Be My Valentine

Valentines Day was a lazy day.

This picture is of Hannah in her Valentine's PJ's that her grandmother gave her and the blanket that she made her.

We finally got Hannah to sit down in her chair. I love this picture.
Hann out at my parents house. She was so excited to be there playing with her cousins and Pop Pop. Here she is watching her cousins ride their bikes around.

Hannah loves her Pop Pop. They were watching the cows as they came up to the fence.

Sassy

Hannah just chilling in her UT baseball cap and her drink. Looking like such a big girl.

I love this picture. It looks like she is thinking "oh yeah, I'm cool".

Dress "up"

It wa sa cold and rainy say and we had to stay inside. So, what does a little girl and her mommy do to keep entertained? Play dress up of course.

This is Hannah in her tutu and riding her horse, like a little princess that she is.

Hananh loves her baby dolls.

Hannah got a pair of Wes' shorts and decided that she needed to put them on. Or try to. Here are a few pictures of her "wearing" his shorts.

Hannah was so proud of herself for putting the shorts on her head. She just laghed and laughed at herself.

Hannah likes to put blankets around her head or shoulders and just walk around the house.

Lunch in the Park

We went to the park to have lunch with Wes. Hannah hasn't eaten her lunch outside before or played in the park really. Hannah loved it. She got to see a lot of people walking by on the patch while she ate lunch, she thought that they were all there to see her and couldn't figure out why they just kept walking and where they were going.

This is Hannah going down the slide "alone". She really like the slide.

Going down the slide with mommy.
Hannah seemed to really like the purple dinasour.

Hannah and daddy after eating lunch.

Not "HO HO HO" Santa

We finally had Hannah's picture taken with "Santa". This is actually Wes' dad. You would think that it wouldn't bother her, she watched him put his Santa costume on. She was freaked out as you can see. This from a child who thinks everyone is her friend and goes up to everyone to "talk" or play with them.

It just breaks my heart to look at her so upset. I have to admit I am glad that I wasn't there for this picture, I don't think we would have gotten any taken.

Twas the Days Before Christmas

This year getting ready for Christmas and all that the festivities was completely different than last year. I say it a lot, but a year ceratinly does make a difference. We spent a lot of the Christmas holiday's with family. Hannah like the tree, loved touching the ornaments that she knew she wasn't supposed to touch and would try fairly often, especially when we had visitors. We did eventually move the ornaments up the tree, out of reach of little hands.

We went to spend some time at my parents house while they had my neices over to bake cookies. We didn't help with the cookies, but Hannah did dress the part like her cousins did. The apron is an apron from some stuffed animal.

I love these p.j.'s, we got them from Wes' cousins who live in Australia. I couldn't wait to put htem on her, we got them during their "Christmas". She was truely "Santa's Helper".

I love this face. I don't know where she learned to make that face, but she has done it since she was real little. It's really cute. Wes said that she has seen me do it, I don't know about that, but this little girl is so adorable and yes, I know she is mine.

We did Christmas with Wes' family a few days before Christmas. She didn't care so much about the actual presents that she received, but LOVED the ribbon. She held onto that ribbon and walked around the room over and over and over again. Tell me again why we spent all that money on the "real" girfts?



Resting after "wrapping" that ribbon aroudn the room.

Remembering the Good Old Days

Hannah climbed into this car seat while we were at church. I think she was remanicing of the good old days of when she was in an infant carseat. She grew out of hers so quickly. She stayed in it for a while before climbing back out.

Just chillin' in the seat. Oh those were the days!

So Much to be Thankful For

This was Hannah's first Thanksgiving. It was so much fun to have her. We stayed home this year and spent Thanksgiving with my family. We went to my grandmother and Aunt's house. Everything was really good. Hannah was full of herself as usual. She wasn't having any part of a nap, but we certainly did try. She walked around the house and everyone took a turn on folling her around making sure she wasn't getting into anything she wasn't supposed to.

This is a picture of my mom, Grandmother (Nana, who is 90), Hannah and I. We have to take advantage of these precious moments! Hannah has amazing women to look up to.

We take a picture of Hannah with her great grandmother every time we visit her. We try to visit her as much as possible.
I love this picture of Hannah. She stopped for 2 seconds and the camera actually worked fast enough to take this picture. I just love my little "monkey".

Little Ladybug

Hannah was a ladybug on Halloween. She was super cute and didn't seem to mind being dressed up. We took her to our neighbors house in the cul de sac. With help she walked up to the houses and knowcked on the door. She had a good time. Both sets of grandparents were here to enjoy the fun. We know next year will be even more fun.

