8 months!

Hannah is now 8 months old. It's so funny how I was so focused on her getting olderwhen she was a newborn...couldn't wait for her to get to be 3 months old. That was the promised land of less colicky screaming and more sleeping! But once she hit that mark time has flown by! She is crawling alllllll over the place, and said her first words this week. She says, "all done!" when she is done eating dinner. She follows me wherever I go and still loves playing with big sister Emily.

Emily is doing better with potty training. She went two times today. She seems to do the best when we let her run around without a diaper on. My thought is that we will get it down pat over summer break...because it's hard for her to be sans diaper at daycare! Time will tell...

We just had February vacation and it was great. Andy was finally done with basketball season so he was able to be home at night which we all benefitted from! We did some shopping, some playing with the girls, visiting with family and going to the boys basketball playoffs. It was nice to be together as a family. We even got some projects done around the house! Even though I'm not excited to go back to work I'm grateful that I have a job to go back to!

SIck House

I *think* we are over our sickness this week. Hannah had her first stomach bug...complete with puke and diarrhea. Poor baby! But honestly, she was so happy! She would get sick and then 10 seconds later be blowing raspberries (by far her favorite noise/trick!).

Emily had her pediatric urology appt. yesterday where they manually separated her adhesions. After 30 seconds of discomfort for our brave girl, the adhesions are mostly taken care of. There is a chance they could re-adhere, but we're thinking positive! So needless to say I have been letting the girls lay low and recover!

Tonight I asked Emily "When are you going to start peeing on the potty?" Her response, "Ummm......around 6:30." LOL...that girl cracks me up! Hannah is learning how to wave and clap her hands. I absolutely love this age..she is so happy and cuddly! I wish I could always figure out what she wants though, life does get easier when they can talk!

Things to lose

Sometimes it strikes me when I am looking at my family...Andy, Emily and Hannah that it is a pretty overwhelming feeling to realize just how much I have to lose. Tonight I was cuddling on the couch with Emily, who is feeling kind of yucky and missed her nap today. She was snuggling as close as she could possibly get to me and just that feeling of cuddling with her and knowing that to her, I am her comfort was kind of overwhelming. Sometimes I get an ache in my heart when I really think about how much I love these girls, and the thought of not having them in my life is truly impossible to fathom.