My Valentine's Day card from Andrew and the kids - Josh signed his name as the purple scribble on the right.
Hannah and Josh interacting - mainly Hannah trying to copy everything her hero does!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Hannah moments - March 2011 (9-10 months)
So this month saw Hannah making major strides forward with her physical development.
1 March: she tried to stand on the bed by letting go of me.
4 March: she stood by herself for about 1 second.
8 March: she stood up by herself from the floor.
22 March: she took 1 step.
So exciting to see!
She's also just really independent. She'll crawl from one side of the house right to the other side, and if she's holding your hands she'll walk the length as well, which, when you're that small, is quite a distance!
She's such a small girl though, despite standing and walking so early that she can't see over most things that Josh could when he was starting to stand. So she'll go up on tip toes to try and peer over something. You just see this little face peeking out at you!
Playing on the swings outside Josh's school.
She's also very happy to sit quietly by herself playing, which is something that Josh still doesn't like to do really. I don't know how much is personality, and how much is 1st vs 2nd child and how we have reacted differently to them.
She just adores Joshua, and if she sees him coming she gets super excited!
Such cute little feet and legs!
She responds really well to music, and any music that she hears will get her to start dancing. Towards the end of the month she even started dancing while standing!
Her funny face continues to be a source of great entertainment. Her tongue does all sorts of funny things like she'll put it out and back in repeatedly. And one morning Richard was entertaining her by putting his tongue out and shaking his head to make it waggle around, and she tried to copy him with her tongue out and shaking her head.
She's started navigating the two low steps in my parents lounge, and gets up and down quite well.
She's also a really brave girl. When she's teething and her bum gets all sore she will be so brave when you're changing her nappy. She tries really hard not to cry, which is strange, because at this age she's got no reason not to just let rip, but she seems to really try hard not to. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse... I just wish that teething didn't come with SO many other problems for babies!
Hannah loves to eat whatever we are eating. She won't always want to eat her own food, but if it's going in our mouth... One of her favourites though is Milo cereal. Loves it!
I can't say for sure, but I think she's saying mama, dada, more and ball.
One of the girls at church decided to dress her up a bit...
Hannah loves books! She'll sit for ages looking at and paging through books. But then look at her parents...
She's started initiating peek-a-boo, which is just so cute! And sometimes even if you're not close to her to play with she'll cover her eyes to try and play.
She's definitely a little girl, who loves dolls and teddies. And she loves to just hug a teddy.
She does a cute thing with her hands like she's dry washing them, and she's also started waving really nicely.
She's got a really mischevious streak. If I'm trying to dress her on our bed she'll get up and quickly crawl up. Then I'll grab her foot and drag her back, and first chance she gets she'll quickly crawl away again, but all the time chuckling!
1 March: she tried to stand on the bed by letting go of me.
4 March: she stood by herself for about 1 second.
8 March: she stood up by herself from the floor.
22 March: she took 1 step.
So exciting to see!
She's also just really independent. She'll crawl from one side of the house right to the other side, and if she's holding your hands she'll walk the length as well, which, when you're that small, is quite a distance!
She's such a small girl though, despite standing and walking so early that she can't see over most things that Josh could when he was starting to stand. So she'll go up on tip toes to try and peer over something. You just see this little face peeking out at you!
Playing on the swings outside Josh's school.
She's also very happy to sit quietly by herself playing, which is something that Josh still doesn't like to do really. I don't know how much is personality, and how much is 1st vs 2nd child and how we have reacted differently to them.
She just adores Joshua, and if she sees him coming she gets super excited!
Such cute little feet and legs!
She responds really well to music, and any music that she hears will get her to start dancing. Towards the end of the month she even started dancing while standing!
Her funny face continues to be a source of great entertainment. Her tongue does all sorts of funny things like she'll put it out and back in repeatedly. And one morning Richard was entertaining her by putting his tongue out and shaking his head to make it waggle around, and she tried to copy him with her tongue out and shaking her head.
She's started navigating the two low steps in my parents lounge, and gets up and down quite well.
She's also a really brave girl. When she's teething and her bum gets all sore she will be so brave when you're changing her nappy. She tries really hard not to cry, which is strange, because at this age she's got no reason not to just let rip, but she seems to really try hard not to. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse... I just wish that teething didn't come with SO many other problems for babies!
Hannah loves to eat whatever we are eating. She won't always want to eat her own food, but if it's going in our mouth... One of her favourites though is Milo cereal. Loves it!
I can't say for sure, but I think she's saying mama, dada, more and ball.
One of the girls at church decided to dress her up a bit...
Hannah loves books! She'll sit for ages looking at and paging through books. But then look at her parents...
She's started initiating peek-a-boo, which is just so cute! And sometimes even if you're not close to her to play with she'll cover her eyes to try and play.
She's definitely a little girl, who loves dolls and teddies. And she loves to just hug a teddy.
She does a cute thing with her hands like she's dry washing them, and she's also started waving really nicely.
She's got a really mischevious streak. If I'm trying to dress her on our bed she'll get up and quickly crawl up. Then I'll grab her foot and drag her back, and first chance she gets she'll quickly crawl away again, but all the time chuckling!
Joshua moments - March 2011
I suppose that we shouldn't be surprised, but as we see Joshua's personality emerge one things is very evident - he is VERY competitive! He's now discovered to concept of beating someone, and now he just wants to beat everyone in whatever he's doing! So we have some work to do to make sure this is healthy competitiveness!
