Artic Albino Elmo

Until March 8th, when Harper starts Montessori, Harper spends two days a week at an in-home day-care. The same place her "best friend", Nina, goes. Teresa is the woman who wrangles the children. Last week Teresa made a picture-flap-game thing. It was construction paper with photos from magazines glued to it, then paper towels glued on one side hiding the photos. The children and then pull-up the flap to see the pictures.

Well, there is a picture of a penguin under one flap, and under the flap next to it is a picture of Elmo. Harper, who has never seen Elmo before, heard the older children saying "Elmo, Elmo" and now whenever she see a photo of a penguin she calls it "Elmo". And I can't bring myself to correct her. In fact, I called a penguin Elmo today. Bad mommy.

January Photos

New skills: going down the slide by herself, and trying to blow-up our friends' house with the photo light charger. See it all here: http://www.s9s.net/HarperJan2010/

First Bloody Lip and Nose

So poor Harper has had three injuries in her almost 17 months:
The New Years 2009 Fall Down the Stairs;
The Falling Off Bed, Breath Holding, Ambulance and ER Trip of May 2009;
and now
The Bloody Lip and Nose From Fall With a Hard Sippy Cup Incident of Jan 2010.

We didn't go to the ER, just left a message with our doctor. It was very hard to not wisk her off to get medical care when her little nose was bleeding, and I could see two perfect bite marks on her lower lip. After many hugs, book reading, and drinking of orange juice (ouch! Can't believe she drank citrus with a bloody lip, but she loved it) she seems fine.

Christmas Photos

Oh yes we did get the Christmas photos online before Easter. Really. Here's the link:
http://www.s9s.net/Christmas09