The Harris Family

In an effort to help bring in a little extra income, I have become a fashion consultant selling designer denim through home parties. These are a lot of fun. Now my biggest hurdle is finding people to host them. I had a party at my sisters house last weekend which was really successful and have 2 more parties booked (1 a referral from my sister's party) in the coming weeks. Hopefully I can be successful at this. If not, well at least I tried and it gave me a chance to try something new.

The downside to this is that I am becoming hooked on designer jeans. They are so cute and comfortable. Every party I go to, I find 5 more pairs I want to buy. For Nate's sake, hopefully I do make some money to cover that cost :)

So I thought I would give a little update on what the kids are doing/accomplishing/etc.

Jace:

* Jace is just over 8 months old and for about a month now has been wearing 12 month size sleepers because he is too tall to fit in the 9 month size.

* He is at the beginning stages of learning to crawl where he leans forward from a sitting position and gets on his hands and knees. This is how he gets around. He has never been a big roller and never used rolling to get from place to place, but I have seen him slowly move across the room by leaning forward, scooting on his bum a little and then sitting back down and repeating the process.

* Jace is already trying to pull himself up to a standing position. He usually only gets as far as onto his knees. He doesn't quite have the balance to get to a standing position, but that doesn't stop him from trying.

* He is starting to say mama and baba. He says mama when he wants me, but also says it at other times so I am not positive he knows what it means, but I like to pretend that he does.

* I can get him to drink a bottle sometimes when we are out and about, but he usually only drinks 2 oz or so, just enough to tied him over. He very rarely will take a bottle while we are at home.

* Still no teeth yet. He is going to be a late teether I think.

Callie:

* Callie is still taking dance and she loves it. Each night just before bedtime she is usually dancing around the living room.

* Her vocabulary is growing everyday and she has a little attitude. For example here is something that happened a few days ago:

We had just went to Burger King so Callie was holding her drink in her lap. I was stopped at a stoplight and then started driving which caused her drink to splash. She then proceded to yell at me, "Mommy, you spilled my drink. You are not supposed to do that. Don't do it again." I just had to laugh.

* Nate likes to tease her a lot and she always says, "Mommy, Daddy is teasing me. He is silly."

* She also says "dangit" a lot, which unfortunately she learned from me. But then again, if that is the worst thing I say then I can't be doing to badly. Atleast she is not swearing.

* Like all little kids, she starts to yell and cry when she can't get something to work the way she wants it to. I have tried to work with her on this and help her express her emotion without crying and so now half of the time instead of crying she says, "Mommy, this is frustrating me."

Jace thinks his sister is the funniest person ever. She was running back and forth being crazy for like 20 minutes and he just sat there laughing. I love that she is able to entertain him while I try to get some things done.

Over President's Day weekend we took a trip down to Las Vegas. We drove down arriving on Thursday evening and stayed until Tuesday morning. My sister Maureen and her family drove up from California and met us there. It was fun to get to spend some time with them. Callie loved playing with her cousins. We wish that they lived closer so we could see them more!

On Friday we went to a National Park called Red Rocks. There was a 14 mile loop that you could drive through with many different hiking trails along the way. We chose to stop at one that was labeled easy/moderate that was only about 1 mile round trip. Jace decided that this would be a good time to take a nap so luckily I had my carrier with me.

Callie, Haylee and Bianca had a lot of fun hiking and climbing around on the rocks.

They called themselves the "Pink Jacket Club"

Saturday evening we went bowling. Las Vegas is not the most kids friendly place. They didn't have ramps and the lightest ball was 9lbs. I was afraid that Callie was not going to like it since she is used to bowling with a ramp, but Nate helped her push the ball down the lane and she did really well.

On Sunday we took the kids to a park to play. Callie was in heaven. She hadn't been out to a park since like October. The girls had a lot of fun playing together.

Monday we went to the "zoo" in Las Vegas. It was a total of 3 acres. Very small, but I think the kids still had fun.

Pink Jacket club sitting on the elephant.

Callie got to pet a tortoise.

They also sold bird seed so you could feed all the birds around the zoo.

We did a little valentines party with the kids in Callie's play group. Each child brought pre-maid valentines and when they arrived they each got to decorate a bag and then pass out their valentines. It was a lot of fun.

Callie loves to get pictures taken with Jace.

One day I walked out to find that Callie had strapped herself into Jace's car seat.