We have a little speller on our hands!

Tonight while Mark and I were doing our own thing around the house, Hannah was apparently doing her own thing too! This is what she had to show us! I can't believe she wrote her name with all the letters in the right order. She is learning so much at preschool. She has really taken an interest in early reading skills, such as letter sounds and what letter different words start with. It's so cool to see her learning things and it's equally cool to see how proud she is of her accomplishments. Way to go, Hannah!

Little snaggletooth!

Here's William sharing his toothy grin!

My swinging cuties

Hannah is growing up!

The other morning Hannah made her bed all by herself without being asked. She was so proud (as was I)! I think she did a great job for a 3 year old :)

Leo

Hannah's preschool class pet joined us last weekend and we had tons of fun with "Leo." Leo is a stuffed dog backpack. He became an instant part of our family and even I was a little sad when it was time for him to go back to school. Hannah LOVED having Leo with our family! She slept with him each night and made sure he sat at the table with us for every meal. We took him to two parks to play and have a picnic and even took him to a dog park called Wiggly Field :)

Snow Babies

I'm excited to report that Hannah really liked the snow this year. In the past she's always been hesitant to walk on the snow because she said she didn't like the way it crunched under her feet. So we suited her up as any good Southerner would, with bags on her feet and off she went!

William wasn't so much a fan of the cold. Actually, he never has liked being cold or having something cold touch his skin (like my ever-frozen hands!)

The belated Christmas post

What can I say, I've been a very bad blogger. Here is a long overdue post with some Christmas pictures. We had a wonderful Christmas season with our families and Santa was good to all of us! Hannah really got into the excitement and anticipation of Christmas day. Every day during December she told me she wanted Santa to bring her a batman toy and a princess toy. I think she has a crush on Batman...that, or the little boy at school who is always talking about Batman ;)

Christmas love!


Hannah's princess castle from Aunt Mandy. She is very protective of this castle and won't let William anywhere near it.


WJ modeling his new UGA hat (and a huge booger)


Hanging her stocking on Christmas Eve


Santa came through!


The kids sporting their Christmas "fancies"


And a few family shots :)

Christmas babies!

William is growing and changing SO quickly. He started crawling about 10 days ago and yesterday he cut his third tooth. Tonight he pulled up to standing for the first time. He is ALL OVER THE PLACE these days. He moves FAST when he crawls. He is also self feeding cheerios and small pieces of food. He'll eat anything and everything we put in front of him and never turns his face away to any food.

Hannah is very excited about Christmas this year. She still refuses to go anywhere near Santa, but she has asked him for "a batman toy and a princess toy." I'm sure Santa can come through on that :) Here is a picture of the kids in their coordinating Christmas jammies: