Is Hannah trapped??? Nope, she is just playing inside of her hamper, which has the top off.
Victoria and Hannah playing together. I occasionally watch her while her mom takes care of a couple of things during the day. Victoria just turned 1 year old...Happy Birthday!!
Charlie and Hannah playing in the same room together. These two frequently get to spend some time playing with each other....well, as much as little babies can play with each other. They are super cute with one another, though.
Here we are having fun with Balloons....ok, Jonathan and I are having fun...Molly and Hannah look a little irritated.
Wow! I just looked at the posting that I had saved as a draft to come back and finish it. The title was 10 months old now. Ok, Hannah is now 11 months old (on the 14th of March) and doing SO many new things. Within the last couple of days it seems like things are starting to make sense to her. She started rolling her arms around each other...and I thought, "that looks like when we do 'Wheels on the Bus'"...Sure enough when I started singing it to her she started making the motions. Kids are amazing! Well, just yesterday Hannah took her first step at Grandma and Grandpa's house....and also later on in the evening while Daddy was home. She is growing up way too quickly! I can always tell she is getting longer when I put her in her crib if she has fallen asleep because her body is taking up more and more of the crib. When we sing, "If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands." She will start clapping her hands. She actually said "ma, ma" Not sure if she knows that it is me but I'll take it considering she has said, "Da Da, do ie (doggie), ra (ruff ruff). In addition to these wonderful things, Hannah has taken on a new attitude. A not so nice one. Jonathan and I have many discussions trying to figure out how to approach this new little attitude. I know we need to nip it in the bud...But how do you explain to an 11 month old that she shouldn't scream when she wants something. Or try to hit the dog or mommy or daddy or anyone. We'll hopefully figure this one out soon. We still love her and this is nothing compared to her future as a two-year old or even worse....a teenager.
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She is SO cute!!! Thanks for posting the update! I love seeing the pics and hearing about what she's doing.
Oh the screaming stage... I feel like that will never go away. One thing that helped us was to teach her the signs for "more" and "help" and "please" and "all done". She knows how to do "more" and "all done", has no clue on "please" and "help" looks like "more". Anyway, the point is that we've lessened the screaming considerably (it's taken forever) by saying, "Do you want more?" and showing her the sign. After a bit, she started doing the sign. Now, I can say to her, "How do you ask Mommy?" when she's screaming at me for something and she'll generally quiet down.
What we haven't figured out is how to say no and have her be ok with that. She'll quietly flash the "more" sign and look hopeful but we won't have any more or she can't have 11 billion goldfish. So she screams. What to do there? :)
It's always something!!
Hannah's a sweetie :)
I was going to say the exact same thing as Jen. We taught Caroline the sign for 'more' thank you'and please! She uses them all the time. At first while you are handing it to her show her the sign and say the word. Then give her what she wants. After a few days we signed and said the word before we gave her what she wanted. Now we have her add the thank you sign after we give it to her as well. She doesn't scream anymore, well most of the time she doesn't. Hannah is as beautiful as ever! Miss you. Love Jan using 'more for everything now she
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