Cousin Love

Love this picture and just had to post it. Harper loves her cousins and the older she gets the more she loves them.






Sweetest picture ever.. Love these kids...

My little comedian!

I had to make sure I remember some of the silly things Harper does these days. So here are a few quick stories I think are so funny..

First off let me say she is becoming very opinionated. The other day I went to get her dressed and she found a horse outfit I had bought her and refused to wear anything else. So we ended up wearing a crazy horse outfit around the house to play in.. It was pretty cute, and I had only bought it because I knew she would love it . But it just made me laugh to see that she really really wanted to wear it.


Last week we headed over to CiCi and Papa's house to house sit while the new tv was installed. CiCi had a dentist appointment so we sat over to help the geek squad install the new tv system. When the guy arrived and installed the new tv I mentioned that the new tv seemed so small since they had done some construction to the entertainment area and the guy asked what the old tv looked like. I told him that the old tv was in the garage and he asked to see it. So I took him to the back door and showed him the tv. I had Harper on my hip and wasn't paying attention to her for a split second. When she reached up beside the back door and hit the POLICE button on the alarm system. All of a sudden the entire alarm started screaming and I freaked out because I did not know the code so I started trying to call Cici at the dentist. The cops called her and she told them it was okay and finally called me with the code but I was so embarrassed in front of the installation guy. SO EMBARRASSING. It amazes me that out of all buttons on that key pad she picked the one that instantly calls the police. HAHA... This was not so funny at the time but now is so funny. I bet that the geek squad guy went home and told everyone how crazy we were. HAHA!!


Then the other day we had a plumber come by to check the water pressure and when he did he left the water hose disconnected. So later that day we had a visitor come by and when they left we walked them out. I gave Harper a banana right before we went outside because she was begging for one. We went outside to say goodbye and as I was talking to our friend I look up and Harper was laughing. I walk over to see what she did and she had stuck her whole banana down the water hose. Awesome baby girl. Nice place to keep your banana. Funny thing is that we find pieces of banana all over the house in different things. She hides them in toys all the time.



Also at night when we put her in bed sometimes she will lay awake in her bed and talk for 30 minutes. Most of the time she lays there and talks about everyone and everything she loves. It cracks me up! She says every ones names over and over. Including hippo and Chester her favorite stuffed animals and Ray Ray and Emma her favorite dogs. Love it...

I could probably go on forever , I just want to remember some of the funny things she does these days.

LOVE YOU LITTLE COMEDIAN...

Wild about Santa .....

It has been another wonderful Christmas! We are so blessed and we have had so much fun spending the holiday with our loved ones. We have made many stops along the way, and now Harper has so many fun things to play with. Thank you to everyone who has showered us with gifts, food and love.

First stop PawPaw and GiGi's house. Uncle Mike and KK and the rest of the family came over to do our yearly girls/boy exchange. Brad ended up getting an awesome cooler and I got a really pretty candle holder. Then we decorated gingerbread houses and the girls won again this year. We opened up gifts and Harper got the most adorable puppet show with princess and prince puppets. I can picture this girl now already having shows for us all the time. We also got a membership to the Dallas Aquarium. I am so excited to use this all year long. We are so grateful for the time we had a GiGi and Paw Paw's house. They have some little yorkie puppies right now and they were so cute.

Next stop was actually Santa. I worked Christmas eve but had Christmas Day off. Angela at worked offered to work for me and I almost cried I was so happy. So Uncle Mike and KK came up Thursday night and we did our christmas on Friday. Mimi got new Kindle Fire which she loves and Uncle Mike and KK got new stuff for their house. I worked Saturday but when I got home we put Harper to bed and then got the house ready for our first Santa visit. Brad and I decorated around the tree and went to bed.




I think I was up half the night with anticipation of Harper getting up. I think I was more excited for her than I was for myself as a kid. So early Sunday morning we got up and everyone got ready to see Harper's smiling face. I think when she saw us all staring at her she was a little confused honestly.





But once she figured out the stuff around the tree was for her , she was super excited.







We opened all the toys and played with everything until it was time to say goodbye to Uncle mike and KK. They headed home to spend some time with other family members and we headed over to the Hill house to have some breakfast. Hayes and Holt had so many fun things to play with. I think Brad had more fun than the boys with their new toys. After breakfast we headed home to cook for dinner. We then headed over to the Warren's for Christmas dinner and gifts.






