Hannah trying to talk

Hannah and Emma update

Hannah's a year old and she is doing great.  She had her well baby appointment on Wednesday and she weighs 21 lbs which puts her in the 50 percentile.  She is starting to get very vocal and actually says "hi."  Sometimes we think she says Emma too but we aren't really sure.  She is starting to move a lot more and crawl now instead of scoot everywhere.  But my goodness, she is probably the fastest scooter in the west! For the longest time she wouldn't crawl and would get around scooting.  I am glad she finally figured out how to crawl and get around.  For the past few weeks she has been screeching like you couldn't believe.  She wants something, where it is attention, toy, food, whatever and she gets frustrated and starts speaking like a shrilling bird. I do hope this phase passes quickly. She has officially transitioned to cow's milk.  It wasn't too bad - Emma cared much much more.  But Hannah has always been easier in that regard than Emma.  She eats practically everything and will drink bottles.  She is sleeping well for her naps.  She is still taking two naps and will sleep about an hour each.  One of them will be a little more than an hour which is great.  When we put her down to sleep she doesn't cry. She just sucks on her puppy's ear and goes to sleep.  It is so nice to have a kid you can just put to sleep like that.  I remember Emma used to cry every single time you put her to sleep for her nap no matter what!!!  I thought it was normal and when I heard about her friends not doing that I couldn't understand.

Hannah has her top four teeth, and she just got her third one on the bottom.  I think another one is coming though.  Hannah overall is a really easy girl.  She is always happy, wants to be around people and is exploring and learning her world.  She absolutely adores Emma - she is her best friend!  And Emma loves her too.  It is really cute to watch them play together.  Emma is very good with her and will engage her to play.

Hannah and Emma love going swimming at Grandma Shu Shu's.  They are both water babies and could live in the pool if we let them.  Emma is a great swimmer.  She doesn't need much assistance in the pool.  Today she swam the entire length of the pool all by herself. I was so impressed.

We threw Hannah a birthday party at our new house.  We moved in the week before it so we had to get it together in record time!  It was a great party.  The weather was fantastic, Hannah loved the attention and Emma loved having everyone over.  

For part of June, July and some of August Emma took ballet and tap classes.  Her friend Uma took the class too.  She started a couple of weeks later but it was nice for Emma to have a friend.  Emma liked it when she got there but it was such a fight to get her to go in the first place.  She wasn't that great of a listener to the teacher but when she wanted to she would.  We decided not to enroll her again and instead find something else for her to do.  She loves to do art so I am looking into art classes for her.