10 Months

My precious baby girl is 10 months! I can't believe I will write one more blog after this and then you will be a year! I have already started planning your first birthday party, which is so crazy to me!

You are a little stinker and trouble maker, but that just comes with age I think. Now that you are mobile, you have to get into every single thing. We have 2 baby gates because you love to go in the kitchen and up the stairs. You love to dump out baskets of toys, so we have tons of them all over the house that we just put toys in, just so you can take them out. Our house is always a mess but I don't care, as long as you are having fun. Your favorite thing to do each morning, is open your drawer and take out ALL your clothes in that drawer. I'm going to record it one day because it's hilarious. I don't even fold the clothes anymore because you just mess them up, but it is so cute!

Again with being a stinker, if you don't get your way YOU SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS. When I put you in your highchair and don't give you food fast enough, you shriek very loudly, or if you can't get a toy you want, or get where you want to go, you let us know you are mad. The other day you were stepping on your sock and you couldn't move so you had a little fit. Ugh, where did you learn that! I guess you are my daughter ;) I honestly say HARPER CAPRI about 39 times a day because of that scream....

You love to go to the store with me, we get bored with daddy being as school, so we walk around the store a lot. People just love you there and you love the attention. You just smile and wave to them. You know you are cute. You love to wave, you can kind of say hi, and you just move that arm so big. You also can put the phone up to your ear like you are talking to someone. You also put your toys, food, anything up to your ear to say hello to it! It's pretty funny.

You love to dance and shake your head. Oh  my gosh that head shake, that is all you do these days. If I say no you shake your head, if I ask a question, you shake your head, if I turn on music, you shake your head, you are crazy! But you are a good dancer, we love listening to Pandora every day and just being silly together.

You are almost walking! You can stand on your own for a long time, you  just need to get the courage to take that step. But you are pretty good at walking while holding our hands. I know you will be walking by your first birthday!

Oh I don't think I mentioned this yet, you don't use a binky anymore, which I love but hate. You haven't used one since about 7 or 8 months. Just the other day I tried to give you one while putting you to sleep, you seriously grabbed it and threw it across the room! Little stink. At least we won't have to worry about weaning.

I said this last month, but the bow situation is a little sad right now. You pull them off every time I put them on, or it doesn't look good because your hair is so long, so it overlaps and looks weird. So I am doing your hair in ponys and using bows a lot, which I don't mind. I can't wait to do your hair more!

YOU ARE SIGNING MILK. Holy crap. I never thought the day would come. I have vigorously been signing it lately because you are at that age that you should be doing it. Well tonight while nursing to sleep you did it a lot! I kept making you do it over and over to make sure you knew it. You definitely know what it is, you just had never done the sign. You are also signing mom and dad, and I think eat but it's so hard to tell. I let you watch a show called Signing Time that you just love (mom doesn't though because it's super annoying) I can't wait for you to learn more!

You love food....Anything we give you, you will eat. Your favorite is probably cream cheese chicken, sweet potato fries, anything with peanut butter, and puffs. You love those puffs! You also had your first ice cream that you LOVED. You kept grabbing my hand and arching your back to lick it. I let you have a lot of it but just that once! I know you like your sweets, grandma seems to always give you them even when I tell her no! That Grandma;)

You are still in 9 month clothes, but also fit in most 12 month ones. We have a few size 3 diapers left, but after that we are going to 4 because they fit you much better. What are we going to do if they don't make your size anymore??

You are sleeping through the night now (technically) You wake up around 4 or 5 and then go back to sleep until about 7, I will take that over how you used to sleep which was waking every 2-3 hours.

Ah, I could go on and on, you have done so many things this last month, it makes me so happy, yet so sad to see you grow up so fast. I blinked and you grew up. Each day is a new adventure! I love spending every single day with you and seeing the new things you learn. I say this every month, but you are my best friend. I am so grateful you are my daughter, my whole world! I love your kisses, I love your face, I love you!

Looking guilty and being a stink

Shopping AGAIN mom? 

You are a little scared of grandpa..

You loved this playground!

Ice Cream! 

