Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Catching up...6 Months old

Man, I've been slacking in the blog updates. I'd like to say I was really busy doing important things, and I guess being a Mom is important but it just sounds boring to me because I do that every day, regardless.

ANY WAY....

Scary thing happened to me not too long ago. I was going through old pictures we have on the computer and I discovered that it had lost pictures for almost two years of J boy's life, from the end of 2006 (the year he was born) to 2008. I was in tears. First of all, I have the least amount of pictures of that boy than either of my girls and it's not like I don't have lots of him because I do, but I just have TONS of the girls. Second, TWO YEARS of pictures gone! What, how does that even happen?!

I went to C in a panic and I think he could tell I was upset so he got right on it and went through the computer and was able to "dig" them out by searching for them day by day. ((Sigh)) I was so relieved. I didn't realize how much losing pictures would upset me, but it did. I'm glad I have them back. We are now looking into getting an external hard drive to put all our pictures on, and I think I'd like to also put them ALL on CD as well, just in case.

going on......
My whole point in this post was to update on our Lou lou so.....

She's six months old! It's hard to believe half a year has gone by already. We've been blessed with this sweet girly in our lives for half a year! Wow. Time does fly.

She is getting so big. At six months old she's out-growing much of that size in clothing and is moving on to Nine month clothes, big girl! I love that she is so round, and rolly and chubby. I like to call her "my little butter ball", fitting for the season too. For my kids chubby is not easily found, granted, there are babies more chubby than Lou lou but still, I'm loving it.

At her appointment she weighed in at 16 and 1/2 lbs. which put her just under the 70% for weight and she's at 26 1/2 inches long so that put her in the 75% for height, like I said big girl. Her head also in the 75% which I expect from my large headed children :)

She's now sitting up really well by herself. She's also slowly, slowly scooting on her tummy. She only scoots when she really really wants something on the floor, other than that she just lays there and kicks her feet while on her tummy.

Her favorite thing to do is to just sit and entertain herself with toys, this is why I love this stage, they can self entertain, yay!

She's chowing down the food, obviously. She loves cereal, peas, squash, pears....lets face it, all the foods we've given her she loves!

She starting to get to that point of being "afraid" of strangers. She's not really afraid but more like weary or cautious. If she's tired and someone she doesn't know really well is holding her she'll cry and look for me. I'm not one of the Mothers that loves to have a clingy kid, in fact I'm quite the opposite I never want a "clingy" child, ever. So I'm hoping she's does not get worse in this "I want my mommy only!" stage. We'll see.

Now I will finish my post with lots of pictures of our baby girl:

Courtesy of E: Diva #2

Look at those cheeks!

I loved this out fit on E and was happy that Lou lou got to wear it, even if it was only for a little while.

I love this picture below. She fell asleep in her high chair while I left her to entertain her self so I could clean. Sooo tired.

L.O.V.E.

I wanted to put this picture on here because you can kind of see her "chub" and also how long she is, she really is long. Lucky girl, I'm jealous if she gets the "tall Harker" gene.

Friday, November 05, 2010

Who's who?!

I was going through some old pictures of E girl and I could not believe how much I kept saying things like "that is such a Lou lou face too." or "Wow, this looks so much like Lou lou." or "my girls look so much a like at this age." etc.

I mean there are slight differences of my girls that I can look for and know which one is which, but some pictures I had a hard time believing I was looking at old pictures of E girl. I kept having to look at the back ground to be able to tell who it was.

So, I found one picture of each of my girls at the same age (about 5 1/2-6 months old) and cropped them so that there is little "background" to tell how "old" the picture is. Now I'm putting them up here to see if you can tell who's who. If you guess right, I'll give you something. Not sure what, but I will find some thing to give to any one who can get it right!

So who's who?

Baby girl pic #1

Baby girl picture #2

GOOD LUCK!

Monday, November 01, 2010

Friday Night-Movie Night

I was feeling guilty at first that we were only doing one festivity for Halloween this year so on Friday night I thought it would be fun to have a Family Movie Night. I went to Red Box with the kids and let them pick out a movie to watch that night. They picked How to Train A Dragon.


After dinner the kids got in their P.J.'s, we blew up the air mattress, got down some pillows and blankets, popped popcorn, got out candy and put the movie in.

The kids loved it! They got to stay up late and eat junk food, watch a movie on the mattress in the living room, what could be better?