Making cake-cakes

On Sunday morning, Hannah and I made pancakes. Well, I made them, and Hannah "helped." I let her mix up the wet ingredients before I beat them together, and I also let her mix the flour mixture with a fork. Later that day, she was in her room with the door open. I heard her playing with her toys. She was singing a song without words, and then she said, "Makin cake-cakes!" I went in and she was sticking her drumstick in her shape sorter and mixing it around. When I greeted her, she looked up at me with a huge smile and said, "Hannah makin cake-cakes!"

Most days I go through my life without noticing things. Really important things, like how Hannah is growing and developing. I always promise myself I won't sleepwalk my way through Hannah's childhood, but I think we all do it. Today I "suddenly" noticed how much Hannah is talking. She is growing in so many ways.

Hannah and I were out at lunch with my friend Beth. Hannah was trying to reach the coffee service that was right behind our booth. Beth told her, "Be careful, Hannah, that's hot." Hannah replied solemnly, "Hot! Coffee! Mama - coffee." I said, "Mama drinks coffee, right." Beth asked her if Daddy drinks coffee. I answered, "Tea." Then Hannah said her first three word sentence, with a subject, verb and object: "Daddy drink tea." Beth and I both laughed and applauded her. Maybe I'm just a proud Mommy, but she made up that sentence, she wasn't just repeating what I had said. I just said, "Tea", and she made up the sentence about Daddy drinking tea.

We bought her a potty last week. It plays a little fanfare when she sits on it, and when she actually produces something. Of course, she is still just practicing sitting on it. She is pretty good about telling me when her diaper needs to be changed. Sometimes she just takes off her diaper and brings it to me, saying, "Wet - diaper." I don't blame her. Who would want to hang out in a wet diaper. I just didn't want to start the training until after the wedding was over, because I wanted her life to get back to normal first. I want her potty trained but in a way, it's easier that she wears a diaper. Once she's potty trained I will be forever scouting out bathrooms when we're out somewhere.

JoJo's Wedding

I think Blogger is actually going to let me post a photo! Yaaay! These are photos of Johanna's wedding, obviously. Hannah and the other flower girls, Remi and Mattie, danced all night long. She especially wanted to follow Mattie, the older one. Hunter, the ring bearer who got cold feet at the last minute, danced with them, but also showed us some break-dancing later in the evening.

The wedding was beautiful. Clint started to choke up during his vows and there wasn't a dry eye in the place by the time he was done.