Lyndsay, Kurt, Harper & Riley

March 31st, 2013

Family Easter Picture

Daddy and Baby

Mommy and Baby

Harper's dress is extra special and beautiful as it is a hand-me-down from the flower girls at our wedding. My sister-in-law made it for her youngest and we just realized last night that it was the perfect size for Harper right now. What a perfect Easter dress! I am so glad she was able to wear it -- we will definitely have to do another photo shoot to get some more pictures of her pretty dress.

BONUS Picture -- Queen Harper!!

Queen Harper pondering all of the tough decisions that Queen's are faced with.

March 30th, 2013

Beautiful Day in PA!!

It was a wonderful sunny, warm day so we thought we would go out for our first bike ride of the year. It was terrific!! We tried out our new bike trailer as well and we LOVE it! It took us a little bit of figuring to get used to it. Just getting the straps and the temperature all figured out. Turns out Harper loves the breeze blowing in her hair :) We had a great time and will definitely be using it a lot this summer. Now if Spring would just officially get here so we could use it more often that would be helpful!

While daddy was putting the bikes on the car we got our first big chance to check out grass. The initial reaction was this stuff is pokey and hurts, but after a second we figured out it was pretty cool. We started picking at it with two little fingers just feeling the texture and after five minutes we were double fisting it trying to see how it tastes. It is all right getting one or two pieces of grass away from her mouth, the whole field is another thing :)

March 29th, 2013

Different Perspective

March 28th, 2013

We are getting our butt up there in an attempt to crawl, but we still prefer our army crawl for the actual movement part of our crawl. But don't let that fool you, she can still move with the army crawl.

March 27th, 2013

Pretty girl standing up on her own. These pictures are a little deceiving as she is not that sturdy standing up by herself, but she can do it. I just happened to snap the picture at the right time. And on top of that I just love her little smile and her overalls :)

I also love this picture from today. Deep in thought while eating Cheerios. Yes, she is finally eating actual solid food beyond just puree. For the longest time (and still a little bit now) whenever she eats anything solid -- puffs, cheerios, yogurt melts etc. -- she would gag herself. So we waited and kept trying every once in a while. Then she took up the lovely habit of carefully picking up the fluffy's off of our carpet and eating those. So I thought maybe we should try again with cheerios rather than carpet fluffy's. This time it seems to be working better. So hopefully we will eat more Cheerios than carpet fluffy's from now on :)

March 26th, 2013

This is how fun bath time is in our household. Biggest goofy grin ever. While you are checking out that smile look at those two teeth coming in on top.

March 23rd, 2013

Look who is a big girl pulling herself up on things. She has been lifting her butt up in the air with her toes and hands on the ground. She still isn't crawling that way, she likes her army scoot, but she is getting stronger and stronger.

March 22nd, 2013

Harper's big cousins love holding her. Since she was a baby they have been so good about sitting on a couch or chair and holding their baby cousin so carefully. Well now it is no longer carefully holding her, it is more like holding on for dear life trying to not let her wriggle away :)

Here is her biggest cousin holding tight, giving her a big squeeze :)

March 21st, 2013

Waking up is hard to do!

We left Florida today and had to get to an 8:00 am flight. Doesn't sound too early until you combine getting there two hours early, getting to the rental car place and the fact that Harper decided to get up at 4:30am to eat. We originally planed to get up at 5:15 - so close enough :) After 4:30 I did put her back down to sleep and she did not want to get up. It was closer to 5:45 when she woke up and that was after we did everything in our power to wake her up in the hotel room.