Pulling the clothes out

My perfect princess!!

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9 MONTHS

9 MONTHS?! I can't believe it. I honestly can't. I say that every single month, but this time I am in shock! You are as old as long as I was pregnant! I remember the day I had you like it was yesterday, I suddenly blinked and you are 9 months old! This month you have done SO many things, and we have been so busy! I honestly can't believe you will be a year in 3 months!

Anyway, you started crawling! It took you a little longer than your other baby friends, but like I've said, I think you just were a little bit chunkier and couldn't lift yourself up. You get into everything and eat EVERYTHING. We had to baby proof everything, and get a new tv stand that closes because you love to get into all those cool things in there. You also pull yourself up on to every single thing you possible can, you never want to just sit. You are always sweaty because you are constantly on the move! The cats aren't too excited you can get to them now, and trust me, you love those guys so much. Inigo sometimes lets you play on him, but not for long.

You are eating so well, we are giving you more table food instead of pureed and you love it! Today I made you sweet potato fries with cinnamon and you ate them up so fast. You also like steamed carrots, snap peas, rice, chicken, apples, watermelon, pears, noodles, and a few others. We still try to give you the pureed, but you take about 10 bites and then fuss.

Speaking of fussing, you are such a stinker....You are definitely spoiled and you know it. You don't like being in confined spaces like your car seat or your high chair for a long time. You scream so loud and the second we get you out you are fine. You know how to get your way!

You love to be home! You will be a good girl usually when we go other places, but be very shy and quiet. Then the second we get home you go crazy and crawl everywhere and giggle. You went to daycare when I was working out, and they said you were so good and mellow, just memorized by all the other kids, then you come home and go wild! It's so cute!

We have such a good schedule going on right now, you know exactly what is happening when I lay you down on my bed, you cry and fuss as soon as I lay you down, you eat for a while and then fall asleep for 2 hours. And you fall asleep really fast at night. I think it's good to have a schedule.

I'm not sure how much you weight, your doctors appointment is on Thursday! But you are in 9 months pajamas, and those are almost too small. Your 6 month jumpers don't fit your legs, and your pants are getting a little too small too. The onsies still fit ok, but I'm trying to put you in more 9 month ones. You are still in size 3 diapers but could probably move up soon.

You sleep CRAZY. You suddenly learned how comfy it is to sleep on your stomach and side, you roll around like crazy and constantly hit your head on your crib. Sometimes you just sit straight up and then cry because you don't know what to do. It's pretty funny actually! But I get so nervous because you take your naps in mom and dads bed, every time I see you move on the monitor I have to come check on you.

You won your first BABY CONTEST! You got a trophy and prizes and got to be in a parade! I knew you were going to win so I wasn't too surprised ;) You were so cute and did very well. I think there will be more to come :)

We went to Lagoon twice, which was hard, but we had fun. You liked swimming a lot, but you didn't like to nurse or sleep very much because you were so distracted. Eventually you fell asleep in my arms even when it was very loud!

We got your pictures taken and you did so good, I really think you know what the camera is because you just know to be cute when you look at it! That is all I can think of right now, but I will add more tomorrow probably. Here are some pictures!

After winning Princess!

Perfect angel!

Crazy sleeper

You have begin hating wearing clothes and trying to take your shirts off!

Babywearing and be a cutie with your silly headband

Thinking hard about those sweet potato fries

Harper and daddy

9 months in, 9 months out!

8 months

Oh dear, I'm already emotional so this post may be hard to write! You are 8 months. You are so big!! I feel like this last month you have grown so much and it makes me so so sad but so happy!

You are such a mamas girl, it's the best but also a bit of a pain at times. If I even leave the room for a second you freak out! Even if daddy is there, I have to be in site. Sometimes you do ok with just dad, but you prefer me :)You don't like any one else, except grandma sometimes when you are in a good mood. If you aren't then only mom can hold you. Some people call you a stinker because you cry when they hold you, but I tell them I am with you 24/7. I am your everything at this point so it makes sense! I don't mind it at all, it just makes it hard to get a babysitter and to take a shower sometimes :) we are best buds! I love that I am your comfort. I love that you immediately stop crying when I pick you up and you start giggling because you got your way! It brings joy to me to know that I literally am your everything!

