Fist Eating 101

1. Bring your fists up to your mouth

2. Open your mouth up wide

3. Shove, shove, shove!

Harper has been sucking on her FISTS, yes fists, not fingers, a lot in the past few weeks. It is so cute because she tries shoving her ENTIRE fist into her mouth - and sometimes gets mad because she can't do it. But for the most part, this entertains her well.

You can chew on your arm too!

Or anything that comes near your mouth, like daddy's strings from his hooded sweatshirt!

Silent Night

My favorite Christmas song and my Christmas wish!

Harper has had a great week in the sleep department! She has been going to bed around 9 pm and sleeping for stretches of 6-9 hours! She wakes up one time now - anywhere between 3 and 6 - drinks a bottle - and goes back to sleep until 7 or 8! It's wonderful! Even though she's not sleeping ALL the way through the night - I consider waking up only once a success! And I didn't have to give her rice cereal - although the thought crossed my mind! The extra sleep at night is much needed!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and staying warm!

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Holy December!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love December for many reasons:

• Christmas music!
• driving around town looking at the Christmas decorations
• Christmas shows on TV (I'm almost 26 years old and my mom called me last night to tell me that the Grinch was on)
• Lots of family time
• my birthday (I think my years of enjoying turning another year older are winding down though)
• yummy holiday baked goodies
• the smell of real Christmas trees
• a light snow
• or a LOT of snow so there's no school! (teachers pray for this more than the students - TRUST me!)
• candlelight service at church

The list could go on and on - but those are just a few of my favorites. This year we have another exciting event to look forward to - Harper's baptism, which will be on December 20th.

Last night I watched Christmas Vacation and the Grinch while I was designing a Christmas card online. I scored 50 cards for only $3.19!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All I had to pay was the shipping! Awesome, huh?! At one time the shipping was free, but due to a huge demand they added in shipping costs. I heard about this fabulous deal from a blog that I follow daily - Money Saving Mom. Sorry - the deal ended last night - otherwise I would've shared this news with all of you but I didn't realize this until yesterday. Here is the runner-up picture that almost made our Christmas card. Remember - I'm not a professional and an 11-week old baby only has so much patience for this kind of stuff. I'm not going to post the picture I decided to use because I don't want to spoil the fun - you'll just have to keep checking your mailboxes!