Harrison- Week 26

This week Harrison has started to sit-up a lot! We have to put him into a sitting position, but he can stay in that position for 30 minutes, or more! He seems to enjoy his new view of the world, and access to new an interesting toys from a sitting position.

Harrison has officially outgrown all of his 6 month clothing, and I fear we will quickly blip over any 9 month clothes that he has! My favorites for him (and any of you that have chunka-lunka babies) are Gymboree and Baby Gap, and occasionally Carter's. Luckily, I have been able to shop consignment sales/shops and clearance racks, as those are some of the more spendy brands...go figure!

This week, Harry had his first cold and fever. We are not sure if he felt sick because of his impending cold, or his shots, or a combination of the two. Either way, I stayed home with him one day this week for a little Mommy TLC. He bounced back quickly, but has not been up to eating like before his cold.


Playing with Lotty Bug.




FIRST SNOW (On Mommies birthday)!

Watching mom make my food- I just woke up from a nap I started in the car...





I made carrots, sweet potato, green beans and peas.

Testing out the baby food that mom made...YUM!


Still LOVES his office.


NEW TOY!! His own cell phone at age 6 months.

Harrison- 6 Month Letter (25 weeks)

Harrison-

Today you are six months old!!!

I am amazed at the little person you are becoming. You are calm and relaxed most of the time. But, this month you have truly perfected your smile, and decided to use it a lot more! When we come into your room in the morning, you are usually smiling and almost reaching for us to come and get you! You love to smile at your dog, Rosie Mae, too. I think you finally recognize her, because every time she walks into the room, you are smiling from ear to ear. You are starting to get really excited about things, and you almost pant because you just can't laugh fast enough, especially in the morning. You are persistent when you want something, and have started to dislike when I have to take something from you, but you can usually be distracted by something else to do.

In the past six months you have had so many milestones. Some of the more memorable were: your first, and second tooth, rolling over, sleeping 8 hours (though you have only done this about 6 times), eating solid foods, and more recently, sitting up! There are SO many more, but I wrote about most of them every week. I really don't know where the time went? I have heard that it only keeps going faster, which makes me sad. I have already had to pack up your newborn (o.k, that was only 3 outfits), 3 month and 6 month clothes. It is always bittersweet, because I know you will never wear those outfits again. On that note, at your 6 month appointment you were 21 lbs. 2 oz. WOW!!! No wonder you don't fit in any of your little clothes anymore!

More than anything right now you LOVE to put anything, and everything, in your mouth (which is where the having to take things from you comes in). You also LOVE to eat your solid foods. There are very few foods that you dislike, which makes our job as your chef's a lot easier! You are also getting really good at moving a few inches, and even feet, to get what you want to chew on. Both dad and I hope that crawling is still a couple months away, but you are finding your own way to scoot right now.

You have started to get a little nervous when we leave you with someone you do not know, even if it is only to go to the next room. At your doctors appointment this week, you were all smiles when I was right by your side, but when I went to get something from your diaper bag, you were not happy that it was just you and the doctor. Though it feels wonderful to be the one who can make your world right again, I hope that you go through this 'phase' quickly.

We are so excited to see what your next 6 months brings! I am sure you will continue to fill our lives with JOY!

Love, Mom (and Dad, too)

Harrison- Week 24

There were too any to choose from this week, again!!


- Can I please take some pictures -



This week the weather got chilly! So, we started to bundle Harrison, which is both adorable and a pain in the rear! I am not sure how it happened (O.K., maybe I know, but I am in denial), but Harry has 6 hat and mitten sets that fit him THIS YEAR!! He almost has one for every day of the week!!! Another plus this week... with the change in weather, Bryan made space in the garage for my car, so scraping ice is not another event to add on to our already hectic mornings!!

Harrison has been talking a lot!! He has been using his 'm' and 'b' sounds...especially together when you are feeding him, which results in spitting (super funny, and messy). It is even more funny when I try to negotiate with a 5 month old. Sounds something like this...
Mommy: "Harry, please stop spitting on Mommy"
Harrison: "bbmmmbbb" (aka- I'm going to spit this squash on you and everywhere else).
I now see the reasoning behind purchasing an office chair mat for under your high chair!!!

We also celebrated Harrison's first Halloween, but there were so many pictures I did a separate post on just Halloween!!



Busy in the office.


Bath Time!!





Spending some time on the floor in his room with his buddy- the giraffe.



Rosie Mae. Harrison has been REALLY interested in Rosie. He smiles at her every time he can see her in the room.






Pumpkins!!!!!

Halloween

I had this great idea, from the blog Ohdeeoh, that Harry was going to be Popeye for Halloween. I researched the cheapest, most time-saving way to make the costume...all the while thinking where am I going to fins time to do this, and what if he does not like it? Well, it was one of those projects that I couldn't stop, since it was started, and he wore it for a total of 4 minutes for pictures. Lesson learned.... JUST BUY THE COSTUME!!!! He liked his consignment store-bought frog costume much better.



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Grandma and Grandpa Blom came for dinner. Then, Grandma and Grandma Gregory visited for dessert. A lot of the pictures that Bryan took when his parents were over did not turn out great, since I still had the camera on the mode for outside!