Update on Nicole August 2011

This past month has been very busy.  Nana and Papa came to visit and Nicole had a blast with them.  While they were here we stopped bottles for Nicole.  Now she only uses cups.  While we are at Matanuska Glacier we learned Nicole can use a straw, which is very nice for us.  Especially for those days when you forget a zippy cup.


She has about 5 teeth coming in right now.  She is being really good about it.  three lowers and two upper molars.  We have only had about three days where they were unbearable to her.

She is learning more and more words everyday.  She has mama, daddy, doggie, mine, milk and more. down perfectly.  Her favorite is to squeal DOGGIE.  They don't really appreciate it, but its cute.

We went camping with some friends a few weeks back and took Nicole fishing.  We got her a backpack carrier and Jake put her on and she had a good time.  I think it was more exciting for Jake to be out with his girlie's and fishing at the same time, not sure that it gets better than that for him.  We got to stay out for a little while with her, but soon she got hungry.

We have a  few more weeks of Summer, which sounds crazy to say but its almost over.  This is our last summer and winter here in Alaska.  Lots of camping left to do.  Trying to get out every weekend that we have off together, enjoying our camper more and more.

Birthday Month-1st Celebration

Nicole's birthday celebration spanned multiple days.  Her birthday fell on a Saturday so we went camping for the weekend with our friends Chris and Dana.  We headed to Seward for the weekend and surprisingly it was gorgeous.  Not a cloud anywhere, nice and hot a balmy 70 something down there.  I ordered a cake for Nicole from Carrs down there, chocolate of course.  We went exploring on her birthday and saw Exit Glacier.

After Exit Glacier we settled down for a nap and then had some cake.  Seeing as how the night was ending soon, we had cake first before dinner.  She loved her chocolate cake.  She immediately went for it, when I was trying to get a picture of her with it.  

Needless to say she loved the cake.  The tub/shower is the perfect size for a baby in the RV.  She soon went for a bath.  After cake we had some dinner and settled down for the night.  It was a good trip.  So nice to see the sun while we were down in Seward.