3 months old!!

Miss Harli Grace is now 3 months old!!! She is getting so big and becoming more interactive with everyone around her. She is grasping things (mainly her mommy's hair) and reaching for things. She loves to sit in her interactive bouncy chair and play with her woodland friends. She tells them stories all day long! We have just started putting her in her jumperoo and she has lots of fun getting to know all her new friends. Harli is trying out sleeping through the night again. She goes to sleep around 8 or 9 at night and wakes up around 430a, eats, and then goes back to sleep until 7a or 8a. This is making her mommy and daddy VERY happy. We're just hoping she decides to stick with it for a while.

Harli had fun watching football this weekend, well it started out fun I guess. She watched her beloved Colts beat the Jets and secure their place in the Super Bowl. Her evening went a little less stellar when her beloved Vikings and Mr Brett get sent home without a win and without their time to shine in the Super Bowl. Her daddy did NOT take the loss very well and was very sad. Harli plans to make a phone call to Mr Favre and tell him that he needs to come back next year and win the Super Bowl not only for her daddy but for all the Vikings fans. We'll see how that turns out.

Harli had her 3 month photos taken on Saturday. She was very awake when Cindy got here and was a good girl when the photos started. She was naked so of course she was happy. Then she started getting a little sassy and fell asleep. Once we were finished taking photos of Harli sleeping, Cindy left. Harli heard the door shut and she woke up smiling and giggling. She thought she was pretty funny!! You can see Harli's 3 month photos at www.cjphotoia.com/madson.htm. Cindy did a wonderful job!!

Spoke too soon

Kory and I were so excited when Harli had finally decided that she was ready to sleep through the night. We told our family and friends everyday that she had slept through the night and were so happy. Well, apparently we have spoken too soon. Harli has changed her mind and decided that she was over sleeping through the night. She is only getting up once a night so it really isn't that bad. She doesn't like to nap, though. She takes a twenty to thirty minute nap in the morning and one in the afternoon and that's it. She is afraid she will miss something! I think she might have just been going through her twelve week growth spurt. We still can't believe that Miss Harli Grace is already 12 weeks old. I'm not sure when that happened!!

I have started a new job. I'm working at On The Border a couple evenings a week. This still allows me to stay at home during the day with Harli. My friends that stay at home and are always busy and on the go. I never knew why...until now. Between the gym, errands, cleaning, laundry, activies, and playdates its easy to let the day get away from you. I wouldn't trade it for anything, though. I feel very fortunate for being able to stay at home during the day.

Harli has started doing more and more Tummy Time. She is still doing a great job of holding her head up on her own. She is now starting to kick her feet during Tummy Time. From what I have read, this is her "first steps" towards teaching herself to crawl. When she starts crawling, we are going to be in trouble. She will be on the go and into lots of things.

Finally getting the hang of it

Harli is 11 weeks old. She is getting so big. She smiles all the time and is such a happy baby!! After teasing Kory and I a couple of nights in the last few weeks with sleeping through the night, Harli has FINALLY got the hang of it. She has slept through the night since Tuesday. I'm really hoping that I didn't just jinx us. Each night, she sleeps just a little bit longer. When she slept through the night on Tuesday, I thought she was just being a good girl for my birthday. She isn't taking as long of naps throughout the day so I think that's why she is so tired at night. Whatever it is, we're not complaining and will take the sleep during the night!

Harli has found that she LOVES being naked. She is most happy when she is in her diaper only. This would be fine and dandy if it weren't 20 below outside. She just gets the biggest kick out of it. We only let her do it for a little bit each day because we think she will get too cold. The minute we start putting clothes on her she lets us know that she does NOT appreciate it. We get such a kick out of her.

GO HAWKS!!!!

harli was so excited to get to dress up in her Hawkeye outfit one more time for the Orange Bowl. We, of course, had to take lots of pictures. She was wide awake during the first half of the game and cheered along with her daddy. As usual, Harli and slept through the 3rd quarter and begining of the 4th quarter. We woke up just in time for a great end to the game!! Harli was very happy to see her Hawkeyes finish a great season with an excellent win over Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. GO HAWKS!!!

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We wish everyone a very blessed and enjoyable 2010. We are very excited to spend the year watching Harli grow and learn.

This year we had a very low key New Year's Eve. I read a book, Kory watched football, and Harli slept. We are quite the wild bunch! Once the ball dropped, we all headed to bed. Harli only woke up once in the middle of the night. She has decided she isn't quite ready to sleep through the night yet. We're hoping she decides to start sometime soon, but getting up once a night to feed her and then going right back to bed really isn't that bad.