Her and Harper are the best of friends and it is so cool to see their relationship develop. The first person EK asks for every morning is Haaaarper. Anytime Harper goes to the bathroom, EK hops up and runs after her, banging on the door. Harper will say, 'Mom can you hold Emma Kate? I need my privacy!' They like to wrestle around which usually ends up with Harper trying to pick up EK or laying on top of her... it always ends in tears but they have good laughs for a few minutes. In the car they like to sing together and when EK is fussing, Harper does her best to distract her by making silly noises which EK will always copy.
I just swapped out their winter clothes and moved all the 18 month/2T winter clothes into EK's drawers which fit her pretty great. It's so funny seeing her in the clothes that Harper was wearing only last winter. I weighed them the other night before bed - Harper is at 31 lbs and EK is at 27... catching up on big sis!! She still looks so much younger though because of her light hair. It's still not even long enough to get in her eyes but when I compare to her 1 year bday party it has definitely grown a ton.
She is super talkative and is saying a ton of things these days. She says Mom, Dad, Harper, Olivia, Papa, Clairebear, Hi, Bye, I love you, goodnight, I want milk, I want water, I want snack, (lots of wants in our house ;)), please, thank you, etc. Hard to keep track of everything but she understands everything we say to her unless she is choosing to ignore us ;)
She has done great with her adjustment to school. She loves it now and is dying to go in whenever Andy drops her off.
She is a great sleeper, often telling us when it's time for nap! ha. Our nanny told us that around 930 AM EK will walk off to the steps saying 'I go nap'. She still has her paci and her bunny but losing the paci is on the to do list for us!
She loves doing basically whatever Harper is doing but also loves reading books, pushing her grocery cart around, walking in circles around the house and peeking through the fireplace, playing peekaboo, DANCING and being wild in general. The girl loves music. The fastest way to turn a frown upside down is to turn on some of her jams. Of course somehow she has learned the whip/nene song so that's a current fave. If you ask Harper, she will tell you that's Mom's favorite song but don't let her lie to you and I most certainly did not teach it to them! Ha
She is supposed to be a duck for Halloween but isn't a big fan of the duck costume. I realized that Harper was really old enough to decide what she wanted to be herself instead of me trying to coordinate cute little costumes for them. Harper decided to be a tiger and she felt Emma Kate would want to be a duck since that's seemingly one of her favorite animals. In actuality, EK has gotten really into wearing Harper's Elsa dress up dress so she may end up being Elsa, shooting ice at anyone in her way!
She has gotten 2 more tiny little teeth for a total of 4 on the bottom and 2 on top and loves to show off her goofy little grin :) She's a sweet, sweet girl who brings us so much joy!!!
