blogging break!

I'm taking a break while I figure out what to do with this girl who is

WALKING?!?!?!?!!

Hello Cereal!

Against my will...we started Gerber rice cereal on Sunday {March 11, 2012}
{I wanted to wait until 6 months, but sometimes plans go awry}

Well, I should say, we basically had to! Harper is just not sleeping through the night. She's getting up to eat, and it's about to kill us; we are so tired!!!  So after a looooooong Saturday night, I broke down and said we could try it.

I was super nervous about it...but...Harper seemed to really like it! She didn't try to spit it out, she kept reaching towards the spoon and getting a little impatient with me not going very fast!!

The first night, we saw no change. The second night she got up ONLY once {huge for her!} and Brian just turned on her noise giraffe and gave her a paci, and she slept until I woke her up in the morning!! The third night she woke up twice but gave paci/'Raffi and she went back to sleep.
So...she hasn't gone back to sleeping through the night, but she isn't waking up to eat; so hopefully we will get that straight sleep soon!! :)

Our new night schedule:
Rice Cereal around 7:30
Bath around 7:45
Bottle around 8:00
Bed between 8:15-8:30

Honestly, I HATE being on such a rigid schedule. I'd always said I'd try to not do that. But, alas, as I've learned in the past 5 months, you gotta do what you gotta do. And friends, this Momma will keep a rigid schedule for the next 15 years if it means I *might* see sleeping in my near future. :)

My Baby hit a Milestone...

Although we've been practicing this little feat for about a week or two, I was amazed when Harper finally achieved it. Excited, proud, happy, and sad all at the same time. I am SO thankful and lucky for little Harper to be growing, but man is it going fast!!

Harper sat up on her own on Thursday night {March 1, 2012} for just a few seconds...but on Friday afternoon, she started sitting up and PLAYING! For a long time!!! Like minutes!!! We were so proud! {5 Months, 1 Day old}

I clicked this pic with my phone in my Mom's basement while we were weathering the tornado warnings {we are ok, thank goodness} ~

And here's a few we took ~

Since then, she's been sitting like a champ! We got down her 6 month toys that need her to be able to sit up to play ~ she's loving them!

Does this baby thing ever get dull?!?! :)