November 2014

It's been a busy November!  

We had to say goodbye to our fabulous speech therapist, Miss Tiffany!

Children's Mercy has such a long wait list for therapy that they only allow each child 6 months of treatment.  Harper's 6 months just ended.  Harper loved Miss Tiffany so much! In the 6 months we spent with her, Harper went from speaking only single words like Momma and Dadda to using 4 word sentences really consistently.  She still drops the end consonants of words, which makes her difficult to understand.  We've found a new therapist and start with her next week.  

If she is even half as good as Tiffany, we will be very pleased!

 

We've had lots of fun in November.

We get outside as often as possible. We went to the park

 and played in the leaves.

Ashley & I taught Harper how to play Guess Who.

We colored

and played chase through the house.

We decorated the Christmas tree and are ready for a busy December!

Little Monkey Bizness and The Big Biscuit

This morning Harper and I met several other families who have 

adopted from China at Little Monkey Bizness in Shawnee for a playdate!

There were more kids, but some of them escaped from our picture.

Harper had a great time playing, although she wasn't really interested in posing for a group picture.

She climbed the big slide all by herself

and played air hockey with her new friend, Allie.

 

What a fun Saturday morning!

Harper worked up a big appetite, so we grabbed some chocolate chip pancakes for

lunch at The Big Biscuit.  Harper ate 3 pancakes, scrambled eggs, and milk!

Halloween 2014

Harper was really excited for Halloween this year.

She helped Daddy carve the pumpkin

and it turned out great!

Getting ready for trick-or-treaters

There were lots of giggles.

 Ashley pretended to be a trick-or-treater so I could show Harper what to do.

When the doorbell would ring, Harper would shriek with delight and run to the door.

She saw what all the other kids did, so that's what she did too.

She grabbed some candy out of the bucket and ran!

Arrrrrrrrgh!  Being a pirate is lots of fun!

Fun Farm

Today we went to Kearney's new Fun Farm Pumpkin Patch.

Harper loved it all especially the giant corn crib.

She played in it for nearly an hour!

We checked out the animals, but Harper seemed a bit afraid.

On the playground, Harper insisted on climbing onto the tractor all by herself.

She giggled with Ashley on the swings

and found a tunnel of giant tires to run through.

The Jumbo Jumper was super fun.

Harper loved bouncing!

What a perfect day at the Fun Farm!

 

Carolyn's Pumpkin Patch 2014

Last Tuesday afternoon, the weather was wonderful so we

headed out for our annual visit to Carolyn's Pumpkin Patch.

Harper wanted to be the bus driver, bus she wasn't quite tall enough.

Surprisingly, she did not want to feed the goats this year.

She mostly wanted to just run and play.

Harper practiced counting with pumpkins

and made a friend on the playground.

Her favorite part was the wooden train.

She kept saying, "Choo choo!"

What a great day at the pumpkin patch!

More Mexico pictures!

I just checked my camera and found more Mexico pictures!

The resort was absolutely beautiful!

There were endless pools.

I loved all the waterfalls.

Harper loved racing Daddy on the slides.

Harper learned to say "Hola!"

She told everyone we passed, "Hola!"

We had an eventful trip home.  Our plane was quite delayed leaving Cancun, so we spent much of the day in the Cancun airport.  Finally, we made it to Dallas, but we had missed our connecting flight.  Our only hope was to get standby seats on a 9:15 pm flight to Kansas City.  After that, the next available flight was two days later!  Harper charmed the lady at the American Airlines counter and we were suddenly at the top of the standby list.  Only three seats were open, and we got them!

After a long day spent in airports, we were happy to go home.

Mexico!

We spent much of last week on vacation in Mexico.

It was Harper's first trip to our favorite resort-- Iberostar Paraiso Maya.

It was also her first time in the ocean. "Where did my sandcastle go?"

 She loved looking at the birds with Daddy.

There were so many pools to splash in!

Harper loved this kiddie pool.  It was only 1 foot deep -- just the right size!

She laughed every time the turtle spit water on her.

There was a wave pool.

Harper was hoarse from squealing with delight every time a wave would break.

The resort had a water park too!

She slid with Momma

and rode an alligator.

"I did it all by myself!"

She drove her boat in the big pool

and on the lazy river.

She loved the buffets and quickly learned that there was always ice cream!

She played in the sand for hours.

Daddy played in the sand too!

Harper LOVED Mexico!

We can't wait to go back to the beach!