Seven Months of Harper Joy

  You guessed it, Harper turned seven months old last week.  It's amazing the difference a month makes when you're a baby.  Harper is now army crawling all over the place.  Her favorite place to go to is the kitchen.  She likes to get in there and thump her hands and feet all over the place.  I guess she likes the noise.  Another big development is she got her first tooth.  It's one of her bottom front teeth, and the best part is that I didn't even notice she was teething.  Awesome for us.  She got this tooth the day before my sister, Nellie, got married in a transparent ploy to steal her wedding thunder.  Harper even had the gall to wear white to the wedding.  This baby is unbelievable:  unbelievably cute that is!   

She is still a big time wiggler.

Flaunting her flexibility.

She is now bigger than the monkey.  I wasn't patient enough to get a picture where she actually held her legs straight for  a second, so just trust me on this.

Happy Birthday Daryl

  Daryl's birthday was last Friday, but he was out of town on business then.  We did all the birthday stuff on Sunday instead.  I made him a cake and even wrapped up the new James Bond audio book for his birthday present.   

Here's the birthday boy!

Avery loved the cake, and ate a very  generous sized slice all by herself.

Harper got in on the action by eating some of the chocolate mousse layer.  I think a chocolate fan has been born.

Mr. Kitty, however, was not impressed.

What Avery has been up to

  Avery is talking more these days.  She frequently asks me where the light has gone, and tells me what she sees.  She doesn't say love you yet, but the other day she said, "hold me" threes times when she wasn't feeling well.  That was almost as good as love you. I catch her singing along to her t.v. shows a lot, and she loves to roar like a dinosaur.  Avery  adores skirts, especially the tutu kind.  

Avery wrapped Harper up in three different blankets.  Her baby sister isn't getting hypothermia on her watch.

Avery loves the camera and when she sees it, she immediately says cheese!

Another one of Avery's favorite things is trains.  She calls them choos, and gets really excited when she can see them from the windows in our house.  Harper loves pretty much everything Avery does.

Tyler and Harper Being Cute of Course

  Karl, Aimee, and Tyler came over the other night, and cuteness ensued.  If you are wondering where Avery was, she had already  put herself to bed at that point.

Tyler wanted to hold Harper.

Tyler thought Harper should wear this hat.

Mr. T doing some break dancing for me.

House Update #6

  The house is coming along.  Sometime this week the low-fi guys should be done putting in all the data and t.v  plugs in, and all the other stuff they do.  After that we will hopefully get our framing inspection done in a timely manner, and then we can move onto drywalling.  In the meantime more work on the outside should be getting done.  All the subflooring on the decks are on, so those need to be finished off.  The siding was put on in a hurried fashion, so that it has to be taken off and installed correctly.  After that's done the house needs painting of course.  That's pretty much where we are at.  Hopefully we will be done sometime in October.  

This is the fireplace in our master, and my feet reflected in it.

The subflooring is all in on the master deck.

The sliding door is in off the bedroom in the basement.

The inside view of the sliding glass doors.

There was a small bench wrapped around the basement family room, and we had them tear it out for more real estate down their.

Daryl's Discovery Flight

For our anniversary back in March I got Daryl an introductory flight lesson through a flight school called Wings Aloft out of Boeing Field.  Last Friday Daryl finally got to use it.  The best part was they let one other person tag along, so I got to hang out in the plane and take pictures.  The plane was a single engine Cessna I believe.  Daryl got to help fly the plane of course. We went over to Bremerton's little airport, and Daryl got to try taking off in the plane with some assistance. The pilot quite seriously told Daryl he wasn't afraid for his life once, so we took that as high praise.

Daryl and his instructor Trevor.  He was a nice guy, and we enjoyed the lesson a lot.

Bremerton's bustling national airport.

The crown jewel of Seattle, the Space Needle!

This is the aerial view of our new house in west Seattle.  The first time I use Photoshop, and all I do is draw a lousy circle.

Harper at Six Months Old

   Harper has now been with us half a year, and we can't imagine life without her!  She is such a happy little girl.  Harper actually turned six months on the 24th of July, but she had her check up just the other week.  Harper is still pretty dainty at 14 pounds 10 ounces making her in the 25 percentile for weight, but she is 25.5 inches long.  That's a half inch longer than Avery was at this age.  

  Harper still enjoys wiggling all over the place, and can roll pretty much anywhere.  She also has gotten very noisy lately.  Most of the time it is wordless, but she is already saying da da da all the time.  Harper has also figured out how to blow raspberries. She adores Avery.  Pretty much anything Avery does cracks her up, especially when Avery is jumping all over the place.  Although Avery scares her when Avery tries to literally smother Harper with her love.  The one thing Harper doesn't do is hold her bottle, which is really annoying since she is so dang wiggly! (Avery could hold her bottle at six months.  We didn't know how lucky we were.)  We love Harper, and are so glad she is a part of our family!

This is in the bath tub in Maui.  Avery and Addison were in the tub too actually.

Daryl was playing with Harper as the sun was setting.

Harper napping.  She doesn't do it enough.  Gotta love all those leg chubs!

She is about the same size as the monkey now.

House Update #5

  When we came back from Hawaii we were really excited to see all the things that had happened to the house while we were gone.  The most notable work was done on the exterior.  Stacked stone was added to the front of the house, and the old single front doorway was expanded to accommodate a double door.  The current front door is basically a filler door until the real one arrives.  Basically all that needs to be done before we can put up the drywall is the low voltage guys need to come in and put in all the t.v. jacks, data plugs, cameras, and other electrical thingumabobs.

The A.C. unit is in!

The deck has all its sub floor in place, and was covered up because of the rain.  It's going to be finished up with concrete pavers.

The shower unit is in the basement's three quarter bath.  The tub has also been put in  the girls' bathroom on the main floor.

Eventually this is going to be a sliding glass door leading to the basement patio from the bedroom down there.

In the master bedroom the fireplace has been framed out.

The powder room in the basement has been framed out.