You are sleeping soooooo much better. I think something just clicked. You take your naps in mom and dads bed and sleep for 2+ hours each time. Then you go to bed around 7:30-8 in your crib and usually only wake up around midnight just for a cuddle, not even to nurse. I think you learned how to put yourself back to sleep because you will wake up and move around and then fall back asleep. I think it helps we finally have a good schedule going. If you don't take a nap at a certain time you will be a huge grump and the whole day will be messed up! I do appreciate the extra sleep we are all getting though, but I do love the late night cuddles.

You love your baby food now. You are doing so well with that, and also drinking from a straw sippy cup. You love veggies so much, and are slowly starting to like fruit. You loooove puffs! If you are being a stink I will give you one and that will entertain you for a second.

Still no teeth....one day you will get one! I'm fine with it because you are still nursing every second of the day :) and you are soooo close to crawling. I honestly think within the next couple days you will start. I think its taken longer because you are a little chunkier, but I love your little legs :) you can definitely get around though. Somehow you always find our phones or something you are not supposed to play with!

You love any toy really. Anything we give you, you will play with. You still love your Sophie though. And keys. I also have a monkey I sleep with that I let you play with everyday and you LOVE him. You talk to him every morning when you nurse, I guess I can give him up if you want him when you are older. I love you that much :)

You are such a good girl. A little crazy, but very well tempered girl. You are happy doing anything as long as mom is around. We love to go to the grocery store, walks, swimming, anything and you are just fine with all of it.  You hardly cry except like I said when someone else holds you, or you are tired and you can't take a nap yet, or if I don't get to you fast enough in the middle of the night.

You love your crazy brothers. Whenever you see them you laugh and squeal and have to talk to them! They don't have a problem with you except when you pull their fur, which is a lot. But they never hurt you, they just run away. Dad says if they hurt you then they are going to die, so if they are still around when you read this, then they never hurt you! Inigo actually likes to play with you!

You love to kiss. Your favorite thing to do is latch on to my bottom lip and suck, which is hilarious. People probably think it's gross but I don't care, you are my daughter and a little baby!

I feel like your hair has grown so much within the lays few weeks, you wake up from your naps with the worst bed head, it's hilarious and so cute!

You are in size 3 diapers and 6-9 clothes mostly. Except your rompers and pajamas have to be 9 months now because you are so tall and your legs are a little chunky!

You like to take off your headbands and whip them in your face and eyes, so I take them off for nap times and always forget to put them back on. That's why you aren't wearing any in the pictures I am posting, you are such a stinker with those headbands! But now your hair is longer, I am starting to put it in pony tails.

You can say mama now, and also do the sign for milk! We have been trying to get you to do those things for months. Now we need to try to get you to sign the other things and say dada.

 You are getting so big! Seriously this month you have accomplished a lot and grown a ton. The time is going by so fast, but I am so so grateful I get to stay home with you and watch you grow everyday. I love you to the moon and back and thankful you are my baby girl!!!

I like to take pictures of you sleeping :)

You did not want to be in that chair!

We took some pictures for Fathers day, I will post more in a different post!

(For some reason I don't have that many pictures of you this month! So here is an old one I never posted)

7 months!

I can't believe I have a 7 month old! You are such a cute little stinker right now, we have a new nickname for you, Stinkerbell! But you are actually a really good baby, you have settled down a little bit and are such a good girl!
(This won't be too long because I updated your last one late)

We started you on baby food, you didn't like it at first, you still don't love it but you can tolerate it now. And you drink from a sippy cup! Yay! Mom can actually leave you for a few hours, but I don't really want to :)

Dad started working, so you and I have been having some fun adventures. We went swimming yesterday and had a lot of fun! There was a bouncer there and you thought that was the coolest thing ever. But some stupid kids ran into you and splashed you so I yelled at them :)

You have thrush, I have no idea how you got it but that's okay. It's going away pretty easily.

