Harps first sitting up in highchair

Rick and I had a date lunch during the work week and we went to get Harper and make it a semi-family affair. We went to Buffalo Wild Wings and Harper did well sitting up and watching the many tv screens. As typical she dropped many toys on the floor, but held up strong most of the time.

My handsome boy

Harps "other side"

Playtime for Harper

7 months

• eating stage 2 veggies and fruits, cereal
• laying on her tummy with arms and legs moving like she's going somewhere, but doesn't move
• sitting in her new bucket seat in the big tub
• drinks water all the time from sippee cup
• really likes sweet potatoes and squash
• drinking 4-5 oz of formula
• sleeping from 7:15ish until 6:45ish when Daddy wakes you up
• laugh at Jonah all the time
• follows Jonah with your eyes- wherever he goes, your eyes follow
• tired little pieces of watermelon and liked it
• weighs 19.3 oz (95th percentile)
• 28.5 inches long (95th percentile)
• has 2 bottom teeth
• if you want to reach something- you will just roll around and all over until you get it
• have no interest in crawling
• loves to listen to "wheels on the bus" and "patty cake"
• will watch everything while at the park
• when you're hungry- you don't cry- you just make moaning sounds until we feed you
• like to suck on your taggies blanket

Jonah's bday party with friends and more family

This was the first "friends" party we've had for Jonah. In years past, we had a small celebration of close friends and family, we'd send cupcakes to his daycare and be done. This year was different. He is leaving Mrs. Julie's when our school is out June 3rd- so he won't see many of his friends there. This was the first year where Jonah REALLY got that it was HIS day! And we felt bad that he's never had a BIG party - so we did it.

It was a sports theme- is there anything else? We asked all his friends to wear a sports shirt/jersey to his party and we played games, lots of games. We had a relay race, pop the balloon with our bootie, limbo, stations (soccer kick, football toss, basketball hoop), and the most popular a shoe toss (with their own shoe). Then time for the pinata- Jonah actually hit it and the older kids (Mason, Eli and Jhett) broke it open.

Finally, for some cake and ice cream. Since I was determined to make this simple- we had cupcakes and little containers of ice cream for the kids. And I had the kids make the cupcakes themselves (they got to put all kinds of icing, candy, etc) all over their cupcakes! Kids loved it and it saved me tons of time not having to ice all of them beforehand.

We sang happy birthday to Jonah as he had a big smile on his face! And during his party-- two times I realized this was all worth it--- One- when Jonah came up to me and said "mommy, it's my birthday and all my friends are at my house" and Two- when I heard Jonah tell Rick "daddy, this is so fun." Of course, seeing all the kids smile was worth it too, but seeing my little handsome 3 year old boy have a good time where an entire day was about him-- that is more than enough to make me so happy!

Harper first bath in "real" bathtub

Not even 7 months and it's getting a little tight in the kitchen sink! So we moved Harper over to the big tub in her bucket and she did ok. She didn't know what to think of the water on her head, but she let me put it on over and over. She tried to pick up all of Jonah's toys in the water and she kept on moving her feet around in the water. Yea Harper - what a big girl doing so good. Jonah was excited for you even if it meant he couldn't do colors or bubbles in his bath that night.

Mommy's Day

How lucky I am to have 2 wonderful babies who call me mommy and an awesome husband who loves me so much! I got breakfast in bed (made by my boys)- eggs and english muffins. Then we headed to a park for some playtime. We met up with Justine and mom for late lunch and had a good time while all the boys cooked appetizers, dinner, dessert and even cleaned up! WOW--

Jonah's BIRTH DAYS

Age 3

Age 2

Age 1 years old

Age 1 month

• is fully potty trained daytime and nighttime!
• Currently goes to Mrs. Julie's daycare
• knows colors, shapes, numbers to 20
• understands prepositions
• loves to listen to his music CD in the car
• can get us home from Firewheel Mall
• wants to be outside playing, riding, etc all the time
• has tons of fun with his cousin Mason
• can make Harper laugh and smile with simple funny things he does
• likes to play with our phones and ipad
• enjoys his racetrack / cars, playing kitchen, buzzlight year
• helps in the kitchen making pancakes, waffles or cupcakes
• can sing many nursery rhymes and even some of "our" songs from the radio
• loves to pretend play with space ships, animals
• bath time can never be long enough- loves to put coloring and bubbles in his bath
• likes to kick the soccer ball and throw the football
• favorite foods: peanut butter sandwich, donuts, pudding
• will eat yougurt and cereal for breakfast
• eats tons of veggies and loves fruit - especially watermelon
• vanilla ice is the best
• likes to play with Eli, Peyton and Emma at daycare

