Jack, Elmo, and us

Back to mainland life and sorting out the routine. The girls did an excellent job of falling back inline with our usual schedule.

Sophie has been mastering a lot of hand - eye coordination as she enjoys putting toys into boxes and taking them out or putting pieces of a toy into place by shape. She does it with such ease and makes us really proud. She also learned to sign "more" today! We are tackling other issues with her however such as bullying kids by taking toys away, having more manners for eating, no screaming, etc. She's making progress as we keep reinforcing rules and learning patience. Yes, this is an exercise not only for the babies, but for us parents too! It's funny how I watched "The Dog Whisperer" and "Nanny 911" or "Super Nanny" and all shows are pretty darn close with the methods used. Not to say that children are dogs or anything, but that it stems from the parents and how they correct these behaviors.

Hannah is still continuing with her cruising and she's not as adept to hand - eye coordination, but is still mimicking us speaking words. She and Sophie enjoy singing and dancing a lot and we've captured some on video. They also love bubbles and can't get enough of watching them float away. Speaking of which we did attend a session of "learn and play" at gymboree and mommy decided that we loved it, so signed us up. We've never seen Hannah more happy in our life, she was so into learning and squealed with delight. Hannah really enjoyed the slide as she climbed up and slipped down on her tummy. She even had two boy admirers....hmmmm....not yet Hannah!!!

Today we took Sophie and Hannah out to Toys 'R' us to get some little chairs for them to sit on while we feed them some snacks in the playpen. A lady in line was taken by the girls and stood in back of Sophie in the shopping cart. She asked Derek how old is Sophie and Der asked Sophie can you show her how old you are? Sophie held up one finger and the lady was amazed! Heck, I was amazed because it's hard to get her to do it on cue hahahaha.

Here Hannah points to mommy to tell everyone to look into the camera.

Awwww, so cute!

Hannah, Mommy, and Sophie copying daddy's idea of a pic.

Sophie, Elmo, and Hannah share a moment.

Sophie boogies to Jack's Big Music Show dvd (Thanks Uncle Chris!).