Catching up: Part I: Piper

Piper is just continuing to grow and change.

Over the last several months, she's started talking in full sentances, which makes conversations so much fun. It's also interesting to hear her begin to express herself and participate in conversations going on around her. She's definately a talker, she generally starts talking while still laying in bed in the morning, continues all day and talks or sings herself to sleep at night.

Some of the sentances we here most often are:

What dat?

I do see Boone-Buddy (her special name for her brother).

I do myself.

Piper a silly goose.

I do eat waffles.

I close de door.

I go outside.

Her singing continues and she's learning more and more songs. Some of her current favorites are: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Frosty the Snowman, Happy Birthday, 1-2 Buckle my shoe...

She's getting more and more into dress up and literally anything in the house is fair game. She's also started taking in interest in trying to dress and undress herself, so she currently spends A LOT of time at home in a diaper or half dressed, as convincing her to keep her clothes on is sometimes a challenge. Here's a few of some of her more interesting outfits lately.

While wearing her Daddy's hunting clothes, she announced, "I do unting."

We're also considering trying my goggles in the tub, as she seems to love wearing them and it might be a good compromise for washing hair, as pouring water over her head is now not one of her favorite things. Most nights she can be found hanging her head out of the tub just to avoid this activity.

On the surface the above looks like a normal shot, in reality, the "capris" she's wearing are really her little brother's first pair of blue jeans.

She also had her first haircut, which she thoroughly enjoyed.

She's also already asking to get another haircut, she tells me often on our way home from school that she needs a haircut, a trim to be exact!

She also in the last month or so has starting sitting on the potty and has actually made a few deposits while sitting! Her interest tends to come and go and we're just going with that for now, but we know she can do it, it's just a matter of working towards something more consistent. Although, we have found a new motivator recently, she's very interested in wearing big girl underwear and wants to go pick out her very own, so that seems to be her current motivation for occasionally sitting on the potty.

Piper is also very excited to have her new brother at home. She's very sweet with him and loves to give him kisses and hugs and tickle his feet. Whenever he cries she tells me "Boone ungry, Mommy, feed im". One of the biggest developments in her life as a result of Boone coming home is that all her baby dolls have officially switched from being bottle-fed to being breast-fed! As she is breast feeding her doll, she tells me "I feed baby Mommy" with a huge smile on her face.

Bube has made Boone his own set of "motts" (crochet blankets), and Piper is testing them all out to be sure they make the cut for her brother and are suitable for snuggling.

All in all, it's sweet to see her with her brother and to know that neither of them will ever remember life without the other.