Hannah loves

little kids. And babies, too, of course. She wants to make sure that the next time I get pregnant I have twins "so we won't all have to share just one baby!"

After the girls' swimming lessons, there is a lesson with a baby who's about 14 months, I'd say. (She's smaller than Sim, of course, but she can do more advanced things, like walking..) Hannah always begs to stay for a while to watch their lesson. After one time of staying for a little while, she sighed and said, "I wish that baby was ours." That's not the first time she's wanted to adopt children we've come across.

This is why I was surprised at Hannah's response yesterday when I told the girls we were going to a party and there would be lots of babies and young kids. "I really like kids my own age best." I pointed out that she likes younger kids and babies, and she said, "Well, I like Naomi, but I don't really like other little kids." I objected again, and she said, "Well, yes, but I really like kids I already know."

Of course, Hannah loved being there with the little kids. They often really latch on to her, since she pays lots of attention to them and she can do cool things for them. Sometimes she tries to do too much for them, at which point they object, but yesterday she was most popular with one in particular of the younger set. Plus there were lots of very cute babies that she could talk to. She did spend a lot of time playing with Naomi, but she thoroughly enjoyed herself with the little kids she didn't know, too.