Playing with Harper is so great! Here’s just a few pics of us having fun this summer! Enjoy the show!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

There’s a first time for everything…here’s a few of Baby Harper’s firsts!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

I just learned how to make these, so enjoy the very first photos taken of our a darling little angel—Harper Cole Eubanks.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

“Harper Eats” Smilebox….we love watching baby Harper eat his food. Enjoy watching this Smilebox slideshow!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

So I finally got to celebrate my first “Father’s Day” this year…it’s definitely among my favorite holidays now! Harper gave me a tow-behind trailer/car thing so that I can pull him behind my bike. It has a little seat with seatbelts that he can sit in. It even has a bug screen and a rain cover! The kid is going to be riding in style! We took it for a test ride around the neighborhood and he loved it! He’d look all around and just coo. Meanwhile I’m breaking a sweat towing him up the hills around here. WHEW. Guess it’s cheaper than a gym membership!

Sometimes it still amazes me that I am a “dad” and I have a son. It never gets old to have him look up at me and grin…even though the grin probably means he just ejected a present for me in his diaper. Every single day there’s something new that makes me laugh, giggle, jump to the rescue, and just fall in love with the lil’ guy over and over again. I realized that Father’s Day isn’t just a holiday that happens once a year…Father’s Day is every day. Each day is more amazing than the one before it and I’m lovin’ every minute of it!

Crystal was getting Harper ready for bed tonight and she told me Harper had a surprise for me. Ok, so my first thought was that I was going to be changing a diaper. Fortunately, it was a good surprise. I walked in Harper’s room and there he stood wearing the same pajamas that I wore when I was his age! Well, he’s a little over a month older than I was, so they sort of look like high-waters on him, but it was still amazing to see my son wearing something that I wore 30 years ago.

Harper, Mommy, and Daddy have been having lots of fun playing lately! Harper has a few new toys…”My First Tonka Truck”, “Lights and Sounds Gumball Machine with rolly balls”, Stacking Rings, Blocks, and a couple of new books. Mommy and Daddy went on a bit of a toy spree! Anyway, he LOVES everything…except the truck. He’s truly terrified of it! Mommy and Daddy rolled it back and forth to him and when it was being rolled to him, he shrieked in terror! It was pitiful, so the truck has been put away for awhile! The rest of the toys and books are a big hit. He loves to play around. He’s rolling over from front to back and back to front while having tummy time. He’s such a little angel and a joy to play with!

Mommy recently decided to start mixing Harper’s baby food together and then feeding the mixture to him. You remember the drinks called “suicides” as a kid…right? You know….mix Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc all together and think it was the best drink in the world? Well, this is probably the opposite of that. She mixed green beans, pears, and rice cereal. For those of you with a weak stomach, I apologize. Just think how Harper feels…no, better yet just watch the video below to see exactly how he feels!

Harper Rates His Food from Shane Eubanks on Vimeo.

Well, they say that the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach…I suppose Harper is well on his way to living up to that saying! Crystal has “trained” him to open his mouth whenever she says “bite” (sometimes he just leaves it hanging open until we shovel some food in) and then he lets us know whether or not he likes the food. I’ll let you decide on whether or not he likes rice cereal based on the video below.

Harper Eats from Shane Eubanks on Vimeo.

Mommy and Daddy took baby Harper to Grammy and Granddaddy’s pool today for the first time! He looked so precious with his little baby board shorts and matching pool hat on! His little sunglasses really just made the outfit! We eased him in the water, very slowly, because it was a bit chilly and we didn’t want to scare him. At first, he cried a little, but once he was in his little boat and comfortable, he was great! He liked it when Mommy and Daddy would push him around in the water. Mommy plans to take him to the pool a good bit this summer, and maybe even do a water-babies class with him towards the end of summer! Yippee for the pool!

I’m finally out for summer break from teaching and I’m already loving the time I get to spend with my sweet little “nip”. (My nickname is Cheeto, so Cheese “nip” just fits!) The three of us went to a little playground yesterday and Harper slid down a little baby slide (with lots of assistance, of course) and Mommy and Daddy took turns going down a BIG slide. Mommy did it three times, but Daddy only did it once! He’s tall and really got all tangled up in that tube slide…so much that he came out booty-first! Harper and Mommy had different emotions about it…Mommy cracked up and Harper cried. Oh well, it was still fun!

