Happy 1st Birthday Harper! We celebrated Harper's first birthday with a visit from Pops and Grandma, lots of cake, a birthday party and celebrating Pops' bday, too! Harper is a walking and talking machine. In fact, she has begun throwing tantrums everytime I won't let her walk or make her change direction (for instance, she wanted to walk into the Potomac River the other day at Mt. Vernon, I did not find that acceptable. She threw a tantrum. Good times.) As far as talking goes, she will repeat anything but her new words include "belly button", "moo", "hair", and "bowl". But perhaps the most notable vocals she performs are her screams. They are not crying, sad screams, but rather ones of protest, stubborness or just for kicks to let me know that she is in the backseat of the car and not happy about her situation. She screams in the car, at the dinner table, or whenever she doesn't get her way. Again, good times.
She has also become the total copycat. If she sees Lucy doing something, she is bound and determined to try it, too. That means when Lucy is finished eating snack, then so is Harper and she demands to get down from her chair the moment that Lucy does. If Lucy gets up in the morning and Harper wakes up, she no longer goes back to sleep, no, she has to get up too- and screaming begins with intermittent "Momma, Momma, Mommmmmaaaaaa!" until I rescue her from her bed. She will try to climb, she will laugh because Lucy laughs, and she wants to play with whatever Lucy is playing. Lucy is being mostly patient with her and is finding ways to incorporate her into her play.
She loves her babydolls. She cuddles them and takes care of them. She will pretend to feed them, rock them, pat them, hug and kiss them. They are one of the few distractions that usually work when she is being her rotten self. She loves to stick her entire head in the shower while I am in there. This leaves her soaking wet as well as the floor, she usually slips and falls and there I am, mid-shower, drying her off and picking her up, drying the floor so that she is ok. If I happen to mention "where's you baby?" when she enters the bathroom, it is as though she forgot where she was going and she will promptly and turn around and go and find her baby. She also now has a little Harper-size baby that she carries in the car, to the playground, etc when we leave the house. It is her new pal, although it still has not taken the place of the full-sized baby that she has been loving on for about 6 months now.
We've had a great first year with Harper, and all the spunkiness just makes her all the more fun. It was great for her to have additional family here to give her lots of attention and lots of birthday fun. She accepted the challenge of cake-eating a bit hesitantly, but came around in the end with some good cake smashing and lots of it on her face and hands. We are so proud of her and all the things she has learned to do and can't wait to see the next challenges she tackles next- as long as they are done without the screaming. We prefer giggles.
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