Hannah is 18 Months!

Dear Nathan and Hannah, 

Sorry for not updating on time yesterday. I was definitely out with food poisoning. Luckily, I was the only who got it. But Super Daddy stayed home and took care of both of you while I pretty much laid in bed and slept the whole day. Today I feel about 80% better. 

Man, we are so fortunate to have this awesome weather lately. Short sleeves in February? Crazy. Well, here are the highlights from this week: 

For Valentines Day, we kept up the tradition of making chocolate covered strawberries. Nathan did a pretty good job of making 4-5 and then you wanted to eat them. After eating the ones you made, you made sure to tell us that you were probably going to stop eating, so you don't have too much sugar. Seriously, who are you? 

 As Hannah watched from the sideline, I would see your fingers creep over to try to grab a strawberry. Since you are not allergic to strawberries anymore, I just let you eat as many as you want---as long as they weren't covered in chocolate.

 We even let you dip a strawberry, which went directly from the pot into your mouth. Luckily, the chocolate wasn't too hot to burn your mouth.

 Nathan, you've been practicing on your skates and are starting to get the hang of it. You find it pretty funny when you fall down and you are able to just pop back up, with a smile on your face.

 And one day, we decided to try planting a few things. I usually plan these things out, really try to balance out the soil, and in the end, the plants don't survive. So this time, I just gave you guys the stuff and let you guys pick out the seeds, poured them in the soil, and poked them in. Maybe, we'll do better with this method. Here, Nathan is even teaching Hannah how to poke the seeds into the soil.

 I think we ended up growing spring onion, chives, and snow peas...with maybe some radish sprinkled in? We'll find out.

 I even just let you two go crazy with the watering.

 We'll keep ya'll posted on the progress of our experimental garden.

On Saturday, Nathan requested that we go visit the wildflower center, specifically the swings area. I was surprised that you two were able to share a pack of goldfish crackers without fighting.

 We got a few good "cheeses".

 And then on the way back, no one wanted to walk, so I stuck both of you in the stroller and surprisingly, there was neither pushing, nor shoving.

 Later that day, Nathan and I went on a date. We watched half of a roller derby bout and then collected tickets for about an hour. You really enjoyed watching the skaters skate "roughly" and when they got sent to the penalty box, you would repeat the announcer excitedly, "Penalty box 30 seconds!"

 The next morning we had breakfast and I simply took this picture because Hannah was posing like grandma.

 And you are also getting pretty good at your spoon feeding skills. Definitely better than Nathan. At least you use the spoon more often than he does.

 On Tuesday, we went with Abigail to try out a soccer class. It turned out to be lots of fun and I thought that the teacher was great. He scaffolded the drills so that there was a logical progression in skills development.

 Hannah was pretty interested and watching the whole time. You even wanted to get out there and try.

 At the end of the day, I asked Nathan if you had fun and wanted to go back. You said, "No." because Coach James didn't let you kick the ball high into the air. Then, today when I asked you again, you said that you wanted to go so that you can follow the coach's directions and do a better job. I personally thought you did pretty good already, but apparently, you have higher standards for yourself.

Well, that's about it for now. I'm going to try to go and take a quick nap before you both wake up.

Love,
Mommy