It seems as if I add more and more pictures each time I update! Lately the girls have been so cute and so good for the camera that I have so many to choose from. We just got back from Utah and we had a wonderful time. SLC has changed so much just in the last 3 years, with new strip malls and shopping areas all over the place. The roads seem huge compared to the windy 2 lane overcrowded roads up here in washington. We did some fun stuff while there. Mainly swam everyday practically. I was happy to meet up with Rose, Ireland and Isabella again. I wish we could have seen them more while we were there. Hannah is in love with Isabella. We also met up with Morgan and Debora, from the Parentsoup May 2001 Mommies Board, at the childrens museum. We really enjoyed visiting with Grandma Loomis, Grandma Mary, and Grandpa Steve and we didn't want to leave. Hannah and Heather love Andy. Heather says Andy when she see's a picture of him now. Mom's house is really nice. I love the new kitchen and floors and how the space is so open.
Hannah and Heather were like little fishes in the pool! Heather was fearless in the water. She went under a couple times for a second and she'd come up smiling. She insisted on walking around on her arms in the wading pool at the hotel but her little arms weren't quite long enough in the middle of the pool where it was deeper. She didn't care. Hannah was swimming all by herself with her little floaty "tutu"! We were so proud of her for having so much confidence in the water. Of course it is a little bit scary having such confident kids around water. We need to sign them up for some swimming lessons fast! We went to raging waters and they loved the wave pool and the lazy river and floating on the tubes.
As for the kids, Hannah is so cute! She has been so polite lately. Really working on her please, thank-you's, asking to be excused from the table, saying excuse me when she sneezes. She is REALLY into her baby doll, her "cloth baby" as she calls it. She brought it to me today wrapped up in a blanket telling me I had a package to open and exclaimed that Heather was now a big sister!! Sounds like a hint to me! (don't count on it) Anyway, all babies are magnets for her and she begs for me to invite someone over to our house with one. There is a little boy at preschool who has a baby sister (maybe 3 months) and she really loves it when they are there. She asked them to come play at our house. Sometimes she'll ask me if we are going to visit Kaitlyn or Spencer tomorrow. I wish!
Heather is so loving lately. She gives so many kisses and hugs to everyone. She is running all around now with much more confidence. She also will repeat the ABC's as we go through them. (I am working on letter recognition with Hannah). When we get to S, she'll say "eesss", then say "ice ice baby". Dave was singing that song (you know, vanilla ice) to her and trying to get her to say it. She also says "hot baby" a lot, or "uh oh baby". Cute how she puts baby after everything. She screams or screaches a lot when she gets frustrated these days. I know she can practically repeat words back at you and say quite a few words but she really doesn't say much, even if you ask her to. She started calling me "ahmmy" lately too instead of Mommy like she used to say. It is frustrating for her and us at times but I know that talking is just around the corner for her.
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