June 2014

We started the month off by attending VBS at church.  Both girls are actually still too young, but I was working so they got to come.  Abigail was just in childcare, but did get a bible story every day.  Hannah was in one of the oldest childcare rooms so she got to do all the preschool activities.  They both had lots of fun!  And I had a blast too.  I worked in the music and bible story room with two of my good friends.

Potty update on Abigail... She is doing really well!  We still have occasional accidents, but is doing much better at telling me when she needs to go.  We have even ventured out of the house on short errands in panties instead of pull ups. =) I bet by the end of the summer if not sooner she'll have it all figured out.

Both girls have sucked their thumb at night since they were about 6 months old.  Pretty much as soon as we stopped swaddling them, the thumb found their mouth.  When Hannah turned 4 we began talking a little bit about how we don't need to suck our thumb at night.  So about 2 weeks ago we decided to really start working on that.  I did some reading on the internet about how to help your child stop sucking their thumb.  There is lots of info out there and obviously not all suggestions are for every child. Our plan was to talk with Hannah and explain what happens to your teeth, how she's a big girl, etc.  She always sucks the same thumb (big callous) so we started putting a glove on that hand while she sleeps.  Lots of talk about how she didn't need to take the glove off, the glove won't taste good to suck on.  Then we told her if she could go 5 days of leaving the glove on and keeping it dry she could pick a stuffed animal to sleep with.  She has actually done really well.  Her callous is starting to get smaller and she's enjoying sleeping with a friend. We'll keep her glove on for at least another month to make sure the habit is truly broken.

Last but not least...NEW PHOTOS!

Gonna catch those bubbles!

LOVE THIS!

They love their new little bench in my parents garden!

Let's go fly a kite...(dare you not to sing the song)!

They had so much fun!

May 2014

Lots of proud mommy moments this month so be forewarned.  And cue bragging now! 

All of Hannah's letter sound knowledge clicked and she is reading.  Very basic easy words of course.  She can sometimes get frustrated if she comes to a harder word, but she can do it.  I am SO proud of her!!  She is enjoying reading lots of new words.  Hannah memorizes things so quickly that she is keeping me on my toes to find new things for her to read.  Thankfully between free internet downloads and the library it hasn't been too hard.

A few weeks ago I decided to start potty training with Abigail.  She's two months younger that when I started with Hannah, but she is so much more aware of things because she watches Hannah.  I took a slightly different approach this time and just let Abigail run around in a shirt and panties.  There were MANY accidents the first few days, but after day 3 it was beginning to click. She's had almost no accidents since then and has gone potty at church, the park, my mom's house, and a restaurant.  Just this week I started letting her sit on furniture while in panties....she was previously confined to the floor which is easier to clean.  =-)   I still put her in pull-ups if we're away from home, but I bet that won't be for long.  So proud of my BIG girl!!

Not too many new photos this month.  We've actually taken photos playing with bubble and sidewalk chalk.  But my mom has been busy getting ready for her piano recital as well has healing from her fall in January.  Hopefully I can post those soon. Until then...enjoy these!

They are enjoying the glassed Grammy bought them.  Silly girls!

April 2013

Hannah is learning to recognize more and more words.  I think she knows at least 10 now.  And she loves finding them in books, or signs, or really anywhere.  One day she was looking at a book that she has memorized and kept pointing to words and telling me what they were.  She is putting her knowledge of beginning letter sounds to work.  I predict she will be reading "for real" soon.

Abigail is still trying to keep up with big sister.  She follows her everywhere.  She wanted to name her Easter bunny the same name as Hannah's (we convinced her otherwise) and wanted the same color toe nail polish.  Thankfully most of the time it doesn't bother Hannah.  She's a great big sister.

Even more beautiful weather this month, so we're still enjoying time outside.  Grammy has even taken her camera out the last few weeks.  Check out the cuteness!





 






We didn't do the whole Easter basket thing, but the girls each got a stuffed rabbit from G-Pa.  We colored Easter eggs with Grammy, and she got them matching dresses.  Our church had many places around the building set up to take photographs Easter morning.  We took full advantage of an opportunity to get a family photo.  =-)