The Reynolds Fam: November 2012

It's hard to believe that Miss Harper has been with us for four months already!! It's been another awesome month and it is crazy how much she has grown and changed. She amuses us nonstop and definitely keeps us busy!

October flew by for us! Harper ran in another 5k at the beginning of the month and did awesome! She made a couple trips to the pumpkin patch and picked out her first pumpkin :) Granddad hamilton also surprised her with her own personalized pumpkins in his pumpkin patch at home! He carved her name into little gourds when they were softball size so when they got bigger, "Harper" was scarred into the skin. It was pretty neat!! We've been to a lot of UK games and she's done her fair share of tailgating. She also made her first trip to Keeneland where she looked so super stylish in her sweet little horse smocked dress!

I started working in the PICU a couple weeks ago and am halfway finished with this rotation. It is definitely exhausting! I have to be up at 430 which is seriously early, especially when someone gets hungry in the middle of the night. She has been sleeping so much better, though! We haven't been doing anything different, she's just kind of figuring it out I think. She sleeps through the night pretty often and if she does get up, it's usually only once. I had to spend my first night away from my girl a couple weeks ago :( I have 24-hr overnight calls on this rotation so I miss hanging out with Andrew and Harper those nights :( Luckily, the evenings haven't been busy so they come to visit me for a few minutes at the hospital! We grab dinner together from the cafeteria then I get to nurse Harper at least once that day :) I seriously don't know what I'm going to do when residency starts. My hours seem so short with them in the evenings and time will be even more limited in the future! It's going to be pretty tough on this momma!

Harper celebrated her first Halloween last week and was pretty much the cutest little owl I have ever laid eyes on! I originally bought her a strawberry costume but then stumbled across the idea for an owl on Pinterest. Coincidentally, Mom had bought her an owl hat recently and I figured I could put together the cape easily enough! It definitely looks more difficult than it was! It probably took me an hour to do and consisted of felt, ribbon and fabric glue! haha... We didn't have a ton of trick or treaters but we did get surprised by Uncle Dave, Cam and Christie!

She has the sweetest little belly laugh and is sharing it with us more and more often. She started rolling over a few weeks ago but is only going from back to belly. Babies typically go from belly to back first but Harper is not really a fan of tummy time so she isn't getting much practice that direction! When she ends up on her belly after rolling over she looks like "oh shoot, im stuck... what now?!" She has started doing this wild squealing thing! It's like she has found her voice and is determined to use it... it cracks us up and she knows it. She'll squeal and then wait for us to laugh and then she laughs... repeat x100! She has also found her toes and loooves grabbing them and sucking on them. Baby flexibility is crazy!

She's wearing mostly 3-6 month clothes now and most of the stuff she is outgrowing is because it's too short. All of her 3 month onesies are too short as well as her footie jammies! I absolutely love all her footie jammies and am so sad everytime one gets retired to the too-small pile.

We went to the doctor last Friday for our 4 month check up and shots. I was lucky to be post-call so I got to go with my girl! She weighed in at 13.9 lbs and was 25.5 inches long. She's now 50th percentile in weight and 95th in length! She eats about 7-8 times/day and when she gets a bottle she takes about 4.5 oz. She's still wearing her size 2 diapers. Her shots were pretty pitiful... her feelings were most definitely hurt! We came straight home and she slept for 6 hours straight!! I just let her sleep even though I knew that she'd want to party all night long. We go back for another eye check up at the end of December but our pediatrician thought nearly all of the cysts were gone in one of her eyes so that was great news!

I think we have something going on every single weekend until Christmas!! The holidays are always so busy but filled with friends, family and fun!! I'm especially excited for Thanksgiving at Aunt Lisa's. Harper has SO many family members she has not met yet and I know that she will love to meet everyone!!

Here's a couple pictures from this month :)