Harris and Goldie are now 11-months-old and all I need to keep saying to myself is, "don't blink!" WOW! The baby stage goes by so incredibly fast and they seem more like a little girl and a little boy than they do babies now.
Some of my favorite things:
- Goldie makes an "O" shape with her mouth and gets really, really excited about so many different things, including the lights on the stove and microwave. I was holding herin church today and she was entertaining everyone behind us with her funny facial expressions, sweet smiles and laughs.
- Harris is an explorer and LOVES being able to look at and touch everything in site. He army crawls across the floor really fast like a spider and he's the cutest baby boy with those blue eyes. I love how chubby and big he is.
- I love holding Harris while he looks outside at the workers across the street or the garbage truck. He is such a boy! He studies them and looks intently with those big blue eyes.
- Tyler pokes Goldie or Harris' head around the corner at the bottom of the stairs when I'm in the kitchen so that when I look over, I only see their head poking around the corner. It's the sweetest thing! They normally have a big smile for their mama.
- I love that they both breathe out of their mouths when they are focusing really hard. Harris makes this "puff" sound out of his mouth right now and it's adorable.
- Goldie is our dancer girl! Not just with music on the radio, but when I'm singing a song, I'll look over and she'll be dancing to whatever I'm singing even without music! She shakes her little body back and forth and it's so sweet. This is not something we taught her; she just does it!
- I was holding Harris on the front lawn the other day and he was waving at everything. He knows that "hi" means that he should wave and he loves it!
We had a great week this week! Tyler is heading to trek tomorrow so he has been busy as a bee packing up everything that he needs. He is currently wearing black cozy Ugg boots that he just found in his closet with shorts and a black tee shirt.
We love our Tyler! It is his first Father's day and he's the best dad to Harris and Goldie. They literally squeal and smile when he comes home because they know that they are about to have a good time. I always knew that he would be an incredible dad, and he has of course exceeded all of my expectations. It's father's day, and I was absolutely exhausted, so he let me take a 2.5 hour nap. ME! Whew I needed that. I've been going to Karve which is this really intense barre workout and I didn't miss a day this week. It has been hard but I'm almost finished losing all of my baby weight which I am really happy about. It has been SUCH a hard thing to do!! I have worked with a nutritionist and I'm starting to feel really good.
We went to the temple with Tyler's family on Tuesday night. Lindsay and Katelin are in California for the summer so it was the rest of us. We went to eat at Milagro's afterward and it was great. My mom watched the babies. She took them over to Steve's mom's house then they all went to a concert in the park. We went to visit our friend Ali on Thursday who has triplets and had the same doctor as us. It was so much fun to watch all of the babies together! They are so cute. I took the babies to eat lunch at Texas Roadhouse with my mom, Katelyn and my grandpa. Goldie and Harris seriously loved it! They were looking around at all of the lights and Goldie was saying "oooohhhh!!" When Tyler got home from work, we went to dinner at a little Asian place and brought Harris and Goldie's food. They sat in the highchairs and it was adorable to see them there! They are such little people now!
Saturday was a sad day as we went to Oakley's sister's baby's funeral. They found out that he had anencephaly at 20-weeks so they knew he would not survive. They delivered him full term and he was a sweet little angel. After the funeral, we went to get Harris and Goldie's first high chairs at IKEA. They loved them! My dad came over for Father's Day dinner at our house and they sat facing each other, laughing and eating little bits of food. Well, Harris ate bits of food and Goldie played with it. She's not a big texture girl! We grilled kabobs, had fruit and salad and corn on the cob. Katelyn and Jared came over too.
I woke up early today to make Tyler a big Father's day breakfast of bacon, strawberries and German pancakes. I dressed Harris in a little outfit where the tie said, "Happy First Father's Day" and I have been SO excited about it for months! We went to church then Tyler took the babies home to nap while I went to Sunday school. Tyler then came back for his young men's class. We played with the babies and took pictures after church, then we all took naps. Tyler woke up with the babies and let me keep sleeping for 2.5 hours. I was literally EXHAUSTED!!
