oh my head

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Tiffany

Rory does this thing where if she’s wanting to be a tad more dramatic than normal, she’ll put her hand on her head and go “ohhhhhh”…. like her head is really hurting her. Several people have seen it and its so hilarious. She loves to put that hand on her head anytime she’s showing out. Everyone says she’s “posing”, its so cute. I try to catch it on camera but usually I miss it. I caught it today, though!

She loves playing on the ground- rolling around, sitting, anything. She loves being on the floor!

Yesterday she played so hard and then put herself to sleep on the floor.

This week Rory ate crackers (or whatever that thing is called) for the first time. I tried the puffs too- she loves to pick them up but didn’t like them so she’d throw them on the ground. The dogs LOVED the puffs- ha!

Today I had to go up to Mother’s Day Out to look at my room and see where everything is, etc, so that I can get my room ready for the fall. Rory stayed in her class for the first time… and yes, I was a nervous wreck! ha! The ladies in the class are so sweet though so it made me feel much better. She did really well for her first day! Here are some pictures of her preparing for school this morning. I had to take some official pictures, right?! :)

So excited to go to school!

Tomorrow Rory has her 6 month well baby checkup (and shots). Thankfully I was finally able to schedule it for a day Andy can go with me! Its hard taking her by myself!

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naptime = playtime

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Tiffany

Today marks another new trick in the baby book for Rory- she went from laying on the ground playing to sitting up by herself. She was so proud!

About once a day I will put Rory down for a nap and then 15 or so minutes later I will hear her playing in her crib. We’ve gotten a lot of laughs out of it because she always makes her way down to the stuffed animals at the end of the crib.Well today was no different.

Except… she managed today to once again go from lying down to sitting. And then apparently proceeded to throw all of her stuffed animals out of the crib except her bunny. I sent a picture of it to my dad (who gave her the bunny)- I think it made his day!

This is what I walked in to find…

“What, Mom? I didn’t do anything…”

I took this one of my phone- she was looking out at them when I came in the room.

I love days like this. Its so fun to watch all the new things as they happen! She’s just such a little mess. I feel like we’ve got trouble ahead with her, ha! Its definitely time to lower the crib before she throws herself out of it!

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Monday morning blues & weekend fun.

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Tiffany

I’m not the only one who feels the “Monday blues” anymore. As if it weren’t apparent before, now its official: Rory is a Daddy’s girl for sure! This morning Andy went into her room to check on her before he left and she opened her eyes and just squealed with excitement. He picked her up and she laughed and hugged him and was so happy. Well he leaned her towards me so I could take her and she turned around and rejected me and clung to Andy. Then she cried as if someone had slapped her when he left. It broke her heart for her Daddy to leave. I think it broke Andy’s heart too! There is nothing sweeter than the adoration between a dad and daughter.

On Saturday I had a conference in Dallas to go to for the Mother’s Day out job. It was really great and gave me a boost of confidence that I needed! I got a lot of great ideas too, so thats always a plus! Now I have to finish planning for the fall semester. I’m excited to get started with this new adventure.

We met our Sunday School class in Dallas Saturday night at the Stonebriar Mall. We shopped some and then met up at Dave and Buster’s to eat and play games. We had such a wonderful time!

Fun fact about our class: There are six engineers. SIX. And at this table there are seven, and we were missing one. I’m destined to be surrounded by them, I think. ha!

Rory just watched everything and was so good. She fell asleep pretty much the whole time in all that noise. She’s so sweet.

Andy got really addicted to some games though. He swiped his card over and over. Can’t take him anywhere!

We got home and Rory woke up ready to play! So needless to say, it was a rough night- and I had woken up Saturday morning at 5 am. On Sunday my sweet friend, Rachel, from church called and asked if she could babysit Rory for us so we could relax. It was so nice to spend time with Andy alone after a rough night! Thank you so much, Rachel!

Even though we were up all night with the stinker, it was totally worth the fellowship and fun with our friends! I am so thankful for our class!

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new things

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Tiffany

We’ve got some stuff to talk about, y’all!

  • First I’d like to introduce you to a new page, segment, category, etc- The Man Life. Hop on over there by clicking the link or if you look directly right you’ll see “pages” and it’s listed there as well. Andy is going to be writing about manly things that I know nothing about. (For example: did you know deer lose their antlers every year and then grow them back?! I didn’t until my friend Jodi- who runs a hunting lodge- explained this to me/made fun of me… like yesterday.) Andy’s going to be talking about all things technology, fishing, hunting, and occasionally some daddy/daughter stuff. Go say hello to him over there- he needs some love on his new page!
  • Secondly, did anyone notice my new box over to the right for facebook? I’ve created a page on facebook so that people can be updated if they wish on there and if they don’t wish, they don’t have to see any of this nonsense! Eventually, hopefully soon, I’m going to be getting rid of my personal account and only doing that page. So you can either click the link I provided or you can go over to the right and click the “like” thing in the box. That way you’ll be updated with all things of The Harris Life!
  • I’m going to be doing a giveaway VERY soon! Be thinking of some suggestions for categories, topics, etc that I could do on the blog. I’m going to ask each person that enters the giveaway to suggest something new or tell me something you want more of on here.

