Raising the Bar by Lowering It.

Good thing we put the mattress down farther in the crib today. The nearly 8 month old went from sitting to standing. After we put Harper down for the night or so we thought, we heard him crying more than normal. When we got into his room, there he was..standing up,holding onto the crib railing!

Grandpa Checks In

By John Hanrahan

I went to the 14th and T post office about 45 minutes ago, and thought Harper might not cooperate because he seemed to be getting sleepy and antsy as I was pushing him over in the stroller. I took him out of the stroller in the Post Office and held him as I went up to the window. As the woman behind the window began oohing and ahhing about Harper (look at those checks! look at those legs! hello, handsome), Harper began drumming on the window and on the counter and chattering away. And smiled a big smile. The woman said, "look, he's flirting with me. Hello, hello." And I swear, Harper said something like "hi" back to her. And she said hello twice more and Harper again said something like "hi" both times. And then he chattered a lot more and the woman kept talking to him. Meanwhile, there were a few people in line, but fortunately another clerk opened up a third window.

Harper also discovered on the way back that he can take off his hat and chew on it.

Big Boy Shoes

Since the fall weather is beginning to creep in, we thought it was time to start putting shoes on our little guy. So, this morning I took him to Stride Rite for his first shopping trip. Not surprisingly, Harper's feet are too big (he's a size four) and too wide (he's a double wide) for the prewalker shoes so we had to go up one level.

Harper's first pair of big boy shoes are brown leather and sport two super cool velcro straps on either shoe :o). The soles aren't as flexible as the prewalker shoes but I think he'll manage. As you can see, he's ready to go!