Adventures with Harlow & Hawke

So once again, I am back from taking a 6 month hiatus on blogging. I absolutely hate getting in those spells, but things have just been incredibly busy over here. These two have me exhausted at the end of the day, that when they're finally in bed, I don't have the energy for much of anything. I'll try to do a quick update with what the two H's have been up to.
One of Harlow's absolute favorite things to do is be outside. From the minute she wakes up, she yells "outside!!!!!" Where she then waits and waits until I finally open the door for us to go outside. Our mornings are long and usually consist of breakfast and getting ready for our day, doing dishes, starting laundry, packing up the diaper bag and typically by then, I'm putting Hawkins down for a nap. While all of this is going on, Harlow is usually being my little shadow with her rain boots on... they're the only shoes she can pull on completely by herself, and she knows whenever we go outside, we put shoes on. She puts her boots on, so whenever I do open that door, she's ready :)

She loves the park so much. From the swings to the slides, she just loves to run and yell and play with other kids! 

Her vocabulary is growing so much, I almost can't keep up with the words she knows. It's especially funny to hear the words and phrases that we obviously say a lot, because she's begun saying them, and I most certainly didn't 'teach' them to her. Some examples... "Sorry". She has become a pro at saying 'sorry' and what amazes me is that she knows exactly the appropriate scenario in which you might say sorry. We'll be in the grocery store and we'll be squeezing by someone with our cart... She goes 'sorry!!!' Haha. She'll drop something, and say 'sorry!' as she picks it up. 

A while back, we were at the park and I was watching Harlow play with two other older girls who were there. They were all in a tunnel and Harlow slid down as one was trying to come up. I heard Harlow's little voice say 'sorry!' And the other girl went, 'it's okay!' It warms my heart to see these little interactions and her doing them all on her own. 

Another super cute phrase she says is "there ya go!" If I fix something for her, she'll say "there ya go!" It is the sweetest thing! Over just a few months, she seems to be talking in complete sentences now, and always wants to talk. Sometimes, she'll just start talking about all these random things at once, just because she wants to have a conversation. The go-to conversation topics for her are usually Chase (her best friend), mall, pizza, fro-yo, crayons, and stee-stee's (stickers). Those are some of her favorite things right now, and when sh'es not doing one of them, she wants to talk about one of them.
Hawkins.... is my big boy now! He just turned 1 over the weekend and it's like he suddenly isn't my little baby anymore, (despite still wearing 0-3 month bottoms). One of my big, 'oh my gosh' moments, was a couple weeks before he turned one, and I had no clue he even knew what I was saying. I was on the floor holding him and Harlow wanted a pouch. So I looked at Hawkins and asked him 'do you want to get Harlow a pouch?' Thinking I was just explaining what I was doing, I started to head to the pantry to get her one, until I realized Hawke was already on his way there. I opened the pantry door, and he went straight for the box of pouches. I grabbed one for Harlow and gave it to her, and on my way back, I passed Hawkins as he was bringing it to her; climbed up on her chair, reached his arms up, and gave her the pouch. I was completely amazed that he knew what I was saying, and got down to do it himself! I think sometimes, his size throws me for a loop, and I forget exactly how old he is. Regardless, he is an incredibly smart little boy! 

Harlow and Hawkins also have a blossoming relationship and it's so fun to see them laugh and smile at each other. It almost feels like a secret language whenever I watch them together.
I'm hoping to figure out some sort of a groove to get back to blogging regularly because I miss it!