March is in the books!

I've been neglecting my blog lately so I'm ready to get caught up, last time I posted about snow on the ground and now here we are into spring!!  Lets see where to begin.....

Wow where did my baby go??  I think she looks so grown up in this picture, this was a picture from a day just playing outside.  She loves loves to be outside!!  She became so attached to this jacket and hat, there were a few days she would not take them off, we even put her to bed one night in her jacket because she screamed bloody murder when we took it off.  I would have to sneak in after she had fallen asleep and take it off.. Crazy kid! 

My little Harper has really gotten into movies in the last month, she will even grab the remote and try and turn them on herself and after a few seconds of being unsuccessful she will come to you with the remote and say "on."  So sweet......

here she is very engaged in one of her videos!!

So in March I went to a Jon Bon Jovi concert in OKC with my neighbors.   We all love Bon Jovi so we went up for the night and had a great time!! He is still as good as he ever was, it was a great concert!! 

Over spring break we got a great visit from My dear friend Jennifer and her little boy Platt!!  Here we were able to get toghether with another one of our friends Megan and have dinner to all catch up ! 

 While Jenn was here we took the kids to the Oklahoma Aquarium, it was crazy busy since it was spring break!!  We had a great time though and I think the kids loved all of the fishies.  Here are some pics from the day...

Arent' they just the sweetest?!!?

So I was really excited when I got to see my bfriend Jon Bon Jovi but then I got even more excited when my friend Jaime called me to see if I wanted to go see Maroon 5, Adam Levine, I mean how could you turn him down, right?!?!  Of course it was a fabulous concert and we ended up sitting next to a group of ladies and it was their night out.. They were all friends from Zumba class and I think they had a dance to almost every song, lol, quite entertaining!!

So I guess I finally have to admit that I have a daddy's girl on my hands!!  This is a normal view around our house when Adam is home, she just follows him around and just loves to be close to him!! I think he kinda likes it too:)

This pic is from easter, we had fun day!! We went to church and then had lunch with family.  Harper loved the Eggs and all of the yummy chocolate she got, she is definitely like her momma and loves Chocolate!  We went home and played with the chalk and bubbles from her easter basket and she loved the bubbles, every time I would blow them she would just squeal with excitement.



We were excited to go to our first Craw fish boil over Easter weekend!!  This was not just any regular boil this was done authentic Louisiana style!!! Jaime is from New Orleans and she grew up having craw fish.  Ive never actually tried  one before but surprisingly they were not bad.  We had a lot of fun and of Course Harper got to see her friend Emmie!  As you can see she was giving her lovies:)

 Well I think that sums up the month of March!!! We had a fun but busy month and my little one is just growing everyday and learning all sort of new words!!  She had her 15 month check up this month and she is a perfectly healthy little lady!! She is still small though only 10th percentile for weight and 75%  for her head, I call her my little bobble head, lol!!!

Yay for winter snow and parties!!

Wow I haven't posted in a while, the weeks can just get away from you! We were so excited to have our first snow of the season, I was starting to wonder if we were going to get winter this year.... I think we only got an inch but nonetheless we got to play in it!! Harper really liked the snow, she wanted to get her hands in it and was not a fan of the fur gloves I had on her....Haha,  it was fun to see her reaction to it. Isn't it funny how when you have a child it makes everything in life that much sweeter and more exciting!?

Lets see, last weekend we went back to Kansas because we had not been back since Christmas..so good to see all of the family.

My grandpa has been in hospital here in Tulsa due to low blood count....he had to have four blood transfusions. He is now doing better but they did not find where he was loosing blood from.

In other family news Adam and I got a new car and decided it was time to sell my BMW:(  Yes I'm sad, I really loved whipping around in my little sports car but it is just too small having a baby and all the STUFF that comes with them.  So we got a Toyota Sequoia, its nice and roomy and we will be able to keep it for a while and haul everything we need to in it!!  I just couldn't do the minivan, nor will I ever....lol! No offense to any of you mini van drivers...

This last weekend we went to Wellington for Platt's (my friend Jennifer's son) 2nd birthday!! We had a good time letting the kiddos play and catching up!!! She threw the cutest Elmo themed birthday...we had fun running around like crazy women getting it all ready!! We are like "why do we do this to ourselves?"...but secretly we love the chaos!! Our poor husbands!!  She had the cutest Elmo decorations, what did we do before pinterest ladies??

How cute are these cupcakes?!?  Such a fun idea

Harper felt the need to dump gold fish everywhere....

All the kiddos playing with Platt's new toys

Okay so I have learned I do not have a shy child.....she just loved Brandon(this is Jenn's husband)  she just crawled right up into his lap.  I think she has only seen Brandon once before but when she was just a baby, I guess I have a social butterfly:)

Enjoying some Yummy cupcakes and me trying to control the mess:/

 

The Birthday Boy!!

Happy Birthday Platt!

 Okay so here are some of her decorations, too cute!!!

Of course the front door had to be Elmo's face!!

They had a little slumber party!!  Platt tried to teach Harper how to jump in the crib, I don't think she was quite ready for that!! lol 

Snow DaY!!

  Hope everyone stays safe and warm during the blizzard that they say is coming....well that is if you are reading from the midwest!!!

We are back together!

