Favorite photos from 8-9 month photo shoot

Grace had another fabulous photo shoot with Emily Penke of Peeptoe Photography earlier this summer at Loose Park. It was hot, she was fussy and a little tired, but I think we got some great shots. I can't believe we'll be shooting her one year photos soon!!

BooMark visits Kansas City and our visit to Tulsa

Early last month, BooMark (my dad) came up to Kansas City to celebrate Laura's birthday. We all got babysitters for the kids and took Laura to Avenues Bistro for an amazing dinner. (If you live here and haven't tried it, you need to go; and if you don't live in Kansas City, you need to come up here and try it - so good.)

Laura's fun news is that she is expecting another baby boy in January! I'm very excited to have another nephew!

Right before we went down to Tulsa, Grace got an ear infection (her first one in 9 1/2 months!). She was a trooper even though she didn't feel so great. We didn't do a whole lot except play inside since it was also really hot out in Tulsa. We did manage to check out the Aquarium and Grace loved seeing all of the fish.

She had fun at Virginia's house for dinner!

And of course, getting into bowls in BooMark's kitchen.

Grace also loves playing with jewelry, and loved these bracelets of Virginia's.

BooMark feeding Grace right before we took off to head back to Kansas City.

Fourth of July

The city of Prairie Village does a pretty good job of celebrating the fourth of July. Villagefest takes place at City Hall and has all sorts of activities for kiddos including a petting zoo, a bike parade, water slides, pony rides, music, food, and then free admission to the PV pool all day. We checked out Villagefest, and even though Grace was still pretty young for a lot of the activities, I'm sure she'll enjoy them more in the next coming years.

Next year we'll decorate the stroller to participate in the parade!

Fun in the Sun

Grace has loved going to the pool this summer. She loves sitting in the water and chewing on her toys. She also loves splashing and trying to drink the water. A few weekends it has been too hot to go this summer, so we've stayed inside instead. But hopefully we'll be able to go a few more time before Labor Day.

On the way to the pool for the first time. So excited!

At the pool on Father's Day.

At Aunt Laura's and Uncle Matt's backyard pool with cousin Ella. They had so much fun!

Crawling and Standing and Pulling up on Everything!

Grace started crawling on Memorial Day weekend, and ever since then she has been getting into everything. Her favorite things to get into include: our shoes, Oscar's dog bowls, Oscar's food, the front door, all bottom drawers in the kitchen, my toiletries in the bathroom, anything on the coffee table, the recycling bin, the dishwasher, laundry, oh and of course her own toys.

Here are some photos of her escapades.