Yesterday evening, as I was sewing a zipper in Paul’s special blue car pajamas, I thought about that these are some of the richest years of our lives. Paul and Hannah at that time were both sitting on the piano bench, both playing the piano, and both singing. They were having the time of their lives playing so nicely in the living room while I ripped out the old zipper and sewed in the new one (all of which took about an hour). They were so happy!
Earlier in the day (or else it was another day entirely) they were both out in the 8′ wide hallway of our (unfinished) new addition, and they were holding hands and facing each other and “dancing” all around. It largely amounted to hopping around as they held hands and burned off energy. It was neat to watch.
I just rolled through a few pictures, and here are some that show more of our rich, abundant life.
One day, Paul told me that Hannah didn’t know her letters. It happened to be the day I was very busy baking and preparing for my mom’s birthday supper. So, I suggested to him that he could teach Hannah her letters. They both willingly worked at it for a while. He would hold up a big letter and ask her what it was. She would say a letter name, but it would be the wrong one. Paul would correct her and then ask her the sound of it. When she made the wrong sound, he would tell her the correct sound, and she would repeat it. Later in that day, they both sat on rugs in the dining room and he “read” books to her (saying the words from memory). That was so sweet! They were happy that day, and adorable.
I don’t know what’s happening here, but this is
Paul and his Uncle Luke.
This is Paul and Hannah playing on the shelves
in a closet of our new rooms.
Hannah enriches are lives by simply
being our beautiful Hannah!
Hannah always finds a way. She is quite
accomplished at playing in the water/
washing her hands at the bathroom
sink. She stands on a stool in order to
step up and grip the knobs of the bath-
room vanity cupboards with her little
toes so she can reach the water spigot.
In the evenings and on the weekends when the
men are not here working on the rooms, Hannah
and Paul enjoy riding bikes and running around
in the new rooms.
Right now our life-enriching, abundant-living little people are in bed enjoying abundant sleep–complete with a blankie and bear swap. It was Paul’s idea. He is sleeping with Hannah’s teddy bear and blankies, and Hannah is sleeping with Paul’s teddy bear and blankies. They both seemed to like the idea, especially Paul. This swap is a first.
I love the picture of Hannah standing on the cupboard knobs!!!!! All the pics are great, but that one is spectacular!!!!!
The picture of Paul and Luke is when ya’ll were here for the birthday bash and we were playing in the basement and Paul kept asking about a red motorcycle. I was playing with Hannah and Bobby so Luke was trying to figure out what it was. We thought he was talking about one of the red dirtbikes (we have 2) when we showed him those he said that wasn’t what he was talking about. We finally figured out that he was talking about my old red plastic three wheeler. Sally, your kids are smart. They know exactly what they are talking about and have an amazing memory. And I agree with Lucy, the picture of Hannah is adorable!!