Hello! It’s Mommy again. I’m really going to try to be better about blogging now (at least for the summer), since I have more time. Harper is growing and changing so much with every single day. He still takes my breath away every time I look at his sweet angelic face. I get teary eyed just typing that…it’s mushy but true. He’s so healthy, he’s so beautiful, he’s so wonderful, and he’s ours! Thank you God, for this amazing little miracle you’ve given to us. I praise you for making me a mommy every single day—even when it’s 3am and he’s very restless!

I can’t get over how much he’s changed. He’s 4 months and 6 days old now and doubled his birth weight. He’s 5 3/4 inches longer, and just about bald! Haha! We wear lots of sweet little hats on that precious little head. He’s started eating baby food now (so far- rice cereal, green beans, squash, and a little applesauce). He’s a great eater and we enjoy feeding him. He’s a happy baby for the most part. He’s started smiling more and even giggles here and there. He doesn’t just pass out smiles or giggles any ol’ time…he saves them up for special occasions…just like Daddy said- He could win a staring contest anytime! He’s likes to sit up (with a little support), stand up (with a little more support), roll over from his belly to his back (not a big fan of “tummy time”), listen to music, read books, play with rattles, stick lots of things in his mouth, watch the “Backyardigans”, go to see the church ladies in Sunday School, look around at God’s creation outside, and so on! We try to keep him busy!

We are thinking of taking him to the pool soon. We’ve got him a couple of precious bathing suits, a little boat with a shade to sit in while in the pool, and so on…He absolutely LOVES his baths, so we hope he’ll enjoy the pool too!

He’s a good, sweet, cuddly, loveable little guy that’s just stolen our hearts!

If any of you know our little baby boy, then you know how serious he is…all of the time. The lil guy is a stone-face that can take anyone down in a game of stare-out! He could go days without blinking. Well, Harper turned 4 months old on May 24 and seems to have come out of his shell. He’s now smiling and actually laughing now! Needless to say, we’re enjoying every minute of it.

I was playing with Harper and found out that a sound verrrry familiar to him makes him giggle! I grabbed the camera and caught some of it to share with you all…so enjoy!

Hello! This is “mommy”! I LOVE my new name. I had hoped to make a post sooner, but for **some** little reason, I just have a hard time finding the time to do that! The last three weeks have been the most wonderful, exciting, new, overwhelming, unsure, blessed, confused, tiring, amazing weeks of my life! Every day brings so many new experiences with my little guy. He’s just beautiful. I know that I’m a little biased, but he just is. I find myself just staring at him sometimes. We are so incredibly blessed with him, he’s just perfect! God truly looked out for him in my tummy and formed him into the perfectly healthy baby boy he is. I love seeing all of my family and friends with him. He’s truly just the center of attention and I enjoy see the joy that he brings to everyone who sees him.

We love taking pictures and sharing them with everyone. I wish everyone could see all of them…that would take awhile, though! There are hundreds and hundreds!

He’s doing really well. His weight is up to almost 8 lbs., and he LOVES to eat! He’s a good little baby, usually only crying when he’s hungry, sleepy, needs changing, and sometimes when he just wants to cuddle. I am so incredibly proud of him and SO incredibly in love with him. I’ve heard people say it my whole life, but there is just truly NO OTHER love like the love for a child!

Crystal
a.k.a
Harper’s Mommy!

It has been a long time since the last post on here and a lot has happened since then and it would take days to type everything out, but this latest blessing in our lives absolutely deserved to be posted about! On January 24, 2008 at 7:11pm EST Crystal gave birth to our first child, a baby boy, named Harper Cole Eubanks!!! He weighed in at 7lbs 5oz and measured 20 inches long. I’m biased, but he’s the cutest and most amazing child I have ever seen. When people say that words can’t describe the emotions you feel when you have a child, it’s completely true. When I saw him born, I laughed, cried, and was overwhelmed with feelings I had never known. I definitely have an entirely new respect for mothers after seeing what Crystal went through!!!!

And yes…..he has already peed all over me……and I laughed. THAT should tell you how much I love the little guy!!!

Thank you to everyone who prayed, called, visited, and simply had us in your thoughts. Those prayers have gotten us through many ups & downs throughout Crystal’s pregnancy, but this entire experience has been an enormous blessing to us, our family, and friends. Crystal and I are incredibly blessed to have you as a major part of our lives and know that we thank God for you daily.

Click the image on the left to view the pics from Harper’s birthday!