I think thats all for now. Sorry its all business on this post! Did you enjoy yesterday’s six month post by the clever Rory? I still can’t believe she’s six months already!

Tomorrow I am attending a conference for some certification to teach starting in September. Its in Dallas and I’m going to be away from Rory for the first time for more than an hour or so (well my surgery doesn’t count because I was drugged and don’t remember…). I’m nervous and excited all at the same time. Thank goodness I have such an amazing husband that I can trust completely with my little munchkin! I’m positive they will have a wonderful day together! We’re meeting up in Dallas in the afternoon with our Sunday School class for a little fun and I can’t wait!

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I’m SIX months old!

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Rory

Oh my word, can you believe it?! I’m six months old! I told Mommy she better start planning my first birthday party STAT!

This is what I looked like at one month until now- can you believe how I’ve grown?!

Mom tried for DAYS to take my picture to get some really great smiley ones. She got some, but I wasn’t giving a whole lot of smiles out for that darn flashy thing.

Now let me tell you something… I’m kinda annoyed with having my picture taken. That dang thing flashes and beeps at me constantly. And what’s with the bright orange light that is constantly shining in my face?!

Mommy got a whole lot of pictures of me not smiling though, and some of them are super cute too. Mommy and Daddy laughed and laughed over these pictures where I refused to look at the camera. Hey- when a girl’s tired of the paparazzi, she’s just tired, okay?!

This is ridiculous. Don’t you know its 100 degrees out here?!

Whatever you do…

don’t make…

eye contact…

with camera.

chewing on my dress is way more fun

ooo… I almost got it…

Yes, got it!

maybe she won’t notice me sticking my tongue out at her if I bend my head down…

I think this torture is almost over now…

Let me tell you what I’m up to these days…

  • I weigh 18 lbs!
  • Eating 7 ounce bottles and eating three food meals a day. I like everything, but veggies are what I like best. Green beans, sweet peas, and carrots are my favorite veggies.
  • Wearing a size 2 diaper, but I’m going to go up a size soon!
  • I wear 3-6 months clothing, but I still have some 0-3 stuff I can wear.
  • I really like when Mom gives me a sippy cup but she can’t take it away from me once she does so its rare that I get it. Pear juice is my favorite!
  • I still love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and I also like Phineas and Ferb. Mommy only lets me watch one show a day while she cleans though.
  • Jackson and Jersey make me laugh more than anything. I’m starting to pull their hair, though, and Mommy always says, “no no,” when I do.
  • I take two long naps a day (about an hour and a half to two hours)- one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Mommy says she loves this new schedule.
  • I go to bed around 8:30 or 9:00 usually and sleep until about 7 in the morning.
  • My new thing is to squeal as loud as I can. After I found out how loud I could do it, I realized how fun it was! Jackson goes crazy over it and I laugh and laugh when he barks back at me.

Well, thats all I’ve got for now. Check back next month when I’m seven months old! I’m going to work on crawling between now and then. Maybe I’ll be able to tell y’all that I’m an expert crawler then!

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Wordless Wednesday: Return of the bow.

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Tiffany

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professional roller.

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Tiffany

“What’s going on with you right now, Tiffany?”, you ask. Well. Actually you didn’t ask but I’m going to tell you anyway.

1. My life pretty much consists of putting Rory on a large blanket on the floor. Then about 2 minutes later (if I’m lucky) I put her back to her original position… and repeat 1000 times all day long. She’s a professional roller now and is all over the place. She’s trying so hard to figure out the crawling thing but she hasn’t gotten that down yet. Let me demonstrate the rolling thing for you.

2. I’m lesson planning, craft planning, activities planning, etc like a mad woman. I start teaching 2 year olds in about a month. People! What have I gotten myself into?! I’m not sure I’m cut out for this and I’m certain the kids’ parents will agree. ha! But I prayed for this job, it came open after it originally was not, so I’m thinking God wants me to teach these two year olds whether I feel qualified or not!

