Victory! Yes, I am claiming victory on at least one of our objectives with little Hannah. You will remember that we have three things we are trying to accomplish with her of late: getting rid of her pacifier, getting her transitioned to Laura's room, and potty training. This week she has slept three nights with Laura in their now shared bed! Even better, she has not woken up in the middle of the night, like she used to in her crib. This morning, both girls slept till 6:30! That is huge for us. They are so cute in there together! One night Hannah fell asleep with her little arm around Laura's neck. And last night Laura said I want to snuggle with Hannah when she falls asleep! Laura loves having Hannah in her room!
Another funny development. Usually Laura listens to the radio in her room at night. It plays softly on either country or rock. (She actually prefers heavy metal, but I don't think that's good sleeping music!) Well, she has a Puff the Magic Dragon pop-up book that she found recently in her bookshelf. She hadn't read it for a long time. This week when she found it, she noticed it had a CD in it. So this week, she has been listening to the Puff the Magic Dragon song playing all night on repeat! The CD actually has four songs on it, but she only wants to hear that one song all night long. Too funny.
We had two visitors this week. Uncle Steve came over on Monday night, and Grandma Jane came on Tuesday night. Laura was so excited when I picked her up from daycare and told her Steve was coming over. She barely let him eat dinner that night. She and Hannah wrestled and Steve read them stories. They loved it. Grandma Jane surprised us Tuesday night. She came bearing gifts. The most popular of course was the toilet soap dispenser that yells, "Hey, Don't forget to wash your hands!" The girls want to hear it about fifty billion times a day. Matt says that he's going to take it to work and put it in the bathroom to yell at the people who don't wash their hands! Laura and Grandma Jane spent most of the evening drawing each other pictures. Laura always wanted Jane to guess what she was drawing. The best was her picture of the flamingo - I should take a picture of it! Laura is generally pretty good at drawing, but this picture wasn't even close!
Laura loves to draw pictures of herself and pictures of our family. They are usually pretty good pictures. She almost always has pigtails in her hair, and Hannah is usually a smaller version of herself. But Matt and I vary quite a bit. This week she stapled together some of her pictures and make me a book! She is so sweet.
Hannah is progressing significantly this week at feeding herself liquid foods, like soup and cereal and milk. She is very proud of it! We had soup twice this week, and she did really well both nights. She likes some other odd things for her young age, like black olives and pad thai! Her favorite food continues to be breakfast bars though! She loves them! She eats one at least once in the evening and twice a day on the weekend. She also loves fruit snacks. I remember when Laura was addicted to breakfast bars, and then one day she wouldn't eat them anymore. Laura still is not keen on them. However, Laura is addicted to chocolate milk. She practically won't drink white milk at all, at home anyway. In fact, we make her start eating her meal before giving her any milk. If we give her milk first, she drinks all of it immediately and then says she's full. I wish I could survive on a liquid diet! She definitely does not get this from me!
Hannah loves wearing our shoes right now too. Whenever we leave shoes on the floor, she puts them on and walk/drags them around. She wears Laura's too. Actually I think she likes everything of mine. Every morning she comes over to my nightstand and steals my jewelry, lotion, perfume, whatever she can find! I am constantly hunting down my stuff!
Laura is such a little caregiver. She loves to take care of Hannah. She even gets Hannah's toothbrush ready at night, putting toothpaste on it. And of course, Hannah wants to do everything Laura does. One story that comes to mind is the Super Bowl half time show. Madonna was the performer, so there was lots of dancing. My kids were glued to the TV. Not one peep came out of them the entire performance. As soon as it was over, they broke into dance. Laura kept saying, "Look what I can do." And then Hannah would proceed to say something like, "Look, I do." And then whatever dance move Laura performed, Hannah would attempt as well. They usually involved twirling or a somersault. It was absolutely adorable. We should have videoed it.
The first picture above is the girls "driving" the cart at the store. They love to drive the car carts and pretend to run into people, particularly me! The second one is the girls in their "capes'! They dance around in them.
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