I guess I haven't been very good about posting updates lately...things have been busy as usual here. Today was Harper's first day with her new childcare provider. Her favorite teacher, Debbie, left the center to care for kids out of her home, and we followed. We were happy with her center, but the main reason we liked it so much was Debbie, so we think this will be better for all of us. She's currently taking care of Harper, 2 3-month old twin girls, and their nine year old sister, plus her (almost) four year old daughter Zoe. Harper seems excited to have a new house to explore and new toys to play with. I was worried about the change, but we made it through today and I think tomorrow will be easier for me.

Harper is learning new things every day. She acts very proud when she does the "more" and "milk" signs and is understood. She says dog, ball, mama, dada, hi, bye-bye (ba-ba), duck...she also tries to imitate lots of other words, we should probaby start watching what we say around her! She loves to give hugs-even when she is across the room and I ask her for a hug she'll run over to me to give me a hug. She loves to lay her head on Leroy and Baxter and gives them hugs too :) She is really quite sweet, I guess she takes after her mom (HA!). Pat is busy with work and bought a bicycle a month or so ago. He participated in a 50-mile race a couple of weeks ago and finished in the top group. The patio is FINALLY useable, even though it's not done yet. He had the concrete poured last week and will start on the brick columns and railings next. I can't wait for it to be finished, it seems like it's been under construction forever! It looks great though, and he has been working really hard on it.

Here's a video we took a couple of weeks ago of our giggle monster :)