Loads to catch up on!!

Well- this is going to be a looooonnnnggg post. Sorry!! We've been to Dallas to see Grandma Lana and Grandpa David- so sorry about the delay!! We were so lucky as to be in North Texas for their FIRST 100 degree day of the year! Yay! Yeah right- but turns out it was just as bad here. We didn't do a whole lot there- just played around the house. We did go to the Japanese Garden (yes outside) for about 30 mins and the called it quits so as not to die from heat exhaustion, but Mira did like watching the fish.A girl after her mothers own true heart....diet coke....The next day we went to the Dallas Aquarium and M loved it!! She loved watching the fishes swim in the big tanks. It's a really neat place with a rainforest area, but she didn't get that because the animals are so small.
A few new things happened while we were gone- M started really crawling...like a big girl! For the last week and a half she's been toying with the idea, but this week she really took off. She'll start out crawling on all fours, but if she really wants something now, she has to army crawl because it's so much faster. She's still pretty uncoordinated at the real crawl!Mira also got ANOTHER tooth!!! That's SEVEN! Wow! I didn't even realize it was coming- I knew she'd been chewing a lot, but didn't realize one was coming in so fast. It's on the left side on the bottom. You can't really feel it because it's so close to the ones she already has, but you can see it when she opens her mouth wide.
Here Mira and Grandpa are playing- Mira kept crawling towards the couch and then Grandpa would pull her back- she started crawling and then stopping to look back and see if he was going to get her. It was pretty funny! We looked again at B's pics from his childhood- we have decided that M looks exactly like him from the nose down (with Smith ears) and me from the eyes up. B has a really tall forehead and blue eyes of course- and she's got my hair. So- she's exactly 1/2 of each of us- which is why no one really know who she looks like. She makes TONS of the same expressions he had as a baby!I'm going to stop now, even though there's more I could post- I figure this many pictures is enough for now! Sorry for the longevity! Oh- this week Mira has started something else new- TANTRUMS! hehe--- not really too bad, she's just starting to protest big time when you take something away or stop her from doing something she wants to do. I'm doing my best to ignore it- isn't that what you're supposed to do?