Given Grace

Monday, March 18, 2013

Week 22 - Letter V

Letter V for Valentine's Day! Of course, the original plan was to do letter V the week of Valentine's...and we did for one day before Miss Hannah decided to make an early entrance. Then a week or so after Hannah was born, Jenna was BEGGING to do school again, but I wasn't quite ready to jump back into it full force, so I decided to finish up some of our Valentine's activities. So here's Letter V...over a few weeks. :)

Lacing card

Sorting - kids vs Valentine's Gifts

Heart Size Sort

Upper and Lower-case Letter Matching

Grant doing his upper-case letter matching

Jenna had to color in the correct number of objects in each box

A number puzzle - I like how it's a self-checking puzzle. Jenna can see if she did it correctly by looking at the numbers across the bottom.

Heart color puzzles

Making the letter V with her body

More (easy) Valentine's puzzles

Prewriting pages - Jenna decided to decorate them a little more. :)

More pre-writing practice

Shadow matching

Do-a-dot markers

Letter Hunt

For her ABC book, she decorated the letter V with Valentine's stickers

Patterns

Number cards

More patterns

It worked well that we had some leftover Valentine's activities planned because it was hit-or-miss that week as to what we did and how much. And it was nice not feeling the pressure of having to do everything, every day.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

First Few Weeks

Here are some random pictures from the first few weeks after bringing Hannah home...

Jenna thought Hannah needed a blanket on her, so she grabbed my nursing cover and laid it over her. Such a caring big sister!

They're all smiles with their new baby sister.

They adore her!

Sadly, this is a normal occurrence in our house - dress-up time typically ends with either the kids stripped down to their undies or with Grant in a skirt. ;)

We all enjoyed snuggle time with Hannah, although I think I might have hogged her a little more than the others. I just LOVE the snuggles!

Jenna loved being near Hannah and especially having her in her lap.

Gram-Gram came to visit and even got to feed Hannah a bottle.

Jenna likes taking pictures of Hannah with the camera she got at Christmas. I think she took lessons from her Aunt Kelley, which is why the camera is 3 inches from Hannah's face. ;) (Sorry Kell - I just couldn't resist!)

More sister snuggle time

Love this picture of Jenna and Grant - I have such fond memories of the View Finders from my childhood. I picked these up from a garage sale last summer and surprisingly they both like them, even Grant.

Hannah being weighed at her 1 week appointment. She was 5 lbs, 11 oz at birth, and 5 lbs, 3 oz when we left the hospital (at 3 days old). At this appointment she weighed in at 5 lbs, 5 oz - so we had made some progress with her weight. It was a big challenge to get her to eat those first few weeks. She was INCREDIBLY tired and literally slept 99% of the day. Even though we tried feeding her every 2-3 hours, it was difficult to wake her long enough for a significant feeding, so I was glad to see she had at least put on 2 oz. Then at her 2-week appointment (when they want her back at her birth weight), she weighed 5 lbs, 15 oz. Yay!

After her appointment, we went to visit Great-Grandpa Shafer...

....and Great-Grandma Shafer. It was their first time meeting her.

Both the kids like having Hannah lay next to them at bedtime. Such a proud big sister!

And a proud big brother!

Love Grant's pose in this picture - legs dangling, elbows on desk, head resting on hands, gazing at the computer screen. Haha!

Jenna and Grant have enjoyed playing Mommy and Baby since bringing Hannah home. Grant loves being the baby and, of course, Jenna likes being Mommy and getting to order him around. :)