In the comments to my last post, MommaK asked me to sing my version of “I will” via audioblog. I don’t want to sing that song, because it would hit a little too closely to Ricky Lake singing a lullaby on the Oprah show (was it even the Oprah show? I don’t remember. This was way back in the days when I watched daytime television. No more.) However, if I get five dependable people to promise to do an audioblog on a particular day….say Wednesday or Thursday, then I will do an audioblog with some conversation and perhaps some singing from me and/or my children. What do you say? Anyone willing? I need five takers.
UPDATE: Go to audioblogger and get a free 7 day trial membership. I didn’t realize you had to pay for audioblogger, but you can always drop out before the trial period starts.
More to come. This is just an appetizer.
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This week Hannah has started taking baths again. (Loud Applause)
She also has chosen a boyfriend for herself, little Nathan, 7 month younger. I have to hand it to her, she’s willing to work with what she’s got. While Rachel had two playgroups by Hannah’s age, Hannah is just starting a very small one now. It’s funny how when Rachel was younger my mom friends and I assumed children needed to play with kids almost exactly the same age, within a few months of each other. Hannah seems fine tagging along with Rachel’s friends, or their siblings, much younger than herself. It is a much more natural set up, now that I think about it. When I played with the neighborhood kids we were all over the place in age.
The boy who Hannah has started to focus on is “Nay-Nay” (nick-name for Nathan). He is the brother of one of Rachel’s best school friends. We see him almost every week day at pick-up time. Hannah talks about him all the time. As we walk into the school yard, she looks for his stroller and starts asking after him. He’s not quite as smitten, yet. She is quite tall and perhaps a little overattentive.
Last week Hannah was walking behind him, with her arms around him. I’m not quite sure what she was doing….perhaps a walk-hug? Anyway, he was beyond nap time and fell over from the force of the hug. He cried. I apologized and we all said good-bye and went our separate ways. I didn’t realize the event would be impressionable on Hannah. All week, she told people the story. “Nay-Nay cying!” She never volunteered the rest of the information. We had to pull it our her. “Did he fall because Hannah hugged him too hard?” “Da!” she would say, nodding thoughtfully.
We’re still working on the “how to be a good friend” thing. In fact, I thought we were going to get through Hannah’s toddlerhood without hitting, but she has discovered it, and is experimenting. Thank goodness only at home so far. Keep your fingers crossed.
