I'm so HAPPY!!!

We live for this! Turn up your volume and check out Harper's full on laugh! She is such a happy baby (except when she is tired, bored, confused or annoyed.)

Lots of new things!

Harper continues to amaze us every day and she is developing such a great personality! Because of daylight savings, we got to have our "first family dinner" on Sunday night. Usually, Harper's bedtime routine starts around 5:30p and she's sound asleep by 6:30p. But becasue of the extra hour, we had her eat with us! She enjoyed some yummy rice cereal while Tom and I ate our regular dinner. We found a "generic Stokke Tripp Trapp" that allows us to push her right up to the table so she can eat with us. We love it! Definitely a great find so we can enjoy her company (and vice versa, we hope!).

One of Harper's new favorite things to do is sit up in her crib after her naps and play with her aquarium (see photo). She's gotten really good at sitting up on her own, and she'll push the big blue button to turn the aquarium on and off. She is quite smitten with it lately.

She also loves to be in the Moby wrap, facing out, while we do our grocery shopping. Much more fun and interesting than sitting in her car seat looking up at the ceiling! She's quite a treat these days and loves going anywhere. So long as she has her naps, she's a pretty happy baby!

Today, we're heading to the gym to try out the child care while I take a spin class. Hopefully she will do okay with out me. Who am I kidding, she'll probably LOVE showing off for the child care staff... I'm the one who will miss being with HER! Harper at 6 months with Squirt... check out those legs!

Time Flies!

Harper wearing he new shoes from Elaine!

WOW! Harper is SIX months old today! She had her check-up yesterday and is now 15lbs. 12oz and 25 inches long. She is about average for height and weight. She had one shot yesterday and was such a trooper through the whole ordeal. As of today, Harper is: sitting up on her own for a little while, almost rolling from back to stomach but doesn't seem very interestd in doing so, eating carrots, peas (ick!) and sweet potatoes, taking two long naps a day in her crib and sleeping about 12 hours at night, rolling up from laying down to sitting with just a little help, but is getting much stronger. She LOVES: her nightly baths, kisses on her cheeks & belly, doing "sit ups", music, rides in the car, going for walks, walking around the yard to play fetch with Rudy or pet the horses at the back fence, having her diaper changed, her Glow Worm, "Piggy", her Gymini, her bouncy horse and just about anything else we can throw at her. I put her in the carrier to run into the grocery store and she just loved looking around at everything. She is so curious about her surroundings and just eyes everything calmly while taking it all in.

Happy "6 month birthday" Harper!! We are so lucky to have you in our lives and have enjoyed every second of the past six months!