Monthly update

Looks like posting once a month is all we can manage these days... so here are a few funnies from October:

- I asked Hannah if she'd like more pancakes. Her answer: "Yeah, sure, I betcha!" (I think she learned this from her paternal grandfather. Wow, didn't realize I was raising a midwesterner!)

- Hannah wrapped an afghan around her shoulders with a regal flair and demanded to Matthew, "Bow down to me!" From reading about Daniel in the Bible??? Innate imperial sense?

- After MUCH anguish, Hannah finally took a bite of the soup that we were having for dinner. She found she liked it and then explained, "I had to whine for a little bit to help it."

- One of my favorite things Matthew says these days is his affirmative response when offered something... such as, "Would you like to go upstairs and play cars?" "Love to!" and/or "Happy to!" So dear to hear him mimic me. He also answers questions about food this way: "Would you like some more hot dog?" "Happy to!"

- I started a flamenco dance class in Sept. and was telling Hannah why I was getting to leave one evening. She asked, "Do you all pretend to be flamingos?" :)

- Hannah was sick last week and wanted to go to the store for crackers when Matthew was napping. I explained that we couldn't leave him and she brightly suggested, "You could just take the monitor!"

- And more on monitors... Hannah is still convinced that you can talk and/or shout into a monitor's receiving end and the person in the transmitter's room will hear you. When going to the park, she put her babies to bed and said, "I'm gonna take my monitor. They settle down when I talk."

- Matthew got to go to work with Daddy for an hour last week since Mommy and Hannah had dentist appts and our plans for his care fell through. That hour included a trip to the cafeteria with eggs, donuts (after he'd breakfasted at home) and a stop on the toy dept. floor scoring him a dino and truck. Every day since, he asks "Where Daddy go?" When I respond, "To work", he exclaims, "Daddy work fun!"