Hannah-21 months

On St. Patrick's Day our little Hannah turned 21 months old!  I know that generally this is not a significant life stage, but for Hannah I feel like she just blossomed overnight into a little girl, and NOT a baby.  For about a week leading up to this day, Hannah had started calling everything boo (blue), you asked her what her favorite color was, "boo", you asked her what color this or that was, and with intense enthusiasm, she always replied "boo".  On Saturday morning (the day before St. Patty's), while getting Hannah out of bed, she pointed to something and said "Purp-ull".  Whatever it was, was in fact, purple.  The whole day, she could correctly identify purple things, but everything else remained "boo". On Sunday morning after Matt got dressed, Hannah shouted with exclamation, "Geeen!!".  And she was right.  She can now correctly identify, blues, greens, purples, pinks, browns, blacks, whites, reds, and oranges!  And it has only been 4 days.  Yesterday as Hannah and I were playing outside, she started gathering rocks.  I asked her if we could count how many rocks she had.  I said "one", to which Hannah continued, "doo", "tree". Then I said "four", "five", and Hannah said, "sicks".  I then said "seven", and Hannah said, "aitch".  After that, every other rock was either "sicks" or "aitch".  But even still, I was VERY impressed with my not quite two year old.  We are also now averaging Hannah using the potty once a day.  She has had a potty for months now and would only just use it as a place to sit and read books.  When we moved, I decided not to put the potty out because I did not think she really understood what it was for.  Then recently she started asking about it.  As of yesterday and today, we've had two successful potty uses.  Each time she has said "teetee, poppy?". And then when I put her on the potty, away she goes! Of course, she doesn't keep her diaper dry all the time, and only asks to go to the "poppy" after she goes number 2.  And we've had a couple times where she asks to sit, but then nothing happens.  But overall, I'm pretty proud of her.  So much so, that I am considering trying to potty train before new baby gets here!  We will see how it goes, and I'm completely okay if she's not quite ready to be completely diaper free.  Over the last few weeks her motor skills have continued to improve and she can now walk up and down the stairs while only having one hand touch the wall.  I'm still pretty nervous about it, but always stay close in case she needs me.

She continues to be such a joy and a super happy baby little girl.  She loves her "bobby" (mommy) and her Daddy very much and gets super excited about being around others.  She has begun recognizing that people have names, and will often talk about people by name (really she just repeats their names over and over).  She has recently developed a deep love for "piecy" aka, pizza, and asks for it just about every meal.  She loves to read still and has really started mimicking what each book is about.  She "picks an apple and a plum" while reading "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb", she repeats letters over and over while reading "Dr. Seuss' ABC", she rocks her body "back and forth, back and forth" while reading "I'll Love You Forever", and she even "bundles up so you don't freeze" while reading "Go Dogs Go".  She's a great sleeper still, but has on occasion refused her afternoon nap.  She plays happily in her crib for an hour or more, but I'm still not ready for her to give up her nap!!!  So far it just happens occasionally and she really stays pretty happy the rest of the day.  We just love her so much and are so excited to see her become a big sister!!!

She also LOVES to dance.