A Crazy September

This month started with tragedy, and since then has been filled with lots of ups and downs. On the first day of the month, friends of ours here at the camp lost their 7 month old daughter. She went down for a nap and didn't wake up. It has been so sad, and also a huge wake up call. You just never know how much time you have. I haven't been blogging, because I just couldn't figure out how to start back. Since she died, a lot of things seem a lot less important than ever before.

But my blog is important, because my girls and my family are important. And we want our families and friends to be able to see our girls grow. So here's an update. Harper is almost 21 months now, and she is growing up so fast!! She has a huge vocabulary, she's a lot taller, she has 7 teeth (a huge improvement!), she likes to count, and she's starting to show interest in the potty! My girl in my belly, Kinley Hazel, is anxious to be here. I've been having about 20 contractions a day for several weeks now, and I am only at 33 weeks. So the doctor has been doing a few tests, and as of now I have been ordered "off my feet." Not bedrest yet, and we're trying to keep it that way. He wants us to get to at least 36 weeks, so we've only got 3 weeks to go to be out of the "danger" zone. If I go into labor before 36 weeks, they'll have to fly me to Phoenix to have her there, and we don't want that! So I'm sitting on the couch with a pretty bored Harper, who's getting to watch far more tv than she's normally allowed. But Kinley just isn't ready yet, so we'll do what it takes to keep her in there. Chris and I are working on her room and hope to have it mostly finished by this weekend. And otherwise, we're looking forward to October. I'm kind of done with this crazy month.


Here's a recent picture of Harper, right after eating a peanut butter and nutella sandwich. I don't have any current belly shots, so that will have to be in a later post.