed up to the family cabin in Shaver Fri night and left Harper with Grampsy and Grandma (Brendan's parents) for the day Sat while we sailed. It was a beautiful day and such a fun experience, we had lots of snacks, wine and goodies on board, lunch at a restaurant on the lake and learned the basics of sailing, would love to repeat next year. We spent the rest of the weekend in Shaver and Brendan's family came up for a bbq on Sun. Harper had a bit of a cold and also we soon realized was getting in a bunch of teeth and his molars, so he was not feeling well, but as long as he was allowed to play outside he was in heaven.
Harper updates:
17 months now (at his 15 month appt-stats: height-30.14 in, weight-27, in the 90 percentile for head a weight). The dr had already recommended getting him off the bottle at 12 months, but we had been dragging our feet. She says it leads to more infections. Also she said he was drinking too much milk and that can cause anemia, so we had to cut down on the amount and we also went from full fat to 2%. He already used sippy cups for water, but was NOT a fan of the milk in a sippy cup. I transitioned him from 5 bottles a day to 2 bottles and 3 sippy cups, it was def a battle of wills at the beginning, but soon became apparent that he could manage and maybe was playing mom and dad since he didn't throw the fits with his Aunties Stacie and Kaila or with Nana! Here is a funny video where is so mad about the sippy cup but after the video he ends up quietly lying down and drinking it.
***I couldn't get the 1st video of his mini-tantrum to load, but believe me it was a testament to his strong will, but he recovered quickly:) This is the recovering video:)
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