Our Apologies

We apologize for not posting pictures lately. Momma's had the flu and Daddy's been SuperDad! Although we don't have a picture of it, something rather funny did happen today.

First, some background: For the past week, Hannah has slept in her "big girl bed". As a threat to her, we left the crib up just in case we ran into any "issues". She's done pretty well converting to the bed, so we had full intentions of taking down the crib today.

So at nap time today, Momma heard Hannah talking through the monitor. Her voice slowly got further and further away. Momma ran in to make sure she was okay. She was standing on the side of her bed trying to touch her butterflies that are suspended from the ceiling. YIKES. THEN, Momma noticed that Lola (the cow that swings in her room about 2 feet from the ceiling) was IN HER BED. Momma said, "Hannah, how did Lola get in your bed?". Hannah promptly said "Oh, I climb in my crib and I got her down".

Note to self: Take the crib out. Tie Hannah to her big girl bed.

Snow Sledding in the South

Who knew we'd ever have the chance to do this?

As Promised...

Here are some REAL snowman pictures!

Winter Storm 2008

In a rare week of weather, we had 2 (yep, that's right), 2 snow "storms". We use the term storm loosely only because that's what the local news was calling it. Here are some pictures from the first snow of the week. Management hasn't processed the other pictures from snowstorm #2 where Hannah went snow sledding!

In the meantime, check out our gigantic snowman!

Itsy Bitsy Twinkle Spider

This one's for Kay & the Lunch Bunch!

ABCs

This one is for the King's!

Dance Class Pays Off!

Hannah shakes her money maker at the Chick Fil A Bowl!

Go Tubas, Go Tubas, Go Tubas Go!

We made plans with 11 of our friends and family to go to the 40th annual Chick Fil A Bowl in Atlanta for New Year's Eve. We were super excited about the game, until we got to the game only to find out that the AU band was RIGHT in front of us. Yep, that's right, for the whole game we were able to see reflections of ourselves in the tubas. It became the joke of the evening.

Who can tell us what's wrong with this picture?

"Did somebody say there was a party?" - hannah

"Professional" Santa Pic

The "professional" Santa picture came in the mail today. We were pleased especially since they wouldn't let us preview it at the mall.

Holiday Confusion

"Momma, why do the neighbors still have their pumpkin out?"

Little Model

"Momma, put my bow in so you can take my picture."

Hugs from Santa

Hannah met with Santa today to tell him what she wants for Christmas. Santa didn't seem to have a problem with what she asked for! Santa hugged Hannah (because she was the best kid of the day)!

Our Little Musician

So, recently Hannah has been filling our house with her lovely singing voice. I was listening to her on the monitor the other day sing the Auburn Fight Song. Her version goes something like this: "War Eagle fly down the field... NEVER conquer" [long pause] "Go GO GO!!" "Yeah Auburn" {we're trying to convert NEVER to EVER, but we're having trouble with our n's!}

In other news, The Itsy Bitsy Spider has some new lyrics. It goes like this: "The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the world so high like a diamond in the sky." I don't know about you, but I like this much better than the original.

We'll try to capture our little musician in action so you can hear it. You'll laugh all day!

It is very hard to see, but if you look to Hannah's right, you can see her normal shoes. Hannah's skates a slightly oversized.

Ice Skating

I just realized we never put pictures up of Hannah ice skating in all places, Lower Alabama! She did really well ice skating, with the help of her Daddy. After about an hour, she said "I want to take my ice skating off"!

More of Hannah feeding the gulls.

The story of this trip to the beach was Hannah feeding the sea gulls. Hannah got hungry and wanted to eat a snack. We had a bag of gold fish, but instead of eating them herself, she feed all of them to the sea gulls. She had a great time throwing the gold fish, although she generally did not throw them far enough for the gulls to get them.

Pregnancy Update

Momma has been doing very well through this pregnancy. The counter on the top right hand side of the page counts down to the due date.

Daddy and Hannah.

Sometimes it is easier to get Hannah to pose for a funny picture, than sit still for a quality family picture. This was one of those times.

The first thing I think of when I see this picture is "Touchdown Auburn!", but on this day it was "Ta Dah!" She learned how to perform Ta Dah! in dance class.

I am not sure why, but Momma encouraged Hannah to dig in the sand. She loves to play in the sand, and eat some too!

Hannah might look cold in this shot, but... Well she might be.

Hannah really wanted to get in the water today, but we explained to her that it is much too cold for us to get in. She still wanted to get in, but held back.

As the regular readers will recall, I like to occasionally remind the reader how small Hannah really is... You can see that in the picture, but you can also see how advanced she is too.

You can see Hannah's new red hair bow. Thanks for the new bow BeBe.

Every once in a while, Hannah would check to see if we were still following her. The boardwalk to about 1/4 mile, and Hannah ran just about the whole way out.

A day at the beach

Hannah spent some time on the beach today! Hannah, her mother, father, and photographer (all three of us) went back to Alabama Point to get some beach shots with Hannah again. The following are from her photo session.

Hannah was excited all morning about heading out to the beach, despite the somewhat cold weather. Hannah got ahead of her entourage on the boardwalk to the point.

Lions Tigers & Monkeys, Oh My!

So today, we took Hannah to the zoo at the beach. The advantage (or disadvantage) of going to a small zoo is that you are really UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with the animals. For instance, they had 4 baby tigers that they let you pet. They also had a 3 month old monkey that was out and about with the zoo manager. Hannah, ironically, had no problem petting the tigers. However, when the monkey jumped up on her head, she didn't much appreciate that. Enjoy these pictures. Thanks G for taking us to the zoo!

"Ta-Da"

Today was the last day of dance class. Don't worry, we signed her up for the next session that starts next week!

Hair

Look at how much hair I have now as opposed to how much hair I had a year ago!!

Special Treat at the Krispy Kreme

These are a couple shots of a rare trip to the Krispy Kreme. And no, it's not one of momma's cravings.

The Magic of Santa

Hannah, like every other kid in the world is starting to hone in that Christmas (Santa) is right around the corner. On Sunday, we took her to the mall. As we strolled through, she saw Santa and said "Santa!". I said that we would come back another day for her to sit in Santa's lap and tell him what she wanted for Christmas. She was ok with that.

Fast forward to tonight. After Hannah woke up from her nap, I told her that we needed to write a letter to Santa to tell him what she wants for Christmas and also to let him know where she will be on Christmas, so he'll deliver her toys to the right house. I explained to her that Santa was at the North Pole working with his elves making toys for all the boys and girls. She looked at me and said, "Momma, he's at the mall. I'll go get my shoes."

I laughed inside and said you're right, Santa is at the mall. Let's go see him.

Mystery Revealed

For those of you who haven't figured out the "hidden" message of the blog, Hannah will be a big sister around May 17th. Here's a picture of her meeting her new brother or sister. I heard her tell him/her that she's the boss and not to mess with her things. We'll see how that works out.

And just like that, the night was over. Hannah a great time, and was tired when we got home. She found some time to eat a couple treats, but when distracted, her bag of candy disappeared into some cabinet... Somewhere. "Hey look over there." Still works really well.