Hattie Says "Up"

November 19th Hattie said, "Up", with the /p/ at the end. I was so proud!  She had been saying "uh" but had not put the final /p/ on yet.  It was music to my ears and she beamed from ear to ear.  Last weekend we were working on "help" and she may have gotten that too.  Yesterday at daycare they worked on saying, "apple" and she said that as well, in this little tiny sweet voice.  I just love to hear words come out of her mouth!

Hattie can be very emotional. If she's doing something that she shouldn't be and it isn't even a big deal and you tell her "no" or "no thank you Hattie", she may cry really loud and feel badly. She seems to be more emotional than the boys were but then again it's been 5 years since they were this little!

She's very good about checking with you to see if she can do something. For example, she was eating gold fish in her bowl.  She found a larger tupperware bowl.  She looked at me, pointed to the big tupperware bowl, indicating she wanted to pour her goldfish in, and waited.  I told her she could pour her goldfish in, so she did! :)

The other day when Jeff was home in the afternoon with Hattie they were trying to get the Little People school bus to work.  They tried to replace the batteries and Hattie helped with the screwdriver. When I got home she showed me it wasn't working.  I said, we should check the batteries.  She looked at me, hopped up and ran to the drawer where the screw driver is.  She took out the screw driver, came back, sat down with the school bus between her legs, flipped it over, put the screw driver in the hole and started to turn it! What a smart girl and what great fine motor skills! :)