After opening and getting some awesome new things we had a great mexican dinner.

What a busy holiday it has been . We are headed to Henderson to make one last stop this Thursday. We are so overwhelmingly blessed this year and we thank God for all the Family , Love and Health that we have. We hope that everyone had a great holiday and well. Here are a few holiday pictures. LOVE, The Warren's

IT'S POTTY TIME!!!

This Friday we had such an exciting day. Brad and I were in Dallas for an appointment when Mimi texted us to tell us that Harper peed in her potty. I was shocked. I had bought her toilet about a month ago with intentions of trying after the holidays to potty train. When Harper woke up from a nap I guess she just decided to try and she peed. I was so excited and sad I missed it. We picked her up a , MY PEE PEE DOLL. Haha!! I figured it would motivate her to have a friend to potty with. ( it's a doll that comes with it's own potty chair) and came home to celebrate. So when daddy got home we tried again and she pee peed again. I almost fainted in excitement. WOW, being a parent is hysterical. How excited could you possibly be over PEE... :)So I am not completely prepared but we are giving it a try. Wish me luck.
M&M's in place ...
Pull ups bought...
Just a few more details like picking out her own big girl panties and we are off to give it a try. I promise to keep you posted. For now here are two discusting but must post potty pictures....

Harper's first and second PEE PEE in the potty.

White Family Farm Day

A few weeks ago we went to visit Mama and Grandpa White down at the farm . I took a ton of pictures but there were just few that I want to remember forever. Grandpa was so excited to take you for a ride on the Tractor. We climbed up in it and you really enjoyed it. I think it made his day. Harper also was able to help Mimi drive the rhino. These pictures really arent the best ones but they mean to most to me.

Helping MiMi drive.


Taking a break in Grandpa's chair


Riding in the tractor

18 Months

18 months old ! Wow, it's hard to imagine you are already 18 months old. As each month goes by we learn more and more about your little personality. You are no longer our baby , you are now a small version of your daddy and I. You have your daddy's sweet personality with all your hugs and kisses and you are so determined like your mommy. You are starting to make so many decisions on your own and you are communicating so well. You are learning so much everyday and trying to say anything we do! We just started working on the itsy bitsy spider and you make your little spider so cute with your hands. You are sleeping so well these days . Usually waving at us as you go to bed saying "night night". But overall I think it's pretty determined that you like to stay up late and wake up early. We usually just have to make you lay down at 8:30. You had your 18 month visit with Dr. B this week. It went great . You are growing and doing great. Still very small as always.
Stats:
19.8 lbs
35% in height
25% in head

You have now discovered candy and chocolate. OH NO... You ask all the time now for " CHOCK" aka chocolate. Thanks to Mimi and the holidays we have discovered your new favorite food.. HaHa.. You are so picky as all toddlers and eat wonderful one meal and not much the next. Your hair is getting so long, in the back..Ha Ha. I think Daddy has just about talked me into taking you for your first haircut to even things out. I just hate to cut that precious little baby hair. Your favorite toys right now are the animal ones. You are obsessed with Hippos right now and farm animals. It is amazing to me how you know so many animals and the sound them make. You are also so into mommies Ipad. I have downloaded so many educational apps and you know exactly how to get into them and play. You are my little best friend and any minute I am away from you I miss you like crazy. When I think back to the day you were born it brings tears to my eyes. It is just hard to describe how much I loved you then but how much my love has grown now. Everyday we are just so grateful and honored to be your parents. We love you sweet girl. So I thought I would just post a few fun pictures of Harper at the coast. We just got back and she had the best time as always playing in the sand. So no cute bow or outfit, just my beautiful little girl playing her heart out.

BLESSED

We are blessed to be the parents of this beautiful angel.. WE LOVE YOU!!!

Santa 2011

Well friends and family, this year Harper did not find the old hairy stranger to be any fun. So no surprise to us she screamed her head off and dug her nails into my skin to hold on. So after lots of work from the photographer we finally got one decent picture including mommy in santa's lap. HAHA! Oh well, maybe next year she will be more willing to sit on his lap! So here is Harper Lynne all dressed up to meet Santa and then our famous Santa picture! Happy holidays!!

