Duck Face

Paisley has started making this face that we lovingly refer to as duck face. She does it ALL the time. And yet capturing her on camera has proven to be rather difficult.

At first we thought we were going to have to simply show you an example of Harper copying duck face.



But then we got lucky...and Paisley did some repeat duck face that we were able to capture. You may think this face looks more like she's puckering up for a kiss but then you clearly have never been lucky enough to get a kiss from miss P (or any other 9 month old I imagine.) Her kisses come from a wide open mouth. They are awesome.

Without further delay....Duck Face....

Besides the novelty of trying to capture duck face on camera it's just so darn cute we encourage it. But sometimes...if you're really lucky...you get this face:

This one is the real favorite. She's so awesome!

Summer Vacation

In June we went on our first ever family vacation. We tried to organize the whole Gatz family and ended up with a decent turn out. Next year we'll get everyone!

There was 7 nights of this:

As well as 7 days of this:

We had a carrot and kid loving donkey for a neighbor and the beautiful Lake Champlain at our doorstep. Thanks to some friends from the fire department we had two kayaks and some amazing weather. We went on a few adventures but spent a lot of out time enjoying the beautiful house. It was an awesome time.
Harper had the best time with her cousin Owen. It was amazing to watch them play. They got along so well and had a lot of fun together. It was really awesome. You may be wondering where all the pictures of Harper are...she was much too busy to do much posing...I did my best.
I was reminded how much fun cousins are on this trip. Not just Harper and Paisley's cousins...but my cousins too.
Here's hoping we can make this happen every year!
 
 

Tiny Fashionista

I'm just going to go ahead and say it...Harper is one well dressed little lady. I've been saying since she was 6 months old that she's better dressed then I am. Not only that but she sets trends that I try to keep up with. Little girl rocked the skinny jean long before I did.

These are some of my favorite summer ensembles of Harpers.
Other then the jean jacket mismatch and the beautiful Ella-O-V-E dress in the last picture everything on Harper is a hand me down.

Lately Harper's been asking to try shoes on in my closet. The rule is that she can try anything she wants on, she just has to put them away when she's done. She totally did except there was a huge pile of shoes in the doorway to my closet. Close enough. She probably tried on 7 pairs....she'd hobble out to show me in the computer room. She says "do these fit me momma" and I say "not quite baby" and she says "ok, I'm going to try another pair."

I can't quite tell if she actually thinks she's going to find a pair that fits in my closet but she sure has fun trying.

I think Harper and I are going to have all kinds of shopping fun in our future...and if Paisley's interest in chewing on shoes is any indication...she'll be right there with us!

This is a Country girl dress by Ella-O-V-E (my friend Cedar's company.) Check out her website here.

P's Smile

 I hope you've been lucky enough to see it in person but if you haven't....Paisley has a smile that can melt your heart. Stop you dead in your tracks asking what you could have done to deserve that.

There's just something about that great big grin with those two tiny teeth peeking out at you. She's a love...that's all there is to it.