6 weeks 5 days

Today I took Elle to have her pictures taken. She did an excellent job.

look at my muscles!

1...2...3...JUMP!

"the pirate"

Easter

Here is my pretty baby at 5 weeks old!

Amy also came to visit the few days before Easter and was an incredible help! (merci mon amie!)

On Easter, we attempted to take some Easter pictures of Elle. Our little photo shoot was entertaining to say the least.

Parker and Elle

Elle (her new cute polo from mom and james) and Easter Eyore.

How can you not love this picture!

This picture is quite possibly one of my favorite attempted Easter pictures. Jordan and Michael are on the left, Michael is screaming because we woke him up for the picture and Jordan is trying to get him to smile and in the mean time, Elle is starting to slide down Parker's arms....HILARIOUS!

funny faces

These are just a few of Elizabeth's funny faces. She makes us laugh so hard! Though I wish the smiles (which happened at 2 weeks), were because I was smiling at her; they were more a result of a milk induced coma.

The other picture is her "pirate" face. We see this look a lot.

and this is her "I'm concentrating very hard, so please don't bother me."

oops...was that me?

(this picture was taken when she was 3 weeks old)

elizabeth nichole harrison

we finally picked a name!

elizabeth nichole harrison or "elle"

the many reasons we chose the name we did:


elizabeth:


1. i love jane austen's book Pride and Prejudice, more specifically i love the character Elizabeth Bennet. she is well read, intelligent, quick witted, assertive and confident. the qualitites and characteristics she embodies are those that we hope our elizabeth will display.

2. according to baby name websites, elizabeth is hebrew for: God is my Oath

3. it will turn into my favorite nickname, "elle"


4. when googling the name elizabeth harrison, making sure we weren't going to name her something that would be easily made fun of, we ran across this bit of trival information...benjamin harrison (the 23rd president of the u.s.a.) had a daughter named elizabeth harrison AND she was born on Feb. 21. the same day as our elizabeth!

5. elizabeth is a great biblical name: elizabeth was the mother of john the baptist.


nichole:

1. this was my middle name before i got married :)

harrison:

this is a given.


so now that she has a name, here are some recent pics. she loves napping on her daddy's chest.

(this was on Saturday, our last day in the hospital)

mathew giving elizabeth her second bath

She Arrived!

We just received the most beautiful baby ever! She is beautiful! She was 9 lbs. 4 oz and 20 inches long. Some may say, "Big" - but I prefer HEALTHY! Enjoy the pics and we'll post more later...

The HERO with her bundle of joy! Monica was awesome! I was so impressed. I love her so much!

The new family....My two girls.

The shiny stuff on her eyes is to kill any bacteria. She is beautiful!

I (Mathew) was able to give her her first bath. She was extremely cooperative and loved the head massage. She is adorable!

This was after the bath. She is ready to sleep....

Past Due

Our due date has come and gone and now we are waiting...patiently...for our little one to arrive. Hopefully we'll have some good news soon. However, we wanted to fill everyone in on what's happened in the past few months.

If you go back to one of my November posts you'll see that my car was broken into. Well, less than a month later, our house was broken into! They took about everything that was of value that they could carry - even Mathew's scriptures from his mission. Although it was a very disturbing experience, we learned a lot and fortunately neither of us were home so no one was hurt. We love Dallas, but sure wish there wasn't as much crime!

Later on we'll post a list of things that we've learned from this experience that you find helpful.

On a more exciting note...we are moving...to Provo, Utah! Mathew will now proudly sport the colors of blue and white, as he has been accepted into the BYU MBA program.

We are really excited and look forward to moving our new little family (with a 5 month old) to the so called 'land of milk and honey.'

Also, this past week I got in a minor fender bender that actually ended up totalling my car. So now we are on the hunt (2 days past my due date) for another car. Life has definitely been interesting the past few months, but bottom line we are both doing well and are about to embark on an adventure that neither of us are close to understanding or prepared for. I can't wait to post pictures of this little baby that has been growing inside of me, by Thursday she will be here and I will try and have pictures up as soon as possible. 2 weeks ago the sono was estimating her weight at roughly 7 lbs. 14 oz. I am interested to see how big she really is...I feel like I am carrying around a 10 lb. baby!

baby vans

baby g received her first set of vans at a baby shower last week. i can't wait to see her wearing this!

ONE more week!

i have officially one more week until this baby girl is suppose to be here! unfortunately after my weekly dr.'s visit yesterday, she does not seem interested in joining us anytime soon, thus we have scheduled my induction date for february 21. she is still sitting very high and enjoys her comfy little environment.

i am also now at the point in my pregnancy where i don't just look chubby, but look like someone shoved a watermelon under my shirt, so everyone that i see (in the elevator, walking down the hall, etc.) feels the need to bring up my pregnancy and comment on how big i am and of course they never fail to ask, "when are you due?" as of today, i love being able to say. "NEXT WEEK!"

aside from the swollen ankles, chubby face and wretched heart burn, the latter half of this pregnancy has been way more bearable than the first half. hopefully i will be able to update again before baby harrison comes, if not i will be sure to post pictures promptly after her arrival. i wouldn't expect to see anything before the 21st though :)

Thanksgiving

This post is way over-do...but I wanted to put up a picture of Mathew and the "bubble bread" he made on Thanksgiving day.

The next morning after a day full of fun and food I woke up excited to hit the black Friday sales when I opened the door and my car was trashed! Someone decided to break into my car! The ripped off the dash board to steal my CD player and broke the window...however, the joke is on them...the CD player does not work very well....KARMA!

It's a GIRL!

We found out Friday that we have a healthy and active baby girl on our hands!

what will it be?

I feel inclined to update those of you who care about the 4" baby inside of me that is slowly taking over my life.

On Friday, August 24 I will be 15 weeks. Friday is a nice day to help me even out my weeks and where I am at. On Friday, Sept. 28 we find out what we are having! Finally! I feel like I have been getting fat forever (which I have been, but now I have an "excuse")... that said, i set up a little questionnaire on the right that allows you to take a guess.

Some old wives tales say certain things determine what you are having...so here are a few symptoms:

*STILL throwing up everyday!

*Over the super exhaustion and back to what seems like normal exhaustion.

and I think that is it....wait

*MEMORY LOSS! I am a complete space cadet these days.

This is all for now.

Over and out.

It looks like a bean, but it's a baby.

Second picture of the little tyke. The first one really just looked like a peanut. Now we know it has a head (needs one of those!), two legs and two arms!

Now we are just excited and VERY ready for Feb.

brown hair day???

Jack and Monica Mac Photoshoot

Jack and I did a little photoshoot a grace de the Mac Computer.