Thirty Five Months

As I mentioned in Abigail's post, we took both girls some fall festivals.  Hannah was able to walk around and put candy in her bag last year, but she didn't really get what was going on.  This year she helped me pick out her costume and couldn't wait to try it on and have Grammy take her picture.  She had seen pictures of last years festival and wanted to know when she could ride the pony.  She also knows what candy is now...so Nathan had to share her haul.  =O  She seemed to have lots of fun!  Nathan also walked with her around the block on Halloween and let her trick or treat at a few houses. Then she helped pass out candy to the whopping 15 kids that came to our house. 






I got inspired a few weeks ago to do more arts/crafts/learning activities with Hannah while Abigail is napping.  Since we aren't ready to put her in preschool or Mother Day Out yet.  We now have a box of craft items (pom poms, craft sticks, googly eyes, etc).  It's not something I plan to do every day or even every week, but the former teacher in me loves to make stuff and I think Hannah will too.  We are still working on lower case letters so I've made a few games where you pair and match the lower case letter to the capital one.  She asks to play them often so I guess she thinks they are fun.  I also plan to do some tracing and beginning handwriting practice with her as well.

We also made play-dough with Grammy a few week ago.  Hannah enjoyed helping pour in ingredients.  Her favorite thing is to use the cookie cutters on the dough.  She has a whole table full of shapes when she's done.



Hannah is famous for not finishing her sentences when she's asking a question, for example "Hannah's going to have....." So we've been trying to teach her to ask correctly (What are we going to have for dinner?).  She is very inquisitive so she has also started telling us she doesn't know what things mean or what they are, especially words from books.  Just in the last few days I've explained:  brilliant, fantastic, and amused.  I also took the girls with me to vote and tried to explain what voting is.  Love watching her little brain work!

One more Halloween story before I close.  When we went to see the pumpkins at the Arboretum, Hannah really enjoyed the pumpkins decorated like animals.  My mom decide to buy her one, Hannah picked the kitty.  Turned out to be a kit with eyes, ears, and nose.  We enjoyed having the kitty pumpkin in our house and saved the kit to decorate with again next year.  =)  And Hannah can tell you that pumpkins with faces are called jack-o-lanterns (very slow and enunciated)!