Hannah hamming it up for the camera at Evan's birthday Party.
Hannah and Evan. 
Action shot of Hannah running. We need to submit this to Nike. She could be our ticket!
Birthday party fun with a parachute!
Reilly absolutely loved this balloon. It was a sad day when we had to throw it away.
More balloon fun!
March Madness can't escape Hannah!
There's nothing better than to have children laughing in the house. Makes my heart melt. I tell myself to enjoy it now because it won't last forever!
Interview with Hannah
Today 03/11/2009
1. What is something Mom always says to you?
"I love you"
2. What makes Mom happy?
"that I don't whine"
3. What makes Mom sad?
"that I don't listen."
4. How does your Mom make you laugh?
"she goes 'woo, woo, woo' "
5. What was your Mom like as a child?
"short like me."
6. How old is your Mom?
"1"
7. How tall is your Mom?
she didn't answer this one, only stretched her arms out as far as she could
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
"play with me"
9. What does your Mom do when you're not around?
"work"
10. If your Mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
"playing"
11. What is your Mom really good at?
"cleaning up"
12. What is your Mom not very good at?
"working"
13. What does your Mom do for her job?
"stand up and listen"
14. What is your Mom's favorite food?
"broccoli" (I HATE broccoli)
15. What makes you proud of your Mom?
"laugh"
16. If your Mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
"Maggie from Maggie and the Ferocious Beast"
7. What do you and your Mom do together?
"Play games"
18. How are you and your Mom the same?
"we're both girls"
19. How are you and your Mom different?
"I go to time out"
20. How do you know your Mom loves you?
"Hugs"
21. Where is your Mom's favorite place to go?
"To the store" What Store? "Target"
Today, Hannah, Reilly and I were sitting in McDonald's having an ice cream cone. Hannah was making a really big mess with it as it dripped down her shirt. I mean, it was all over her nose, her shirt, her pants, etc. So I told Hannah that I get messy sometimes too when I eat ice cream. I told her about the time when I was in college... I was driving with an ice cream cone and somehow smashed it into the windshield blocking my view (thank goodness I was only backing out and could put it back in park!) Anyway, so I see wheels turning in Hannah's head when she asked:
"Who was watching us while you were at college?"
I laughed and then told her she wasn't born yet. She said "Yes, I was." Uh... no you weren't. I left it at that because she was distracted again by the oh-so-yummy ice cream that she was smearing on her nose.
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!
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 stood up for the camera in this video, or maybe someone propped him up. But he stands all by himself for a little bit.
Hannah shows us she has learned how to wink her eyes back and forth. Pretty funny girl!
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!)
Although he's not yet crawling, when propped up, he will stand all day! Will he walk before he crawls? We don't know!
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!
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
Not much longer until I can throw a football. Just working out my throwing arm here!
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!
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...
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.
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"!
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!
