Please see the attached for some recent pictures of the little ladies. This is kind of a random assortment, but we're headed to Florida for our annual trip to visit Grandma and Grandpa Nelson in a couple of weeks, and I thought it was a good time to clean up the camera.
Everyone is doing very well. We've been keeping busy and survived January - our annual month of disastrous health - relatively unscathed (see below for discussion re: individual hospital visits - but aside from that, I would say it was marked improvement over January 2011!).
Megan started dance class just after the first of the year - it's a tap/ballet combo, and she LOVES it. It's an hour long on Saturday mornings, and she thinks she is big stuff because Hannah and I drop her off and then go hang out at the library until she's done. Little Miss Maturity. She just moved into the school-age room at daycare, for the kindergarten crew and up, so we're getting used to that transition. We're also in the process of getting her enrolled for kindergarten in the fall. There is a lot up in the air about whether or not our school district will go to all-day, every day kindergarten or not, so some of the informational meetings are being pushed back until this gets decided at the state level. (Currently our school district does two full days and one half day kindergarten). I'm not sure it will make much of a difference to Megan since she's used to being in daycare full time, but it will be nice to figure out what next year will look like for her. In other school events, she really enjoyed her class Valentine's Day party (which Mom got to attend for the first time - yay new job!) - including handwriting all of her own Valentine's and reading her friends names to pass them out appropriately. She and Kyle also attended the school's Daddy Daughter Dance a couple of weeks ago - this was their second time going, and Megan had been looking forward to it pretty much since the last one ended. We let her get her hair and nails done for the event, which is a pretty big deal to an aspiring princess. There wasn't much dancing with Daddy to be done, but she had a great time bouncing around with her little friends who were also ignoring their fathers.
Hannah talks and/or sings All. The. Time. She cannot be stopped. It is like owning a little parrot. She is stringing all kinds of words together and her song playlist is pretty impressive as well. She is very much an independent little gal - not one to submit willingly to big sister's domination (unfortunately for her big sister). It is not unusual for her to hit and/or pull Megan's hair when she is displeased with the way play is going...or just because she's bored. (Megan, god love her, is not a very physical child and will try to talk her way out of the situation - screaming when the miniature bully of the house has her by the hair. I am not going to come out and suggest that she use her size to her advantage, but I really think if she were to just lay Hannah out one time, it would make a world of difference on the amount of little sister instigated violence in our home). Aside from physical abuse of her older sibling, she is very into her books and baby dolls (including covering them with blankets and patting their backs - just like Megan did!) and has become a certified two-foot jumper. She is very much a Mommy's girl and is the world's greatest cuddler. We still have her in the crib for now - mostly because she is routinely soaking through her overnight diapers, and it is easier to wash crib bedding than full-sized mattress bedding. Really, really hoping that stops soon - I really don't enjoy much about the laundry. We are looking forward to celebrating her second birthday next month!
Though we have been ear infection free all winter (knock on wood), the girls each had their fair share of brief stomach bugs early in the New Year. I missed a few days of work here and there, but overall, it wasn't nearly the disaster that last year was with Hannah's recurring ear infections and severe colds. This is all well and good, yet we still managed to take each kid for some form of emergent care - I suppose it wouldn't be January without it. On an otherwise enjoyable Sunday, Megan started complaining of abdominal pain, and within an hour it got to the point where she wouldn't stand up and was begging to go to the doctor. I called our doctor's office and they suggested we go to the ER at the Children's Hospital in the event she needed an ultrasound - her symptoms were sounding like potential appendix trouble. It turned out to be a bladder infection that was giving her all the trouble, and the hospital experience was actually pretty positive - she got to watch Disney movies in her own private room, with a blue slushie to boot.
Hannah required her *first* (unless I succeed at finding her the perfect two year old helmet, I am sure it will not be the last) set of stitches in January as well. She took off running down the hallway at daycare (not listening? shocker!) and cracked her head on the corner of a wall, splitting the skin just above her eyebrow. It only took one stitch to get her put back together, but it looks like she'll be sporting a nice little scar on her forehead. Stitches at 21 months? God has dealt us a wild card here, folks.
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