Jonah's birthday

Since Jonah's bday was on a Saturday we took advantage of it and spent it just the 4 of us all day long and saved his friends / family party for the following weekend. Jonah woke up to presents, went to the Dallas Zoo (rode the merry go round, the monorail), went to Chuck E Cheese pizza just for games (and not to see that Mouse) and then ate at Old McDonald's with some good ice cream. The day was all about him and this was the first year he "got" that it was his birthday! When the phone rang- he would ask- "is it for me?" because he would know people were calling to wish him a happy birthday-- and the best part is that he did!

Mary Poopins

We are very lucky to have our own Mary Poppins who lives down the street and just adores / loves our kids. Really- she will call down to see if they can come over for a playdate. We are very thankful to a wonderful friend who enjoys to spend her free time with thing 1 and thing 2!

We don't do snakes at this house

This was the 2nd snake we have found in our backyard. Last year we found one in our pool- Rick killed it as it was a smaller one. This year- we had to call in back up- there was a long and mean and fightsy snake in our yard so Rick, our neighbor Roland and his brother in law all took it down. The snake hissed and snapped. But many yard tools later, that sucker was a goner with his head cut off and his tail chopped off too. We think it was a rat snake- not sure why our yard- but as long as his friends got the message- come over here and your dead!

Here's our pretty girl

All of 6.5 months and we are just in love with her -- she is such a happy baby, sleeps well at night, laughs at Jonah all the time, loves being passed around to everyone, and makes us smile!

Easter Day!

We headed to Justine's for Easter- ate good food, looked at our new ipad, ate good desserts, had the golden egg hunt! The hints from Kirsten were good- we struggled to find that golden egg! Jared got it and the Target gift card inside. Harper was the party animal and fell asleep, Jonah & Mason played the entire time, and we laughed- lots of laughs!

The Easter Bunny came!

Sunday morning came early indeed! Jonah woke up Harper and came to get us so he could see his basket and show Harpers hers. He was all over the house, picking up eggs and had fun opening them and eating a little candy first thing in the AM.

Easter Eve

We had some friends over for dinner, decorating hard boiled eggs and our first annual flashlight egg hunt! IT was so much fun. Dye got all over our hands and we smashed some of the smelly eggs in the ugly brown yard! Emma & Jonah were all over using their flashlights in the dark searching for eggs. Too fun!

Easter Eve - later that night

So we had Jonah set out his basket and Harper's. He chose the fireplace. It was such a "hallmark" moment when Jonah noticed Harper's basket didn't have any of those hard boiled dye eggs, he took some out of his basket and put them in hers. Too cute and so special - what a BIG heart! We laid eggs around the house (not the bedrooms) filled with glow in the dark bugs and jelly beans. His basket had new Diego underwear, water toys, paint apron, chapstick (so he won't use mine), a castle, bubble bath, colors for his bath and a few lollipops! Harper's basket had some bath colors (but not really since she's too young), milk (formula) and new bath towels- poor thing!

Family Time

We are making our rounds at parks even when it is so windy! Jonah is getting more daring on the equipment which is good so he's not so scared all the time.

Bucket seat

Well Harper is getting closer to sitting up by herself without falling forward or to the sides. But while in the playroom I needed for her to sit up, so we had to improvise! Who knew a bucket could be a form fitting seat? It was a little snug for our chunky pumpkin and once she did it, Jonah to as well. That's how we roll around here!

Harper ~ 6 months old ~ halfway to 1 years old!

• Eating all kinds of stage 1 veggies and fruit
• 19 lbs 3 oz (95th percentile)
• 28.5 inches long (95th percentile)
• we showing her the signs for "milk, water, eat and night-night"
• loves to roll from tummy and back all over
• smiles when we sing "wheels on the bus", "patty cake" and "itsy, bitsy spider"
• can turn pages in a book with a little help
• goes to bed at 7:30 and Daddy wakes you up at 6:45 M-F and then you sleep til 7:30 on the weekends
• love to look around while on her swing outside
• really is jumping all around in your jumper
• started her sippee cup with water
• is lucky to spend her days with Grammy getting all kinds of attention, swing outside, and stroller rides around block
• watches Jonah all the time- she adores her brother- watching, laughing, smiling all at him
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Campfire means Smores!

Now that Jonah is almost 3- he got to do his first smore at the campfire! He loved eating it and tried to sneak a few more from the bag.