14 months old

Harmon is 14 months old today. And, my present to him was a trip to our local Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store (I’m really sorry, little guy). I needed to find some fancy tags for Valentine’s Day gifts and a friend of mine told me this might be a good place to check. Remind me to never visit this store again! We got there around 3 p.m. and it was nuts! There were crazy-ass women everywhere, in all the same aisles I needed to look and pushing their carts up my back as I walked through this maze of scrapbooking crap. As an aside, I thought after having Harmon that I might turn into the scrapbooking type but it didn’t happen and I’m actually pretty happy about it. ANYWAY, the women in the scrapbooking section were the worst offenders of all. So, with no more than three seconds to look for something before I had to move or be run into, I gave up. Harmon and I left and walked over to Target and I found just what I needed there, thank you very much. It’s no wonder it’s my favorite store! Plus, I was able to walk Harmon through the toy aisles to make up for the ½ hour he had to spend in the scrapbooking nazi store.

Another great gift to Harmon as he was nearing the 14-month threshold was two shots. On Monday, he had a doctor’s appointment to get the second half of his flu shot and his last one-year vaccination. Our doctor didn’t want him to get five shots and a blood draw at his one-year visit so he split them up, which was quite nice of him actually. This time, I did my best to be brave and I stayed near Harmon during the shots (Kevin usually does this as I hide away on the other side of the room and fight off tears). We each grabbed a hand as the nurse did her thing and, although I was looking away, I could tell the moment the needle entered his chubby little thigh as he tensed up so much. But, it was over quickly and he was fine the rest of the day with the usual exception of being a little tired.

Not much else is new this week although Kevin and I have been really bad at taking pictures lately (as evidenced by Harmon’s last photo on Flickr being from Jan. 2). We got a new digital camera for Christmas (thanks Mom and Dad) and we’re still learning how to work it. So, we want to use it but don’t know all the functionality yet and we’ve vowed not to fall back into the habit of using the old one. Basically, we just need to get it figured out and take some photos already before Harmon turns 12!