Harper Who?

That's right, it's little Harper Who straight out of Whoville. She made her appearance this past weekend in our house. She only stayed a short while but made a lasting impression. Everyone loves a girl with curls.

Eight is GREAT!!

So I know I say this every month but, I can't get over how fast time has gone by. Harper has had a LOT of new experiences this past month. She got 2 more teeth, the top front 2. They are in like flynn. She will push herself along on her stomach but only backwards, however, she is starting to push herself up on her hands and knees. Hopefully in the next month we will have some forward motion in a crawling form. She is still crazy strong on her legs. She will walk her little legs as long as we are holding her arms. She could very well skip the crawling and just be an early walker. Only time will tell. We have been working on clapping for the past couple of weeks, with no real interest on Harper's part. Two days ago, in the bath tub, she decided to prove she is actually absorbing what we say/do. She has continued to clap on occasion, never when prompted, she decides when and for how long. Wow is she my daughter or what? Harper has been babbling for several months now but it has become so much clearer recently. She says... Mamamamamama...Dadadadadada...Nananananana....Babababbaba...Lalalalalalalala. Now none of these are linked to any amount of recognition, but I'm sure that is soon to come. For the moment we will just enjoy listening to her Lala dada mama baba to herself.

Here are a few pictures of her at 8 months. We have changed our little fall backdrop from the ever popular bale of hay, to the more wintery fireplace with logs. Enjoy

Out on good behavior

Oh the joys and mistakes of parenthood.

Harper and I were enjoying a bowl of carrot puree this afternoon when we encountered... an incident. I've been gone all weekend so the laundry stayed dirty, therefore, no soft cotton comfortable bibs for the princess. All we had clean today were the plastic ones. Harper HATES the plastic ones. About half way through her meal, after constant grabbing, pulling and whining, I gave in and took off her bib. She had been so good and not spilled a drop, I figured it would be fine. Not 2 seconds later, on the first bite post bib, SPLAT we proved once and for all why we have a bib rule in our house. God love her...SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT...she may have just given herself life without parole.

Hitting the Links

Harper was given one of the nicest and most unusual "welcome to the world" gifts. Some good friends of Adam's dads gave us a gift certificate to Golf Smith in her name. We were a little torn on what exactly to get her, but finally decided that a nice set of clubs would be in "her" best interest. We got her a right handed set (hoping for the most likely scenario) that is pink and gray. It's for ages 3-5, so hopefully by that time Adam will have been able to corrupt her little mind properly. In the mean time, the fashionista that she is, needed to work out the perfect outfit. If only we could have found a visor that size it would have been complete. We'll keep our eyes open.

Fall days and Holidays

I'm going to combine several pictures in this post. I'm so far behind on my blogging that I just need to get caught up.

We "set up" our mini Halloween scene at our house. We always try to at least get a pumpkin or 2 but we never really go all out with the Holiday decorations, with the exception of Christmas. This year Adam decided to pick up a bale of hay. It added a nice touch to the pumpkins and the pictures. We had a beautiful fall day last week, so I thought I would put Harper in her new coat, hat and boots and grab a couple of cute pictures with the pumpkins. She was also wearing her skinny jeans that day, yes that's right ladies, her skinny jeans. They are the only ones that will fit in side her boots. She was not in the best mood that day (as reflected in her blank semi annoyed stare). Oh well, that's our little girl, she's all or nothing when it comes to pictures.




Last night was Halloween, our first with the little miss. I'm not sure, actually I take that back, I am sure she was no where near as excited about her costume as we were, but she did let us have fun with it and that's all that matters. She will love seeing these pictures at her wedding in 25 years, won't she?
We borrowed the costume from Emilee's sister-in-law Beth. Her little girl Alyssa wore it when she was about the same age. It was so stink'n' cute!! Thanks again Beth, maybe in a few years she can be a snow queen.

You may recognize the hay bale and pumpkins. I was lacking creativity this weekend. They have definitely served their purpose for the season.







Ok, now on to the adult segment of this post. Adam and I finally got our big night out on the town. I'm not quite sure we were properly prepared, but it was a blast non the less. It's been a while since we have done the 9 to 2am time slot (in last nights case it was more like 3) so we were a little rusty. We went over to our friends Lee and Kim's for their annual party and had a great time seeing all of our creative friends going all out. We then headed over to another friend's house, Amie, to celebrate Whitley's 30th birthday. We stayed there for a little while before the Couch Trip bus picked us up and took us down town. We had rented the bus for the entire night so we never had to worry about driving, catching a cab or, God forbid, walking in my shoes. We partied until we ran out of steam and then crawled back home. Harper's wake up call at 6:30am (7:30 her time) was not the finishing touch we were looking for. Lucky for us Grandma was still there to take over and let mom and dad get a little more sleep.


I was the Orbit Gum Girl "fabulous", and Adam was my obiligatory "dirty mouth".


Kenny (Adam's brother) was Kenny Powers, and Beth (sister in law) was an umpire.






Lady Gaga in the flesh and on our bus!!