Thursday, April 15, 2010

No Pants No Pants

Another month...

Another month of survival...


The Harmans have made it another month...I say this because some days are certainly challenging. I jinxed myself saying that Bailey was sleeping through the night last time, because shortly after she went back to waking up a in the EARLY hours of the morning. Now (fingers crossed) I think we have hit some sort of a night schedule and she is consistently sleeping 10-11 hours!! WooHoo! The daytime is still a mess and often contains multiple melt-downs by at least 1 of us. For example, I just had to wrap Bailey tightly and dance erratically for her to calm down and go to sleep...thanks to her, I am too tired to even think about working out at the end of the day.
Brett is still doing a great job of being a big brother and mimics us trying to console his 'Babee'. It's adorable but we still have to remind him to be 'gentle'!
We attempted our first road trip to Ohio for Easter weekend. We were pleasantly surprised how nicely both kids were on the way there to be completely demoralized on the way home with 3ish hours of high pitched screaming and numerous stops to make sure everyone was ok. But we made it.
A few highlights of the last month:
Brett's head went through our wall (literally) while jumping on the bed...does the song "no more monkeys jumping on the bed' mean anything to you Rob?? But to Brett's defense, he didn't cry - he saw the hole and said "uh oh"
Brett had a very successful 1st Easter egg hunt at Grandpa/Grandma Wood's house
Aubrey and Brett held hands (without prompting) in the car coming home from dinner.
Josie and Brett are still so stinking cute in their affection for each other.
Brett started a gymnastics class - 1st time was disastous!! 2nd and 3rd have been a little better. There's something about rules and structure that he is resisting...I wonder who he got that from??
Bailey is smiling more and follows Brett around the room.
While packing the car to come back from Ohio, Brett put his toy cup in the exhaust pipe of our car...we only discovered because Brett was mad that it was stuck.
Bailey seems to have a tolerance for Brett's crazy antics...I found them (during Daddy's duty, I might add) with Brett completely covering Bailey with his toys...I couldn't even see Bailey! There were trucks and mirrors and blankets all over her!
Bailey is gaining weight like a champ!
Apparently Grandpa Wood is the baby whisperer...he was able to quiet the wee one multiple times and get her to nap
Brett and Daddy sing and dance to "no pants" nightly

Oh yeah and Brett has learned to say "NO" and does so quite often!

Wow, has it really been almost 2 years since I’ve updated the Harman blog?! Rob has been not so subtly dropping hints that I have neglected ...