i like it when harper...

makes the sign for water and holds one finger to her lips.

barks like a dog. you can ask her, "what does a dog say?" and she will make a cute high pitched noise twice.

gives hugs and kisses. especially when she blows kisses to random people. her kisses now have sound.

falls asleep in my arms at night after reading a book.

gets excited to see auntie jean.

gives high fives!

laughs at mommy so hard that she gets the hiccups.

our family in seattle

we had a wonderful trip to see the family in seattle last week. we took a 4 hour direct flight to seattle friday night. it was at 6:15pm, so we thought harper would be tired (considering she is usually asleep by 7:30pm) and sleep the entire time. nope. she was up for 3 hours and finally fell over during the last hour of the flight. it was challenging trying to entertain her for that long but we had snacks, books and the ipad. after arriving around 1030pm our time, uncle reeves (lee's brother) picked us up and took us back to their house. the boys were asleep and we stayed up for a bit talking and playing with harper. not sure how or why, but she was wide awake and sat with us til about 1am our time. it was probably a good thing she did that because she was on regular schedule from then on. pretty awesome considering it is a 2 hour time difference.
we had an awesome trip. we were able to hang out with the family, the weather was perfect (75 in the day, 60 at night) and the cousins were able to play together. reeves and ashley were perfect hosts. it was nice that the kids were pretty much on the same schedule as far as eating, sleeping and napping. that made things so much easier.
gran (lee's mom) was even able to spend some quality time with her grandaughter. she organized a perfect day at the park on sunday. we grilled out, ate lots and played. we saw lee's cousin carolyn again, met john's cousin and family, lee's friend and family and even met ashley's parents. it was a day of fun. the kids powered through by only napping for 20 mins in the car ride home. they had lots of fun being spoiled by everyone around them.
tuesday ashley's mom and gran watched the kids while the big kids went to play. we went wine tasking. started off with a yummy breakfast and bloody mary. ended with a headache. totally worth it though. we had a fun time going to 3 different wineries. the weather was perfect, sunny and 72. the kids behaved for the grandparents too. overall a good day for everyone. it was the first time i was able to really enjoy myself. not only did i know that harper was in good hands, i was able to drink without worrying about any breastfeeding issues since i stopped on 8/1.
this vacation certainly made up for my pnuemonia, fever, headache of a vacation to florida. did i mention that i felft awful the entire time?
we miss everyone in seattle already. wish we all lived closer together.