Just one month short of having a two year old!! So hard to believe! Of course this has been a very eventful month with Harper finally becoming a big sister. Everyone has asked how she is adjusting and honestly she has been great. From the get go she has been sweet and gentle with EK, always asking to hold her. The holding only lasts about 10 seconds or until EK starts to cry and then Harper says 'all done' and practically pushes her off her lap ;) She will ask to pet, hug and kiss her. She loves to find her paci's and will do her best to shove them back into her mouth whenever they pop out ;)
The downside to the adjustment was her behavior in general for the first week or two. woh wohhh... Andy was off the first week and we had a ton of fun but Harper was definitely more ornery than normal. Even though we made it a priority to give her plenty of attention she still found extra weeks to seek out some more attention ;) But, we've moved past that phase and she is doing great. Fortunately my first week alone with both girls it's like Harper just knew it was time to be a helper and she was so well behaved for me.
She continues to crack us up constantly. She has all these funny sayings that are always amusing us. She will ask to hold, pet, hug and kiss things - including rocks, animals on TV, babies, food, etc. Oftentimes she will hug and kiss her food before eating it. She loves saying coooome here to things that clearly are not coming, such as birds and toys lol. We found out she has a little boyfriend at school so if you ask her about Thomas, don't be surprised to see her make a little hugging motion.
She has the funniest fish face which is brand new.. maybe inspired from her first fishing expedition. In years if she reads this she will say, ohmygosh mom, I cannot believe you let me kiss a fish. And I will say giiiirl, believe me, I did not want your lips anywhere near that thing! haha. g-ross! Another cool thing she has started to do is pretend play. She will feed us pretend food or play with her animals in some little story she has made up.
She is a bit bossy and I am looking forward to the day Claire can talk and put her in her place ;) She loves to say 'get up' and pull us up... or attempt to move baby sis ;) She is not the best at sharing and for whatever reason I feel like this is particularly bad with Claire. If Claire attempts to hold any toy that Harper has marked as her own she will say 'no no no, hoppy'. Hoping this gets better with time!
We took our first trip to the ER this month. After tripping in a hole, Harper had a pretty bad limp. Uncle Dave happened to be working that evening so we went in for an xray. Fortunately all was well and nothing was broken :) Harper also had her first episode of vomiting... so pitiful. Of course we were out at a restaurant with Andy's friends when it happened. The poor thing was so scared... she was crying and just kept saying 'scary scary' over and over again.
We've spent many afternoons at the pool and know we have many more to come. It's amazing how worn out she is after a few hours there but she has such a blast. She loved playing at Papa's pool and will talk about the slide for many days following.
I'm so, so happy to have had EK when we did... the most unexpected benefit is an entire summer off to enjoy with both my girls and that is exactly what we're doing :)
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