7.19.2012

Watermelon

Over July 4th, our sweet girl had watermelon for the first time. We started off by just giving her the rind to gnaw on while Mommy, Daddy, and Grammy Sue ate dinner.  Harper LOVED it!  So we thought we would give her the real thing...  We put some watermelon cubes in Harper's little mesh fruit bag.  Every time the watermelon was gone, the poor little thing would burst into tears.  That babe would have eaten a whole watermelon if we let her! We think she also really likes being able to feed herself.  What will she try next?...


Yummy watermelon!



The real deal: watermelon in Harper's mesh fruit bag!

Uh-oh, the bag is a little too far away...

Reaching for her watermelon--
baby girl just can't get enough!

Farm Weekend

Great Grandma feeding Harper a bottle


Earlier this month, we spent the weekend at Grammy Sue's house in Western MA, and Harper had the chance to meet Great Grandma Berry (Grammy Sue's mom) for the very first time, as well as Great Aunt Barbara (Grammy Sue's sister).  So many generations of women!  As you can imagine, Harper had a lot of love and snuggles that weekend.
Great Aunt Barb & Harper





It was a gorgeous, sunny weekend so we were able to spend a lot of time outside.  Probably the most precious moment ever was Harper and Auntie Annie reading one of our favorite stories, Goodnight Moon.  Well, Auntie was reading--and Harper was trying to eat the pages...but that's pretty much the same thing, right?


Goodnight Moon


Harper also got to go swimming for the very first time!  Sort of.  Harper went with Mommy, Daddy, Auntie Annie, and Gil down the river.  She was totally dressed the part, wearing her adorable little bathing suit from Grammy Sue.  Unfortunately, the water was absolutely freezing!  At least, it was a lot colder than the nice, warm bath water that Harper is accustomed to.  So she didn't exactly "swim," but she did dip her toes and have fun playing on her towel.  Baby steps!


Little swimmer!

Playing on the beach towel with Auntie and Gil

Gil and Daddy try to get Harper into the water,
but baby girl was not having it!