We are still here!

Wow! It's been too long since I've posted anything! Like any mother, I've been super busy working, traveling with work, and taking care of sweet Harper while trying to maintain some sense of order in the household & spend time with Ken.

What's been going on? Well, let's see...some of Katie's friends and I took her down to the beach for her Bachelorette Party a couple of weeks ago. It was a lot of fun & good to have a girls' getaway. I was in New York for a workshop the 24th & 25th, then Ken and I went to the Alabama vs. Arkansas game last weekend. I'm off to Chicago and North Carolina this week, then Katie's wedding is Saturday!!! Needless to say, BUSY!

Enough about me, you are all checking in to see what Harper is up to! She has been growing and changing everyday. It's so fun to see her little mind develop. She's babbling more and more-everything is dada. She's trying to say uh-oh and Shady. She has said mama like twice, but I can't seem to coax it out again!

We also took Harper to see an Opthamologist at UAB about her little crossed baby eye. He was pretty fantastic and explain to us that what she has is Strambismus, or Estropia. You will most likely get a better explanation if you google it, but it basically means that her eyes are not working together. Surgery is the most likely way to correct it, but we are using a patch first to see if that may help strengthen the less dominant eye first. We also have an appointment with an Optometrist to explore Vision Therapy. Ken and I just want to make sure that we explore all of the options and make the right decision to help Harper. Right now she has to wear the patch 6 days a week-blah! She is actually pretty good about it and rarely even tries to touch it.

Harper has been cutting her top two front teeth this past week. Man, they are big ones! She's been a little needier, wanting Mommy. All. The. Time. I'm not going to complain, because one day she may not want me to hold her as much.

Ken brought home a little V-tech walker thing from his parents, and she LOVES it! She has walked laps and laps around the house this weekend! If she's not using the walker, then she wants to hold on to your fingers and YOU walk her around and around. She has certain "landmarks" that she will stop and check out. One is the framed illustration of a boy eating an apple in our kitchen, and the other is Ken's Elvis clock-the hips/legs swing to the tick-tock.

Her other favorite thing lately is her baby doll. My Grandmother Hollis gave it to me for her at my baby shower & I have to admit that it's been in the box until last week. I guess I was thinking that I should save it or wait until she was bigger. Then one evening I decided to open it up and see what Harper would do with it. She went nuts over it! Loves it! Talks to it & kisses it! Crawls around holding it. It's so cute! She just seems so little to be doing all of these things, but then she is 10 months old now. Wild! Okay, check out these photos:

Call me Patch!

Smiley:)

Taking this baby everywhere with me!