On August 8th Dani's Papaw Mike passed away. This has been very difficult for all of us. I don't want to go into detail here, this is a happy place. It saddens me greatly that she won't remember him but there's nothing I can do to change that. But he sure loved this little girl and I'm going to make sure she always knows that. Dani was adorable all dressed up. Everyone is doing okay, as much as can be expected. And that's all I'm saying about it for now.
This is my favorite picture of them
Even with all his back problems he would still get on the floor to play with her.
These are the day of his viewing. (This is also one of the dresses Dani wore in her pageant)
And these are from the day of his funeral service.
On July 26th John, Dani, and I went to visit PaPaw in the hospital in Gainesville. But first we had to meet some people at Alexander Springs. So Dani and I used that opportunity to travel the nature trails. Then after our visit the 3 of us went to the Florida Museum of Natural History. I have a lot of pictures from both of those places, but I'll put that in another blog.
August 23rd she broke her first tooth through. She was soooo good about it! She didn't fuss or anything! She was a bit warm the night before and she drooled A LOT, so much that she got heat rash on her chin. But other than that I would never have even known it was there. That weekend we were in Orlando for my class, it was also the weekend of a big gun and knife show. Dani's PawPaw Bruce was at the show so after class the 3 of us would go hang out w/ PawPaw. While at the show Grandpa Mac came to visit too. And Dani made friends with a cute guy from the Shoot Straight booth.
Skip forward several weeks to Sept 12th. Dani, Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Zonnie drove to Illinois for Grandma Smith's 80th birthday party. It was great! She's soooo spunky(Grandma Smith I mean) ! I'll do another entry later with lots of pics of the whole fam damily. That was a long weekend with lots of pics and deserves it's own space.
Then on the 21st Dani was in her first (and probably last) pageant. She was fantastic. The room was hot but she was still happy. She won lot's of trophies etc. But that will also be it's own entry.
Beyond the promised individual coming blogs I'll have to do a misc. picture blog soon. I have TONS of random adorable Danica pics to share! And I have to post pics from last weekend with Uncle Joel and Aunt MaryAnn at the beach! Such fun!!
I think that's enough for now, I'm sure I forgot something but I'll just add it in to another post or something.
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