We've had a busy couple of months! Heather had another birthday party with all the friends. We had a lot of fun. All the kids are great. Grandma Mary and Grandpa Steve were here. I was so happy to see them. Hannah and Heather loved it too and got a lot of attention!
Hannah has been doing great at preschool! Mornings and drop-offs are so much easier and she really seems excited to go now. She is all excited when I pick her up and tells me about the things they did that morning. She just seems so much more comfortable now. She is still a bit shy but she has come a long way with being brave and just getting involved with the class. She is so smart - but also pretty stubborn. She doesn't want to do any learning activities with me. I try to get her to practice writing the letters in her name or just identifying letters in the alphabet but she just refuses. I am not stressing about it at all though. She knows tons more than she lets on to me. She is learning a lot from her Grandma with once-a-week reading lessons too. Hannah loves spending the extra time with her Grandma Trudy and has fun with it. She wrote an H on every single valentine for her class, and I was so proud of her! Hannah sings her own made up songs and will tell made up stories all the time. Her imagination is just so big right now and I love it. She is cute.
Heather is getting so big with the talking and just everything in general! She has really bloomed the last couple months and continues to do so at an incredible rate. When I went on my trip to Texas recently she said to me when I got home "mommy big airplane, mommy work out, mommy stay at hospital". She remembers all the time that I have left her home to be with Daddy. When I workout, and when I had to go to the hospital for my appenix. I'll tell her I stayed at a hotel, not a hospital, and she'll say it right a couple times then back to hospital! She is constantly pretending to be an animal of some sort. Usually a dog or cat or bear. She'll say "heather little dog and mommy big dog" then howl and walk around on all fours asking me to pet her or she'll pet me and tell me to bark. She is really into pretending. Heather has become quite possesive with her things and her space. She says "my own room" when she wants to go "night night" or "my house" when she wants to go home. There is an owner to everything. I guess she is a bit like me.
Both the girls are getting along quite well. They fight some everyday, but usually play pretty well. They like to run around in circles together and pretend to be fishies swimming in a pond orplay Red Light-Green Light together, or play a game where they are dragons or monsters and chase around the house. Hannah is a bit bossy with Heather, so Heather will try and defend herself. Sometimes I find myself always punishing Hannah and giving things back to Heather. Which then makes Hannah more jealous and take things away from Heather more etc. I am trying to focus on not just the negative things with their play. Let them know how happy I am when they play together well. And also jump in and make Heather share a toy or stay away from Hannah at times. It's a tough job sometimes. |
