Harper's First Christmas

We had a wondeful Christmas and Boppa and Grammy's house! With all the snow we all spent alot of time with each other, it was great fun! Here are some pics from Christmas Day....

Over Christmas Harper discovered that she can "squeal". Here is a video of her carrying on a squealing conversation with her cousin Josh, he is the other baby you can hear but can't see..... (side note: why do I sound so ridiculous?).... make sure you pause the music player before watching...

Play that funky music....

We've discovered a new way to pass the time with Harper. She is captivated by daddy playing the guitar and will sit and listen for quite awhile.....

This is my first video post attempt. You'll want to pause the music on the right hand side of this blog before you press play.

Disclaimer: Daddy has not authorized the posting of a video of him playing the guitar. This was a very popular hobby of his when we first started dating but has been collecting dust over the past couple years. Nothing like a new baby to encourage him to bring the guitar back out and wipe off the dust!

Snow Day

Well it probably doesn't count for a snow day for those of you who live where it actually snows, but we'll take what we can get! We finally had weather for Harper to try out her little snow suit...

Then we spent some time drying out by the fire...

3 months old already!

Harper turned 3 months old on Thursday! It is hard to believe she is already a quarter of the way through her first year. She is changing so much and it is exciting to see what new developments she is going to have each day.

We're continuing to work on "tummy time". She is a real fan of the modified version on daddy....

She is also starting to explore some "big girl" toys.

Here she is practicing sitting.....

She's even beginning to enjoy her jumping exersaucer. Her feet don't quite touch the ground yet, but she's getting close....

Thanksgiving, come and gone already?

We started out Thanksgiving week with heading to our friends cabin on Hood Canal for the weekend. It was apple cup, so of course Harper and I had to share our Cougar pride.....I know, I know they are awful this year, but hey they won!

Harper's new friend Katy was nice enough to read her a book....even though they were cheering for opposing teams...

Then we headed down to grammy and boppa's were as always we ate ourselves stuffed with delicious meals. Harper loved watching her cousins and nobody can get her to carry on a conversation as well as her boppa can! I was very bad at taking pictures, but luckily auntie Lori snapped a few.....

Allie, Auntie Lori's mom Nancy and Ms. Harper....

Sisters.....

Dad, Millie, Boppa and Josh....

We made an early return from Vancouver to watch my brother's football team play in a state playoff game Friday night....they won...yeah! So we will be watching them play in the 3A state football championship game this Saturday....go Union!!!

Lastly we had a wonderful post-Thanksgiving dinner at auntie Chelle and uncle Greg's house on Saturday with family. Harper's cousin Makenna, who turned 6 this summer, was able to hold Harper and feed her a bottle which they both enjoyed!

Now I can't believe it's December already! Thank goodness for online shopping!