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!!!

Hanky Tonk

Han's new hat for her birthday.

From the front:

From the back:

From the cheeks:

From sitting innocently still:

From up close grabbin':

Howdy Marm!

From the floor!

Mrs. Walk-to-Grab?

...just doesn't have that magical ring, does it. So while I think we'll keep calling her Mrs. Crawl'n'grab, the truth is, about 2 % of her grabs today have been walk-to-grabs. --- Which means that out of the 100 things she's grabbed in the last 10 minutes, she's walked to 2 of them. Maybe I'll just call her Mrs. Grab-grab-n-grab. I took her to an antique store today! She did GREAT! Of course, it was drizzly and cold, so she couldn't move her arms in her great big bulky jacket, so that helped a bit. Almost pulled over a plant though. If there's a way, she has the will.

Mrs. Crawl'n'grab

Mrs. Crawl-

and-

grab

is now Mrs. Stand-

and-

grab

Aww...

really?

I could have gone for the baby phase a little

while

longer.

This girl scoots fast enough crawling! I don't think I'll be able to catch her when she starts walking!

Thankfully, I have Clark and he's got this emergency coverred :)

Roomba

I realized today with some sadness that I am no longer Hannah's primary source of nourishment. Even though we're nowhere near ready to start weaning, it was still kind of a sad day for me. I guess I could take heart in the fact that she LOVES raw green veggies, fruits and healthful foods, but that is not her primary source of nourishment either. Nope. It's stuff she finds on the floor. Sad sad day.