Haaaaallo from the other side!
It's September!
My faveee!
Call me the whole total complete package of THE MOST #basicb*tch EVER and I won't even contest. One small-ish breeze of cool-ish air and here I am this morning just donning some animal print leggings and looking up the hours for "pick your own" at the apple orchard and escaping off to Panera for a little delicacy of the PSL variety. ...Miiiiiinus the PSL part, because...soooo very sadly...this franchise isn't as on point as Starbucks with the release of their seasonal dranksss BUT! I can literally FEEL fall in the air and I'm pretty stoked about it. And rest assured, I'm all up on that bandwagon of documenting the first PSL of the season [with hashtag and all, just like last year and the year before 'dat too] so! More to come. Prob in December.
I see that my last post [in July! Cringe...] started off with gloating 'bout the toilet being an undiscovered territory for my tiny toddler, but! I'll eat my words back up in one big bite because this morning I walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth and found the Bear with lid lifted and an erect pointer finger swirling the water. Sigh, giggle, snort. And with that, I demanded a couple-hour escape to my guilty pleasure of a coffee joint. [...I feel like it's well justified considering the colossal amount of weekend hours Brian has racked up on the golf course, but let's just drop that pointless argument with the simple fact that I will die then be dumped in my grave with a cold heart that has always despised the game of golf. Humph.]
Anywho, the one-plus-month blogging hiatus is finally coming to and end! We've been living it up to the maxey-max this summer and have a few thousand pictures to prove it! ;) And while this will probably definitely be a post that only my mom and grandma can endure, I'mma do it up anyway.
So!
Welcome to a not-short + not-that-interesting novel of Harper's newly learned tricks + our summer funs and faves: toddler style!
[trick] -- Right as I was about to permanently cut the straps out of that highchair...
[fun] -- We be lovin' Saturday night dinners at the Mexican restaurant after Mass!
[fave] -- Future botanist? She never misses an opportunity to step aside and marvel over a flower... :)
[trick] -- Do I smell a milkshake in the house??? Gimme gimme gimmeeee, Daddy!!!
[fun] -- We discovered Airplane Park this summer and it is sooo much fun! Harper LOVES to watch "big kids" play and has gotten progressively braver with climbing through the park toys. Sometimes our friend Grayson comes to play with us!
[fave] -- Reading books! And books and books and moreeee books. Plus rides in the Cozy Coupe and naps with Mommy.
[trick] -- Dumping bags. Making messes. Being a LITERAL wrecking ball. Allllll day, err' day!
[fun] -- Helping Daddy with all sorts of home improvement projects... <3 Is this the cutest tape measuring assistant you've eva eva seen? :)
[fave] -- Wearing shoes [she permits them to be removed for a 15 minute bath but must be put back on again immediately after getting out and drying off]. And also these bunnies!
[trick] -- Dude, you're way too big for that Bumbo... And way too small to be standing up in your highchair! :/ #whyyoubesocray?
[fun] -- Our suuuuper fun neighbors moved away this summer! :( Harper has been so sad! She goes outside every day and points at their house just waiting for them to come out the door and play like the good ole' days. A few weeks ago they came to visit and all was well in the world again! ;) Miss you guys so much!!! Another visit is in store ASAP!
[fave] -- Little Miss loves to eat Cheerios like a big girl! And draw on the chalkboard Daddy made.
[trick] -- Snapchat!
[fun] -- Reunited with my cousin Logan and it feels so good! ;)
[fave] -- Splash Pad!!! I've posted about this like three times already so I won't beat the dead horse even dead-er. We recently met our friends here for a play date and picnic, though. Happy 1st birthday, Jacob!
[trick] -- I love to help Mommy with the dishes! Mobility be mine! This big girl life is so awesome. :)
[fun] -- Lunch at the newly-resurrected Pizza Man! Mmmm.
[fave] -- Ok, this. I don't know what it foreshadows about Harper's future, but she is SUCH a little caregiver!!! Several times a day she readjusts her large collection of stuffed animals and Beanie Babies and covers them up with blankets [AKA burp cloths, washcloths, dish towels] and pats them on the back and puts them "night night." I think she's going to be either a) a mom of like 12 kids [my ex-dream until I abruptly realized how much work a solo child is] and/or b) a nurse or c) a preschool teacher. My mom, on the other hand, has recurrently noted that she always puts the animals face down on the floor and the blankets over their heads, so SHE predicts Harper to be a morgue technician. Hmmmmm......???
[trick] -- Wearing Mommy and Daddy's shoes allll over 'da place.
[fun] -- A visit from our Nebraska cousins! And baking with Momma. :)
[trick] -- Sharing lunch with her baby...
[fun] -- Bath time! So many toys, but nothing trumps the water books.
[fave] -- Napping in Grandma and Grandp's GIANT bed... #princessturnedqueen
[trick] -- Grandma Ann taught Harper how to use a straw which is just the coolest. thing. ever. and now she can indulge in her very own mini-cup of milkshake!
Okkkkkkk, I've only made a little dent in our LARGE iPhoto file of unpublished pictures, but I'd honestly be completely shocked if anyone actually made it to this point and is still reading so! I should probably save my good-hearted energy for the next post and sign this one off here.
Besides, I'm starting to miss my little toilet-fishing friend.
That's all for now!
Chat wit'cha soon!
Bye now. :-* :-*
