Watch Me Grow!

Finley had some company for her Winnie the Pooh pictures:






Then big sister decided to try try and entertain her instead.






Finley was 4 months old on 1/11/14 (also the day of the Disney half marathon, but more on that later). She spent the day fighting off her first real illness (a respiratory bug that caused us to travel to Florida with a nebulizer) and visiting Disney's Magic Kingdom.

Just a quick update:
• She continues to look a lot like her sister
• Looks aren't their only connection. They are both enamored with each other (and Finley is always watching and smiling at her big sister).
• She is showing more personality each day and loves to be sung to
• She is a mama's girl- often only calming for me and crying when I leave her sight.
•She had only rolled over once (back to tummy, around 3 months) when I originally wrote this post- but at about 4.5 months she has started to go from tummy to back more often.
•She still pretty much hates tummy time (although she is going to be forced to do more to correct some asymmetry in her head shape).
• She is quiet no longer- always jabbering away
• We have tried letting her sleep unswaddled (twice actually) but she doesn't seem to be ready yet (or mommy isn't). She wakes herself too quickly flailing her arms (or coughing, during our recent attempt).
• Although we love many of her similarities to her sister, her disinterest in real crib naps is a similarity I'd love to get rid of (Harper was 11 months old before she really figured naps out).
• She continues to be our little pint size princess (a name she giggles when she hears). At her 4 month appointment she was 11lbs 2oz (4th percentile),
Her rate of gain slowed while she was under the weather, but the doctor seemed pleased that she managed to gain anything while she was that sick. She was also 23.5 inches (17%) and her head was 11%.



Tummy time


Bundling for a cold MN day


Not sure what to do with her arms when they aren't swaddled


Trying out the bouncer



Giggles



Sister time



Venturing out again



Waking sister for nap time

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Two and a Half and Full of Spunk!

Harper turned two and a half on December 19 and celebrated her "half birthday" with a cupcake date with mom and Finley.









(This was the one she described as her "silly one")

With so much focus on little sister's milestones, I didn't want to pass up an opportunity to document what our spunky first born is like right now.

• She continues to have a crazy vocabulary (her preschool teacher said she easily speaks/thinks at the level of a 4 year old).
• Sometimes those crazy verbal skills make it hard for mommy to remember she is only 2 and doesn't necessarily understand the best way to express feelings, etc.
• She is a snuggler, but isn't afraid to tell you (or her Grandma) to "keep your hands to yourself" if she doesn't feel like touching.
• She is an amazing big sister. Despite the occasional slip up, she is very nurturing and is always interested in what "Fincess" is doing.
• When Finley cries she offers to "feel her better" and says "don't worry, big sister is here"
•She LOVES to perform. She is almost always dancing, singing, twirling, etc.
• We plan to take her night time binky (she is only allowed to use it while sleeping) in the next month... It could be a rough transition. (I told her maybe we could get a stuffed animal to help her through it and she told me "but I can sleep with my purple binky. I have enough stuffed animals. Maybe we can get Fincess one when she gets bigger").

















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