Weekly Update

Well, thankfully Natalie never caught Joel's illness- Praise God! We have really gotten into our weekly routine and things have been relatively smooth-sailing for us in the Harris household.
On Thursday, I had to take Natalie with me to an evening school meeting again since Joel was working. She did well, except I have discovered that Natalie has a phobia of public restrooms. Last weekend when I attempted to change her in the restroom at O'Charley's, she wailed and carried on like she was getting shots again. Well, on Thursday, I had to change her at the high school and the same thing happened again. Good news is if there were any teenagers within hearing distance they will not want to have a child for many years!
Friday night was quite a night for us...except Natalie slept right through it. Pumba, our pug, was missing (we believe taken) out of our yard for almost two hours. We ended up calling the police, and as they finished taking our report and pulling away one of our neighbors comes from their backyard with Pumba! We thought that we would never see him again, so we were very thankful to see his face again. Even Grandma and Grandpa came to try and help find him, because they knew how much we care about him. As I said, Natalie slept through the whole thing, but we were lucky that our friend Angela had come over to visit so she could take care of Natalie as we went through the neighborhood!
On Saturday, Grandma took Natalie and I to get some pictures taken at Sears. She did not sleep hardly at all at day care the previous day, and she seemed to still be exhausted on Saturday. She slept through the first half of pictures. When she did wake up, she is so bright and her face is so expressive you could see that she was extremely confused and not impressed with the photographer. It was too funny to see the proofs where her face just says, "What is with you lady?!?!" We actually ended up purchasing one of those shots, which I am sure we will post in the near future.
Over the weekend, we had another milestone. Natalie discovered her voice and began to "talk" quite a bit. She also seems to be humoring herself by sticking out her tongue, which makes us laugh, which makes her happy, so she keeps doing it for this cycle to continue! Too funny! We have tried to get video of her talking, but once we get the camera going, she becomes fascinated by the lens and just stares.
Time continues to fly by, and I can't believe that she is almost three months old!!