Hannah is now in a big girl bed. On January 22nd during nap time I  heard "hep mommy hep!!" I go running in there thinking that something has a hold of her only to find her hanging by one arm from the side of the bed! I tried to get her to show me how she climbed out but she is too smart to share her secrets. Needless to say no nap that morning but during her evening nap I watched her through the crack in the door until she fell asleep because I was worried sick that she would climb out , fall, and break her neck! When I heard her stirring from her nap I went and peeked in the door and saw her putting her stuffed animals in the corner of the bed and using them as a step to boost her up enough to climb over the side of the bed! I gotta give it to her, it was pretty smart thinking! That evening we went out and bought her a toddler bed. I called around until I found someone who sold dora toddler beds because I knew that if dora was on it she would be much more excited about it and more apt to stay in it than if it were just a plain bed. I finally found one and we went and got it that evening. She was so excited to have a dora bed that she couldn't hold still, the whole time Josh was putting it together she danced around the living room like she had ants in her pants. That night we put her to bed and she fell right to sleep no problem at all. I was all ready to have to tell her to get back in bed a thousand time but she did great. She did well but mommy cried for 15 minutes after she went to bed because she wasn't in a baby bed anymore! I know, I'm crazy! She loved her bed so much that after I made her breakfast the next morning she took it back to her room and ate it in bed! She has been in it for a while now with no problems. We redecorated her room in Dora and she loves it. As I am sure you can tell Dora is her favorite thing right now. Josh laughs because he says walking in Hannah's room is like walking into a shrine to Dora.

Hannah is growing up so fast it is amazing. She is doing to saying something new everyday. She is talking in small sentances now and it is funny to hear some of the things that she says. She still loves music and dancing. If there is music on she has to stop what she is doing to sing and dance. She's pretty good too! She has the mambo down pat! Who knows maybe we have a future American Idol on our hands! If we are in the car and she hears a song that she likes she will say "Mommy , it's our song!" It is so cute. Next month will be her 2nd birthday! It is hard to believe that she is almost 2 years old. We are planning her party now, of course it will be in dora. What else!  When we ask her what she wants for her birthday she says "diamonds". I am training her well. She loves jewelry and diamonds. When we go to the mall she likes to look in all the jewelry stores. We bought her some new earrings last week and when we went to the jewelry counter the lady asked if she could help us and before I could answer Hannah looked at her and said "need diamonds". Josh is going to be in trouble, he has two girls that love jewelry! Needless to say she is not getting diamonds for her birthday. We got her Elmo's restraunt. She loves elmo and I don't think she will mind a bit giving up her diamonds for him!