Hannah LIKE!

Hank tried chocolate for the first time tonight.
It's official. She is a girl!

Yertle the Squirtle-Penguin

Lately I have been reading the kids an alphabet book and working on the sounds with them...
...and a Laura Ingalls Wilder book and showed Clark the word "Ma" and was making him read it whenever I pointed to it...
...and Grandma C (thanks Grandma!) has been reading him Yertle the Turtle...
...and we see a lot of Squirrells.

So, Clark was looking at a book that was a little old for him with a picture of a penguin and reading it to me.

I don't remember all that he was 'reading,' but the main points were:

Ma says Ma like Squirtle!
And dat's Yertle da Squirtle-Penguin!

Anyway, it loses a bit in translation, but it was just about the funniest thing I had ever heard.

She's THROUGH!

Hank has NO interest in talking. She thinks her cuteness quotient will go down significantly the second she starts and she wants nothing to do with it. So... she's learning some signs. She learned "all done" incredibly quickly and is a huge fan. She figured out all on her own that it can be used at various and random other times than just in the highchair. Hating being still as she does, and having a diaper change requiring so much being still, she jumped up the second it was done and ran off waving her little hands, announcing she was through with that ordeal.
It's her favorite sign ever because it's like a double princess wave =) and it means she gets to run away! run away!!!