3. I know I’m wearing this out, but baby girl is seriously the sweetest kid on earth. Maybe I keep saying it so that when she’s 15 and ticking me off constantly I will remember the good days of constant sweetness. ??? Or maybe its because I just honestly cannot believe I was blessed so tremendously with this child. Almost every night as Andy and I are about to go to sleep we lay in bed and say things like, “Can you believe how sweet she is?” “Can you believe how cute she is?”, and then we’ll laugh and talk about all the funny things she did that night. And then we always say, “I just want to go get her out of her bed and snuggle her up with us!”. ha! Of course, we don’t. But we want to!

4. It hit me yesterday that not only will I be teaching SOON, but Rory is going to SCHOOL! Soon! My goodness I can’t believe it! Andy said we needed to get her a cute outfit for her first day, ha! Of course, I agreed immediately. My little stinker in school? Oh man. I’m not ready! I’m pretty sure we’ll manage though, I’m only a few doors down from her!

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babies. yes, plural.

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Tiffany

And again I say, “is it really Monday again already?!”. Weekends just go by way too fast for me! They do for Rory too.

they adore eachother

Remember how I told you all we were going to have a “staycation”??? Well that didn’t really work out. Andy, I REPEAT, Andy decided he wanted to go shopping in Sherman on Saturday. I tried to protest, but it didn’t work (thats my story and I’m sticking to it!). Andy dressed Rory (he does most Saturdays) and she looked so cute!

Those tennis shoes! That booty! She’s just so cute, if I do say so myself!

Rory held on to her toy all day, even during naps. Target wore her out.

After church yesterday we did come home, change into our pajamas, and did nothing all day. It was so nice. One day soon we are going to do that the entire weekend… maybe. Then we decided to try out some pictures for Rory’s six month post coming this Friday! Well. I got a really cute video of it, but pictures? Not so much. Here’s the best picture I got.

Rory obviously needs to have a “talking to” about modesty! ha! She’s at this point where everything around her is so much more fun and interesting and she just does not care to sit and smile for the camera. This is obviously frustrating for me. Sigh.

The only other happening around here this weekend was Andy’s doctor appointment on Friday. He had to go have a mole removed and let me tell you, he got butchered! He thought he only got three or four stitches and was doing all kinds of stuff around the house Friday afternoon, then I noticed blood all down his back. Come to find out, no, he has about 14 stitches and its bothering him so bad.

Bless his heart, but can we not all agree that men are the BIGGEST babies EVER when they are uncomfortable in any way?!!!! I said to him at one point, “honey, I just got done pushing a baby out, my sympathy level is REAL low”. But seriously. I did just have a baby… yes its been six months, but with all my problems with it, its going to take quite some time to forget! Not to mention the gallbladder thing which is about 302932 times worse than labor. No joke. Don’t worry, I babied him all weekend and changed his bandage, etc, but I told him that 3 days of it was about all I could do at this point in my life. HA! Lets also agree that I’m the WORST wife in the world. When it comes to this, I’m okay with it right now. ha!

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laughter to start your week

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Tiffany

Tonight we thought we’d try out some shots with Rory for her six month pictures. We decided to video it some, and we were so glad!

I wanted to post this tonight so that your weekend would end and week would start with lots of laughter!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

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floor time fun

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Tiffany

There are many things I should be doing right now, but instead I will procrastinate. Well, the fact that I’ve done something to my back doesn’t help on the “getting things done” thing either. I’m pretty sure I pulled something because I’m constantly lugging her and the carseat around everywhere- and that ain’t no joke, my friends! Girlfriend is heavy!

Baby girl is all over the place these days. She rolls and then straightens herself out and rolls some more. Occasionally she’ll belly flop forward a couple of times, but that tends to make her mad. She’s loving playing on the floor and the dogs are so excited too now that she’s moving. They want to play with her and her toys. Its super cute!

happy girl

I love that little smirk!

oh that thumb

I caught you, Jackson! Drop the lion!

he's keeping his eye on it

My favorite thing about her floor play time is that she’ll play and then she’ll get tired so she’ll lay down and relax for a bit, then pick back up and play some more! Its so sweet.

Best buds!

Apparently the “sniff for approval” method works for babies too. Rory obviously didn’t mind. ha!

Yesterday little stinker made it into the kitchen while I went into the next room. Like seriously for a minute max. The dogs came into the room and ran back out and I knew something was up. They are good tattlers on her!

uh oh, I hear Mommy! I think I'm caught!

dogs aren't sure what is happening

love that little booty

looks like a sneaky little face if you ask me!

I have nothing clever or exciting today. We’ve just had a kind of “blah” week around here. Andy’s Friday off is tomorrow and I’m so excited. We’re having a “staycation” this weekend and are determined on Saturday to be extremely lazy and not leave the house. Yes!

P.S. Loved all the response from the video yesterday. I realize Rory will kill me one day for that, but I’ll take it when it comes. And if you thought it was inappropriate, oh well! Its my blog, I can post what I want! ha! :)

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