20 Months

I am so behind on blogging these days!  I was on vacation last week when Harper actually turned 20 months and just didn't feel like getting the computer out if I could avoid it :)

Let's start back in February... we celebrated Grammy and Great Grandmom King's birthdays early in the month.  Harper had a blast hanging out with a bunch of cousins at great grandmom's party :)  She also enjoyed the birthday cake.. of course.

Our next exciting event was Valentine's day.  Harper and I made valentine's for all of our immediate families as well as some cookies for all the locals :)  Harper contributed by sticking the heart stickers haphazardly over the giant hearts and scribbling all over them with markers.  They were clearly made with love, though :)  Harper's class at school exchanged sweet little Valentine's as well - I ordered some labels off of Etsy saying 'I'm so glad we're in the same school' and attached them to little bags of goldfish.  I figured they probably all get plenty of candy and maybe this would spare some meltdowns when the candy gets cut off ;)  We spent Vday at home as a fam making homemade pizzas which was fun!  Harper is a pizza eating machine!  The following day Harper went to hang with her aunt and uncle across the street while Andy and I went out to eat to celebrate.

The following weekend we had some of Andy's friends over for a UK game and dinner.  Harper was initially shocked to see all these strangers when she woke up from her nap but soon became the center of the show.  Whenever the group would clap for a big play she would seriously just beam and clap for herself.  And then yell 'again, again' until everyone clapped for her again... ha.  What a mess!

She gets soo hyper whenever people come visit - she loves running laps around the kitchen, doing the celebration dance, etc. I've been doing a little workout video that she loves to do along with me... but basically she just runs around the tv room yelling ' I run I run I run'.

We still love, love Harper's new babysitter - and Harper does too! They are always doing fun little activities and we feel so lucky to have found another great sitter for her.  We will be so happy for her if she is able to find an ideal teaching job but so, so bummed to lose her.  Harper is really into asking where people are these days... mama, dada, whitney, etc.  We babysat a little neighbor baby the other day and Harper has been asking about him daily when she sees the pack and play he napped in.  Whenever we're up in the playroom she can see David's house and she always asks for 'Unc Da' and Claire... what this actually means is she wants to go over and play with Claire's toys but we pretend she is just so excited to see baby Claire ;)

Harper is really into coloring, reading books, riding in her wagon, watching mermaid and tangled, playing with her little house and getting the mail.  Her vocabulary expands daily and it's just amazing.  The CUTEST thing she has started saying is her own name.  It is adorable. I wish I had a video to post on here but she basically says it 'Hoppie'.  She loves saying mama, dada, hoppie over and over again.  She will even sit at the piano singing all of our names together.  We try to get her to include Emma Kate but it's hard to remember someone you've never met ;)  The other seriously cute thing she says is no and 'oh no'.  Fortunately it's not such a common word that it's become a bad thing yet but reading her Spot book cracks me up with all of her 'no's.

The most fun thing we did over the past month was spend a night at the Great Wolf Lodge.  I mentioned I was on vacation last week and while we really just stayed at home and caught up on cleaning, etc, we wanted to do one last really fun thing before baby arrives.  Andy was able to take a couple days off and we just spent a couple days playing at their indoor water park.  Harper looooves the water and was seriously fearless.  She was going off of big slides and absolutely loved it.  Since then she asks nonstop for the pool and 'schlides' lol.  We were in Etown soon after and she took a few test rides on their pool slide and I know she will adore it this summer.

At the end of vacation we thought we'd give potty training a try.  We lucked into a successful #1 and #2 on our first try.. and it was downhill from there! haha  We're now just asking her occasionally if she wants to sit on the potty or letting her sit whenever she asks but success has been few and far between.  I'm thinking maybe she'll be ready over maternity leave and I can be more hands on during the days?  We'll see!

We had another doctor's appt last week to make sure Harper is growing appropriately.  Her height measurement was the same at 12 and 18 months.  I felt like they had overmeasured at 12 months and undermeasured at 18 months and sure enough she had grown a little over an inch in the past 2 months supposedly.  They measured her around 32.5 this time around and 21 lbs I believe.

We're saving pictures differently now so I'm trying to figure out how to get them uploaded onto the blog... I'll try to update! :)