5 weeks old

Well, time flies by when you are so busy being a mother. I can't believe it has been 5 weeks already. I have 4 more weeks left at home with her until I have to return to work. What a dreadful day that will be.

We were very busy this past weekend. Harlee Kate went to Kabuki's with us to eat on Friday night. I can't believe all of the knife throwing and spatula banging didn't wake her, but she was an angel. She also had two birthday parties to attend on Saturday. Mack Wallis turned one and Jack Clayton turned 3. Riding to everyones house put her to sleep of course but, don't worry I ate her cake too.

4 weeks old

Harlee Kate is growing up so fast. Here are a couple of photos where she is 4 weeks old. She has just started interacting with her surroundings so she is really enjoying her playtime activity mat.

3 Week Photos

These are pictures from Sunday. It was her first trip to church. Here she was 3 weeks and 3 days old. She was an absolute angel during services. She also took her first trip to Granddaddy and SaSa's house. We really enjoyed our visit but hated that Jax was sick and couldn't come over to play.

2 Week Photos

Her 1st smile caught on camera

My signature face!!

What I'm doing now...
sleeping 4 - 5 hour spans through the night
enjoys listening to mommy and daddy sing to me
she enjoys Willie Nelson and CCR the most
smiling in her sleep
grunting all through the night

New Photos

I can't believe our little girl is finally here. I love being a mother. It is very challenging right now but I am learning a lot.

Harlee Kate is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Karen still hasn't made it upstairs to post pictures of her new arrival. So, "Aunt A" (Amanda) is helping out with the blog until she's back to normal!

Harlee Kate was born at 10:19 on March 13! She weighed 6lbs 8 oz, 19 1/2 inches. She actually has dark brown hair . . . more than Karen had when she was born. She is so precious, and sweet, and beautiful that I could just eat her up. There is no feeling like your baby sister having a baby of her own. I feel like she's mine too!!!

I don't have all of the cute pictures that Karen has with Harlee Kate's eyes open . . . but here are some of my favorites . . .



I must say that the new MOMMY is doing very well. She's walking, nursing, sleeping, and acting better than I was after coming home with Jax. I'm very impressed with her. She's just a natural mommy, and she loves her little girl so much already that it just makes me cry. She did have a scheduled C-section. If it hadn't taken 5 attempts to get her epidural in, I think she would have said this was a breeze!!!


All of my Harlee Kate pics are here.

Harlee Kate was SHOWERED with gifts!

The shower was GREAT! Everyone did such a good job, and Harlee Kate got so many cute and needed things!

Yummy . . . petits fours
Cute little blocks . . .
The big gift from the hotesses!!! So great to get this!
Just a few of the gifts . . . look at all the pink!!!

Lisa came!
Sasa got a few "grandma" gifts!
Aunt Elza came from Oxford!
It took almost a full hour to open all the gifts.

So sweet for them to do this!

Tables of presents:
A memory photo frame that everyone signed!




Basket full of goodies . . .
Aren't they cute???

Thanks so much to everyone who helped with this and of course to all the gift givers! Someone will be very busy writing Thank You Notes before Harlee Kate gets here!!