Our little girl: Such a good big sister!

Annabell is so helpful with Ford sometimes. She is really a sweet girl, but doesn't realize her own strength half the time. She will hug on him all day, so I have to watch her to make sure she doesn't cover his mouth and nose! She also likes to do whatever we do with him. She likes to hold him like I do when feeding him. She likes to wash him in the tub, and she likes to dress him. The dressing of Ford is pretty funny. She will get his sock half way on and then pull it off and through it as if she is too frustrated with trying to do it. She then will bring something else to try to put on him. She also likes to put the phone up to his ear like we do hers. It amazes me what kids notice and learn! Well she had time out today! She has been pulling Ford's blanket off of him when we are in the car. Today is especially cold so I firmly told her not to do it again and she went ahead. The most interesting part is that she told on herself. She showed me the blanket! I think she was looking for attention through a reaction, so I told her she was getting 'time-out' when we got home. She did not like that at all. It took me putting her back into the spot maybe 15 times before she kind of stayed near the timeout spot. Hopefully the point got through to her though.

She played with Lilia this week, and she loved it. They are almost 5 months apart and played well together, except when it came to sharing. Neither of them wanted to share Annabell's baby and baby stroller. It was a good experience though, it aloud me and Rachel to teach the girls how to share. I have been trying to put Annabell in as many social situations as possible so she can learn her interacting skills more, ie..being polite, sharing, not being aggressive, etc. She has done well, and is learning to hug softer, but it is taking a lot of supervision. She is at a very fun stage that takes a lot of constant supervision and instruction; but she grows so fast that I'm hoping to just do a good job in the small window that I have. She is growing leaps in bounds in her talking and skills, her is what I can think of right now:

She spins in circles while singing ring around the rosie
She jumps to me on three (been doing this for about 2-3 months) and yells "three".
She knows how to run vs walking on request (jumping too)
she tries to sing the veggie tales theme song (oh I forgot to mention that about a week ago I started to allow her to watch one veggie tales show a day), still no regular tv though.
she can untie a shoe with laces.
she hangs from bars at the park and can do a good somersault.
She knows how to turn on the jets in the bath tub.
She can use the steps and water fountain at the library. (the video is from yesterday when she still wasn't understanding the cause and effect of pushing the lever to allow water flow, she did it well today at the library...yeah, two days in a row of library because the dance class was unexpectedly closed for mommy and me dance time today!)