SNOW!!!

Sadly Fear

H - "Hey Momma, let's read the Sadly Fear book."
M - "What?"
H - "The S-A-D-L-Y F-E-A-R book, M-O-M-M-A." (AS IF I'M MENTALLY CHALLENGED)
M - (LONG PAUSE WHILE THE WHEELS TURNED IN MY HEAD WONDERING WHAT BOOK SHE'S TALKING ABOUT) "AHHH! THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS BOOK."
H - "Yeah, The Sadly Fear book."

For those that don't know the book, it reads..."Oh Mother Dear, we SADLY FEAR that we have lost our mittens. What? Lost your mittens. You naughty kittens. You shall have no pie."...

And her Daddy calls me Miss Details. I think she beats me in that category!

9 Months Old

Reilly is 9 months old today. Wow, the time has flown by. At last check, he was 18 pounds. We go to the doctor next week for our official stats.

Reilly the Inchworm

Reilly crawls...well..at least he gets where he wants to go by moving FORWARD!

Reilly Stands Up (for himself)

Reilly stood up for the camera in this video, or maybe someone propped him up. But he stands all by himself for a little bit.

Makes Ya Go AWWW!

the cutest little bootie ever!

Hannah Winks

Hannah shows us she has learned how to wink her eyes back and forth. Pretty funny girl!

Hannah Makes a Funny

Here's the conversation on the way to school today:

H: "Hey, Momma. When I get to school today I'm going to tell everybody I have my Valentine panties on!"

M: "OK, Hannah!"

H: "Yeah! It'll be like their special treat".

M: "Yes it will, Hannah. Yes it will."

(Thank you to Aunt Jillian for the Valentine panties. Who knew we'd get a laugh out of those!)

Daddy Daughter Time

Words can't describe how much I love these two!

Reilly Stands Up!

Although he's not yet crawling, when propped up, he will stand all day! Will he walk before he crawls? We don't know!

New Ad for Cheerios?

I know it makes YOU want to buy some Cheerios.

Queen Hannah

We have a new reward system in place for Hannah. If she's really good and gets a whole load of stickers on her chart, then she gets a choice of a toy or her nails painted. Well, she did it! She chose to have her nails done.

I splurged and took her to the salon to have them done. Here she is living it up in the massage chair w/ Mr. Tony.

I asked her what color she wanted. She said yellow. UMMMMMM.... how about we do yellow on your toenails and pink on your finger nails? Ok, she says. Thank goodness it's winter!

While in the chair, Mr. Tony is asking her all kind of questions like what her name is, what her brother's name is, how old she is, etc. Well, he asks her where she goes to school. Hannah says without hesitation, High School. The whole salon cackled!

Smore Fun Than You Know

Daddy is teaching Hannah how to eat/smear Smores! Somehow Momma ended up having to do bathtime. I guess I drew the short straw! -momma

Little Big Hannah

Look how big our little girl is getting! She is so much fun!

Future Football Player?

Not much longer until I can throw a football. Just working out my throwing arm here!

Catching Up

Don't laugh, but I'm just now dumping my pictures into our blog. I'm not sure where the time has gone! Please forgive the randomness of this post!

Sweet Cousins!


Happy Boy! He's getting so big!


Remember our post about Hannah being the star of the Christmas Eve Mass? Well, I just found this picture on my camera. It's not the best picture, but you can see her sitting in the priest's chair next to the deacon!

This Christmas we made Zsa Zsa's gingerbread cookies. I think Hannah likes them more than I do...that's saying a LOT!


This is from "Snow" at Atlantic Station. At night, it snows on the Christmas Tree at Atlantic Station. It took us a while, but we figured out that the "snow" was actually "soap". Andrew needed his mouth cleaned out anyway!

...But shortly after we got back home, she was down there "OCD'ing" (Obsesive Compulsive Disorder'ing). Momma cannot stand knowing there is a mess anywhere in the house, even if it is not a mess at all.

-I love you Momma... Daddy

The Playroom is ready!

To Momma's great relief, the playroom is finished. The playroom is the room at the bottom of the basement stairs where we have relocated Hannah's toys. This is a picture of the playroom after Hannah's best friend and potential future husband Evan tore it up. They did a fantastic job, just about every toy is on the floor. Momma was heard telling her mother that she was so happy that the playroom is done, she could just close the door and forget about the mess...

2 front teeth

They say that the pictures slow down with the second and additional children. I remember distinctly saying, "That will not happen to us!" Well I guess it is obvious that it has. Reilly pushed through his two bottom teeth a couple weeks back. This is the best picture we have of them at this point.

Reilly is now eating from the sitting position! Self feeding is the term used on the products marketed to the parents. Reilly is eating a carrot wagon wheel in these pictures. I am sure it is as good as it sounds, however Reilly likes them and that is all that matters.

"Scrappy"

Lately Reilly has been grabbing at everything! I mean EVERYTHING! One day I ended up with a bowl of cereal in my lap because he grabbed it and dumped it in my lap. I was just thankful that I had NOT gotten a shower yet that day!

His latest incident was at church on Sunday. We all went up for communion (Hannah for her blessing...so cute with her arms crossed over her chest). Andrew was holding Reilly (nicknamed "Scrappy") and I was right behind them. Andrew paused for a split second after receiving his communion when "Scrappy" reached into the bowl of hosts as if it was his turn for communion. He swirled them around bit before I was able to remove his hand from the bowl. The Eucharistic Minister & I got a good laugh. He said to me "Well, I've never had that happen before!" Then he gave me communion as I chuckled to go back to my seat.

Gotta love that "Scrappy"!

Christmas Eve Mass

At Christmas Eve Mass, the priest asked the children to come sit on the altar for the gospel & homily. I asked Hannah if she'd like to go up to the altar and she said "Sure, Momma!". Hannah was by far the smallest child up there and had gotten shuffled to the back of the altar by where the priest & deacon sit. I watched as she saddled up next to the priest. [She was dressed in her beautiful white french handsewn dress (Thanks, G!). She really stood out in the sea of black & red that the rest of the children were wearing.] I could see that the priest was talking to her during the gospel (the deacon was reading the gospel). I have no idea what they were saying, but the priest was chuckling a little. So the deacon finishes reading the gospel and the priest picks Hannah up and puts her in his seat so he could go give the homily. She had instantly become "queen of the altar". He says, "I don't know if you all can see, but there is the most beautiful child up in my chair. I don't know her name, but she is just beautiful." I won't do it justice, but he tied Hannah into his homily by talking about how Christmas is for children and how innocent children are, and how we celebrate Jesus' birthday on Christmas. He concluded the homily by having the children sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. So special!

Christmas

Whew! What a whirlwind! We had a wonderful (first) Christmas at home! Santa left a load of presents at our house. Hannah got a scooter, games, books, clothes, a doctor kit, leggos, little people, puzzles, and lots-o-candy. Reilly got a basketball/football/baseball toy, books, busy ball popper, and some teething toys. The family got a Wii which provided more entertainment than we ever imagined. Thanks Santa!!

BB, Papa, Jill, Charles, & Cecilia made the trip to our house for Christmas. The next day, we saw G & Pop as they drove through to go to Pennsylvania. Although we missed seeing our extended family, it was nice to spend Christmas at home!