Saturday, September 27, 2008

Time for another update =)

Gracie closed her 4th week of school on Friday, she just LOVES it! She rides the bus to and from school everyday with her best friend/neighbor/classmate Olivia. She has a lot of fun in class and brings home homework everyday.

They went on a field trip to Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday. She said she saw a dead beaver laying on some bushes, and the Park Rangers said they could touch it. After about 10 minutes of probing, I finally understood they had a fake one with a plac next to it with information.

She's improved her reading skills and can now ledgeably write her name from left to right (she wrote it backwards for the first two weeks of school, until I had her write it correctly 30 times everyday after school).

Olivia is 7 months old today =)

She crawls all over the house, and even up the stairs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0S94ikpaM8

She fell asleep in her jumper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPNjEfZp_Go

Here's a little video of us at Poppa and Holly's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBFDA4LNRlo

I guess that's it for this month =)

Talk to you soon!
The Harmon Family

Monday, September 01, 2008

Hey everyone:

Gracie is ready to start 1st grade, her first day is tomorrow!!! She's wearing the cutest dress she got from G-ma tomorrow. She has a new purple Hannah Montana backpack stuffed with all her school supplies. She got new clothes, and 8 pairs of shoes. All of her friends from her Kindergarten class (+ a few friends from other classes) are in her class this year! The neighbor girl, Olivia (her best friend) is also in her class, she is so excited!!!

Her 6th birthday party went VERY well. We planned to have it at the park, but it had been raining for a couple days, so we had the party at our house .. our house is very echo-ie .. that was fun! We had a Hannah Montana cake, table cloth, paper plates, and napkins. We had those eyeglasses with the noses, the noisemakers with the coiled paper thingy .. only, without the noisemaker, and balloons.

Her favorite cousin Josh, Sierra, Aubrey, Paulina, and my best friend Olivia came to her party. She got a whole bunch of toys she wanted, including Hannah Montana barbies and play sets, My Little Pony stuff, an over sized coloring book, makeup and a whole lot more! She loves her music and got a lot of cd's from her Aunt Shanna.
http://picasaweb.google.com/amanda.harmon13/GracieSBirthday

G-ma took us out for lunch and got Old Time Pictures of the girls. They turned out great!!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/amanda.harmon13/EstesParkHappenings

Olivia has her first tooth! It came through on August 10th. I got a few pictures. We went to Fort Collins to visit my family; Mima, Grandpa Tony, Auntie Morgie, Uncle Justin, Great-aunt Becky, Great-uncle Charlie, Uncle Pat, Aunt Veronica, cousin Tyra, cousin Jade, Uncle Nick, Aunt Tara, Great-aunt Brenda, Ray-Ray, Great-uncle HJ, Great-aunt Jeanie, and Grand-poppa .. he's 87 yrs old! We were there for 4 days.

Aunt Becky bought Olivia a Rain Forrest Jumperoo from Walmart. It is the best thing for her! It's the same idea as a jumper that hangs from a doorway, only it sits on the floor :) She LOVES it! It plays music and has animal sounds. The seat she sits in rotates 360* so she can play with all the toys around her.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M4G0JEGWL._AA262_.jpg

She trying to crawl, and gets frustrated when she can't .. it's so cute! She's sat up on her own a little .. she's alright if she doesn't lean backwards. We're very proud!

It was our 3rd anniversary on August 26th and Olivia turned 6 months on the 27th.

I guess that's all to report
Talk to you in a month :)