Gammy's 90th Birthday

Ryan & Patti

Paul & Brian Leonard

Dan & Carol (This is a great picture you guys!)

Karl, Grace & family

Marty, Susan & family

Gammy's 90th Birthday

Ryan, Patti & girls and Jared

Harper (Lily & Isabell right there with her!)

All the little girls love the baby! Cousin Lily even helped burp Harper. They were all so cute!

Denise & LaDonna

Maya & Alyssa

Monday, Monday

It's hard to believe that it's Monday again, and this time Harper is 7 weeks old! Time is flying by too fast! Accomplishments for the past week have been sleeping for 5 straight hours at night, kinda taking a paci, and drinking from a bottle. The extra sleep has been GREAT, and when I do feed her at night it is in bed, so it's so much easier for us both. No getting up and bright lights! 

I didn't really plan on giving her a paci unless it seemed like she needed the extra comfort, but recently she's started sucking on her hand, like maybe she's trying to get that thumb in her mouth! I'd rather her take the paci since I can take it away! She's sucking on it pretty good, but I still have to hold it for her a little bit. 

Harper had a couple of bottles early on, but we just started to try and give her one regularly last week.  She usually gets real fussy about it at first, but then I guess realizes how hungry she is an gives in, then she drinks it up in a flash!  I think we should have started giving it to her a week earlier, but I thought since she'd taken a few before that we'd be okay...oh well, we have a few weeks to get her going good on it. Ken can get her to take it good and she'll even take it from me sometimes. I just want it to be easy on the ladies at daycare. It's really one of the only times she cries right now. 

She is growing and getting more interested in her surroundings. She is also holding her head up steady longer when I'm holding her. She's starting to do the mini-push-up on her tummy, but then again she has been able to lift her head up since she was born. Now she is less "bobble-heady". I just love her so much! 

Let me see if I can find a picture....

Saturday Morning Playtime!

Harper loves her Baby Einstein play mat. I can't believe she doesn't get overwhelmed since it has 1 million dangly thingys! 

Check out this cute onesie that Uncle Kev & Sara gave her! 

Eric Clapton on Vinyl

Harper helps Daddy make a mixed CD...and catch some z's! I also should mention that the rocking chair was Harper's Great-Great Grandmother's, a very special piece for us to have. 

Harper at 6 Weeks

Here's our sweet angel 6 weeks old! We had 2 wardrobe changes today! 

These little booties crack me up because they rattle when she kicks. She doesn't get it yet, but it keeps Mommy entertained! 

What a big girl!

Well, I wanted to post a picture but I'm having a bit of technical difficulty with my card reader. I couldn't wait to write about Harper's weigh-in today. The Breast Care Center has walk-ins on the 1st Tuesday & Thursday of the month, so I thought it would be a good time to take her. The big number: 11 pounds, 7 ounces! Nurse Mary said that was a very healthy weight for a 6 week old. I can't believe Harper is growing so fast!

Obviously she is eating good, now we are just working on getting her to take a bottle so Ken & daycare can feed her when I'm back at work. She's had a couple of bottles along the way, just nothing regular. She does NOT like it from me. I think it confuses her. Ken gets her to take it much better.  

Other than the quick outing to be weighed, we have stayed indoors and listened to the rain today. Hope none of you are having trouble with flooding!