More fun with Harper

Harper has been such a fascinating joy to be around! (well she always has been) But... she changes daily. She is doing something new constantly and I love every bit of it! She loves swimming and splashing, she loves to stick her tongue out, and she is doing SOOOOO much better at sitting. She sits for minutes now and while she plays with toys. Her physical therapist said she was very very pleased will all of her milestones that she reached thus far. We are now working on trying to crawl.

This Easter Sunday will be filled with lots of treats by the Easter bunny! :)Harper and her best buds, Mallory and Julianna, went on an Easter egg hunt last weekend, and it was so cute to see Harper pick up the egg, and drop it into her basket. I'm looking forward to this Easter Sunday!

A little treat for Brian and I to have some alone time was that and I had bought him a personal chef for an evening for a Christmas present. Well we used it last night. It was nice to have a nice evening in. Harper was already asleep and the chef was cooking for us downstairs while we were upstairs. When the dinner was ready she rang a bell (awkward,) we went down stairs, and we had a beautiful table set with candles and some Kenny G playing. :) The first course were some scrumptious crab cakes.. mmm..mmm..mmm! Then our second course was a strawberry vinagarette salad with pecans, our third course was a jamacian salmon, with pureed butternut squash and snap peas and mushrooms, and our fourth course was a fudgy brownie trifle. The food was delicious and the service was so nice. It felt so awkward having someone serve me in my own house though. She cleaned all of the dishes and had our kitchen sparkeling clean when she left. Wow.. is that what it feels like to be a celeb?

Anyways.. life is good right now. Thank you God for all of our blessings! :)

Harper 7 months

Even though Harper will be eight months tomorrow, I thought I would update what has been going on for the last month. At The beginning of March Cherry had her 60th birthday party. We threw her a party at our house for her birthday and we had a great time. Harper was the hit at the party and even though she was sooo tired she didn't want to miss a thing. She never took a nap. Silly girl!

Then on March 14th we left and went to Utah for our second family vacation. Harper was an amazing passenger on the flight there and back. The flight attendant even said she won the passenger of the flight award. :) We wnt on this trip with our neighbors, Chris, Catalina, and their 12 month old Thomas. When we arrived in Park City, Utah we checked into out lodge at the Canyons and picked up our ski and snowboard gear. Then on the following days we would ski, the boys would snowboard, and the babies went to the childcare palce at the lodge. This was only my second trip skiing, and they were all advanced, I really tried to keep up with them. On the first day that we ski'd I was going so fast down the mountian (Brian said I looked like I was going faster than a professional, haha) and I couldn't stop and I literally TUMBLED down the mountain. With no helmet on! So that did put a rough start out to the trip, because from then on I was scared that was going to happen again.
Other than that, we had a fabulous time!!! We had chocolate stuffed waffles at the top of the mountian, Harper played or stared at the snow, and it was a great family vacation.

Between all of our fun activities I have been taking Harper to physical therapy every other week. She is improving soooooo well!The physical therapist said she is so pleased with how well Harper improves every visit. I although, am getting frustrated because I do exercises with her daily and I just feel like she should be sitting up completely on her own by now. She does sit, but then with her bad habit, of pushing back, she falls over. I'm ready for her just to stay seated. But Harper definitely wants to do what she wants to do and she just isn't ready yet. I took her to the doctor last Friday and since her 6 month check up her head has grown a whole cm. Which is really good. I just think Harper has a small head when compared to others, because it matches her body size. So the doctor and my opinions she is doing great!!! Woo Hoo!

This past Sunday Brian had to work so Harper and I had a mommy and daughter day out. We had SOOOOOOOOOO much fun. First we went and saw the Easter Bunny, then we went and took pictures in the bluebonnets. After that we went to the pool at Villa Sport and we swam. Harper had so much fun, she splished and splashed. She thought it was so fun! She kicked her little legs and laughged. I can not wait to take her to the pool again this weekend! :)

So Blessed!!!

