2 months

Harper turned two months on Sunday, which also happened to be Father's Day. I can't believe how fast the time has flown. I can't believe it's 2 months and she's already sleeping through the night. I contribute it all to the routine we've set. At about 7:45 we give her a bath, which she loves. Then we put her pj's on and while one of us feeds her the other one reads a story. Then we close the blinds, turn on the sound machine, swaddle her up and down to sleep she goes until 5:00 in the a.m. It's fabulous!

At her one month appointment, Harper weighed in at 13.5 pounds and 22.5 inches long. That puts her in the 97 percentile for weight. That basically means she can eat other babies her own age. Her torticollus (sp?) has all but worked itself out..she can look all the way to her left side now. The doc said to keep up the good work.

For father's day, we got Joe Lego's, the movie Incredibles and this picture for him to put on his desk at work. I know that Harper can't wait to play Lego's with her daddy.

We're going on our first plane ride today. We're visiting my best friend and her family for the weekend. I'm sure Harper will do well, but I know that I'm nervous. I'll see you all on the flip side!

Kelly Kapowski wants to be like me

I loved Saved by the Bell when I was a kid. Kelly Kapowski was a great idol...she was smart, kind, on the cheer leading team and saving herself for the love of her life. But then she got all slutty as Valerie on 90210. Well now, she's had a baby girl and of all the names in the world what did she pick....that's right, Harper. Now that it's a celebrity baby name it will probably shoot up the charts and my little girl will have like 3 in her class along with all the Apples, Suris and Maddoxes.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391517,00.html

My baby is a chunk!

I was catching up on some blogs and a few of the ones I read are by gals I met on The Bump because our babies had the same due date month. So their babies have recently turned two months and they were posting milestones. Both of the ones I read about talked about how the babies are fitting into 0-3 month clothes and size 1 diapers and weighing in the 9 pound range. At 2 months! Harper hit these milestones at two weeks! Now she's up to over 12 pounds. Sometimes at the mommy and baby class I go to I feel like Harper could eat the other babies her same age. Oh well, at least we know she's a healthy eater.

Walking in the Short North

The neighborhood I live in is diverse. We're talking $800,000 homes within three blocks of section 8 housing. So when Harper and I go on our morning walks, we get to see all kinds of people going on about their day. On Monday, we went for an unusually early walk at 8:00 (she's been waking up at 6, so we need the walk for mini nap by that time). We were walking down High Street window shopping and approaching us is a man who is walking his bike. As he gets close he falls down, bike and all. He's a little older so I offer to help him up. From the bus stop ahead I hear "it's okay miss, I'll help him." At this time I begin to smell the alcohol on the man. He smells like the floor of a dance club at 2 a.m. He is so drunk he can't even walk his bike...at 8:00 in the morning! His friend helps him up and he proceeds to hop on his bike and ride it down the middle of the street, weaving back and forth. He almost hit a parked car and then almost got hit by a moving one. I was relieved that there were no news stories that night about a man getting hit on his bike.

Can you get a BWI...Biking While Intoxicated?

LIfe as a Single Parent

Joe is leaving tomorrow morning for a conference in Pittsburgh and he won't be back until Wednesday, so I get to see what it's like being a single mom. I'm not so worried about taking care of the baby, as much as going crazy with no adult to talk to for so long. Luckily my good friend Beth is going to come over and keep Harper and I company tomorrow night, and on Tuesday I'll be going to visit with my 8th graders at the pool since it's the last day of school. Hopefully I won't lose my mind too much over the next two days.

God Bless My Daughter

For Two reasons...

1. She sneezed, and using the burst function on our camera we caught her in action...so funny

2. She slept from 10:00-5:30 last night, and since Joe got her up and fed her and she slept until 8, I got 10 hours of sleep...so Awesome! I hope she keeps up the 7 1/2 hours of sleeping.

In line at the Giant Eagle

Last Saturday Harper stayed the night with Grandma. Joe and I love these nights off (although I might be a little overprotective and call like three times...I'm sure this will go away as the newness of mommie-hood wears off)

With our night off we went to two places we've been meaning to go to forever.

The Elevator Brewery and Draughthaus - I ordered the pork chops. The menu said they were glazed with maple...what it should have said is they are doused in maple syrup...it was delicious.

We followed that up with a trip to The Book Loft, a fabulous book store with 32 rooms of books!

After that, we went to the Giant Eagle to get dessert and bottle of wine so we could indulge in some relaxation time on the couch. Mind you, it's 10:30 on a Saturday night...this means the weirdos are out in our neighborhood. Three people ahead of us are two women, dressed in leopard printed tight dresses and f*ck me heels, way too old to be dressed like that and way too tan for May in Ohio. They bought gum and cigarettes...and payed with a check. Yes, like write out a check and run it through the check reader...I haven't seen that in years.

Behind them was a man doing actual grocery shopping...toilet paper, milk, bread, the staples every person needs at 10:30 on a Saturday night.

Next was a young guy buying a bottle of barbecue sauce...that's it. A bottle of BBQ sauce. I don't think I want to know what late night plans require the purchase of only a single bottle of BBQ sauce.

Then it was us, and behind us were three college aged gentlemen buying beer. Three very strong looking guys leaving one guy to carry all the beer. He proceeded to drop a box, the beer bottles broke and leaked all over and he wanted to know if he had to pay for it. His buddy of course knew the answer "No way dude, the box ripped. You don't have to pay for a defective box." Somehow I think the defect was the fact that one guy was carrying all the beer while his buddies stood around and debated if they should go to Frog Bear or not.

And then to top it all off, as we left we saw a homeless hippie outside the store. We knew he was homeless from the random garbage bag of stuff he was carrying. We knew he was a hippie by the tye-dye shirt her wore under his overalls.

I need to start carrying my camera with me…and I need to figure out how to take pictures of these people without being obvious.