Baby's Room

Baby boy #2 now has a room, thanks to Jackie Harris & Crew for painting and Elisha's dad, Tim, and Jason for building a wall!

Our master bedroom has an extra large area, so we decided to wall it off for the baby's room. We want him to have his own area right off the bat. After a long weekend, lots of dust and mess, it's done and looks great! Now to figure out the furniture arrangement.

The construction:



The finished walls:

(Wall on right as you enter: blue)


(Wall on left/straight ahead: blue, orange and green)

(View from our bedroom)
The wall that faces our bedroom has yet to be painted. That's a project for Jason and his brother, Jeremy, while Elisha's in the hospital!

Basketball!

Papa came down this weekend and brought a basketball hoop for Harrison. This was perfect timing because Jason cleaned out the back patio, and Harrison has really enjoyed playing back there. He begs to go outside everyday, all day.

Harrison LOVES balls, too! We blame Signing Time, but it's fun to see him play and get excited about throwing and kicking them.

Harrison 'helping' Papa put the hoop together:



Papa coaching on how to throw the ball:



Score!

La La La

Harrison LOVES to sing! He'll break out in song, and he's so cute doing it! Sometimes he'll even add a vibrato (shaking his voice). Often the words are made up, but sometimes he actually makes sense. Harrison's new song that he loves from nursery is Once There Was a Snowman. He likes to say 'tall, tall, tall.'

You may be wondering why can't we see his face. Harrison doesn't perform on command, so as soon as he started singing, the camera was ready! Enjoy our future Troy Bolton!

Famous & Talented Harrison

So, Harrison is famous! He entered the Harmon's Grocery Store coloring contest and won for his age group! Mommy knew he'd win, of course. Harrison was very deliberate when coloring. He spent particular time on each of the character's noses. So cute! We're very excited for him! The prize: $5 to spend at Harmon's.

Harrison loves to take our shoes and show them off. Here he is in Mommy's shoes, and doing it beautifully! In heels, nonetheless!

Turning 30 at 34 Weeks

Yep, Elisha's THIRTY! My, how the time's flown. We spent the day as a family, ending at Red Robin for some nummy food.

The baby's sure growing! We find out on Thursday morning, March 3 when he'll be coming officially. Confused? Since Harrison was so big and to come via c-section, so will his little brother. Thursday we arrange the official day with the surgeon. Talk about more scary! When you have a due date, you know you'll give birth sometime around then. With a c-section, it's set; no wondering when the big day's going to happen. Whoa! But, we're sure excited to have the little guy in our arms.

The Babysitter Theory

So, Jason has this theory, and I'm saying it's true.

The Babysitter Theory.

Harrison enjoys his toddler bed enough, but he doesn't exactly sleep in it at night. No matter how tired he is when we lay him down, he'll get out of bed and go lay by the door. This would be fine, but then he wakes up in the middle of the night/early morning, not able to find Teddy, and we have to do the whole sneak out of the room thing after laying him down again. (Thank you, Zjani, for teaching me to be sneaky!)

Now, babysitters, both related and not, have told us that when they hear Harrison get up, they go in, say it's bed time, put him back to bed, and he stays. WHAT?!

This last weekend, with family, he wouldn't go to sleep. Just sat in the room and screamed. Finally, we asked Namaw to come put him to bed. Tada! He was out like a light!

So, we're thinking we're going to do what we saw on America's Funniest Videos: dress up like someone else, put him back to bed, and see what happens. Or, maybe, you would like to come over every night around 8:20pm?

Surprises & Fun

Harrison loves to drive. He begs to to drive our cars, and LOVES it when he's actually able to sit on the driver's seat. Last week, he bawled for 15 minutes because he "wanted to drive." Bet he wishes we lived on a farm! This attitude is coming way to early for us.

Harrison is getting the hang of driving his own car. He's still in the experimental stage, especially since other things take precedence over driving than him, such as Teddy, Puppy, and drinks (yes, drinks can drive).



This last weekend was super fun being able to head up north and spend it with family. Jason went up ahead, as he was presenting at the UCUR conference.

Saturday Elisha took her dad for their first pedicure. Should have taken pictures! If you've never had a pedicure, GO! It's simply wonderful, especially if you go to an actual spa. HEAVEN!

Jason surprised Elisha Saturday night with an unexpected birthday party at Hollywood Connection. It's an in-door theme park with a movie theater, ice cream parlor, and 50's-like restaurant. Why there? For Jason's 30th, there a magician was hired, so Jason felt it was only fair to have a kid's-themed party for Elisha's 30th as well. It was just fun to hang out with family and eat pizza.


There was a group of kids there from England, and we got to eat their left over brownies!

Keeping Harrison entertained was easy: he had Daddy and there were there buttons to play with on the juke box!



We were lucky to get the night to ourselves (Harrison went with Grandma & Grandpa) while we stayed at a nearby hotel. Wonderful! Of course, it was cold and snowed, so we didn't feel like going out.


Sunday was more fun with family, celebrating Tucker's first birthday. He and Harrison were playing so good together. Too cute!