January 2014

Now that the girls are bigger and not doing as many new things, I'm going to start posting less often.  My goal is one post a month and give highlights on both girls.  I will probably still do individual post for birthdays.

Not too much to say this month since I just did a birthday post on Miss Abigail.  Speaking of Little Miss, she is my sneaky one.  Our couch is pushed against the wall under the breakfast bar in our living room.  It's where we keep pens, remote controls, a candy box, and various other things we'd prefer the girls not get into.  Anyway, the girls are usually really good to play by themselves while I take and shower and get ready in the morning (on days we don't go anywhere, I get ready while they sleep on other days).  Lately, Abigail has decided that while I'm in the shower she should stand on the couch and play with all the stuff on the breakfast bar.  This is the ONLY time she tries it, so I know she knows that she isn't supposed to be up there.  I've found her surrounded by pens and scratch paper she's colored on, she's turned off or on the TV before.  The other day she got into a box of Hot Tamales.  She put two in her mouth and then spit them out (according to Hannah).  I now have to trap her in the bathroom with me.  What a STINKER!

 Both my girls are so verbal.  They repeat everything I we say and most of it is correct.  I love listening to the few things that aren't right grammatically or pronounced right.  It Abigail is playing peek-a-boo, she covers her eyes and says "where are me?".  She also says "I want to hold you" when she wants to be picked up.  "Patakiller" is caterpillar, and "bafroom" is bathroom.

Hannah got her other two shots when were went in for Abigail's check up.  She surprised me by crying this time.  Thankfully she calmed down fairly quickly.  We haven't spent too much time lately working on letters and spelling with Hannah.  She knows all her sounds, but can't yet translate it into reading.  If you slowly say a word one sound at a time she can spell it.  Of course we've only talked about short vowel sounds and haven't gotten letters that make more than one sound like y, c, etc.  She was playing on her computer (old keyboard) and sending notes.  She spelled GME (Grammy) and POPO (PaPaw).  I was pretty impressed! 

I'll leave you with one photo.  This was shot for one of my mom's photo challenges.  LOVE IT!

Birthday Photos

Wow what a busy month.  We celebrated 4 birthdays and had Christmas!  Here's a few photos of both girls with their cakes.  They LOVE Minnie Mouse so we did the same theme for both.  They had fun!

A friend of my sister's made the cake.  Hannah loved it and it was yummy!

My mom (and sister) made the cupcakes.  Super cute, but easy with mini oreos for ears.  

Two Years Old

I just cannot believe it's been two years.  Of course Nathan and I have had to remind ourselves for the last several months that Abigail wasn't two yet.  She acts so grown up trying to copy Hannah and talks really well too.  Still I swear I brought her home from the hospital yesterday.  =}

Abigail doesn't totally understand the concept of birthdays yet.  But if you ask how old she is, she says "I two! and Hannah be 4."  We haven't actually celebrated yet.  That's coming on Saturday.  We're going with a Minnie Mouse theme, just like Hannah.  Hannah got a cake, but we're doing cupcakes for Miss A.  She saw me looking at pictures on-line and excitedly yelled "Minnie!"  Think she'll love them!

Went to the doctor this morning.  She looks great.  She is 25.6 pounds and 34 1/2 inches tall.  Long and lean just like big sister.  She was very good sitting still while being examined and didn't need any shots.    She surprised me by actually talking.  We were looking at pictures in a magazine and I think she forgot she was supposed to be shy.   =)  Glad she could show off her verbal skills.

Abigail has learned yet another letter, M.  She finds them everywhere and loves to point them out.  She can recognize a few numbers as well, but right now I can't remember which one.

Must include the photo with monkey.  Abigail was actually pretty cooperative, much better than last year.  She enjoyed feeding cake to monkey.

My little girl is growing up!!