Christmas 2009

Here is a collage of Harper's first Christmas!!!! (click on collage to make it bigger)

Directing His Marching Band

This is how Harper spends most of his time. We call it "directing his marching band." Flapping his wings, marching around, and "singing."

Too cute!!!!

Cathy and Nate's Wedding

Harper's Aunt Cathy and Uncle Nate got married on December 13th, 2009. We haven't gotten all the pictures yet, but here a few that I snapped with my camera phone after we got him in his adorable wedding outfit.

Passed out (bottle in hand) at the reception.

The wedding colors were red, black and gold, so he matched my bridesmaid dress.
So cute! He had a great time at the reception because he got to dance with everyone :)

Our Little Bruiser

Well....the inevitable happened....and we made it 3 months before it did.....

...but...Harper got is first black eye. The end table had its way with his poor little eye. As Grandpa Jim said, he needs to learn to hit it back!

He bumps his head on tables all the time, but rarely cries from it. Well, Tuli had just left 5 minutes earlier for a basketball game, when I hear a "BONK" and then poor Doodle Bug started crying. I looked over, and there was blood on his face, and on the pillow that was next to the end table. I swooped him up, grabbed a cloth diaper and started applying pressure. There was a little gash right above his eyelid.

Now, you have to remember that this was the first time I've seen blood coming out of my child. And Tuli had just left with the car....

So, as I'm holding poor Buddy Boy, I call Tuli with my free hand, and I'm sure whatever I was saying to him really didn't make sense...but in a nutshell, he got the point that he "needed to turn around and come home!!!!!"

(God bless Tuli for understanding my panic-stricken, freaking-out, crazy-crisis language...)

By the time Tuli got home, the bleeding had stopped, and Harper had calmed down for the most part. Of course, we googled what we should do. I didn't know if he needed stitches, or if I should let him go to sleep, etc. After consulting Dr. Google, Tuli and I decided that Harper would be fine.

(Being the paranoid mother I am, after he went to sleep that night, I checked on him like 243098320 times...)

The cut healed in like 3 days (Holy Moly babies heal quickly!!), but he was left with a black eye. If any child can look cute with a black eye, it's Harper James.

(By the way...can you tell how much his lips are starting to look like his Daddy's in this pic??)

Because he's been walking since he was 8 1/2 months old, I'm actually surprised it took this long for some sort of injury to occur. I'm so thankful he's a tough, determined baby! Tuli and I can already tell what a bruiser he'll be in sports! We love him so much!

Storybook Land

This week, Tuli and I took Harper to Storybook Land. It's a big building at the fairgrounds in Albany that they decorate each year for kids and their families to walk through. As you walk through, there are displays for just about every fairy tale/disney movie/nursery rhyme you could ever think of. And all of the displays are at kid-level. I'm pretty sure Harper's favorite parts were all of the lights, all of the other kids to follow around, being held by Grammie and Quampa, and being able to walk around freely (without those mean baby gates like Mommy and Daddy have at home!!!).

Here are some pictures from our evening:

At the end of all of the displays, you get to sit on Santa's lap. Of course, Harper was calm, cool and collected like he always is! He didn't seem to impressed with Santa tho....

Naughty List

Harper is on the Naughty List this year! His favorite thing to do is climb onto the coffee table...bad boy! It would be one thing if he knew how to get down. If he sneaks up there while I'm not looking, I scoop his little butt right off of there. I have all these terrible visions of him breaking his arm....or something even worse! :( He's a fearless little man!

We put up our little 3ft fake Christmas tree. We decided we're not getting a "real" tree until Harper is old enough to actually "want" one AND know the rules of a real tree :)

(Yes...I put him on the dining room table for this picture. I know how hypocritical I am being with the first part of this blog. I am a terrible mother who is confusing her son...but I HAD to get a picture of him with the tree, dontcha think????)

...I tried to get him to hold a "Merry Christmas" sign....but he didn't feel like cooperating with me. Good thing he's cute, so I didn't care :)

11 Months Old!!!!!

We can't believe he's 11 months old!

His current loves:


Climbing on anything/everything

Avocados
Drinking his bottle one-handed


Chuck

Sibyl
Oatmeal
Playing with your lips and nose


Going to the library


He just cut his 8th tooth too. (his bottom right)

Happy Thanksgiving!

He mingled, he ate, he napped, he puked...and then partied some more!

This is what was waiting for Aunt Missy as she walked off the airplane on Wednesday night:

(...if you can't quite read that, it says "I Love My Aunt Missy, Love Harper").

He held it PERFECTLY, and it was just about the cutest darn thing on the planet. Don't you agree?

It was nice to have Missy home for the holiday! She hasn't been home for Thanksgiving since she's lived in Arizona, so it was a treat :)

Here are some more pictures from the holiday :)

Um, could he get any cuter?
Milk-drunk Doodle with Daddy
Checkin' out Great Grandpa
t Cutest thing on the PLANET
Quampa and Grammie snuggles