Hutto Parade, waiting

Every year the chity of Hutto has Hutto Olde Tyme Days. It includes a parade and then there a ton of booths that you can walk around. The whole family went to the parade. Hannah really liked the parade and would wave to people as they went buy. She would even wave when there was a lull in the parade and no one was in front of us. Here are a few pictures of Hannah and cousins waiting for the parade.

Kayla who is 4 held Hannah first and Hannah was just in aww of their stroller. Kalya is such a sweet girl and is so sweet with Hannah and gets so excited when Hannah does something new.

Hannah with Lindsey her older cousin. At 7 doing bunny ears is really funny. Hannah loves Lindsey. She will just talk to Lindsey, smile and kick her legs when Lindsey comes in the room and talks to her.

Haley, who is 2 had to hold Hannah because her sisters had held Hannah. Haley is really sweet with Hannah. I hope that they will be good friends when they get older.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch. Hannah wasn't real sure what to think about the pumpkins or what to do with them. She was a big fan of the hay though. But she did get to wear her new bow and shirt with a pumpkin on it and looked super cute.

You can't tell in this picture that she has a piece of hay sticking out of her mouth like a little farmer girl. We did have to eventually take it out before she swallowed it. I think she liked the hay much more than the pumpkins. Maybe next year will be different.

Hannah wasn't sure what to think of the pumpkins. Hannah wasn't going to give us a smile, but it's still cute.



Hannah waving at me while taking the camera.



Our latest family picture.

10 months old

Hannah is 10 months and this picture shows it all. She really didn't want Daddy taking her picture, plus it was bed time. Hannah is growing and changing all the time, it is hard to keep up with all that she is doing from one month to the next. Hannah lets go of whatever she is holding onto and stands in place for a bit and she is also taking steps. She took 12 steps on Monday (10/19/09). She is just becoming more and more brave all of the time. Hannah has such a sweet spirit about her. She will just pat and pat you on your back, this she has been doing for a while now. I love getting her up in the morning, she is so happy and so excited to start her day. I usually sing a little song to her and she just bounces and claps her hands. Hannah is constantly talking, what she is saying I am not sure. She will say Daddy and Mama, mostly daddy. Hannah has the wave down and will really get it going when she gets excited. She has said "bye bye" a time or two. When I took her to the doctor on 10/20/09 she weighed in at 25 pounds. And then flu shot didn't make her cry it was afterwards when the nurse wiped it before putting the bandage on it. She didn't cry long and was a very good girl for the whole thing. Hannah is a very, very active baby. Sitting still doesn't come very often, usually only at naps or night time. Hannah doesn't leave her socks or shoes on while in the car, taking her socks off is a new thing that she has learned and will clap because she is just so proud of herself. Hannah is starting to notice people she doesn't know and will put her head down on whoever is holding her like she is shy. She does warm up after a bit. Hannah has also learned to stick out her tongue courtesy of her dad. Hannah loves her cousins. She just lights up and tries to crawl after them as quickly as possible. Hannah will just play and talk with her cousins when they are around. Hannah loves music. She will dance when the phone rings or music comes on the tv or we sing. We can't say enough how much we love Hannah and how grateful we are that Hannah is in our lives. She has changed our world and we wouldn't change that for anything. Hannah is an incredibly sweet and loving baby.

I couldn't resist taking pictures of Hannah this morning/evening. She looked so cute. This first picture is this evening when she was playing with her stoller/walker. She got it stuck at the wall. She didn't seem to mind too much though.

These three pictures were from this morning before we left the house. It was fun putting winterish clothing on her. Yesterday she wore rompers. What a difference a day makes.

A walking we will go

On Thursday, October 3rd we got out a little walker for Hannah after she tried to push the big girl stroller at my parents house. She pushed that walker all over the house and ran into walls and would get so frustrated when she couldn't get the walker moved away from the wall. Hannah took 3 steps on Saturday, October 3rd. It hasn't happened since then. On Monday Nana bought Hannah her first stroller/walker. We put it together and once it was she walked every where. She would watch her cousins when they would walk off playing with her walker.

She went into Nana and Pop's study and got her stroller/walker stuck on the desk, but she was able to go in there and take it away from her cousins. She's a mess. Hannah things she is hot stuff.

Peek A Boo

Hannah thinks that she is a big girl crawling into her bouncy seat. She doesn't want to be put in it, but will get in there on her own. One she was in she looked through and just smiled and laughed and did that over and over, playing peek a boo.

Hannah just continued to play in there and got her legs in there good. She was so funny to watch trying to get in and out of there.

Sitting with the toys

Hannah thought she was big stuff, after trying and trying to get in this pink basket that has some of her toys in it.