Harper. 19 months old.

My sweet little chicken, you've had me in both hysterics and tears this past month.

You're still so much fun, and have such a free spirit, but you are getting so dangerous with the things you do, it's scaring me.

You've started climbing on the dining table, and jumping up and down. You've started climbing onto the computer desk too. You're becoming increasingly rough with your big sister who can't defend herself against you. Yesterday you tried to drag her across the lounge room by her hair. You run out the front door and down the driveway onto the road if I'm not quick enough.

But despite the general naughtiness, you're a pretty good kid, lots of smiles and cuddles and laughter.

You've really settled in to kindy, this past week especially. No more running to me when I get there, you take me by the hand and show me the toys you've been playing with, its's so lovely.

You love to colour, just like your big sister, and with each stroke of pencil on the paper you say, "There! Perfect!"

Love you Harry-High-Pants ♥

Harper. 18 months old.

Happy 1 and a half years baby girl.

You've been sick for a few weeks now, first gastro, then the flu and you still have this lingering cough that won't.go.away.

You're loving pre-school now, Miss Nicole said Friday was your best day yet, you talked the whole day and barely cried. I am so proud of you.

You're such a cheeky girl, people take one look at you and say "she looks like a ratbag" and you are ♥ The other day I found you laying on the entertainment unit watching tv, I don't know how you climbed it, but you did.

You're totally obsessed with locks and buckles, you're continually grabbing my keys and trying to unlock the screws of the cabinets. You happily sit in your pram for ages just trying to do up the buckles.

You're so very vocal now, you can say 'dinosaur' and it's adorable. You yell at the kids who are running when we go to school, "Stop It!" you scream at them, and it's hilarious. You're into 3 word sentences already, "I coming Mummy", "I sorry Mummy", "Tank-you Mummy" "Don't do it Isla" ♥ We went to the Charcoal Chicken shop the other day and you had everyone in hysterics, looking at the chickens and rubbing your tummy saying, "Mmmm yummy!".

Love you crazy xx

Harper. 17 months old.

hello baby.

17 months. Time's going by so fast. You're a proper little girl now, it's really odd, I expected you to be a baby forever.

New things this month, let me see. You've picked up "stop it" and whenever Isla cuddles you, you screetch at her "Stop it Isla!".

You've mastered what I call "the Sink Eye". I don't know where it came from, but it's dealt out on a pretty regular basis these days. Your teachers at Kindy have even commented on it. They say you have them in hysterics with it. I really have to capture it on camera, it's so funny.

Lots of sentences now. Your favourite is "where did he go", or "where'd he go" you say. You can never find your turtle, so you walk around saying this. Super cute.

A week or so ago you were in the hideous habit of waking at 4am. Thankfully you're over it now...

To my utter delight you LOVE Fall Out Boy. Like, love love them. You come up to the computer when I have iTunes open and say "Dance, Dance" until I put it on. Then you dance. So adorable.

Happy 17 months Harp. Love you more than chocolate.

Harper. 16 months old.

Big things are happening around here. Sort of.

Well, bit things are happening to you. You've just started daycare. Two whole days a week, today is your third day and I am missing you like crazy. I should be doing my assignments and be out shooting, but I just miss you so much.

You're the biggest bundle of energy and love in this whole world. 3 more teeth have joined us this month, you've been a tad cranky, but I've got to give it to you baby, you teethe like a champion.

Still madly in love with the Wot Wots so imagine how excited you were to get 9 mini Wot Wots Books. Your squeals of joy were magical. You love Roary the Racing Car too, whenever the ad comes on you go, "brrrrrrrm, Roary, a car!". ♥

Apart from one minor altercation where you swore at your sister {and yes, it was the "f" word} you play so beautifully with your big sister Isla. You run to her when she gets out of class, calling out "Isla" the whole time, then there's about a solid minute of cuddles between you. It melts me every time.

I finally managed to wrangle your hair into piggy tails this month, and you look oh so cute! Unfortunately you wont sit still long enough for me to get a photo of you with them, but I will keep trying. You look so much like Isla when she was your age, it's uncanny.

Love you baby girl.

Harper. 15 months old.

I'm late on this one I know.

So much happening around here.

Yesterday you had your first {and hopefully last} trip to the Emergency Room. You were running into my room, tripped coming in the doorway and smacked your face into the base of my bed.

There was blood. SO much blood. You screamed so much, but you were so brave.

