That's Murphy's home

Harrison is really turning into a wild man. He is all over the place and I am constantly amazed at how fast he can move - especially when it comes to splashing in Murphy's water bowl, playing with the garbage in the bathroom. or taking off the vent cover and trying throw things down there. Today he was playing outside on the slide and leaned over the edge waving to Murphy on the hill. I about had a heart attack. I guess this is just the beginning.

Harrison is now  - well actually about two weeks ago - officially weened. He seems to have adjusted well. As have I. I must admit it was a little sad at first but it was time for both of us to move on. I have made sure to add a little extra cuddle time daily and that seems to have avoided any issues. But truly, we have been so busy that it seems like it has been longer than two weeks. One of our recent lessons is regarding Murphy's home. While Murphy seems content to share his cage with Harrison at times, we thought it would be better for the cage to be Murphy's haven - where he always knows he can get a little quiet time. Needless to say this has been a feat. Harrison would much rather crawl inside with Murph and close the door so that they can have a little bonding time. We are constantly leading Harrison out and saying 'that is Murphy's home'. So yesterday I built Harrison 'a home' out of a big box. It still seems like more fun to be hanging out with Murphy his home but it seems like Harrison's new home might be helping, at least a little.

March Madness

Harrison and Daddy are bonding over all of the basketball this month (the hours and hours and hours)!

i think we have a toddler on our hands.

It has been a while since my last post. Harrison was sick on and off for the last few weeks and it was tough to get a good pic or video and even tougher to steal a bit of time to put my thoughts together to write something to post to the blog. I was also on antibiotics and I think Todd was sick too at some point in there. Anyway, it is currently the first sick free week that I can remember (at least for a while) :)  Yay!! 

Harrison now has 8 teeth (teething only added salt to the wounds when he was sick). He is walking around like a mad man and getting into everything. Yesterday morning we had friends over for brunch. While we were talking at the table he was walking in and out from the kitchen to the deck - there was millisecond of silence when he was out of my sight line and the next thing we see it a mouth full of dirt and a huge grin!

He is chattering up a storm - what we speech pathologists call jargoning - he is now saying 'doggie' and pointing to every doggie, 'dada', 'mama' occasionally, 'uh-oh', bye-bye, 'all done'. He is also beginning to have a mind of his own. He wants to do things by himself and walk everywhere. He tries to squirm right out of my arms while we are walking down the stairs in the morning to go to school, he screams if we try to offer him assistance with food or a toy and then proceeds to launch it across the room....I think this means he is a toddler - so help me God!