Funny Harrison

Almost 11 months, 21 pounds, and still our favorite boy!

He's got a beat and loves to dance. He and mom often dance together. Maybe there will be a future in it?




Harrison's hair is getting crazy long. Mom decided to comb it back, making it stick up. Harrison woke up that way, too. The babysitter kindly fixed it by the time mom got back. The "I Love Grandma" is what he's screaming. She'd most likely be feeding him his cereal, not taking pictures.


Harrison also loves hugs and giving kisses. His kisses are so darn cute - he licks our face:)
He's not picky about what food to eat, but lately isn't sure about pear juice.
Harrison isn't shy, just cautious about strangers. Luckily not so much that new babysitters and friends are accepted quickly.
He understands and signs milk, dad, hands-up, eat, diaper, more, bye-bye, pony, puppy, more, and thank you. I'm sure there are more than that.
Harrison says dada, mom, baba, uh-oh, uh-uh (meaning 'no' and 'all gone', and apps (apples) and is working on balloon.
Plus, he LOVES to smile and go on walks. We stop to see all the puppies and kitties on the way, or anything new.
Paper is fun to tear, even eat, when mom's not looking.

First Balloon

Every time we go to Harmon's, Harrison's eye is on the free balloons at the check stand. I haven't really wanted him to have one, but one of the nice managers decided it was time. It was decided that Harrison's favorite color is yellow, so that's the color of balloon he got.

Harrison LOVES this balloon! He played with it the rest of the evening after he got it. It was hard to take it away for bedtime, but I attached it to the door handle, and that seemed to suffice. This morning, when I went to rescue him, Harrison was talking to his balloon, now on the ground. He kept squirming, so I gave it to him in order to change his diaper. When it was time to eat his cereal, I put the balloon right next to him, but out of reach. He freaked. There was no consoling those big tears and wails. So, Harrison ate his cereal with his balloon. But, don't worry, he still has priorities. When it was time for the milk, the balloon went to the side. Know the funny thing? When he went to the babysitter's, she had a big purple balloon. You bet that was his friend today!

Easter and Family

What a wonderful Easter holiday! We were all able to go up north and spend time together with Elisha's family. Aunt Cathie, Uncle Arjen and their 2 boys, Mads and Petter from the Netherlands, are visiting, so it wasn't just a small family get together. The whole Jenson side was there! (We did miss Shea, Cat, and Skyler, though).

Sunday afternoon we had an Easter egg hunt. Little Tucker and Harrison thought it was too cold, but I think they enjoyed the goodies at the end. Harrison loves his little bunny. Thanks, Mom and Dad for the fun treats and movie!


Petter (right) is 15 months, but such a petite little boy. Harrison (left) enjoyed having another little boy his size to play with.


Harrison loves babies. He adores the dolls he finds and gives them loves. He is about 10 1/2 months old now, and his cousin, Tucker, is about 6 weeks. We, the mommies, thought it would be cute to get Harrison to hold Tucker. So sweet! Elisha had tears, naturally.




We can't wait until next year when Harrison gets to run around with Tucker finding nummy treats and eggs! What fun that will be:)

St. Louis

I am so very proud of Jason. He had 2 written works, which were accepted to the Sigma Tau Delta conference held in St. Louis in March. Sigma Tau Delta is an English honor society, of which Jason is the president of at Dixie State College. It was quite an honor to be accepted to read not only one work, but two! Yeah!

First, Jason presented about technology's affects on language. It actually turned out to be a panel, which means 3 people present and discuss about one topic. So social networks (Facebook, blogs, etc) and language were discussed by all 3. Go team!


Jason's other presentation was a satire about the couple kissing on Temple Square and the security guard. He had the crowd rolling and really got into character. It's a great tongue-in-cheek piece.

Naturally, you can't travel and not go sight seeing. So, aside from presenting and watching presenters, Jason did just that. The hit of the trip was the St. Louis arch. What a wonderful piece of art!

The fantastic arch!

Fitting inside the small (5 passenger) elevator to the arch top.

A view from the arch.

Delicious fried pickles.
Jason's trying to get them recreated cuz they're so good.

Jason's favorite author from the trip. Made him laugh so much.

I'll let Jason post more photos later.

Seeing Red

So, after my (Elisha's) parents left, I felt the itch to finish the kitchen with some paint. The original goal was to paint the very dated, brown laminate cupboards cream with red coming through. It would have looked awesome, but after painting the red, I decided that's the way it should be. Yes the point was to lighten the area, but I think it adds character. The red really pops with the yellow walls, and the cream bead board pops, too. What do you think? Should it stay red (silver hardware to finish it off)?

Before:

After:


Please note: Even though they're not done in the picture, the bottom cupboards are painted, too.

Thanks, Grandpa!

So, after spending a week with Grandpa teaching him that it's fun to stand at a table, Harrison now LOVES to stand against furniture his height. He's even figured out how pull himself up in the crib. The other day he was crawling around the living room, when I looked up to see Harrison standing at the fireplace bench. Now he likes to crawl up to everything and see if he can stand. The busy boy has become too busy!

Yays and Woes

Going all the way back to Valentine's Day: Elisha had asked Jason who was in charge of the activities, and it turned out Elisha was volunteered. No worries, especially since poor Jason has to consider Valentine's Day and Elisha's birthday are both in February, plus their wedding anniversary in March. Elisha felt excited about deciding what to do for this fun day of love.

Jason loves the drive-in (watching movies on a gigantic screen in a car). Northern Utah has a few, but where's the one in St. George? It's not like it's not nice all year round. (We're willing to open one if anyone is interested in sponsoring). Jason had previously mentioned how fun it would be to create a drive-in experience. Elisha started her Valentine's planning there. Of course, finding a large screen, even a projector, would be a lot of work. What about a laptop? Or, as a great friend suggested, a portable DVD player? GREAT! Add in a delicious meal and great company and it's an awesome date!

We actually celebrated on Tuesday, the 16th, with work schedules and such in the way. Leaving Harrison with the sitter, we drove off to the Dixie hill, which overlooks St. George. Beautiful! Elisha had made lemon chicken in the slow cooker, and we watched (500) Days of Summer, which is not a love story, but cute. The date was fun, and isn't the point of Valentine's to show that special someone how much you love them?


Elisha's parents came down for her birthday, the weekend of the 25th. Elisha's sister had just had her baby:) and Elisha had flown up to north to visit, so it worked out well to ride back with the parents. A VERY nice thing they did was put up bead board along the cupboards that face the living area. It looks fantastic, and is very professional looking. We're loving it, and Elisha's itching to paint the rest of the kitchen. Thank you soooo much Mom and Dad!

An idea of the cupboards before:

















The wonderful cupboards after:


















Time for a Harrison update: He now weighs 20 pounds 8 ounces. How do we know? No, it wasn't his 9 month check-up. Our doctor's not that cool. (Can you believe he's 9 months?!) Harrison had had a runny nose on Monday, but no biggy. Tuesday morning he had a bit of a cough, so Elisha took him in to the doctor. (Wouldn't you know it ours was out, so we waited 2 hours for the on-call doc!) Turned out Harrison had a bit of tonsillitis and the beginning of an earache:( No one could tell, though, because he wasn't acting any different. Still his happy, squealy self, just with a cough and rosy cheeks. Antibiotics should fix it. It's his first time being actually sick.

Harrison has started to actually crawl. I blame Grandpa teaching him to crawl up on things. He gets about 4 'crawls' in, then decides it's too much work, so does the army crawl. He's just so very busy. Harrison also loves to clap, now. He'll even blow kisses. He's growing too fast! What a cutie he is, and we love that he's ours:)