We are so blessed to have such a beautiful, sweet, precious baby girl!! We took her to her physical therapist appointment and they did several exercises with her and assessed her. They said she looked spot on, except she's a little behind on being on her tummy and pushing up with her arms. So the doctor gave us some exercises to do with her at home. It's amazing how at this age they grow and change daily. In just this week she has sipped from her sippy cup, rolled completely over, she now is rolling all over the room, and she got her first tooth in! Yay! It's her bottom left tooth. She LOVES eating her solid food now; peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, zucchini, squash, apples, and pears are her favorites. And of course I make everything myself and it's all organic. Nothing but the best for my baby girl. :)

Gosh, does the time FLY by...

These last two months have been amazing!! Harper is growing so much everyday reaching new milestones. She has the cutest personality, the sweetest heart, and she is just a bundle of joy!!!

In the month of January, she has learned to clap, she loves her solid foods, she grabs toys, and she is still trying to do so much more.

At her 6 month check up on Monday we found out she weighs 15.5 lbs and she's in the 49th percentile and she is 26 1/2 inches long and she is in the 78th percentile.
We were also told two concerning things. One concern the perdiatrician had was that her head circumference was on the small side. She said it could be because she just has a small head or that her brain wasn't developing. She said she wasn't that concerned though because her head is still growing which is a good thing. She just wanted to let me know so we can keep an eye out on it.

The second concern was that Harper is a little behind. She does roll over, but she gets stuck on her arm, she does sit up, but only with assistance, and on her stomach she hasn't quite figured out the whole pushing up with her arms thing. So Harper will start seeing a physical therapist next Thursday that will just work with her with different exercises and send home some exercises for us to do with her.

On a positive note... Harper has been AMAZING!!!!! She melts my heart everyday! We have had a lot of fun taking her to the park and pushing her on the swing. We enjoy walking to the park in the stroller, and we put Pasha down in the basket in the bottom. Harper has enjoyed spending quality time with her boyfriend, Cade, and her best friend, Avery.

Brian and I have been enjoying every second as a little family and also finding time to ourselves. We love our Saturday routine when we wake up with Harper, play together, then we take her to the gym, where Harper plays, and mommy and daddy work out.

That's about all we have had going on in our lives, but we have a lot to look forward to in the next month. We are going to Austin for a wedding and we are taking Harper, then we have a wedding in NYC, and HArper will be staying with my Aunt, then we have Gigi's 60th birthday party at our house, then the following weekend we are going skiing with our next door neighbors and Harper in Utah.

I'll update pictures soon, and update after all of the fun festivities soon! Keep Harper in your prayers that her head is small and that she is growing at the right pace. :)

So much going on and so little time...

Oh my goodness being back to work has really taken a lot of time. Monday through Friday my day goes like this... I wake up at 4:30am to go work out, come back home to get ready, go to work, leave work right at 3:30, pick up Harper, get home and play with her, make dinner, bathe her, feed her, put her to bed, spend time with my hubby, then off to sleep until the next day.
Soooo... I'm trying to find some time to blog.

I can't believe Harper is 4 months old, time really is flying by! She is getting so big. She is teething, rolling form side to side, and starting to sit up more and more.

Her first Thanksgiving was wonderful. We had my in laws, and my Aunt's family, with my brother and sister in town. We had an AWESOME time! We went every evening and to the movies at the end of the street. We ran in the five mile run on Thanksgiving morning. I was so happy to get under 45 minutes, barely! We played flag football with our neighbors (my team lost,) and we of course went black Friday shopping!


Now that I'm back at work, I try to enjoy the little things with Harper. Today I took some pictures of Harper in her little Santa outfit that Nicole gave her.

We are so looking forward to Harper's first Christmas and spending the holidays with the family!

Here are just a couple of pics from the last month!

Harper's 3 month pics

Here are some of Harper's professional 3 month pictures...

Happy Halloween!!!!

Harper's first Halloween!

So many fun Halloween festivities....

It started last Wednesday with Halloween LRC at Jenn's house! I was a mini witch... because I'll be Harper's twin on actual Halloween. It was a fun time, but I once again was not a winner.


Brian and I had a Halloween party that we attended last Friday. Halloween parties are always so fun. You don't recognize your friends because they are in costumes and the new people you meet you won't remember them because you only recognize them by their costume. We went as Harry Potter. Strange enough some people at the party didn't know who we were. Sweet Harper stayed the night at Gigi's house so mommy and daddy could have a night out. :)

Then on actual Halloween we went trick or treating to some of our neighbor's houses.