10/12/13

When Hannah was little I used to tell people that she was shy.  She now waves, says hi, talks to, and sometimes hugs all sorts of people.  Most of them are people she sees at church on a regular basis, but she will talk to people at the grocery store too.  Usually she'll tell them her name and then make sure they know who Abigail is too. 

We've had several different friends over for play dates recently and Hannah would rather show the adults all her toys than play with her friends.  Not sure how much she actually plays with the other kids at church either.  She can tell me all about who was there and what they were doing though. =)  Hannah seems very content to play by herself and talk to her imaginary friends.  She will play with Abigail sometimes, so I'm sure things will change as she gets a little bigger.


Hannah only gets a few of her letter sounds confused now.  She comes to me all the time and says things like "Mommy toy stars with t" or "help starts with h."  She is becoming very aware of beginning letter sounds and sometimes she can tell me what she hears at the end of a word too.  If I break a word apart for her like "bu, uh, gu (bug)" she can spell it.  If she tries on her own the middle letters and often vowels get left out.  That is totally normal though.  She still amazes me with how much she is learning.  Writing letters is going much slower.  It's hard and she frustrates easily.  So we're just going slowly since we have plenty of time.

I'll leave you with a few of my favorite pictures.  Grammy bought Hannah these adorable boots and she LOVES them.  She's going to be a cowgirl for Halloween. 

We've recently done lots of baking with Grammy too.  Hannah's new favorite thing to do is lick the beaters when we're done.  Love the look on her face!

Twenty One Months

Abigail knows several shapes now: circle, square, triangle, star, heart, and sometimes oval.  She is also trying very hard to learn her colors.  She knows that blue, green, orange, etc are color words.  She just doesn't always identify them correctly.  She'll catch on quickly I'm sure.  She also knows the number zero.

I mentioned in my last post that Abigail can be very quiet in public.  She is the opposite at home.  She talks, laughs, and sings all the time. She has recently starting doing a very shrill squeally laughter and yelling things.  Hoping that is just a phase because it is LOUD.  We're trying to teach her about using an "inside voice."  =)

It is very hard to get photos of little miss.  At this age Hannah wasn't quite as mobile and not NEARLY as strong willed.  We've pretty much resorted to capturing Abigail in the moment, because she does not sit still long.  She happened to sit for a minute next to Hannah on my parent's front porch stoop.  Thank goodness for editing software with the ability to crop in for a close up.  I do love all the colors in her eyes!

We gave Abagail a bag and let her pick up leaves from the yard.  She was happy as longs as she was walking.  I think she's actually saying "down please" in this photo. LOL!

My mom bought this hat for Hannah when she was about a year old, in hopes of photographing her wearing a frilly diaper cover, long necklace and the hat.  Hannah screamed and cried every time we put it on her head so it never happened.  My mom grabbed the hat a few weeks ago to see if it still fit on Abigail's head.  Not really...however, she had SO much fun playing with it.  She gave all sorts of flirty smiles and took it on and off several times.  

Keep forgetting to mention Abigial's teeth.  She is FINALLY getting more.  Two of the 4 one year molars are in and the other two are half way in.  The bottom teeth on either side of the front bottom two have also broken through the gums.  They aren't fully in yet so they don't show up in pictures yet.  Thankfully she's been pretty happy even though all 6 teeth were trying come in at the same time.