Your lip is so swollen, and looks so painful, yet you're running around like crazy again, without a care in the world.

You're still missing Isla so so much now that she's at school. Last week I took you up to the school at home time and you ran into her classroom 3 times. Everyone thought you were so adorable, missing your sister, but I think you really just wanted to hang out with the big kids.

You can jump the entire length of the lounge room now. You and your sister are constantly chasing each other around the house like crazy. You're insisting on feeding yourself all the time now, so your quite often only wearing a nappy because I can't keep up with all your washing!

You're still gaga for The Wot Wots. It's the one thing you really love. You dance when you hear the theme music, and you sing "wot, wot, wot, wot". It's very, very cute.

Love you my little friend.

Harper. 14 months.

Hey baby.

You are awesome.

Big month this month. You had your first big holiday to Melbourne, and you were SUCH a good girl in the car. Bless your little heart.

Jumping with both feet off the ground now. You eat everything in sight. You take your nappy off when it's wet and say to me "wee wee", you grab toilet paper and try to wipe your bottom saying "poooooo!".

Super, super cute. You have me in fits of laughter every single day.

I'm contemplating taking you for a haircut, no doubt I'll chicken out though, your hair is constantly in your eyes and it's driving me insane.

You love cars and trucks right now, you go "brrrrm, brrrrm" and "toot, toot" all day long. You've just discovered tv, and you LOVE Play School and the Wot Wots.

You're such a lovely girl - note: GIRL, not baby anymore. You've really grown up.

Today we had a chat, I said, "Harper, I love you" and you replied "I yarv you!". Oh so sweet.

I love you so.

Harper. The stats.

Finally, I had you weighed and measured, haven't had it done since you were 6ish months (I think!)

Little potamus, you are 77.5cms long and 9.8kgs with a head circumference of 49.5cms.

Of course, along with having you weighed and measured, you had your 12 month immunisations, which I will admit was a bit mean - especially 2 days out from Xmas, but you were very brave and it was all worth it for the purple lollypop you were given afterwards.

Harper. 13 months old.

Happy 13 months little lady.

It's almost Christmas, you're going to be stoked with the little tram-am-poline we have for you.

You crack me up with your dancing, and you can almost jump too.

You love ducks at the moment, and you try to 'quack' by saying 'kwok kwok'. Super cute.

I'm not a fan of this one-sleep-a-day business you're doing at the moment...I hope it's a phase.

Love you lots little person. xx

Harp love

My crazy little bopper.

Harp.

Hey Harp!

You're not very well right now, you poor little sausage. We took your sister to the Hospital for Botox today and you stayed with Nanny & Poppy - all reports are you were a doll. Thank-you.

You went to sleep soonish after we got home, I have missed a whole day of Harp :(

Sleep tight my little friend, tomorrow we shall play. xx

Harper. 12 months old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARPER!!

I love you more than chocolate my littlest person.

This year has gone so fast. Every minute with you is such fun. You make me smile always.

You've started walking this past week. It's beautiful.

You toddle around with such ease, it only took you 3 days to master. Today you tried to run, without much success, but it was awfully, awfully cute.

Your hair is so long now, it's curled at the back. You remind me of the guy from The Office, with your shaggy locks, but still super cute.

You still love to play peek-a-boo, but now it's aaah-beee! Too funny. You put your hand above your ear to hide.

You won't let me brush your hair, but you'll gladly do it yourself, the whole time saying, "preeeeeeet" for pretty.

Your favourite toys are Isla's textas much to her disgust. I often find you covered in texta on your legs. In fact, you really only play with Isla's things. You particularly love Isla's kindy days where you can play in her room all you like without getting in to trouble.

You still eat everything, I'm a little sick of my house smelling like sausages, seeing as though that's your favourite at the moment. You do have some strange texture issue with icing at the moment, you cry and try to wipe it off you while you gag, you strange little person.

I don't have many photo's of you right now, you're so hard to keep still, and all the shots I took of you this morning your eyes were closed (great photographer I am!) so this one will have to do for now. I know it looks like you only have 1 leg, but it was dark, stormy and about a billion degrees, all we wanted was to eat dinner and get stuck into your ice cream cake!

You babble all day now, and you call people by their names. Tonight you walked up to Poppy while calling out to him. You also yelled out "Bye Iyah!" at Isla's Kindy Orientation yesterday. You call all dogs Moopy after Nanny & Poppy's dog, and today you even said Suzy (yet another dog). Clever girl.

