Catch-up

I haven’t been able to update this for a while because we’ve been so busy. We drove up to Michigan last weekend to surprise Pat at her surprise birthday party. She was very shocked to see us. I think she liked getting Parker for a birthday present! We came home on Monday and Bob, Pat, and Justin got here Tuesday (they didn’t know we were coming up there so they made plans to come down here). We had a fun week with them. I know Parker really enjoyed spending time with her family:)
While in Michigan we got to take Parker to her first Tigers game at Comerica. She seemed to have a great time even though it was so hot that we were all sweating like crazy. Luckily we had a ticket to be able to sit inside and eat in the Tiger Club and watch the game in the air conditioning when our regular seats got to be unbearable.
Parker has been pretty happy during the day lately but a mess at night. While up until a week or two ago she would always sleep through the night, she suddenly is up screaming as early as 9:30pm. I just assumed it was because her schedule was all off after being on a roadtrip and then having company and a screwed-up schedule. Then I happened to see inside her mouth yesterday morning during one of her screaming fits and noticed a new tooth had popped out and a few more are bulging through her gums! So that explains a lot… The poor thing has been in pain:( She is such a good baby, though, and I’m glad she handles teething as well as she does. She stays pretty happy:)
Here are some pictures we took 2 weeks ago and some from Pat’s camera. We finally reached the limit on our camera’s memory card (it still had all pics and videos from back when I was in labor all the way until now) and we wanted to make sure we had them not only saved on the computer, but also backed up on DVDs before we deleted them. We were so busy that it didn’t get done until the end of this week. Fortunately Pat was taking pictures throughout their visit so I still have something to show for the week.

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