A Hannah Funny

This made us laugh, so I just had to share this "Hannah Funny" on her blog.

Everynight before she goes to bed, I try to lay out the clothes in which Hannah will wear to school the next day. I did that last night, laying out her denim overalls with a polo shirt.

This morning, as I was getting ready to take her to school, Steven came to me and asked if I had anything else for Hannah to wear to school today because she didn't want to wear her overalls.

When asked why she didn't want to wear her overalls, her response was "I don't want to look like a dumb farmer". So I went into her closet, and pulled out a denim overall dress for her to wear, her response..."I don't want to wear that, then I'll look like the dumb farmer's wife".

To the Dentist

Over the last couple of days, one of Hannah's lower teeth has been turning dark. It's the one tooth that the dental hygenist said was loose when she cleaned Hannah's teeth months ago.

When I took the girls to Urgent Care on Sunday for their eyes, I asked the Pediatrician about it and he suggested I take her to see our dentist. We were pretty sure that the tooth had died because of it being loose, but to be sure that was all it was, and because the Pediatrician suggested we go, Hannah saw the dentist today. And yes, her tooth is greying simply because her permanent tooth is pushing up and causing her baby tooth to die. He said it's only a matter of a few weeks and it'll be out.

Hannah is excited and already looking forward to money under her pillow for her tooth. We don't do the Tooth Fairy, but have told her that Mommy or Daddy will leave her money under her pillow in exchange for her tooth. LOL.

I'll be trying to take extra pictures in the weeks to come. Once that tooth is out, her smile will never look the same!

Lunch and a Playdate

The girls and I had lunch and a playdate with a dear old friend and her boys today. It was such a wonderful time of fellowship for us moms, and the kids got along really well. Lisa's boys are 5 and 2, so they are really close in age to Hannah and Rachel.

It was such a hot day that following lunch, Lisa found the girls some shorts and t-shirts and together they all played in the little pool getting wet and cooling off. It's funny how girls can easily wear boy clothes, if Lisa and the boys had been here, all I would have had to offer for them to wear to get wet in would have been pink! LOL. We're looking forward to getting together again soon!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day. Some Mothers wake up to breakfast in bed. Some wake up to flowers and homemade cards. What do I wake up to?? Not one kid with gunky eyes, but BOTH girls with gunky and crusty eyes. LOL.

I got the flowers and homemade cards too, in addition to the crusty eyes. LOL. I spent the beginning of my Mother's Day at Urgent Care where my predetermined diagnosis of an eye infection was confirmed. Both girls are on antibiotic eye drops and are considered contagious. Thus we couldn't go to the Mother's Day BBQ at my grandmother's house this afternoon, nor were we able to spend any time with my mom for Mother's Day.

The kicker of it all, Hannah has only 10 school days left in this school year. Ten days. As mentioned in a prior post, she has perfect attendance. I guess I can say 'she had' perfect attendance. The Pediatrician said she can't go to school tomorrow. Despite the fact the contaguousness will be minimal after a few doses of the drops, to play it safe, she should not be around other children until it's been a full 24 hours on the drops.

Depending on how the girls are tomorrow morning, I'm seriously considering taking advantage of Hannah being out of school and going to Disneyland first thing in the morning. The girls act perfectly fine. Their eyes don't look nearly as bad as they did when they woke up, and should only get better with the drops. We'll see how they are in the morning.

2 Weeks Left

It's hard to believe that two weeks from today Hannah will have Kindergarten behind her! The class will have a celebration ceremony on Friday morning then the kids are free to go home, their year is over. At this point :::knock on wood::: Hannah has perfect attendance, so I would imagine she may get a certificate for her attendance. As for celebrating the occassion, I'm thinking we'll go out to lunch and I'll make her a special cake for celebrating her accomplishment.

It seems as though the last couple of weeks, all the kids have been progressing so quickly. Just this week alone, Hannah went from Level 5 on her reading and jumped to Level 8 as of today! It's as though all of a sudden, it 'clicked'. And since she's reading, sounding out, and figuring out words, the days of spelling words in attempts to keep her from knowing what you're talking about, are over. LOL. The other day in the car I was spelling a word out to my mom and boy was I suprised when Hannah sounded it out and figured out what word I was spelling.

Stuffed Animal Pet Show

Hannah did something fun in school today, the class had a pet show featuring their stuffed animals! Each child was allowed to bring one stuffed animal to school, as well as a picture of a 'real' pet. Hannah took a picture of Wendy, Gramma and Papa's dog, and her stuffed Wendy to share. Wendy won the award for "softest animal". All the way to school this morning we practiced what Hannah was going to share about Wendy. Something interesting about Wendy that needed to be shared was she was trained to help people with disabilites, but unfortunately failed one of the tests at the end of the program, thus she was given up for adoption, which is how Gramma and Papa came to get Wendy, through Canine Companions.

Hannah and Wendy have been best pals since Hannah was a baby. Hannah thinks of Wendy as her own dog, her own dog that lives with Gramma and Papa, and in my opinion, aren't those the best living arrangements? LOL. Unfortunately, Wendy has been recently diagnosed with cancer, and we really don't know how much longer she has. It's been a bit of a struggle as to whether or not to tell Hannah that Wendy is dying or to just let her enjoy Wendy for the time that's left, not knowing what's to come. For now, we're just letting her to continue to enjoy her and will cross the next bridge when we come to it.