Harpin is 2 Months!

As always, time FLIES!  Harpin is the sweetest baby girl and has brought so much joy to our lives already.

 

A little about H at 2 months...

 

• You weigh 12 lbs 2oz (65%) and 22.5 in. long (49%)
• Wearing 3-6 month clothes.
• Size 1 diapers.
• Nursing every 3 hours during the day.
• You nurse and then stay awake for an hour to an hour and a half and then nap until we do it all over again.
• You are mosly sleeping through the night. Usually you nurse around 9 or 9:30 and sleep until 5:30 or 6 in the morning.  There are nights where you wake up and want to eat around 3 and go right back to sleep.
• We have taken you all over the place and you are so easy and laid back!
• Your brother adores you and loves for all of us to do tummy time together with you.  He loves to give you your paci and to kiss you all over:)
• You love your swing and your soothie paci.
• Around 6 weeks you really started talking and smiling alot..we LOVE IT!
• You still like to be swaddled at night.
• You have rolled from your tummy to your back a few times, usually when you are mad doing tummy time!
• You got 3 shots for vaccines at your doctors appointment yesterday and this is the most I have ever heard you cry.  It breaks my heart to know you don't feel good.

 

We are so thankful for you Sissy, Harp, Harpy Harp (just a few of your new names:) and we love you FOREVER!

 

 

 



 

 

 



Friends

This past Friday some of our best friends from our time in Kennesaw came and spent three days with us!  I keep telling Andrew that I forgot what it feels like to have friends.  I know I sound like Debbie Downer:) but they are the kind of people that push us to think deeper, to know Christ, to give, to love people, we laugh and act like teenagers and we just LOVE them!  

I have missed having friends, period, but there is something really special about them!  So, we are super thankful that they decided to come and visit us on their time off this summer and on the way to Kansas to a cow show that they go to every year.  Riggs loved them and warmed up to them again really quickly.  

I can only hope and pray that soon we will be closer and have alot more time with them!

 Trying to stay awake way past bedtime on Friday night to see Uncle Matt and Aunt Lydia

Fun at the Farmer's Market

"I tickle you on the bed"...one of Riggs favorite things:)

Getting frozen yogurt

We went to Bay Beach AGAIN!:)

Riding with Mama and Daddy and putting our hands up like Aunt Rach taught Riggs.

Waiting to ride the Choo Choo

My sweet angel baby

Matt and Andrew being big kids and racing on the slide.

Matt and Lydia with Riggs on Lake Michigan

So beyond thankful for these friends!

Riggs loved them!

Hoping we live closer and get to do more of our lives together!

Buddies:)

Potty Training

FYI- If you are not a mom you will not appreciate this post!

I am sure Riggs will hate me for this one day down the road but I want to be able to look back and remember all these times and milestones with them!  

We started potty training a week ago yesterday.  We started out quarantined in the kitchen with a potty, toys, books, the frog potty and a pants less two year old.  In the middle of playing play-doh he tee tee'd and looked down with a scared face and said "uh oh."  That's when I told him that we tee tee in the potty, and he did.  The rest of the day we left him in nothing but his shirt and if he would go a little he would run his cute little heine to the potty.  The first day was LONG and I didn't know if I would make it through it without getting out of the house.

The second day we did the same thing but were able to move out of the kitchen because he would run to the potty the minute he needed to go and only had one accident.  He also pooped in the potty this day! YIPEE:)  

To make this story shorter I wasn't sure how long it would take him to know what it felt like to have the urge to go and to be able to hold it, so I gave in and went and got pull-ups so we could get out of the house.

The third day we used our pull-ups and headed to the mall to play.  We went to the potty probably 4 or 5 times in an hour and half, but he stayed dry!  

I think the key it consistency in taking him often and asking him if he needs to go ALOT and watching him for ques that he needs to go.

He has done great and wears his pull-ups for naps and bedtime and has done well out in his big boy underwear.  He says, "don't tee tee on buzz (or mater or elmo..whatever underwear he picked for that day:)

He loves that he gets a treat (one m&m) when he goes and there have been times where he will go and then not 5 minutes later will sit down to go again and immediately stand up and say, "where my treat?"...silly boy!

Whitefish Dunes

Yesterday we drove up to Door County and spent the day at Whitefish Dunes.  This is as close to the beach as we will get this year. We left pretty early and got there about 8:30 and left around noon to get lunch at a place recommended by a neighbor and then headed home. 

 We quickly realized where the name came from as there were tons of little white fish that had washed up on shore and died. This beach is on lake Michigan and was alot like the beach with sand and small waves. The only difference was the temperature of the water.  I googled it and the warmest the water gets in July and August is 60 degrees!  It was colder than ice water and you would not believe the number of people that got in.  I guess if you have lived here all your life you don't know the difference?!

Riggs enjoyed playing in the sand, running on the beach and watching the waves wash his tennis ball back onto shore.  Harpin soaked up the sun napped in her tent or on me the whole time.  She is the sweetest!

We left and headed to the bay side of lake Michigan and ate at a hamburger and icecream place called Wilson's right on the water that apparently has been in business there since 1906.

We had a great time together and are thankful that we made the trip to go somewhere that we will probably never have the chance to go to again in our lives...HOPEFULLY:)

Taking it all in

 White fish..yuck fish!

Daddy holding his sweet baby girl!

A cool lobster sculpture

 Snack time

 Sand castles with daddy.

 A quick nap for Riggs on the way to lunch.

 Our view from the porch at lunch.

 When you ask Riggs to smile for a picture you get one of two faces...this one or...

...this one.

 I love my sweet boy.

H was at lunch too:)

Just a little dessert!  If we knew they were this big we would have only gotten one..promise:)

 Riggs enjoyed it too.

 Lake Michigan

 A little fun on the way home.  "I hide, you count"