Thanksgiving 2008

We had our Thanksgiving feast at Ben's parents house. The feast was wonderful, and the entertainment even better. Well, the entertianment for Harmony was for sure! She had lots of new people to play with her. Her Aunt Becky was a real sport for carrying her around the house and keeping her occupied! Uncle Sam and Aunt Jenn and their son Cameron were there too! Harmony definitely noticed Cameron, although I'm not quite sure if she knew what to make of him. Did she know that he was a little baby like her? Does she even know she is a baby? Who knows! But we got some pictures of them all the same!

Harmony talked all day and night, especially for Daddy. I fianlly got a pretty decent video of her conversation with Ben. Also, here is a link to the pictures from the weekend.

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Family for Thanksgiving

This past weekend was a fun one! My dad came to visit us for the weekend, and got to see how much Harmony has grown.  We had fun relaxing, and spending time together.   I'm really glad he had time to stay on his way home from his business trip.  

Our sister-in-law Jenn came in from Colorado for an extended visit before Thanksgiving. Her husband (Ben's brother) Sam will be joining us Wednesday.  Jenn came by our house and introduced us to her beautiful son, Cameron! He is definately a cutie, and he sure does look like Harmony's cousin! I guess those kids have a lotta Layton in them :)  We miss Jenn and Sam, and are so happy to spend time with them!

Ben's sister Becky also came to Utah from Texas.   Harmony has really taken well to her!  She loves Becky to carry her around and hang out with her. The first nightBecky was here, Harmony fell right to sleep in her arms! I'll post some more pics of her with us as soon as I get them! We're happy she's here!

Harmony has begun "talking" to us more and more lately.  She has little conversations with us with her own words.  It's so fun to see the expressions on her face, and to be able to connect with her while she tells us about her day.  She laughs and giggles so much now.  I love her smile, and how her face lights up when she takes notice of you. 

This video is of her being silly with her daddy.  You can hear a little of her "eagle powers." That's what her aunts and uncle call her squeals (they get that term from Nacho Libre).  She loves to laugh and squeal and it is SO CUTE.  If I ever succeed at getting a good video of it all, I'll post it!

Just Videos

We take a lot of videos of Harmony around here.  They aren't always exciting or excellent quality, but I think they capture her real cuteness pretty well.   I try and post them pretty frequently because I know that my parents (especially my mom) watch them several times a day.  I can't blame them of course, since I am lucky enough to be with Harmony all day.  So, here's some new material for today.   I'm going to try out the media player my friend Ashley uses on her blog, let me know if you like it! 

This is Harmony waking up in the morning.  She is always very smiley in the morning. The video is not great quality since it's from my cell phone. 

This elephant toy is her favorite.  She suddenly started talking to it, so we had to get a video.

We played a video on the computer of Harmony for Harmony. We didn't realize how much she would enjoy watching herself.   It's pretty dark, but, maybe you'll be able to make it out.  

I miss the weekend

Not too much has happened since Friday- We've had a great time with Harmony.  She started drooling and making spit bubbles one day a few weeks ago.  Since then, she successfully soaks her shirts pretty good every day!  It's looking as though she's started to discover her hands. She's begun to suck on anything that she can lean close enough to...mostly our fingers or her own hands.  She's not great with hand-mouth coordination yet, though.  She will sometimes put her fist so far into her mouth that she'll start to gag!  We also learned that she loves to watch videos of herself.  She'll giggle and smile the whole time.  I'll try posting the video we have of it if Ben gets some time to lighten it up a little.  Here's some pics from this weekend. 

On Sunday in her Pooh Bear dress with some pink tights from her cousins!

Daddy can make her smile pretty easily.  Her eyes closes because of the flash though. 

If you look closely, you can see the shiny drool all over her chin :)

And of course, a video.  It's not a great angle.  I'm trying to holdthe camera off to the side while looking at her. 

Happy Birthday Cameron Layton!!

Congratulations to Jenn and Sam! Their baby boy was born today! We're excited for them to have their first baby, and that we have another cute little baby to cuddle and spoil! Harmony is happy to have a new cousin! Here she is saying, "Hi Cameron!"    ( You might notice, Harmony's ears are starting to pop out a bit like her mom's!   I've tried hard to avoid calling her by my brother's nickname for me when I was a baby ... "Yoda." )

I took some videos of her today.  Lately I've been having trouble getting videos of her smiling, because she has caught on to the whole camera thing, and must be camera shy, because she stops smiling as soon as she sees it! So if I want some of her happy, I have to be more descrete.     

Here is one of her during "tummy time" which she doesn't really like doing. 

This is an example of her noticing the camera and giving it a bad look!

Sorry that it's pretty hard to see. 

 I tacked on this short clip from a few days ago of her

 playing with Ben too, just so you can see her laugh.  

Halloween weekend

We had a lot of fun this weekend with Halloween and all.  We dressed Harmony as a pumpkin, using black tights, a jack o lantern onsie and a little Pumpkin top hat that Ben's mom made for her.   That was pretty much the best thing we could come up with considering she is so small she would drown in a store bought costume!  Tara, of course wore her favorite ghost costume,  and Ben went as an Internet Pirate.  

We haven't got the pictures of us from that night yet, but we have a couple cute ones of Harmony off of our camera.  

Also, I'm adding a video of Harmony having a "tantrum" since most of you never see this side of her! Hah.  Well, it's not really a meltdown or anything, she's just getting tired. So, since she's even cute when she's crying I guess it's ok to put it up.   We think it's cute that she'll actually kind of yell-talk at us when she's angry but not reallycrying . . . just like "hey! this sucks!" So, here ya go...

But now, just so you see she recovers well...a cute little snippet.

More to come later once we have our Halloween pics!