Dear Hannah and Nathan,
This week has been busy, but very fun. A little update on the pregnancy. Your little sister is moving quite a bit now a days, being especially wiggly right before bedtime. I'm feeling really great and actually craving/liking spicy foods. Now, I normally a wimp when it comes to anything spicy, but it seems like my tolerance for the heat has gotten better.
The weather has been amazing lately. We've been able to eat outside on the patio for most meals. Usually, we can only do this for about 2 weeks before the heat becomes too unbearable. So, I thought that before crawfish season was over, we could take advantage of the nice weather outside and host a small boil. We invited Hannah's Godparents and a good neighbor family over.
It was definitely a multi-step process and you guys did a great job helping me out. As I rinsed the crawfish, getting them to purge out all of their yucky swamp nastiness, you guys shucked a dozen ears of corn and kept watch for runaway crawfish.
While we were getting dinner ready, you guys did some "cooking" yourself.
At the end, out of all 5 kids, we find out that Hannah is the only crawfish lover, so we ended up with quite a bunch of leftovers.
Hannah, you were very excited to see your God-brother, who was only born 2 weeks after you and this time around, your God-brother's sibling will only be a few days behind your little sister.
This is what 30 pounds of crawfish looks like. We only lost about a dozen due to pre-mature mortality. After dinner, we actually found 1 flattened crawfish in the middle of the street. "Freedom!" [squash].
After our feast, we walked over to our neighborhood's food truck community night and hung out at the kid zone for a good hour. While the adults enjoyed a few free beers and listened to local live music, the children chased bubbles and played various lawn games. It wast the perfect activity for you guys.
Earlier on Saturday morning while Daddy was playing hockey, I took both of you to Home Depot to participate in their monthly craft project. This month it was a little planter. Nathan, you were able to do most of the hammering yourself, but accidentally broke your planter in half.
Hannah, you attempted to hammer the nails in, and you were hitting the head of the nails, but you just don't have the arm strength that it takes to completely hammer them in yet.
Afterwards, you two got to paint them and were very proud of your work. Once Nathan realized that there was an actual pot where we could plant seeds, you asked if you could pick out something to plant from our seed library. We will be putting carrots and broccoli seeds in the pots later this week.
Hannah, you are getting to be such a big girl these days. You love going on bike rides with the family and now you are even able to sit on the little attachment behind Daddy's bike. You simply love zooming around the neighborhood and racing with either Nathan or me on our bikes. The only thing you get upset about is that you don't have a bell on your bike.
You have also recently started to ask to sleep with Nathan. Since Nathan is working on just wearing undies at night, he is sleeping on the bottom bunk with a washable puppy pad. So far we've had success when we limit liquids to before dinner and when we bring him to the potty at around 11. You usually stir a bit when we wake him up, but you quickly go back to bed. I actually think you are ready for this training as well, but we are going to wait until you can easily slip your undies off and on by yourself and when you are completely daytime potty trained.
Hannah is taking soccer kids with the big kids. You technically are supposed to be in the younger age group, but the coaches let you join in Nathan's class because you are close to 3 and you are pretty coordinated. You really enjoy the class. Nathan too. Today, we had our old soccer coach come in to sub and you guys were so excited to see him!
After soccer class, we stopped by Daddy's work for lunch. While we waited for him, we played a few arcade games and today, Hannah, you learned how to get the skee-ball up the ramp and not have it roll back down to you.
Often I try to find the most fun activity for you guys to have fun with and often I'm reminded that you guys are happy and excited by things that I have now found to be very ordinary. I need to remember that you guys are new to the world and need to experience it one small step at a time.
Little things that make you excited and happy are:
1) "Elsa hair" Hannah, you love it when I braid one side of your hair even if it looks nothing like Elsa.
2) And you always get super excited when the purple plate is clean and you can use it for dinner.
3) Each morning, lunch and dinner time, you guys want to go out and check on the 1 red cherry tomato that we have growing in the garden. Apparently we have to wait for the tomato to come off easily, that's when it is really ripe. I am a bit nervous because this is the one opportunity for me to get you two to like cherry tomatoes. If you two end up hating the first bite, that's it for a long time, you two will automatically associate cherry tomatoes as not good. It's all in your head with new foods. If I can convince you two to try a bite of new food and you end up liking it, we are golden.
Little things.
This week winds down a bit with a mother's day tea at school. Once May is over, summer will be here and we'll have a busy schedule then as well: swim lessons, camps and VBS.
Whew. Well, until next week.
Love,
Mommy
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