i'm a big kid now!

The beginning of April, Harper started to pull herself up on furniture!

Almost there!!! [The tongue helps her out] :)

 YAY!!!!!

Such a proud face!!!

This was 2 weeks ago. You should see how effortlessly she gets up now...

far and away

We have regular skype dates with Harper's GiGi and GDubb. It's the only way they can talk with her and see her grow. They are always amazed at how big she has gotten!

It's pretty cute to watch Harper try to figure it out :) 

I love their faces...

Bitty seeing what the fuss is about. 

It'll have to do for now :)

8 months and counting

Happy 8 months little girl!!!

what a precious gift you are.

harper's 1st easter

We made some easter cookies.

John worked in the morning and then we took family photos outside, despite the cold, wet weather.

And Harper wore [with lots of fidgeting and pulling] her easter bonnet. :)

A small break in our festivities were required due to Harper choking on a piece of foil from a Cadbury egg. But after a trip to the ER, an x-ray and lots of baby puke, she finally coughed it up and got the ok to leave. 

Crisis averted and moving on...

 We dyed and decorated eggs.

We put together Harper's first easter basket. The baby lamb is from her great grandma Osburn :)

Then I delivered Easter goodies to our 3 neighbors. 

It was a very eventful and fun day. And a very memorable 1st easter for our girl :)

RIP the wrap

March 21st was a significant day for Harper. She slept for the 1st time without being wrapped up!

When we first started this method, we learned babies usually grow out of being wrapped by 6 months. Well, we flew by 6 months and Harper still loved being wrapped. 7 months came up and she still liked it. We figured she would let us know when she was done.

Sure enough, at 7.5 months, she called it quits on the wrap.

It was any normal Sunday afternoon, John was working and I was home with her. I wrapped her up and she seemed agitated so I decided I would give it a try laying her down unwrapped. To my surprise, she rolled right over on her tummy and didn't make a peep.

She hasn't been wrapped since.

Here is a memorial to our lovely wrapping memories :) And all the cute nicknames that came with it.

Burrito. Cocoon. 

Mummy. Bullet

Caterpillar.

Tootsie Roll. Rocket

Rollie Pollie. Eggroll.

The wrap is the best advice we could give to new parents. It seriously changed our lives.

But we are happy she grew out of it. She was barely fitting in her blanky anymore. And I really didn't wanna wrap her as a junior higher.

cousins

This is proxy "Jett"

Our sweet and wonderful friends Mark and Becky are adopting a little boy from Ethiopia.

This little doll was how they told us the very exciting news. 

Harper and proxy Jett really like to play together. 

They roll around and Harper shows proxy Jett all the ropes.

 Apparently proxy Jett doesn't mind getting his head gnawed on. Or maybe he just isn't vocal about it. 

Or having his shoulder pulled out of socket. 

The smothering doesn't get on his nerves. 

 

 And after Harper gets bored, proxy Jett never seems to be upset that she abandons him. 

Let's see if real life "Jett" is this tolerant.

go speedracer

3 weeks ago Harper started trying to crawl.  2 weeks ago she started rocking. Pretty stinkin cute. :)

 Whoa, steady now... 

  

Alright I got the arms. How do I move my legs too?

 

I am VERY determined to get this!

Pretty soon I'll be blogging about everything she has gotten into, all the things I've had to put away and the fact that she is trying to walk. 

Oh man.