Brag On Big Girl

It didn't seem fair to only discuss Hailey's new accomplishments since Hannah has new accomplishments of her own. Preschool has been so good for her and I love seeing the new things she learns. Her favorite part hands-down is all the songs they learn but here are some new things that she has been doing recently. She can:

- Count to 30

- Recognize numbers 1-10

- Recognize all letters (uppercase and lowercase)

- Tell you the days of the week in the correct order (it's in song form)

- Tell you the sound each letter makes

- Figure out what letter a word starts with when you sound it out for her

- Write the letters A, H, and O

- Name all the shapes and tell you what shape something is when you point it out to her

- Cut (fairly) straight on a line and trace lines

- Put together a puzzle of 25 to 50 pieces without help

- Draw people (hey they have heads, eyes, noses, mouths, a body, arms, and legs - it's as good as I can do, LOL)

- Color mostly in the lines, although she doesn't color things in completely

- Do extremely simple adding and subtracting (tell her you have 3 things and pick up or put down 1 thing - she can tell you what you will have)

- Reason with you and understand logic

She is getting so big!

Brag On Baby

Today, Hailey is 8 months old. Here are her achievements to date.

She can:

- Roll easily both ways

- Switch hands while holding toys

- Sit unsupported

- Sit up on her own

- Play peek-a-boo (she has only done this a few times)

- Hold her hands up to be picked up

- Self-feed and chew small, soft foods

- Army crawl and has made it forward a few times in regular crawling (before reverting to army style)

- Wave (she has only done this for about a week)

- Stand holding on to things

- Pull herself to standing using furniture (she has only done this for about a week)

- Recognize her name

- Come over to you when she wants you

- Shriek and laugh

- Clap (she has only done this once for sure, when Hannah opened a music box for her)

- Walk forward while holding people's fingers

- Blow rasberries

- Stick out her tongue in response to you doing it

- Pick up small objects

- Tell you she's hungry by sucking in her lips at you

What a big girl!