Eating Lots

Hannah's still eating a LOT, which is either the growth spurt I thought, or she's making up for the eating strike she'll go on the next time she's teething.Wish us luck, we're driving to Philadelphia on the 27th for Kieran's birthday party! I hope Hannah is cooperative and happy that day, because otherwise all that time in the car will be miserable.

Goodbye 2006

Hannah's Christmas went really well. She had a great time on Christmas Eve with Meme and Grandma and everyone. She helped open her stocking and generally had fun. She loves her Mr. Potato head, and insists I make her dancing penguin dance for her every time we're in the playroom. Christmas morning she became obsessed with her kitchen that Mommy and Daddy bought her, and she plays with it, or the play pots and food, almost constantly. She also has a few more new words, so I have to say that she must just be stubborn, or a perfectionist. She is amazingly smart, and I love spending time with her every day.I think we're hitting a growth spurt, since she spent the two weeks before Christmas sleeping until 7am or later, and is now waking before six again. She's also eating everything in sight, which is amazing to see.

New Words!

Hannah's doing so well. Just in the last two weeks she's started saying about 8 new words. In case your interested, some of the new ones are Milk, cookie, again, choo choo, uh oh, and tickle tickle, complete with tickling herself. She's doing really well, though I have no reason to believe that EI has anything to do with it. So far in the three months since referral, they've seen her actively one time. So I'll just say thank you very much that she's progressing in spite of them!

Thanksgiving Part II

Hannah had a good Thanksgiving, minus the fact that she only napped in the car between our house and Grandma's and between Grandma and Grampy's. She ate most of the day, just like everyone else, and sat down to dinner with us this year, instead of sleeping like last year. She was very good and seemed to have lots of fun. I can't wait for Christmas this year, since she's going to LOVE it this time!

"Buddy"

So an entire two months later, we have another new word. Hannah now says "buddy" when she means Gary. She wanders the house calling "buddy.... buddy" when he's at school. She also combined two words earlier this week and said "bye dada" so that's pretty big too. Hannah qualified for EI and they're coming for their first actual appointment today at 10:30. I hope that she cooperates, but I don't see why she wouldn't. She was very good for her evaluation.

Fall

Still no new words, but Hannah's EI evaluation is scheduled for next week. Should be informative to say the least.Hannah had a great time this weekend playing with Michael and picking pumpkins. My little baby is growing up so fast.

E.I.

So far we haven't heard from EI, and I'm getting frustrated. Everything I have heard says kids have a language explosion at 18 months and can learn up to 12 new words a day. Clearly that isn't happening =(