Happy 1st year Harp. You make my heart sing. xx

Harper. 11 months old.

1 month 'til you're ONE.

My precious little person.

Happiest kid on the block. My sweet little Harper, you've grown so much. I could listen to you babble all day and all night (well, maybe not all night!).

You take your pants off when you want a bath now. You can stand on your own without holding on for a few seconds before you realise and freak out.

You have the most bizarre half crawl/half walk thing happening, my little pussy cat.

Still eating everything, you love sausages the best.

Can't wait for your birthday, a year goes too fast. xx

7 weeks.

Oh Harper.

Only 7 weeks until your first birthday.

Where has this year gone?

Where has my baby gone?

You cruise the furniture with ease, you call yourself "Barper", you can show us your nose.

A year goes by too fast.

I love you so.

Harper. 10 months old.

Happy 5/6 of a year baby.

This past month has been so busy for you my little mouse. Within the space of the last week, you have learned to crawl, pull to stand, cruise the furniture and cut two teeth.

Wow.

You are so completely different to your sister, and I find myself constantly amazed at how much you can do with so little effort, where Isla struggled so much.

You eat everything in sight. Last week you climbed on top of your sister for her sandwich. You got it too. There's not a single food we've given you that you haven't liked.

You wore your hair in a ponytail for the first time yesterday, and looked so much like Pebbles from the Flintstones.

You're changing everyday, but lately you look so much like your big sister did at your age...which is so odd because I can't see the resemblance just looking at you two, it's only in photo's.

Love you my sweet little pussy cat.

Teeth.

Welcome to Harper's mouth!

2 new teeth came through yesterday, one little girl who can actually bit through bikkies now.

Hello baby.

Harp has been my model for my course lately. I've been trying to get a good shot of her to use as my portrait assignment, without much luck.

Here are some pics of her anyway, little ratbag she is.

eta I did originally upload more, but am using a shitty monitor atm and the colour correction was shocking!

Harper. 9 months old.

Happy 9 months baby.

You're so much fun these days. We're always smiling - except for bedtime!

You were such a beautiful girl yesterday, you slept all night for Mummy without making a peep from the moment I put you in there, but you woke up when Daddy got up for work this morning. I only wish you knew how much I appreciate it!

You're absolutely adoring bath time now, you used to hate it. It's so funny to watch you bum shuffle from one end of the bath to the other.

Two little toothy-pegs have almost come through, they're sitting just under your gums. You're chewing on EVERYTHING in sight.

Still eating like a maniac, your poor big sister has to sit across the room from you to eat otherwise you pull at her arms/hair/clothes etc until you get her food, all the while squarking at her like a seagull.

You love to play peek-a-boo, you used to hide behind your wraps, but now you just lift your hands over your head and pretend to hide. You're super cute.

Harper. 8 months old.

Terribly slack.

Poor little Harper.

You are now 8 (and a bit) months old, my littlest friend.

I can't remember how life was before you arrived. You fit in perfectly.

Such a happy girl, so utterly deliciously cute.

You say Mumma now. And Bubba. And Dadda. And Isla. You clever chook.

You love to be outside, eating the grass, no less. You love your vegies, actually, you love anything that can be eaten.

You finally have your own room. What a joy. I miss having you at the foot of my bed, but it seems you're too cool to fret about poor old Mum. We lost your cot bolts when we moved, your mattress is on the floor, we tried you in the portacot, but your mattress didn't fit. We were worried about you wriggling and getting stuck.

I found you this morning on the floor. And you laughed.

You can almost crawl, my sweet little love.

Love you more than the stars in the sky, Harry High Pants. xx

Harper. 7 months old.

Hello Baby.

You are still oh so sweet. Every day you smile more, and my heart snuggles you in that little bit closer.

Today we went for 6 month needles (I know, a month late) and I say we, because the Dr insisted I have a Whooping Cough booster too.

All went well, she barely cried.

Weighed and measured, 7.9kgs and 69cms long. Only 700gram gain in 2 months.

Still super cute though.

Babbles a LOT now, says Iyah (for Isla) and Dada - damn it, not mumma. Also says "Ha-ba" which we think is her effort for Harper.

Loves her vegies. Was still on the anti-reflux formula until the Dr today suggested I take her off it and see how she goes.