Wordless Wednesday

Letter H wrap up

Here is a quick recap of the fun we had with the letter H.

Letter H Box

Hannah loved clacking the Hand Clacker (If only Ethan wasn't napping).

Wearing hats of all kinds.

Cute faces and Sorted H's

Played with rice and H's.

Played with our hanging heart balloon (which now incidentally has popped and has been replaced with a bell).

Hot and Cold testing.

Made a house out of the letter H

And another out of cardboard.

Hammered lots (big hit)

Sorted Happy and Sad pictures (and made faces too)

Made heart brownies for Daddy.

Finally we followed the heart maze.

H-is for Hearts

We finished up our H activities with hearts.  We did two activities and we enjoyed them both.  First, we made heart brownies for Daddy this morning to tell him how much we love him.  After the brownies came out of the oven and cooled Hannah cut them into heart shapes and Daddy was the first to sample them  They were yummy.  Strangely, Hannah did not enjoy them.  She loves chocolate and chocolate cake.  But not these.

Nice pose Hannah

She liked poking the brownies out if the cookie cutters.

Her finished present.

Not so sure.

Even stranger, when we told her it was like chocolate cake later, she gobbled it up.  What can I say she's 2.

Our other heart activity was a maze. Andrew and I wound string all over the living room and kitchen.  For example from the banister  to the fireplace would be one section.  At the beginning of the section was a heart, Hannah needed to pull the heart along the string to the end of the section (think ziplining, and the transferring of carabiners), and then switch to the next heart. Hopefully if your a little confused by my description the pictures will make sense.

At the very end of the string maze was this surprise.

Here you can see the string back and forth across the living room.

Here is an exchange point.  Hannah followed the heart along the string to this point(and others like it), then would continue on her way by leaving the old heart and taking the new one (the one you can see).

Around the kitchen table and under.

Hannah pushing it along.

She got to this point where she was suppose to crawl under the table but instead she  pushed  the heart further under the table and then walked around to get the next heart.

Hannah switching hearts.

She found her surprise

More hearts and her snack.

We left up the maze up until Ethan was awake and he had fun with it too.  Stay tune tomorrow for the Letter H wrap up.

Oh the Magic is Gone

My little girl is growing up far too fast.  She surprised me today as we were sitting together in my bedroom before her nap. Everyday, I tell Hannah a story about a puppy named Skittles.  If I am the one taking her to bed (or nap) she may even hear 2 Skittle stories.  Its a Mommy/Hannah thing.  In the stories, Skittles will do any number of things go shopping for new shoes, wrap a present for his baby brother, make dinner with Mommy.  The story ends with Skittles going down for a nap or going to bed. Often I ask Hannah what Skittles will do today and then I make up the story accordingly.  Lately, Skittles has gone to many pool parties. In my head, Skittles has always been Hannah.  It's a running conversation between Andrew and I that Hannah will eventually figure it out.
Well this afternoon, Skittles went on a walk with mommy to pick up fall leaves.  He collected them in a basket and then brought them home.  When I finished the story Hannah turned to me and said "When Hannah wakes up, mommy go buy Hannah a basket for a walk".  I smiled at her and asked her if she wanted to go on a leaf walk just like Skittles.  She then said "Skittles is Hannah, its the same".  I was shocked.  I asked her who told her that Skittles and Hannah were the same.  She told me that Daddy said it.  I shall be having a little chat with Daddy later.  She had the biggest smile on her face like she had just figured out a big surprise.  Too funny.  I neither confirmed it nor denied it.  But will I keep telling the stories anyway.

Earlier, when we got home from church Hannah was such a good helper.  She took Ethan's jacket and shoes off after coming inside.  Then she said his pants and socks were wet (we played outside and it had rained) so she took those off too, she is such a good big sister.

Here she is laying out his wet clothes to dry.

As I mentioned yesterday, it was my Grandma's birthday (GG).  We were over at my parents and we had such a good time.

Hannah and GG blow out the candles.

Time for ice cream. (That is my sister Amanda poking her head  in the back )

I think Hannah enjoyed the swimming the most especially since Gamma Gamma (my mom) took her.

H is for Hats

Today, is my grandma's birthday, Hannah affectionately calls her GG, so yesterday we made her a birthday card.  I stuck on the letters to spell out "I love you GG" but I only had lower case letters. Hahahaha oh well.  Hannah then decorated her card with some foam stars and hearts.

She was in a pretty wacky mood.

I think she did a great job and I know GG will love it.

Then continuing along in our H activities, I gathered up every hat in the house I could find.  We played dress  up and Hannah decided who owned each hat.

I think Daddy's tuque is still a little big baby boy.

Too small

Just right (not quite).  This is one of Ethan's baby hats but it is really stretchy.

Afterwards, I hid all of the hats all around the room for Hannah and Ethan to find and bring back to the basket (or wear).

She went to sleep so well last night that I credit the running from this game (or maybe the trip to the river) either way I was thankful.

Hannah thought Ethan should wear a hat too,  Ethan wasn't  into that idea (it could have been Hannah forcefully trying to jam it on his head).

This is a sorting activity with those colored H's (I have no idea what they are actually for, so if you do let me know).  The idea is to take the H's out of the hard hat and place them in the appropriate colored dish.

She did so well, this is the first time she has completed a sorting activity.  Good Job Hannah.

Wacky all afternoon (that is a blue H tower in the dish).

Finally, Hannah drew her picture in her dictation drawing book.
She had quite an animated story this week about GG and her birthday.