7 months + 31 years

We had a lot of celebrating to do this past weekend.  Harper turned 7 months old and I turned 31 years old.  As a result, I have another post with lots of pictures for you :)

7 months old {Friday}

At 7 months, Harper...

• still sleeps through the night, but she does wake up earlier than she used to.  She's usually up between 6:30 and 7 am.
• takes 2 naps a day, usually lasting from 1 to 2 hours each, but it really varies.  Most days are good.  Some days are not.  Harper has been having a little harder time going to sleep at nap time in the past couple weeks, too.  I think her wake time is increasing and I'm having trouble figuring out when exactly she needs to go down for a nap.  Too early and she won't go to sleep, but too late and she gets really upset. 

• doesn't crawl, but she rolls and scoots all over the place.
• "talks" with a lot more inflection, like she's having an actual conversation.
• blows bubbles or raspberries {or whatever you call it}.
• gets mad if you take a toy away that she wasn't done with {especially the bath toys}.

•  nurses 5 times a day and still wants nothing to do with baby food.  She is a stubborn one.  She has started taking "bites" of what I'm eating {baked potato, couscous, granola bar, hard pretzel, pizza crust from Pizza King... she really liked that one.} so I'm trying not to worry.  She's still so little and doesn't need anything but breast milk for nourishment right now anyway. {I have to keep reminding myself of this.}

 Bayou Bend Gardens {Saturday}

My 31st Birthday {Sunday}

I share my birthday with quite a few people, including my grandfather, my "nephew" Hayden, and my good friend Haley.  Haley and I usually have a joint birthday celebration, and this year we chose to do brunch at Chelsea Grill.  It was a lot of fun.  There was even a live jazz band that played "happy birthday" for us :)

our sweet friend, Laura, made two cakes for us

 good food + good friends = a great birthday!

It really was a good birthday, and Jason got me exactly what I wanted... a Keurig machine!  I love it!!  If you are a one cup of coffee in the morning kind of person like me then I highly recommend it.  No measuring coffee and no clean up!  Not to mention the coffee tastes much better than the kind I used to make :)