You are going to crawl pretty soon, you just need to learn to move your legs, and you are starting to lift yourself up on things very slowly, and you sometimes fall when doing that, but you will learn! You seem to hit your head a lot when your dad is watches you, but it's just on accident!

Everyone says you look like Dad. Even random strangers who just met him. I think that's okay, but I wish you looked like me a little more :( After all I did carry you in my belly for 10 months and breastfeed you! But that's okay, you are still the stinkin cutest baby ever.

I've said this before, but you are SUCH A FLIRT. You love to just giggle and talk to random strangers. One older man even took a picture of you to show his wife, I hope he wasn't a creep! He said "Some babies are ugly but this baby is sooo cute!" And you really are, you are getting SO cute. I love spending my whole day with you. And I think you like me a little bit. You had started doing this last month, but you do it more now. When you want me to pick you up and I leave the room you will fuss and throw your head back and throw a fit, and then I will pick you up and you will raise your arms, and then be happy as a clam! I just love that I can make you happy.

I have been putting you in my bed to take naps instead of holding you, and although I love either napping or getting the house work done, I miss holding and cuddling you during those times. You are just growing up and it's making me sad! You are my best friend. I say that every month, but you are. We are good pals and have the funnest times together! Here are some pictures!

Your cousin Dash ADORES YOU. And you guys are about the same size...

Happy Half Birthday!

Hi my little stinker Harper. Sorry this is late, we were in Texas and we were super busy! I will write about Texas in another blog!

You are 6 months old though! 6 MONTHS OLD!? I can't believe I had you half a year ago, it has flown by. It makes me so sad because I remember when you were this little!!

Now you look like this!

But I absolutely love this time. You have gained the cutest personality and you are so much fun. Every day with you is the best day! You weigh 18 lbs 8 oz!! And are 27 1/2 inches tall! You are a tall chunky girl! The doctor said you will be tall, which we already knew since you were tall when you were born! You did so good at your shots also, you were very mad for a second, but stopped crying after getting some of mamas milk!

We got you a new car seat that you seem to like MUCH better. You had a fit every single time we put you in it when we were in Texas, and we drove a lot, so you had a lot of fits! I think you like sitting up and looking at the world instead of reclining and looking at nothing.

Right after your shots!  (I think you look like me when I was a baby in this)

You have the biggest personality, and you know what you want. If we don't pay attention to you for a second, or you are doing something you don't want to do anymore, you scream at the top of your lungs and let us know "PAY ATTENTION TO ME" I always say "Harper Capri!" after you do that because to be honest, it's a little bratty ;) 

You are CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY. You can't sit still for one second. You have to constantly be looking at everything and moving around. And you are such a flirt. When we take you out places you will look at everyone and talk to them, making them smile and coo at you. Seriously, you have to do it to everyone. You constantly have a smile on your face, you are such a happy baby! It's so funny because I've noticed little kids love you, and you love little kids. At Sea World, 2 or 3 little girls came up to you and said "Mom, look at that cute baby!" Then the mom would say yes she is so cute! It's just so funny. You are very popular. 

You like toys a lot now. Your favorite is Sophie the Giraffe, and a teether toy that came with her that we call Sophies friend. You also like some play keys and your stuffed animals, you have about 5000 of them so we never will run out of those! You got a big sea lion at Sea World that we named Wally that you LOVE. He makes you laugh a lot. You pretty much like anything we put in front of you, especially our phones. We will be sitting there hearing you talk, then all the sudden you are quiet and we realize you grabbed our phones and started chewing on them! I downloaded a little app that you like too, but you mainly like it because I let you hold the phone, which then goes straight to your mouth!

We have tried mainly avocados on solids. You aren't a huge fan though. You just sit there and spit it back out at me. I don't think you really know what to do. But I am in no rush, I am fine with you nursing you as long as both you and I want. 

You are not sleeping great......but you are only young once so I will deal with it :) for about a week you were waking up every hour......I think it may have been that we were on vacation though. So we are still adjusting, and trying different strategies to help you out. You seem to be getting better though.