Bubbles

I love this video. She loves to blow bubbles in the tub. I think it is so funny but at the same time she chokes all the time. Ughhh. I almost want to stop her from doing it but then how fun is this mommy. I am thinking this winter I am going to take her to Aqua tots. Hopefully if we practice this winter she will be a pro by summer.

Just another nap

I love this picture! They truely are napping buddies!

Decorating fun...

Just wanted to post a few fun pictures of my sweet girl helping decorate the tree. She took off as much as she put on the tree but she had a BLAST and asks us to see the tree a million times a day! And now before bed we have to go in and tell the tree "night night tree " and give it a hug.. I secretly crack up every night when she does this. SO CUTE!!








We put it in the dining room behind the baby gate! Good thing we did because she is so obsessed that she cries when we don't take her in to see the tree for the 30th time in a day;). Mimi also made Harper a special tree , decorated with all birds !






She loves it too ! I love Christmas time. The house always looks so cozy with all the decorations. I always get a little sad after the holidays when it all comes down. Hopefully we get the lights up this weekend to finish it up! Happy holidays friends and family!

ICE " Shrek"

Last weekend we decided since I had off Sunday that we would make it a special family day. Harper is so obsessed with Shrek that when I found out that the ICE exhibit was Shrek the Halls we had to go. So we decided to invite the whole family and go together. We bought the tickets for 2 pm so we got out there about 1 to walk around the Gaylord.






They have it decorated so beautifully. So ends up there was a bad wreck on 635 and our family was late. So mean while I developed a horrible stomach ache and could barely function. So we finally were able to go through and I was only able to go through about half , because I was so sick.






Harper had the best time. She was a little intimidated for a few minutes , because it was so cold and the figures were so big.








But very quickly she warmed up to the event and then went nuts . I bet we heard "Shrek , Ice " a million times. We even paid extra to meet Shrek which she loved from a distance but freaked out when up close! Haha he was kinda HUGE!! So after Ice we then headed over to Great Wolf, originally I thought this would be great since we were already out there. But due to my illness and a late start it didn't go as planned. Once finally in the room( due to messed up room keys) we headed to the pool.




But I think because it was the coldest day so far this year it was cold in there! No toasty swim experience for us, we ended up just going in the hot tub for about 30 minutes and then heading back to the room. We ended up going down to the arcade and story time and that was really really fun. The hardest part of the little family day was at night. Harper usually does great but that night we were up every 30 minutes all night. So early the next day I ended up calling the Pedi and going in to find out Harper had an ear infection. Poor baby I bet being in the 9 degree ice exhibit or going swimming was really painful. So antibiotics and a good nights rest she is back to here crazy happy self and multiple times a day I still hear "Shrek, Ice" . So I guess even though it was a hard day, in the end we were able to spend the day together and I think Harper had a great day ( minus the painful ear infection night) ;( . so here are a few pictures of my little ogre! Love her!!!!

Thankful

We have so much to be thankful for! When I sit down and start thinking about it , I get so emotional. We are so blessed to have all the wonderful things going on in our lives. And each year it only gets better. I am so grateful that we have our health and that we are so happy. Also I am so thankful that we are able to support our family! So many people out their struggle to put food on their table. I am so abundantly thankful for Harper. She has brought so much joy and love into our lives. She teaches me so many things daily from patience to unconditional love. We are so thankful for our families. The family that helps us when we need and are always there for support. I could go on for hours probably with all the things we are thankful for. This year we had a quiet Thanksgiving . We got up and Mimi made a pintrest sticky bun breakfast! Yum! Then we turned on the parade and laid around and watched it while napping off and on.





Later that day we headed over to Aunt Jenn's house for a thanksgiving dinner.




The kids played like crazy around the house and we all ate way to much food! It is always so awesome to spend the holiday with family because working as a nurse their are many holidays spent at the hospital. It was a great Thanksgiving and we look forward to the next year of things to be thankful for next year.

Beautiful Voice

I just had to post this video. Harper watches Shrek probably two times a day. I am so embarrased to say that but she loves Shrek and The little mermaid. It is completely amazing to me how she memorizes things in the movie. We caught her doing this the other night. In shrek there is this one spot that Fiona sings to a bird in the tree. We did not teach her any of this. The way she sings with her or the hand motions. Who knows where she picked this up , but everytime I watch this it cracks me up. This little girl makes me laugh every day.

The Coast.

