Harper is sitting up very well and rolling over so much that she can get across the room. She so badly wants to be crawling or walking. She's a little wiggle worm, that's for sure. She's really going to keep us busy as she gets older! With still only two teeth, we're certain that the top teeth will be here sooner, rather than later. She's constantly chewing on things, and there are little teeth marks on her spoons and on all of her toys. Harper rarely gets fussy though, thankfully. If she does, there are some frozen washcloths in the freezer that make her super happy again!
We got our biggest snow of the year a couple weeks ago. Harper wasn't that impressed! We took her out all bundled up. She could barely move, hahaha! We propped her in the snow pile and didn't really know what to do. She had the most fun watching the neighborhood children playing and sledding. Hopefully it's only going to get warmer and all this cold weather is over! Harper absolutely loves being outside. Typical Virginia weather.... it snowed one week, then it's 65 and sunny for a couple days. We took her to the park the day we celebrated Mommom's (her great grandmother) birthday this month. She laughed on the swings and bobbled on the hobby horse. She'll have to wait for the slides or at least until we can go down with her!
Harper continues to eat anything and everything! We love that she's such a good eater. We'll keep fattening her up for now with lots of yummy fruit and veggies. Last month she tried brown rice, peaches, plums, broccoli, white potatoes and yogurt. She didn't like the broccoli. She gotten quite fond of the Nuby Mesh Feeders. We give her bananas, oranges and mangos in them. She chews and sucks until she got juices running down her arms!
Derek's father lost his battle with Alzheimer's the last weekend of February. He was an amazing man and will truly be missed. What saddens us the most is that Harper will never know him. He didn't get to take her to see the beach or the fire trucks. He didn't get to drive her around in the golf cart and teach her the game of golf. She'll never hear him say the words, "totally", like we all did. Such a sweet, caring, laid back guy that we will tell her stories about and teach her to love the way he would have loved her.
Harper is such an angel and makes us smile every day. Even if she is mad that we aren't feeding her fast enough, or she's not sleeping through the night and we go to her room 4 times a night to rock her; we can't help but smile and kiss her fat, chubby cheeks. She weights just over 19 pounds and is 27 inches long. Her favorite things are her bouncer that hangs in the doorway, her exersaucer, her blocks and books. We read every night and sometimes during the day, if she'll sit in our laps long enough. We stack her blocks up and she likes knocking them down. She also loves baths and playing with the squirty animals. She laughs when the water comes out of their mouths :) It's been a fun month or new and exciting things; we look forward to what she'll learn next month!
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