Febraury 2014

My mom fell and broke her sacrum at the end of January.  Her camera has come out a few times, but she can't sit to edit photos.  So you are stuck with mostly my camera.  =)  She had a few good days last week and got a few photos done. 

Hannah absolutely LOVES to make crafts and I do too.  It was my favorite part of teaching school, though we rarely found time for it due to academic requirements.  Anyway, I began searching for easy Valentine card ideas in January.  We had so much fun making cards for family and a few friends.  I did most of the work on the outside of the cards, but Hannah helped decide who each one should be for.  Then she got to write her name and put stickers inside each card.  I even cut out a heart and let Abigail put stickers on it for her friend from church.  They are 6 weeks apart and almost always in the same room

To continue the Valentine's fun, the girls helped make chocolate chip cookies for Daddy and colored him a picture.  They decorated heart cookies (from a kit) at Grammy's house too.  I've seen several photos and blogs of mom's that make super creative lunches for their kids everyday.  I have no time for that, but we did have some fun on Valentines.  The girls had heart shaped sandwiches for lunch and we made heart pizza for dinner.

After all the cold weather this winter, we enjoyed a whole week of beautiful weather.  We took full advantage and took several walks, played in the backyard, did bubbles, and went to several parks.  Our neighborhood has a park about a block away.  Plano has so many good parks that we sometimes jump in the car and drive to someplace new.  This park is only about a 5 minute drive.

Love the cute little plaid skirts.  And wonders never cease...the girls actually both smiled and looked at the camera at the same time.  =)

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.