6 Months and an Expert Traveler

We have been all over the place with Lanier the past few months.  Let me begin with Uncle Eric's graduation in West Point, NY.  We met the whole family up there and had a wonderful time.  We went to a banquet where we had a great dinner and listened to Michelle Obama speak, then got to the campus at about 5am to watch the commencement ceremony.  The whole experience was perfect thanks to my parents and their careful planning, and overall very touching.  Lanier did amazing, especially considering she rarely got to nap and on the way home we took a train, a bus, and a plane all within a few hours.  At the end of our flight, she had charmed the entire back of the plane with her smile and people were still coming up to me at baggage claim telling me how funny she was!  I couldn't have asked for a better behaved little nugget.

The weekend we got back from West Point, we drove to Charleston, South Carolina for Daniel's cousins wedding.  I had never really experienced Charleston as a city and so we spent the majority of our time when we weren't at the wedding just walking around and looking at all the old houses.  It is such a well preserved city with lots of historical sites.  I kept telling Daniel I think I should have been born in the early 1800's as I pictured myself lounging on one of the huge porches in my hoop dress.  The wedding was held at a really old plantation called Boone Hall.  They have filmed many movies on this plantation, one being my favorite, "The Notebook".  The drive down to the house was breathtaking.  Everything was in great shape, and they also still had all the slave houses preserved and lining the entrance to the property.  Everything just made me want to read "Gone With The Wind" all over again.  We decided to take Lanier to the wedding with us, and she slept during the ceremony, thank you Lord, and played on a blanket through most of the reception.  Overall it was a fantastic weekend and we came back to 95 degree weather in Atlanta.  Hot as Hades here and I realized it is not fun to walk or exercise in that type of weather.

Updates on Lanier.....well she is rolling over...FINALLY!  I really think she just wasn't interested for awhile, but when she realized she could get to toys and such, she started moving all over the place.  She gets up on all fours and can scoot backwards.  I tell ya, anytime now I think she'll be crawling.  Daniel bet me by the end of next week, I think in another month or so.  Lanier also tried carrots for the first time.  She loves her solid food and gets so excited when we she see's me with the bowl, like she knows what's coming.  I gave her water the other day from my straw at a restaurant and she made the most hilarious face, hated it.  It was kind of like..."well this doesn't taste like anything!"  I know it feels like i'm always bragging on what a perfect baby she is, but to me, she really is perfect.  She is so easy and loving, and reaches for me which really melts my heart.  I know I am so blessed to have her, and hope that we aren't making her too crazy with our extensive traveling. 


That's it for now, I promise I'll get better at posting but thanks for the reminder Rachel!  Love to you all!

After some cereal, she loves it!

Pretty much a classic Lanier face

If you can't see...it say's that's it, I'm going to Grandma's!

Hair washed...check!

At our hotel in Charleston

Hitching a ride with Uncle Adam to the reception

The driveway to the plantation...beautiful isn't it?

Lanier and the oaks...can't get much prettier

Family Picture

Daddy and Lanier checking out the horses...I know mom...she's not wearing socks or shoes.

Pic with mommy

Playing at the wedding

Sitting with Aunt Sarah