Virginia bound!

After Christmas, since we were in Tennessee, we headed to Virgnia to check on our house. It was so bittersweet going up there. I miss Virginia, and I miss my home so much. Not to mention ALL of our stuff is still up there. We literally packed a few bags and headed south after HG was born.

HG did so good in the truck. This girl HATED to ride. Even it was just right down the street. So I was dreading a 6 hour trip. She slept, and played, and was just SO GOOD! She was even good during her very first traffic jam...

 

The traffic was due to snow. People were off the road EVERYWHERE. We just couldn't figure out what the problem was. I mean there was hardly ANY snow...

 

I guess people were panicking. Increase traffic due to the holidays and then the fear of the roads being icy. Didn't look like there were any injuries, just people sliding into ditches.

 

The rest of the trip was easy peasy. 



Baby's First Christmas!

I have been waiting on this day since I found out I was pregnant. It wasn't what I has imagined though. We are currently renting a home, while our house is for sale in VA and so I didn't have ANY of my Christmas decorations. It just didn't feel like Christmas. No tree, no wreaths, nothing. But that doesn't mean that we didn't go crazy buying our sweet girl tons of gifts!! She really enjoyed tearing apart all the paper. The gifts were just a nice gesture!

 

I couldn't resist putting her in her santa suit to open her gifts at home. For Christmas eve and Christmas day we were in Tennessee with Josh's moms side of the family. It was a lot of fun. Games, presents, good food and family.

 

 

Next year, we are staying home. Santa will come visit, the house will be decked out, and we will wake up, just the three of us on Christmas morning. I love being with family, but I want to start traditions of our own.

 





We hadChristmas with my family on New Year's day. HG probably thinks Christmas is a week of opening gifts!

Thanksgiving

You don't have to be a math whiz to know that this past November was Harper Graces' first Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving with my husbands family at his aunts house. Harper Grace was a hit in her personalized turkey onesie with her name across the bottom and her tutu. I can't help but dress her up in the most decked out attire. And tutu's are up there on the 'mommys favorite outfits' list. If I could get away with putting her in one EVERYDAY then I would. But  I know that they probably aren't so comfy for her.

HG has just started eating outmeal no long before Thanksgiving so she didn't get to indulge in all of that good food! I'm sure next year, she will giving us a run for our money.

That weekend we went to my mom and dads for Thanksgiving. I am so glad that we decided to do Thanksgiving with my parents on another day. I just keep thinking about all those years when we would do them both on the same day. Talk about eating until you are sick! My goodness.

HG got to meet family that she had never met before and that included her cousin Oliver! I think that as soon as she is mobile, they will become fast friends. As long as his momma Miranda doesn't hold HG. Mr. Oliver didn't appreciate that AT ALL! Can't wait to see HG to get to play with her cousins!

How Time Flies.....

Wow, long time no blog. HA! Harper Grace is now 7 months old but I will catch you all up to date.

I must say, this little girl is getting cuter and cuter everyday. She is so much fun. She laughs, and talks up a storm. She LOVES to growl. We have been so busy just watching her grow and change right in front of our eyes. I cannot believe how time has flown by. I feel like we just brought her home from the hospital last week and here we are.

HG's is growing right on schedule according to her pediatrician, and despite being big when she was born, she is now starting to be lower in her percentages (Still in normal range) because she is a breastfed baby. Although, she has a pretty serious bull frog belly!

She is eating solid foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And she LOVES to drink my water. Makes me glad that I am not a Coke, sweet tea or anything else, drinker.

Her favorite word... DADA! I know there is a momma in there somewhere... I'm sure she is just waiting on the right moment. haha.

Well, Hello!

I'm back! I have been a TERRIBLE blogger lately. Life just got crazy around the holidays, and then I just, well, forgot that I had a blog. I am working on a post to bring you up to date on everything since November! Until then, enjoy this cuteness!

 

I'll be posting my update ASAP! See you then!

Sleep Training

Last Friday night, Josh and I decided that we needed to start getting Harper Grace to sleep in her big girl bed (AKA her crib). She hasn't been sleeping with us, but in our room in her rock n play sleeper.
There are a couple of reasons we have decided it is time for her to sleep in her room. 1) She has her own room now (we are no longer living with my inlaws) 2) She hasn't been sleeping through the night which might be because she hears us come to bed and hears us moving around 3) she's 4 months old now... not an adult, but old enough that she should be sleeping in her own room.

All day I would tear up at the thought of my baby girl having to sleep in her own room, in her own bed, all ALONE. Stressed me out. So, that evening she got her bath, then her massage, then her bedtime story and then I nursed her to sleep, just like we do every night. We had the sound machine on, swaddled her so that she would still feel secure, and had a night light on. I kissed her cheek, whispered goodnight and put her down gently. I paused for a moment to watch my sweet girl sleep and snuck out of the room. I no sooner got the door shut and she started screaming. The method I decided to use was to let her cry for 5 minutes then go in her room, pick her up and soothe her and then put her back down. THREE HOURS LATER she was still screaming as loud and as strong as she did when we started and I had been crying for three hours and we finally decided to call it quits.

As soon as I got her our of her crib I went to sit on the couch. We were both so exhausted we both fell asleep in no time. When I woke up it was about 6am. Josh had gone to bed and left H and I asleep on the couch. I guess he figured we had both had a long night and didn't want to disturb us. I decided to wait until we spoke with her doctor to decide how to get her to sleep in her own bed.

You want me to sleep WHERE?!

 

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is probably one of my most favorite holidays. I love the scary decorations and all the costumes and the fact that it is a fall holiday. And now, I love it because we get to dress Harper Grace up and take her trick-or-treating. It's like reliving my childhood.

This year, of course, she wasn't walking up to people saying trick-or-treat, and she wasn't able to eat her candy (More for mom and dad!), but it was so fun to dress her up and take her trick-or-treating.

We took her to church to do trunk-or-treat. We figured that she would probably get bored with it and there is really no need to walk door to door with a 3 month old to trick-or-treat. She LOVED watching all of the people, and was probably wondering why everyone was dressed so weird. I helped her hold her pumpkin candy bag and said trick-or-treat for her, and she would flash a sweet smile for everyone when they would talk to her.


During the day, she wore her "My First Halloween" onesie and super cute halloween bow, which I am trying to decide how to get away with that bow year round. She got a lot of attention in her cute little out fit.

For trick-or-treat, she was the cutest little pumpkin and had her matching pumpkin candy bag. The tights with this halloween outfit are the cutest things ever. Again, trying to figureout a way for her to wear them again and again.

 

 
 Trunk or treat time.

After Trunk-or-Treat in the church eating dinner. Shortly after this picture she was sound asleep in mommy's arms. (She looks like a different baby here. She is growing so fast.)

 

After trunk-or-treat, and a cat nap, it was time to come home and check out the loot, and open the 'First Halloween' gifts...

 

After all the festivites, we had NO problem getting Harper Grace to sleep for the night. I hope she enjoyed herself as much as we did.