Hugging. Viv.

For the longest time Nathan would have a noticeable pause between words. He's now talking much more, smoothly, for lack of a better word, and I find myself missing the stilted speech that felt so unique.

Anyway, for the first few weeks Nathan still said, "Kissing. Viv. and Hugging. Viv."  He pretty much only ever calls her "Viv" and we have a feeling she won't be called Vivian much in this house. He's been super huggy and kissy the last week or so, somewhat surprisingly. He's a little overly enthusiastic when trying to give her a pacifier, but she puts up with it well. Whoever said that girls are more nurturing than boys hasn't met Nathan.

Some of you may have seen the picture we got during her newborn photos of him kissing her head (I'll post them all together when we get them from the photographer) but the most hilarious part of that was how much we had to cajole and encourage him (bribery with Goldfish cackers that he RARELY gets) to get just that shot. Now, I have the hardest time discouraging him when he wants to hug, kiss, pat Viv even while she's in the middle of a nap. How can you bring yourself tell a toddler not to kiss his baby sister??? More often than not in photos it looks more like he's trying to smother her though, so I'll have to get a video.