3/12/13

Last month began with a special treat for Hannah.  Our local Chick-fil-a hosts a Daddy Daughter Date Night in February for Valentine's Day.   Next year both girls can go since Abigail will have enough teeth to eat with.  =)  This year there was a photographer that brought props and took a picture of each dad with his "date."  LOVE this!

In last months post I wrote about Hannah memorizing Colossians 3:16 and posted a video link.  We also posted that link on Facebook and it was shared by LOTS of people.  It got sent to our pastor and they watched it in staff meeting.  They contacted us and asked if they could show the video in the service.  We said yes and they showed it in both services on Feb 24!  They showed the video within the first 15 minutes of the service so Nathan brought her in to see it and then took her back to her classroom.  She seemed to think it was neat.  Definitely a proud parenting moment!

I'm almost afraid to say it, but sleep issues have finally taken a turn for the better!  Hannah will occasionally wake up to potty in the middle of the night, but it's not every night.  And she's been doing better going to sleep as well.  We were constantly trying new tricks or rewards to get her to go right to sleep and not play or come out of her room 52 times.  Hannah has 2 or 3 stuffed animals that "sleep" on the big bed in her room since she still sleeps in a toddler bed.  One night Nathan took one of the animals and set him up on the dresser.  He told Hannah that Wrinkles was going to watch her and see if she could go right to sleep.  For some reason that worked, so Wrinkles now watches every night.  =) We'll see how long it lasts.

We made a Fruit Loop necklace with Grammy a few weeks ago.  Hannah wasn't sure at first, but then had lots of fun.  She enjoyed modeling her necklace when she as done, and it's also been a great snack.  Gotta love those fun activities that also work on fine motor skills.  Shh don't tell!  Here's some cute pictures!

Hannah enjoys letters so much that we've slowly started working on writing.  We thought we'd start with the letters in her name, since she can tell you how to spell it.  She figured out capital H all by herself.  A friend of mine teaches kindergarten and recommended not teaching your child to write their name in all capital letters. So I showed her the rest of the letters in lower case.  She can finally write them all.  Hannah still needs help knowing where on the page to write the letters (she wants to write them all over or on top of each other), but with a little help she can write her name.  Go Hannah!

And enjoy one of my favorite pics!