HHI Family Vacation!

This past week we were at Brian's family's home in Hilton Head Island, SC. His sister just relocated down there, too!  Brian's cousin and her daughter also joined us again! It was a lot of fun!

We loved showing Harper the beach for the first time.  She enjoyed eating the sand, too... haha!

While we were there we got to celebrate Cooper's 2nd birthday. Harper hasn't seen her cousins and aunt/uncle since she was 3 days old. But that didn't stop our sweet girl from instantly knowing her family! She got along so well with everyone and did SO good all week!

Honestly, we could not have asked for Harper to have done any better! We were very impressed with our sweetie!  She even cut her very first 2 teeth while we were there which also caused us to head to the UTC to find out Harper had a bladder infection and had to take her first antibiotic.  So, again, she was an amazing little baby girl!

Here's just a few pics from the week - more are on our FB page!

harper and hayden

lana swinging

hayden, harper, lana

harper and i in grammy's pool

sweet cuzzies

aunt heather and harper

hayden teaching harper to push the buttons on the book

TOTALLY unprovoked...harper leaned over and kissed the baby! she obviously gets kissed a lot!

she loved it!

daddy, harper, and grammy

lana and kelley

livin' the dream!

beach tent : a must have

ok, this is hilarious! it totally does not look like her! it was her first taste of sand!

me and my girl

harbor town

so fancy - her own portable fan for patio dining!

cooper's party with aunt heather and cousin kelley

uncle boyd and harper

cooper and harper

pops and harper

grammy and harper

happy 2's! sweet cooper

funny hayden

We had a great week - and now it's Monday and I'm enjoying my first official 'SAHM' day! Yea! I'm working on new routines and trying to "fix" our girl back to sleeping through the night! Ahh! :)

8 Months {of Harper Lovin'}

HOLY MOLY! Has this month been awesome!!!

On May 29, 2012 Harper turned 8 Months old!!!!
{we were on vacay, so this post is a few days late}

My sweet baby girl is seriously growing too fast! But it has been so fun! I think each month I say it's been my favorite month, but it is just so neat to watch my sweet baby develop, grow, and explore!

Pics are SUPER hard to get these days! She's on the move!!!  Poor Dottie!

Weight: not sure - we don't go to doc. till 9 months, but we are thinking around 18 lbs

Diapers: size 2 Pampers, size 3 Nighttime Pampers at night

Food: Harper LOVES to eat!!! Is she her parent's child or what?! She will eat anything we give her, but she especially loves: peas, corn, sweet potatoes, macaroni & cheese puree, and pear/banana/apple blend.  She also loves Gerber Puffs. We do yellow foods M/W/F/S and green foods T/TH/Saturday.

Sleep: Harper currently naps 3 times a day, but we are hoping to transition to 2. She goes to sleep around 8:00 and I usually get her up around 6:30...but now that I am not working, we are hoping she will sleep until 7 or later like she does on the weekends.

Bottle: She still loves her bottle. She drinks around 26-28 oz. a day.  She is still on Alimentum. We've tried other kinds, but they just don't settle with her.  She also LOVES water. She loves drinking out of a soft sippy cup or a straw sippy cup.

Clothes: mostly 6-9 months, wears hats without a problem, beginning to pull on bows!!

New Things:
*she learned to crawl this month and does it fast!
*she learned to pull up on pretty much everything whether it's a hard surface or not!
*loves to climb over and on anything
*exploring is her favorite! she is sooo inquisitive!
*squeals SUPER loud when she gets excited or happy
*babbles a TON and loves to "talk"
*says Ma-Ma and Da-Da very clear...but usually without meaning!
*kisses by leaning her forehead to your lips
*had her baby dedication
*went swimming for the first time
*GOT HER FIRST TOOTH {on her 8th month birthday!!!!!!} and then got her second a day later!
*took her first vacation!! to Charleston, SC and HHI, SC
*loves to eat Puffs - fav flavors are sweet potato and strawberry
*walks if holding 1 hand
*sits up in the stroller - no more carseat in there!
*drinks water out of a regular drinking glass
*getting cause and effect - loves re-pushing buttons to hear a certain sound
*copies things we do! - kisses on her LuLu bug rocker

Harper's Current Schedule:
{already changed for this month!}
*Wake up and bottle - 6:30/7:00
*Nap - 8:30-9:30
*fruit and cereal - 9:30
*bottle - 10:30/11
*Nap - 11/11:30-12:30/1
*bottle and vegetable: 2:30
*fruit or vegetable (or meat puree) and cereal - 6:00
*bath - 7:30
*bottle and bed - 7:45/8:00