But he's also just a sweet boy. One of his latest things is taking a toy, wrapping it up in a small cloth, bringing it to you and singing Happy Birthday, and then we have to unwrap our present. He just loves to be nice too!
He was wrapping himself up in a blanket the one morning, and decided that he was an egg. So he would hatch, and then wrap himself up again to be an egg again.
Playing with the new dolphin toy for the pool.
Showing off his new "Bokkie" shirt.
At the park - one of his favourite things to do when I fetch him from school...
One of his favourite things to do is sit on our bed and read stories with me. But just sitting on the bed isn't good enough any more. He now wants to sit "in your cot". He'll sit between my legs and then put a blanket over himself and then he's ready for his story.
And one of his favourite stories, which he will repeatedly ask for, is the "troll story" (ie The Three Billy Goats Gruff). I got a book of beautifully illustrated fairy tales, which he recently discovered, and he likes all of the stories, but his favourite is the very last one - the troll story.
He's started to learn a lot of rhymes from school, and we'll often hear him reciting them over and over.
He's also learning some of the books that we read often at home. The one morning he recited "Driving Down to Grandma's" as he paged through the book. And he had it about 95% correct! Most of what he got wrong is what he is obviously hearing wrong, but that's normal at his age...
Josh threw these things up onto the shower door, and look how they ended up!
Just like Hannah, Joshua's tongue also sometimes does funny things, but his most common thing is sticking his tongue out slightly, normally curled, when he's being all shy and coy.
I'm not sure if we get take outs too often... But Josh has pretty much decided that all take away places are Chicken and Chips. Some times he'll talk about "Mac-in-donalds". But what he also likes to do is wave at places as we drive past. So he'll wave, "Bye Chicken and Chips", "Bye Aunty Lindsay" (his swimming teacher)
One evening he suddenly got a bit upset about our cars parked outside our house, which he can see through the small windows next to our front door. He was saying that there was an eye on my car (presumably the light). He at first wanted us to carry him past the windows so that the eye couldn't see him, or he would crawl under the window. But then we put some books in the windows which effectively blocked them. And then he was happy. It took a couple of days for all of this to progress though, and in that time we would take him outside to see the car and touch it and see that there was no eye. But one of those strange childhood phobias. The books stayed in the windows for a few days and then when I quietly took them away he was fine, and hasn't mentioned the eyes again.
Josh also has a fascination with helicopters (really anything that moves). One afternoon there was a helicopter that flew over our house repeatedly (we're not housing any fugitives - I promise!). Josh was saying that he wants to go in a helicopter, so I told him when he's bigger then he'll be able to, and we'll ask Uncle Ron to try and arrange something for us. Well... for the next few weeks and even longer he would remind me very often that when he's big he's going in a helicopter, and tell me that I must ask Uncle Ron. I'd remind him that Uncle Ron said he has to wait till he's bigger and he'd try and stand as tall as he could to show me that he is getting bigger! One day he'll get to live that dream!
My cute boy:
But he's also just a sweet boy. One of his latest things is taking a toy, wrapping it up in a small cloth, bringing it to you and singing Happy Birthday, and then we have to unwrap our present. He just loves to be nice too!
He was wrapping himself up in a blanket the one morning, and decided that he was an egg. So he would hatch, and then wrap himself up again to be an egg again.
Playing with the new dolphin toy for the pool.
One of his favourite things to do is sit on our bed and read stories with me. But just sitting on the bed isn't good enough any more. He now wants to sit "in your cot". He'll sit between my legs and then put a blanket over himself and then he's ready for his story.
And one of his favourite stories, which he will repeatedly ask for, is the "troll story" (ie The Three Billy Goats Gruff). I got a book of beautifully illustrated fairy tales, which he recently discovered, and he likes all of the stories, but his favourite is the very last one - the troll story.
He's started to learn a lot of rhymes from school, and we'll often hear him reciting them over and over.
He's also learning some of the books that we read often at home. The one morning he recited "Driving Down to Grandma's" as he paged through the book. And he had it about 95% correct! Most of what he got wrong is what he is obviously hearing wrong, but that's normal at his age...
Josh threw these things up onto the shower door, and look how they ended up!
I'm not sure if we get take outs too often... But Josh has pretty much decided that all take away places are Chicken and Chips. Some times he'll talk about "Mac-in-donalds". But what he also likes to do is wave at places as we drive past. So he'll wave, "Bye Chicken and Chips", "Bye Aunty Lindsay" (his swimming teacher)
One evening he suddenly got a bit upset about our cars parked outside our house, which he can see through the small windows next to our front door. He was saying that there was an eye on my car (presumably the light). He at first wanted us to carry him past the windows so that the eye couldn't see him, or he would crawl under the window. But then we put some books in the windows which effectively blocked them. And then he was happy. It took a couple of days for all of this to progress though, and in that time we would take him outside to see the car and touch it and see that there was no eye. But one of those strange childhood phobias. The books stayed in the windows for a few days and then when I quietly took them away he was fine, and hasn't mentioned the eyes again.
Josh also has a fascination with helicopters (really anything that moves). One afternoon there was a helicopter that flew over our house repeatedly (we're not housing any fugitives - I promise!). Josh was saying that he wants to go in a helicopter, so I told him when he's bigger then he'll be able to, and we'll ask Uncle Ron to try and arrange something for us. Well... for the next few weeks and even longer he would remind me very often that when he's big he's going in a helicopter, and tell me that I must ask Uncle Ron. I'd remind him that Uncle Ron said he has to wait till he's bigger and he'd try and stand as tall as he could to show me that he is getting bigger! One day he'll get to live that dream!
My cute boy:
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