Posted on | November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
dude. today on facebook, a friend of mine commented on a photo of Harper referring to her as a toddler. after thinking about it for a minute (and questioning when that change actually takes place) i realized that is what she looks like now. i always see her as a baby (which she still is, by the way, and ALWAYS WILL BE) and as weird as this may sound, because i see her everyday, i don’t notice how tall she’s gotten or how she is losing her baby chub unless i look back at older photos.
this week she has really started mimicking words. probably the cutest new thing she says is “wow”. when she is done eating and i say “all done!” she responds with “ah-dah!”. she is getting pretty good at “ball”, and really good at “hi” while waving ferociously. the other day she was in the back seat waving out one window yelling “hi! hi! hi!” then she’d turn to the other side and yell “hi! hi! hi!”. it looked like she was riding on a float. almost peed myself. i’m not kidding when i say it’s a definite driving hazard to have a kid so cute you can’t stop looking in the rearview mirror.
the other day we were going to leave the house which meant a) i had a bra on and b) H didn’t have any bananas anywhere on her. i felt it was an occasion we should document with a photo. i’ve never had much trouble taking pictures of us together in the past. just hold the baby, hold camera in “myspace profile pic” fashion and snap a few. oh no. not anymore. i swear on a stack of Us weeklys that this is the best picture i got, because my child is actually in it:
sigh. and she can’t even walk yet.
sidenote: i will not resign to the fact that my kid is a toddler until she a) can walk b) bites me and c) does the obligatory take-off-my-diaper-during-a-nap-and-smear-my-own-poop-all-over-my-crib thing.
Posted on | October 21, 2009 | 5 Comments
wow. i’ve really been neglectful lately. perhaps it’s because the only time i actually have to blog is late at night and these days, i’ve been popping a bag of popcorn, pouring a glass of chardonnay, and watching my dvr’d shows literally every night after putting H down. she has been straight up wearing me out lately. she now has 4 teeth on the top and i think more are on their way with all the drooling and random crying fits. she is getting super clingy (i was wondering when that separation anxiety would kick in) and at least pretending to show an interest in possibly walking sometime before her 15th birthday.
the first thing people ask after i tell them she is almost a year old is “is she walking yet?” and when i answer no, then it’s “that’s ok, she’ll get it”. right. i know. don’t feel sorry for my kid. there’s nothing wrong with her, but thanks. i’m happy she isn’t walking yet. have you seen babies that walk? their fast! and they hurt themselves. and yeah – i’m not even ready to have a kid that walks. i’m having a hard enough time grasping that my child is almost a year old without her literally walking away from me. why the rush people? why?
today as i sat cross legged on the floor, she crawled over to me, used me to stand herself up and then let go. she stood there for like 20 seconds. i saw her tiny toes digging into the carpet when she teetered forward and them let go as she teetered back. balancing. when she fell down, she climbed up and did it again. i love it when she learns something new and then it becomes “her thing”. so by the time Scot walks in the door, i can be like “show daddy what you learned today” and she does it. crazy bambino.
and then there is this sillyness. her other new favorite thing: trying to do a headstand. she laughs like it’s the funniest thing ever. i personally do not like the feeling of all my blood rushing to my head, but she seems to thoroughly enjoy it.
Posted on | October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
today was awesome! we took Harper for her very first pumpkin picking trip. the weather was PERFECT, which made me happy because we were also there to get her one year pictures taken by Stacy. i’m so excited to see how they turned out, H was in a great mood, very smiley and excited about her surroundings. she loved the pumpkins! we even got a few family shots so i’m stoked on that, too. Stacy is great and i know they are going to turn out awesome.
GG came with us and we all picked our own pumpkins, plus other fun little ones, gourds, squash and dried corn. this place was amazing. here are our own photos from the day. 
i will say there was only one bad part about the day. right after this last picture was taken, the little monster lost her balance and hit her chin on the pumpkin. scot scooped her up and while she was silent-screaming, noticed the inside of her lip was bleeding. UGH. i’ve never seen my child bleed before. hated it. cried like a little girl in the pumpkin patch. this is the stuff that is going to happen now. she’s going to hurt herself. i may wrap her in bubble wrap, it could happen. fortunately, she’s the toughest chick i know, and she was fine in no time. but ughhhhh, it sucked people. besided that little incident, the day was amazing and definitely a new tradition.
Posted on | October 6, 2009 | 7 Comments
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