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!