Yawns

Harper has become the yawn police.  I tend to yawn a lot when I'm reading her stories.  Because it's 11 o'clock at night and I want to go to sleep.  Because I don't breathe properly when I'm reading out loud so my body tries to compensate.  Because when I'm reading to her I try to read through the yawns and I'm also hold a book and usually have one arm wrapped around her, so I don't cover my mouth.


Lately she has been telling me every time that I yawn to cover my mouth.  I'm getting a little irritated.  OKAY, I know it's the polite thing to do, but do you have to tell me every time?  This results in her telling me about every minute to cover my mouth and I'm just trying to finish this book so we can read the next ten or so she has picked out for the night before we go to sleep.


Fortunately, she is currently sleeping on the couch.  This means no stories tonight.  Which means no three year old telling me to cover my mouth while I yawn.

Peter Pan

I haven't been keeping up well this summer . . . Mostly because any minute that Ryden is sleeping and I would have a chance, the computer is occupied by Harper playing games and watching videos.


Besides being really into nick jr, Harper is a little over concerned about her shadow.  She constantly needs to know where it is.  If the sun goes under a cloud and her shadow disappears, we have to comment on it (for a while this was a stressful moment that she couldn't find her shadow)  If we're walking and I happen to be standing where her shadow is, it's like it's a part of her.  

"You're stepping on my shadow!"

"Get off my shadow!"

Only Peter Pan is this obsessed with his shadow.

 

On 2 feet

Ryden is almost a full-time walker now.  He will still crawl but has made a huge increase in the amount of time he spends walking. He's also making it a lot farther before falling down, still looks a little like a drunk frat boy most of the time though.

He has not, however, improved his sleeping habits.  Last night he was up every 2 hours . . . I'm tired Ryden, SLEEP.

My 3 year old

Harper and I snuggled on the couch watching Robots (the only movie that we are capable of watching currently).  I said "What would I do without you?"  


"Play by yourself."


I love my 3 year old.

So, her birthday flew by.  We didn't do anything spectacular, she got to take some princess cupcakes to daycare to share on the day and I made her a 3 shirt.  Notice the amazing colors?  Guess who picked out the materials?  It includes neon yellow glow in the dark paint as well.  













Then we had a gathering at Grandma and Grandpa's pond so she got a big cake and some presents there.  I had been planning in my head to have an actual party for her with her friends, but those plans kind of fell apart.  She still had fun and she's doesn't know that we could do something way more awesome than a party at Grandma and Grandpa's (which is kind of awesome, just no friends).

Jana caught a 17" bass with Harper's Barbie fishing
pole.  It pretty much set the standard for all fish
you were supposed to be catching for her.

We didn't get to do it all

We had a fun morning at the public library's kickoff to summer.  They had all sorts of fun games, crafts and food to start the summer reading program.  Harper, as usual, was slow to warm up.  A little bit of pie though and she got more adventurous.

She did some salad spinner art, got a library tattoo and even stood at the mermaid to let me take her picture.  We did the cupcake walk twice and the second time she won a cupcake!

We stood in line forever to get her face painted because she wanted to and it was SO close to her turn she chickened out and didn't want to do it anymore.  She had decided she wanted popcorn (more food of course), but the event was over and there was no more popcorn.  I had to take a sad little girl home.  As I went through ALL the things she had done, she pouted that she didn't get to do anything else.

Oh, yeah, Ryden was there too.  He got pie and fistfull of frosting and squirmed and wiggled and tried to escape.  Towards the end he almost fell asleep but no such luck.