The past month has flown by! For everyone else too? I knew it would, which is why I’ve been a little stressed and anxious to get things done. Slow as ever on updating the blog, and adding photos. That’s never been my speciality, but the main reason is because the living room and such are still not presentable. I’d like them to be complete before showing them off, and we still have a bit to do. Mainly needing new wall hangings, pictures, etc. which requires extra $ because I want nice, new ones. Hope to have everything complete before the holidays, so the house will be ready for guests. Kyle and I cannot wait to decorate for Christmas! We wish we already could, and while I cleaned out the attic last week, we kept out one Christmas tree, so it’s already upstairs along with his year-round Christmas movie room, mood lights.
This week was our vacation. I didn’t end up closing my Etsy shop, because I got it down to like 1 order, which seemed manageable. I got a couple more on my trip, which was a good thing. Now I have t-minus six more days to get ready for my big craft show in Lebanon. I’m extremely excited and hope I do well. I have had more time to prepare, although I know I’ll be working right up to the last minute. Planning to do a name-change and new business design/concept as well kinda, so that’s exciting. Then I have two smaller events at GES and GHS I will be doing. Was going to sign up for two other larger ones, but they’re a lot of upfront cost, and I’m not completely sure how successful I will be and how much product I will have. It will be what it will be!
Oh yeah..vacation. We went to Destin, FL this week, left Sunday morning. Met Kyle’s mom and friend there and stayed in a nice, beach front condo. It was really nice, with beautiful French/beach decor, a really nice kitchen, and spectacular view. Roge and Stephanie were down too, with her parents, so we got to see them as well. Harper liked the sand, if she was sitting on a blanket and playing in it some. She got more used to it, but still never wanted to walk in the sand or her feet to touch the ocean. Daddy had to carry her around the whole week, basically, so he was worn out vs relaxed. With a 21 month old, there was little relaxing, although we did go to dinner one night, while she played with Granny. My best meal was a Hawaiian burger from McQuires, we got to-go and brought back to the room. Not sure if it was Kyle’s favorite meal because he ate later his in the car, while we were trying to get Harper asleep. She didn’t nap that first day and was in an awful mood..”jet” lag? Anyway, it was kind of funny at the restaurant, I had to pick up the food at the bar, so I stood there about 30 minutes waiting. The bartender finally offered me a drink on the house, which I had to turn down and say that I can’t drink. He asked if I was 21, and I said yes, but looked down at the huge stomach below, and gestured. “Oooh! sorry, I didn’t even notice.” He brought me a root beer in a kids cup. The week, overall was good. By Thursday, Harper was done with the beach, and just wanted to stay in the room and play on the iPad. We had planned to go to a nice dinner and then take family beach pictures that evening, but we decided to go ahead and head home rather than staying until morning. We attempted pictures of just us 3, but they weren’t cooperating and it was so bright we were just all squinty-eyed. Maybe next year! We definitely made some fun memories of her first time at the beach. Pics to come… one day. I must say.. we were SO proud of her on the way home. We stopped only once and that was to eat dinner. She did awesome, and occupied herself with her dvd player, iPad, and napping. Yay! That means another road trip is in our future 😉
Harper is high-matenence, for sure. But she’s so much fun. She still has her fussy/mean/babyish moments, but she’s super sweet, loving and smart. She is starting to speak in sentences and phrases, that I find pretty impressive. I like to document the milestones. Some I jotted down from recently:
Be a good boy, Cooper
Little boy flying a kite
Granny eating watermelon, yes.
You’re funny, daddy!
Open the garage, daddy!
Harlow, Maxi eating cat food
She also is cutting a lot of teeth. I don’t even know how many on top and bottom, but several on each. Favorite foods are still hummus, yogurt, and pasta.. She likes cheese, drinks almond milk mostly, and eats guacamole, broccoli, green beans, cheerios, oatmeal, and fruit often. She loves graham crackers and teddy grams. We had to bribe her a few times with a sucker the past couple weeks!
The weather in Destin was super nice, and now we get back to this cold, rainy stuff. It’s official fall I guess, and time to turn on the heat. Oh well, I’ve been loving making soups and chili lately. And tried my first ever pumpkin pie. It was yummy! Hoping tomorrow will be nice enough to take her to Honeysuckle Hill Farm!
This is super long, I’ll have to do pregnancy updates tomorrow!
Sevenly Bliss 