Keeping up with the Kants

Well, it's been exactly a month since I posted last, whoops.  Wish I had a better excuse than I've been too lazy to get on our slow computer, but alas...  A lot has gone down in the last month, so this will be a hodgepodge of stuff.  Harper is doing so much better!  She is sleeping through the night (with the help of a noisy air purifier to drown out the trains that blare their horns throughout the night).  She is talking a little more, she says: mama, dada, dog, duck, abba (abbey), ooh, ohh, and mmm.  Not a bad little vocabulary.  And she is walking everywhere, sometimes running, and can go up stairs (she thinks she can go down, but she is mistaken).  She's currently working on a couple molars, so her disposition is less than pleasant at times, but generally speaking she is our wonderful, cute, awesome little dolly.  A friend of mine is getting married in August, and so we had a nice little night on the town with some gals from coll...

The procedure went better than I think either of us hoped.  We were at the center by 6, and home by 7:45.  I think Erich was thinking it would be like my gallbladder procedure, where he waited for about 3 hours, and recovery time was close to another 3.  They had her prepped and ready by the time the dr arrive.  He likened it to the Runza drive thru, in reference to time spent there.  And boy, he wasn't kidding.  By the time they were done, all I had time to do was check facebook and leave an update, maybe 7 minutes, tops.  She was pretty upset when we got back there, which we expected.  I gave her a bottle and she was still pretty ticked off.  I finally got her to sleep and the nurse came in and it started all over again.  I felt bad for a guy who was also in recovery, as he was surrounded by three crying kids.  I'd have asked for a different recovery space.  We got home and she took a very short nap.  However, she woke u...

We celebrated Harper's birthday this past Saturday with a small party,  pretty much just immediate family.  It was about 15 people, which was a pretty good size for her.  She didn't really know what to think at first, but she warmed up to the people pretty quick.  We grilled burgers and had lots of yummy sides.  Then we moved on to presents.  Harper loved them at first, then she made it her mission to collect all the bows.  This made opening presents last about twice as long as necessary, but it was fun watching her as she saw each new thing.  I think her favorite was a life sized dachshund toy, which was identical to Abbey...it was Abbey's favorite too.  She got some fun new toys, a bubble mower, popcorn popper, lounge chair, some music toys, and a swingset from mommy and daddy.  We've probably screwed ourselves here, because really, we have nowhere to go but up, and what's up from a swingset? Luckily our yard is probably big enough for...