So after the last crazy week we had, we headed down to the coast with Brad so that he could work. I had switched a day that week and so I actually had off that Sunday so we took full advantage. We packed up on Sunday and headed down to Houston to visit Uncle Mike and Aunt Kristi. They moved into their new house recently and we had not had the chance to see it yet. The house is so perfect and they are working so hard to repaint everything and fix some small things up. We loved it and Harper took full advantage of the playground across the street. Kristi and I took her over and played for an hour or so before Paw Paw and Gigi showed up to visit. We spent the whole day with all the family and then watched a movie before bed. We had such a great time visiting them and hope to be able to do it again really soon. On Monday morning we got up and headed out to go to the coast for Brad to work a few days. They are building two houses right now so he is going to be traveling down there quite a bit more now. So we are trying to go more to be able to hang out as a family in the evenings. Turns out that Tuesday we had some rain so we were able to hang out a little more due to rain delays..


I love this picture of the rain in the distance. I can not say I was too sad about the extra family time...:) We always have such a good time when we go down there. The alligator in the pond behind the house came out and basket in the sun one day and we were able to see it's full body for the first time.Usually we can only see his head from a distance. He was so much bigger than we thought . Probably about 9 feet. Emma no longer has full outdoor privelages.We wouldnt want her to be lunch.




Also on one of the other lakes in the sancutary the ducks have figured out that they are safe during hunting season. So everyday we would drive Harper over to see the ducks. Their were literally hundreds on this one pond. When we would drive up they take off and its beautiful to see them take flight over us.We also went down and played at the park in the evenings. Harper would say over and over "SLIDE".





Each night after we would get home Harper would lay up in our bed and watch shows on the Ipad. Man what a rough life she has.




While we were in town I picked up Harper a wagon full of sand toys and each night we would go down to the beach and play in the sand. Harper loved it , but was a little confused on why she couldn't play in the water. Just a little to cold.




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Also the house is not as baby proofed as home so I was constantly trying to keep this monkey off things.



We took Emma on this trip and left Riley with the Warren's . It is just so hard to travel with both dogs. So Emma went on Vacation too. She took full advantage and napped most of the time.






On Thursday we headed home and Harper did great in the car. I keep hoping she gets use to the travel , so that we can go down easily from now on. Brad always says when we get home how much he loves being home. But I cannot lie, I love being down on the coast. Funny how he views it as work and I view it as vacation! Yet he views home as rest and I view it as WORK.. Ha Ha. Either way Harper was happy to see her playroom and back to work this weekend for mommy.

Week of celebration

It's been a crazy busy two weeks and I realized somewhere in the past weeks I forgot to blog ! We have had so many parties and travel that somehow I was just to tired at night to sit down and blog. I rarely go two weeks without blogging so I guess I will just have to do better and catch everyone up. Last week we had a baby shower at work for Deanna to celebrate little B and then I worked on Wednesday. I then bought Harper a big blue hippo chair (her favorite Hippo's ) for Christmas and she saw it and now uses it daily :) ! Note to self hide things better.





Then on Thursday I was able to get the first haircut since Harper was 3 months old. Of coarse she went crazy with Mimi in the mall so she ended up in my lap ;)... Interesting new way to get my hair cut!!! For the first 5 minutes Harper thought the guy was hurting me by cutting my hair but after that she watched bubble guppies sitting pretty still.




Then we had Cheri's retirement party that afternoon. Her work threw her a really nice party and the whole family went to support her! Hayes stood up and told everyone that he had two things to say
1: That he was excited to spend more time with CiCi.
2: That the only bad thing is she was going to make less money!
I'm still laughing about this, kids are really smart these days! They know NO WORK = LESS MONEY!
CiCi received some awesome new luggage to travel with from her office. And Harper ran all over her office and passed out in the car on the way home.



Then on Friday we had a shower for Kelly and baby girl Finley. I made adorable party favors that I found on pintrest. They were s'mores that looked like owl ( her room is done in owls).



After the shower I then headed over to Zannatas for dinner. We celebrated CiCi's birthday with a wonderful dinner with all the family. I then worked Saturday and Sunday! The following week we also had a visit from Paw paw and Gigi. We had lunch and then spent the afternoon at the zoo. Harper had so much fun and my camera charger is lost so I didnt get to take any pictures :(. It was such a busy week but we celebrated some fun stuff. So here are some pictures from that week!