Toot toot!!

I will start this week by telling you about last night. Matt and I went to our friend, Cracker's, wedding. Ellen watched the kids for us. It was a great time. We got to hang with Dom and Danielle and Scott and Katie, which is a rarity for us. So it was awesome! We kept the night alive and went to Planks on Parsons. I haven't been there since law school. Yummy food!! Ok, enough about Matt and me. We're boring.

Laura was in the bath tub when Ellen got here yesterday. She heard Matt talking to someone, and she said, "Who's Daddy talking to? Is Aunt Ellen here?" She was so excited. I got her out of the tub and told her to go get dressed. I started to get ready, and a few minutes later Laura pranced in fully dressed in one of her princess dresses. She was pumped!! I told her that Aunt Ellen had never seen Rapunzel and asked her if she wants to watch it with Aunt Ellen. Laura's eyes got big and she said, "Yes, let's watch it right now!" So funny. As soon as we got downstairs, Laura instructed Matt to put on "let down your hair". I was trying to tell my sister what to feed the kids for dinner, and Laura yelled from the living room, "Aunt Ellen hurry up!" She was just so excited to spend her evening with Aunt Ellen. Later that evening (or early that morning, rather), Matt brought Laura upstairs to bed, and she woke briefly and fussed for a minute. She wanted to sleep with Aunt Ellen. Fast forward to this morning. She was eating breakfast telling me about her evening. And then she said in a very sad voice, "But Aunt Ellen didn't want her nails painted." I have to laugh a little about that, since had Ellen let Laura paint her nails, I'm sure they would have been bright pink and sparkly!!

OK. Everyone knows my husband, always a jokester and sometimes a slightly inappropriate. So what did he buy Laura? Anyone? Any guesses? A whoopie cushion, of course. Just lovely. That's what we need to be teaching our daughters, that their flatulence is funny. We don't use the word "fart" with them. They say "toot". (As if it's any better.) Anyway, Laura absolutely loves it. She thinks it's the funniest thing on Earth. Hannah is not really a big fan of it. It scares her a little. Ah, well...I suppose it was a matter of time.

Just a couple of minutes ago, Laura says she wants to watch something from the movie pile. I don't remember if I've written about the movie pile. The movie pile is the on-demand movies on Netflix. They are the creme d'la creme for Laura. She loves the movie pile. She takes after her old man in that regard. So this morning we are looking though them, and she says, "I want to watch dancing kids." So I'm thinking, what have we watched lately? Thankfully, I remember that Matt said he watched High School Musical 2 with her recently. Yep, that's what she was trying to tell me. She's engrossed in it right now.

Our little Hannah has had a great week. She went from having a rough week of sleeping the week before last to sleeping like a rock star this past week. She slept at daycare one day this week for a whopping 4 hours!! Then she came home that night and slept all night. She is really starting to say single words. She has been saying "da" for awhile. In fact, I'm pretty sure that was her first word. She also says, "that", "hi", "ma", and "uh oh". I have one little funny story about her from this week. Her teacher, Kim, told me one night that all the kids were moving towards the kitchen area of their room for lunch time, and Hannah was sitting on the other side of a bookshelf, playing with toys contentedly. Kim said, "Where's Hannah?" Hannah replied with, "what?" So cute. Oh heaven forbid, they forget her for a meal. That is the highlight of Hannah's morning when we drop her off at daycare - what they are serving for breakfast! She loves to eat.

Hannah has also started a less attractive habit this week. When she gets angry or frustrated, she has started hitting and scratching. It is kind of cute and funny, but of course, we can't laugh at her. Her teachers said that she is picking it up from some of the other kids at school. Shocker. A better habit, she is starting to use tissues and pretend she cleaning. She wipes the floor or her feet with them. So cute. I remember Laura doing that when she was Hannah's age too. As Laura got older, she loved to help me clean. She would always want her own wipe (I was using a Clorox wipe). I would give her a baby wipe, and she would clean her little potty or wipe the table or floor. She doesn't do it as often anymore. Go figure.

You may have read on facebook that Matt taught Laura Left and Right this week. So now she tells him which way to turn on the way to school in the morning. At first he thought she was just guessing, but he quizzed her several times. And she seems to know the difference. I'm pretty sure I confused those till I was about in third grade. Kids just know so much more these days.

Hannah has also progressed to reaching another level of drawers in our kitchen. She now pulls out all of the towels and bibs and sometimes even makes it to the utensil drawer, which is one above that. She was crawling around this weekend with wooden spoons. She is really starting to attempt to stand on her own. She will pull herself up and then let go and smile and "plop" down on her butt. Soon enough she will start to take off. Any bets as to the date?

One other cute thing. So Hannah watches Laura get on the big potty a lot, and she recognizes that the little potty that sits on the floor (Laura just uses it as a stool now) is a potty. So she loves it when I sit her on it. She just kicks and smiles. She thinks she is big stuff sitting on the little potty.

Here are some pictures from the week.