You are still in size 2 diapers, and 3-6 month clothes. You have tons of cute summer clothes. I am excited to have a summer with you!

Your favorite noise to make is "Bababababa" and you chomp your little mouth together while doing it. You just love to talk and tell us all about your day. And scream very loudly too :)

You definitely know who I am. And to be honest, you love me :) While we were in Texas and you were grumpy (you were a very good girl most of the time) someone would be holding you and you would fuss until I held you. Or if I walked away and you couldn't see me, you would scream, then I walk in and you are fine. It makes me so happy you do that, I love that I am your mom, and I love that you know that! But you do love your dad too, you just know I have special milk for you!

I love cuddling with you, (even though you don't!) I love kissing you and making you giggle, I love dressing you up and taking care of you, I love seeing you with your dad and him kissing you, I love comforting you, I love nursing you back to sleep 48303202 times a night, I just love you. I hope you know that, my sweet princess...I love you to the moon and back! 

Being a diva in your sunglasses. You don't even try to take them off when you wear them!

Having fun at the aquarium

Little chunky butt

5 months

Posted on 4/12/2014

Hi my little Harper Capri. Yesterday you turned 5 months! That is almost a half a year! I know I say this all the time, but I honestly feel like I just had you. You are HILARIOUS at this age. You have gained such a cute little personality and we have so much fun with you! You have learned to fake cry and whine until you get your way, it's like a little cough, and then as soon as either feed you or pick you up you stop immediately. We call you a little diva! You have mom and dad wrapped around your little finger.

You LOVE to talk, that is all you do. It's more of a high pitch scream and coo than talking but it's still the cutest thing ever. If you aren't eating, sleeping or tired, you will talk to us. I call Grandma Julie all the time just so you can talk to her. Yesterday when Dad was changing your bum you told him such a cool story I could hear you in the other room. He brought you to me and I said "Gee, I'm so glad I have such a calm, quiet, peaceful baby who doesn't make much noise!" Because you sure like to talk! I am nervous to take you to church since you developed this because you are quite loud! But it makes me laugh so much! And you love to laugh too, anything makes you laugh these days. You are honestly such a happy baby.

You are a miss rollie pants, we lay you down and you roll from front to back to back to front about 10 times before you get mad. And you love to just hang out your belly (and talk) I'm sure you will be crawling in no time. You are also pretty good at sitting up, but still need a little assistance.

You are very into kissing, you grab our faces and kiss our cheeks or mouth, with your mouth wide open, you are so sweet! It's very slobbery but so cute!


You are arill in 3 month clothes, mainly 3-6 but are kind of growing into 6 month ones. They are still pretty big though!


Sleeping....ugh, sleeping. There is something called a 4 month sleep regression and I think that hit you with vengeance. One night we put you in the crib and you woke at 1! Which is very odd for you because you usually would wake up at 4, 5 or 6. Then that continued, and is still happening, but that's okay. I quickly nurse you, you fall back asleep and sleep a couple more hours in your crib. You used to not go back to sleep in your crib so I am thankful you are doing that now. We had a really really bad week last week when you started that but we have gotten the hang of it now and everything is okay!

You don't really like your car seat if you wide awake, but if you are tired you will fall right asleep and sleep for a couple hours in there. You love to go on walks, so we walk around Target and the neighborhood a lot. Here's a picture of you saying "get me out of here!"

You still aren't taking a bottle...I don't know what we are going to do about that when you stop breastfeeding, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it!

You are starting to play with your toys a lot more, it's fun to see you grab for things when we put them in front of you. You also seem to like books, whenever we read you cute little stories you seem so mesmerized and giggle. You also have gone to daycare at our fitness center, and the workers say you do so good and don't make a peep the whole time! They also say you are adorable :)

You never cry, unless you are in your carseat or get hurt which is never! Plus I know your cues so that helps. We are just best buddies! You are such a good girl and we have so much fun every single day. Each day you get cuter and more fun. I know there is more stuff you do, I just can't think of anything else at the moment! I just love your little personality and I am so glad you are my daughter! You are growing up so fast!

Cute little bum

Rockin the jean jacket!

My perfect little angel!