Learning How to Dress Myself

Here's Hannah...again. Why don't I post pictures of myself? It's because I don't take pictures of myself. I take pictures of everyone else. Most of the pictures I take of myself just don't turn out. Usually it's my nose that is completely disproportionate. Ah well. Hannah's cuter than I am anyway. So, on the 10th I tried a new dress on Hannah and told her she looked gorgeous in it. Then I took it off, so she could wear it to church the next day. She didn't want me to. She was pretty upset about it, in fact. So I gave her the dress. I guess she wanted to wear it pretty badly because it's the first thing she actually successfully got over her head. Then today she started putting on one of her onesies. She's never done that before either. She put it on over the new dress which she wore to church today. I thought it was pretty cute. It sure would be nice if she could learn to get dressed by herself.

Evelyn's First Rattle

(Actually I don't know if this was the first rattle she played with, but I believe so.) I love this rattle because it's easy for Evelyn's small fingers to wrap around. I gave it to her and came back quite a while later and she still had it, and was gleefully sucking on it. Later I came and found her asleep, with the rattle still in her mouth.

By the way, although lots of the pictures I have of Evelyn are of her in the swing, I do take her out sometimes. I do admit, though, that it is the easiest place for me to leave her, because Hannah can't step on her or squish her there! Also, something about the swing seems to easily soothe her, and that's nice too. Before I had Hannah, I asked Mom what baby things I should buy. At the top of the list, before a crib even, Mom told me I should get a swing. I haven't ever regretted it.

Elf

It's so fun to take pictures of Hannah in hats nowadays. She never used to let us take pictures of her in hats because she hated them and didn't wear them. She still doesn't particularly like them. We usually get her to keep them on by saying, "Let's go look in the mirror!" (Yes, we bribe her.) She loves to look in the mirror. In this picture Ben is trying to keep her excited about seeing herself since she kept on trying to yank the hat off. We didn't even get the picture that we wanted. When we first put the hat on her it stuck straight up and she looked just like a perfect little Santa's elf. This picture turned out fairly well, but (no offense Ben) it would have been so cute without Ben in it.

Here's Evelyn! Isn't she just the most adorable little thing? She does a fairly good job of holding up her head. She did a really good job before Christmas, especially. And then we didn't really put her on her tummy at all for a couple of weeks, since we were travelling and visiting, and she kind of forgot how to do it. Every time I would put her on her tummy she would scream and fuss after just a few moments, and rub her nose back and forth on the blanket without lifting her head. Then, suddenly, it was as though something clicked in her mind again, and she started holding up her head again and enjoying her tummy time more. It was kind of strange, but I'm glad she's over it.

Toque and Mittens

Is that how you spell toque? I couldn't find it in my dictionary. I just thought this picture of Hannah was really cute. She doesn't mind putting on her toque and her mittens but when I try to put on her coat she often has a fit. She doesn't like that at all. She likes to go outside though.

A Little Bitty Box for a Little Bitty Girl

I already have a few posts of Hannah climbing all over the place. This represents her newest achievements in that area. I absolutely LOVE being a mom, because I get to be a part of moments like these!

Expressive Evelyn

When we were taking pictures of Evelyn in her dress she started smiling and talking to Ben (who was holding her.) She made some cute faces, and I was able to capture a few on the camera. I couldn't decide which one was the best, so I am including two. Also I have an extra picture just to show all of Evelyn's dress. There is a story behind it. When Evelyn was just a few days old Ben's mom asked if we needed anything, wondering what she could get for Evelyn. We already had everything we needed, since we had Hannah, and were just planning on using everything for Evelyn that we had used for her. But Ben really wanted Evelyn to have her own special not-hand-me-down just-for-Evelyn dress. So Ben's Mom searched and found this one. I think it's adorable, and it really is nice to have a dress just for her.

Little Climber

Hannah got a stroller to push her dolls around in for Christmas, as well as a little playpen. She really enjoys them and spends all day wrapping her dolls in blankets, putting them in my swing (when Evelyn isn't in it), putting them to bed (I've encouraged her to use the playpen as a bed)and pushing them around in her stroller. But today she found another use for them. I came upstairs from doing something downstairs and discovered her inside her baby stroller. I guess she doesn't think she's done being a baby. It also helps that she is becoming more of a bold climber. She got a little chair for Christmas from her Grandma and Grandpa Hogenson and she's been practicing climbing in and out of it. Later that same day I was holding Evelyn on the couch and I watched Hannah discover another use for her baby's playpen as well. I took pictures of both events, and I think it's funny that they both happened for the first time on the same day. The sad thing is that although I took time to take pictures, Ben and I don't think climbing inside of her toys, especially her stroller, is a good thing. We're going to try and prevent it from happening as much as possible, much to Hannah's disappointment. I noticed that sitting in the play pen is making the stitching on the bottom pull out, and once when she climbed into the stroller she came dangerously close to falling out of it when it started to roll underneath her when her weight shifted.