Our Hannah Elyse is 3 years old. She is such a darling little girl. She makes us laugh multiple times per day. I want to share with you some of my favorite things about her.
Hannah's favorite songs at bedtime are Amazing Grace, You are My Sunshine and I Love My Hannah. She has loved these songs since she could talk and she has us sing 2 of them every single night.
Hannah loves her paci. She used to have two pacis and she would suck on one and play with the other in her hand. We have weaned her down to one pacifier and she only gets it at bedtime. We have decided that we want to take her paci away before we move her into a big girl bed because we don't want her screaming and chasing us down the hall for it every night. So...lately the big theme in our home is getting Hannah excited for a big girl bed so she will chose to give her paci up. If she doesn't give it up soon, the paci is going to start breaking...you can bet that will be a sad sad day.
Hannah is a social little girl. She will talk to people in stores and other public places. She likes to tell people her age and her name and her sissy's name.
Hannah LOVES her big sister. She wants to be with Madeline almost all of the time. And she wants to do everything Madeline does. She has become quite skilled at pushing Madeline's buttons - so skilled that she can immediately reduce Madeline to tears or whines. We're working on this little interaction at least 5x a day lately.
Hannah can boogie-down. She knows how to do the cha cha slide and she loves to shake her booty. She's a tiny little thing but she can sure dance!
Hannah is learning how to pray. Lately she likes to pray that God will help her friends breathe "God help Laney to breathe, help Zachy to breathe, help Hallie to breathe, help Camryn and Brooke to breathe" and on and on. She also likes to pray at meals "God help Ma-line's food, mommy's food, daddy's food, my food, mommy's food, ma-line's food, daddy's food and my food. amen"
Hannah is a very clear communicator. She has been talking clearly since she was 2, maybe even before. So we get lots of fun little glimpses into the mind of a toddler.
Lately, Hannah's favorite saying is "That's not FAIR". Luckily she realized quickly that the saying isn't going to fly in the Giles house and that she sounded pretty funny saying it in such a whiney tone. So now when she says it she totally dramatizes it and then cracks up laughing.
I should ask Chris and Madeline some of their faves about our darling. I'll make that a later post. For now, here are some pics of our celebrations of our little girl's birthday.
We had Vacation Bible School the week of Hannah's birthday. VBS ran from 530 to 830 pm every night. So we had a little celebration for Hannah with our neighbors after VBS on her birthday. Jakob and Jakson and their mom Janet live next door and were able to attend (Karl was out of town on business). Aly and her mom and dad, Kevin and Amy, were able to attend too. Hannah felt so loved :)
The weekend after Hannah's birthday, we went to Nana's house for a swim party. Papa was sick and Aunt Chrissy was out of town but they got celebrate with her in St Louis (pics of that trip will be posted another day).
I didn't get pics of everyone with Hannah but I can promise she is a very loved little girl. Hannah, you have so many people who love you and you bring sunshine to all of us. We love you Hannah Boo.
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