My sweet little girl running Errands with Mamma

We had a great super bowl Sunday!  I love Super Bowl Sunday mainly just because I look forward to all the yummy snacks!! I like the commercials too!! I thought Beyonce rocked it and I loved the little DC Reunion!!   We are so happy at the Gobbo house because Adam is back!! He's been gone most of the month of January:( we have missed him but he is back now for a couple of Days and yes I said days, but we will take what we can get. Harper is doing really good with staying home from daycare and happy to report no sickness!! She has also been getting to spend a lot more time with her gmas and great gmas!! They have been helping me a ton the last couple of weeks!! Thank goodness for Family!! This week Adam and I are going to spend a night together at a bed and breakfast for our 5 year anniversary that was back in November, but we were unable to go because Harper had the flu that weekend so we are squeezing it in before he's gone again. I've never done the whole bed and breakfast thing so I'm excited!! GG (grandma Gobbo) is going to keep Harper!!!  Pics as of Lately:)  

Harper Waiting on DADA at airport

Kisses for Dada

She LOVES her dada!

We have been working on Identifying our Fruit, although her attention span is very short I managed to get her to pay attention:) Yay she makes me so proud!!

Happy Weekend!!

Ok so first off I have to share this recipe with you all!! I'm loving it so much I think you will too.  I have been doing a lot of smoothie substitutions at lunch and this is one of my favorites!  Sometimes I even add a spoonful of peanut butter which really makes it yummy!!!  

Banana Smoothie

I am so excited how nice the weather is today, I can't believe its January!!  I think we are going to get out and enjoy some sunshine!!  This is gonna be a quick post because I am running a one woman showthis week so I am pretty busy:)  Harper is munchin on her lunch right now so I have a little time!!  

So guess what?!?! Harper came down with another virus that turned into ear infection this last week so I was off work one day to take care of her and then our wonderful family stepped into help me the rest of the week so I didn't have to call in all week.  I have been very frustrated with how much Harper has been sick this year and how much work I have had to miss, you know its bad when I only work part time and I'm still missing a ton of work.  This week I really just decided that it was best to take her out of Daycare, at least for a while.  We are going to keep her home and have a wonderful girl come in and stay with her two days a week while I work.  I'm hoping that it is a good fit and that it works out well, time will tell:)  So Harper's first week home will be this week with her new friend Lori!! Harper is finally feeling better and acting more like herself, thank goodness.  Its been a rough year so far with sickness for so many parents, I know several people that have had their sweet babies hospitalized, never fun having sick kids:(

Pics from the week!

Play date with Decker and Sedona!!  They all played so well together:)

Bath time, she loves making silly faces in the glass;) love this kid!!

Sick baby this week, look at her little eyes:(

Harper became a pro at cleaning the boogies out of her nose!!  She even knows how to put the saline in now, lol!


Feeling better helping me make some cupcakes:)

Did you say toddler?!?!

So as you all know Harper turned one almost a month ago! I know, I have a 13 month old, what?!? So as I've done through the whole first year I pull out my book at the beginning of a new month and just read up to make sure we are on track. What milestones should we be meeting, foods to eat, nap schedules, how much fluids should we be drinking? Etc... ( you get the point!) So anyway I pulled out my book for the 12 month and you know what it said?!? Congrats you have a toddler!!! What a toddler, no I'm pretty sure she is still my sweet sweet cuddly baby, tear:( Anyway I got past that and went on to read its time to start thinking about bottle weaning, switching to cows milk, and changing nap schedules could be on the horizon..... I'm like do I need to potty train too?! It's like they turn one and things start changing on me. Okay I know I'm overreacting as I usually do, but sheesh;) I have actually been working on switching to cows milk but we had some diarrhea issues so we slowed down on that. I've introduced the sippy since about 8 months and she uses it mainly when she eats but not really super interested in it.  I've started buying different types of sippy cups to see if maybe she can find one she likes.. We had a small victory the other day she carried her sippy around for most of the afternoon and used it all by herself, so I was pretty excited, baby steps!!  Usually I have to offer it to her for her to take interest.  I have also got it to where the only time she is really wanting a bottle is sleepy time.  So we are relying on solids for the majority of our nutrition which is heading in the right direction.  Of course some days we have set backs where she wants her bottles more but we are working on it:)

I had to get a pic of the victory we had!! She loved to sit in her car and watch her video with her sippy!

Yes we got Sick again last week.  She was running a 103 fever so we went to the urgent care and  tested positive for the FLU!! poor baby she was put on tamiflu and was down for about 2 days.  She is all better now and happy to report no one else got it!! YAY

I had to share this pic!! I got this at work the other day while daddy was taking care of her.  She is like, "Mom look at all this food!! how am i supposed to eat all of it!?"

This is her new recliner she got, Although we have had to put it up because  she had a few tumbles.  We have to wait until she understands its not for climbing!!  Nonetheless she loves to sit in it!

Baby in the kitchen, watch out!! I can't wait until she cooks me something, LOL!!


In other news we had a wonderful visitor last week from Ashley Hall!! We love anytime we get to see her!!  Im so upset we didn't get any pics though of her being here.  She is such a dear friend to me.  We met when we lived in Texas and we actually worked together.  We became close friends and have been able to stay in touch ever since!!  It's funny because we are actually so different.  She is a true Texas country girl and well we all know I am not!!!  But somehow we just get each other and have so much fun together!!  I was laughing with her this week when she was here, my how our get togethers have changed!! We always used to be doing something but now it is a lot more tame with Harper being around!  She is a wonderful friend to me and I know we will be friends for life, so Ashley if you read my blog just know your visit meant a lot to me and I am so glad to spend some quality time together!! Muah:) Can't wait to do it again soon:)

  



Harper showing me where shoes go!! she is getting so smart!