Do you know how to slide?

It’s been a beautiful week here. We’ve been to the park everyday. I believe Hattie and I are magnets for weird kids. I don’t know what it is, but always the ‘different’ kid finds us and makes friends. Many we’ve met at the library, and a couple at the park. On Tuesday we met Harry. Here’s an excerpt of how that convo went…
“Do you know my name?”
“Mmmm, no I sure don’t.”
“It’s Harry”
“Hi Harry. I’m Amy and this is Hattie”
“Do you know how to do the slide?”
“Well, I’d like to think I…”
“You just put your feet like this and slide down, see? It’s easy. Watch me. Watch me again.”
“Yep Harry, you sure can slide.”
“Look, I can climb up here. Do you know how to climb?”
“Yes Harry, I’ve done some climbing in my day.”
“Look, you put your feet like this, and be brave and push up here. See? I can do it again, watch. Watch. Are you watching?”
“Yep.”
“Do you know how to do this ladder-thing? You just push like this and (blah blah blah)..”
Obviously, I wasn’t watching close enough (I was trying to play with my own kid here), so I hear a, “Hey, hey, HEY! HEY! Are you watching!?!?”
Um, obviously your dad isn’t. Maybe you should tear him from his romance novel (yes, I typed that right) and get him over here to play.
And no, I didn’t actually say that out loud.
Kids are funny.

Hattie’s been in her ‘big girl bed’ for several days now. She’s very enthusiastic about it. Each night she points us to her room (“this room”), gets in bed and tells us, “don’t get up”. We agree, yes, that’s right, don’t get up. Stay in your bed or we’ll have to get the baby gate. Every night she nods and tells she will stay in bed. And each night it takes all of thirty seconds before she’s downstairs with a super-huge grin on her face. We usually repeat this scenario 2-3 times before we put the baby gate at her door. She’ll get the hang of it eventually. I do LOVE the bedding I picked out for her. LOVE it. We repainted the room, took an armoire out and I am making some curtains and a headboard. The room is a pale turquoise/aqua color with red accents. Not too girly-girly and not too baby-ish. I love it. Did I mention that? Will post some pictures when I get the projects done.
Some new things in HP world….
• She says “That’s much better” whenever you help her with something.
• We’ve just about got the ABC song down. There may be a mumble here or there, but she’s really close. She is also learning what sounds all the letters make. We have maybe 10 down thus far.
• Saying, “So cute!” (sounds like: So toot!) about any baby, baby doll or little item.
• She usually runs to us and gives hugs whenever Brian and I get home (always my highlight).
• We’ve been playing lots of soccer – Hattie has a good kick and dribbles really well!
• She has a wind-up boat in the bathtub that usually gets redirected with a “this way, please”. She sounds like a little tour guide, saying it over and over again. So toot.