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!

Oh The Places She'll Go...

I am so blessed and thankful that most day my girls will play and entertain themselves while I workout, shower, and get ready.  Yes mom's of younger kids this day does eventually come.  =)  Anyway, this morning while drying my hair Hannah comes in to them bathroo and we have the following conversation.

H:  Mommy, Abigail is in the baby's crib.
Me:  Did she get out?
H:  No, I think she's stuck?
Me:  Uh oh, let me come see.

So I go out to the play room and Abigail is indeed sitting in the baby doll's crib.  And being the stellar mom that I am, I went to grab the camera for a picture before rescuing her.  =)  Hope you laugh as much as I did!

Notice she is also chewing on the baby's bottle.  As soon as I snapped the photo she took it out and said "Out mama please."

Think I'm going to need to keep a closer eye on this one!

18 Month Check Up

Abigail had her check up this morning.  She is doing great:  22 lbs and 32 1/2 inches.  She moved up to almost the 20th percentile in weight and has slowed down a bit to the 75th percentile in height.  Only one shot today and she calmed right down.

I'll leave you with one cute story.  When Abigail gets to the end of a book or I finish reading, she says "amen" instead of "the end."  :-)

And a photo just because...

Hannah Logic

I know I just posted an update on Hannah yesterday, but we've had some really cute conversations recently.

Hannah:  When I grow up I'm going to have a beard.
Me:  Well, that might be hard because usually boys have beards not girls.  Why do you want a beard?
Hannah:  Because Daddy gives me one in the bathtub (with bubbles).

Hannah has a stool she uses to help her get on to the potty.  The other day she fell off.  She heard me tell Nathan that she lost her balance and fell off the stool.  So the next day she told my mom that she fell off the stool and bumped her balance.  =)

She was playing with her ducks today and told me that her ducky had something in his feelings.  I asked her what.  And she said I don't know what feeling are, but we talked about them at church.

Her little mind is always trying to figure things out.  Hope these stories made you smile!