I bet you'll give me what I want if I give you this look!

Listen, lady, it's time for me to do the laundry. Can you please give me a break from the photo shoot?

No, momma, I'm not peeing in my bath water.

Check out my HAIR!!!

If I'm really good, will you let me stand up in my chair and jump off?

I escaped from my bath and look what I found!

In the end, Hannah won the fight with the lunchbox.

Can somebody please whip up a sandwich for me. Daddy is fresh out!

Sherbie likes to be upside down!

Time to go "ni-nite" Sherbie!

Hannah has a new friend named Sherbie. Here, Hannah is teaching Sherbie how to crawl out of her highchair (just like she does).

This is the McCowen Family- Summer, Jay, and Asher. Jay just finished a 1 year tour of duty in Afghanistan where he helped train the new Afghan army. Jay was able to come home during his tour to see his son Asher born. The McCowen family is moving to UVA to work on a MBA degree. His Atlanta friends appreciate his service to our country and hope that after his tour of duty in ACC country he will return to the Atlanta area.

Uncle Gordon (Owens) is shown here asking Hannah the hard questions... "Do you want some hot wings? Hannah, do you know what Fire-Poops are?"

The party moved inside briefly due to the rain. While inside Maddie Spenner (see the link to the right of this page) did her own rock'n dance for the band. Maddie and Hannah are soon to be excellent friends when Hannah moves to town.

Hannah, her mother, Kylie, and Ashley held their own little tea party while everyone else was rocking it out to the sweet sounds of acoustic "Gin and Juice" outside on the deck during Summer Jam 2006.

Can anyone else see the fear in Hannah's eyes? That is because Kat is holding her and Hannah is not used to being that high up in the air.

"Summer-Jam" 2006 was held this past weekend in Atlanta. You know Hannah was totally into it. At one point, shown here, she mistook Summer-Jam for Mardi-Gras and stripped down to her redneck outfit. She was still a huge hit at the party, as you can see by the reaction in the background.

Hannah enjoyed her party and is still enjoying her new doll. There will be video posted soon of Hannah eating her cake. Video takes a little longer to post. Thanks for coming to see Hannah today!

No really she loves them, but she wants her freedom too.

Here McKay was able to get Hannah to put her doll down for a minute to open another present. Hannah's cousins Curran, MaryKeenan, and McKay really love Hannah, and she loves them.

I think there is a learning curve for Hannah to be gentle with her doll. The Nicholas girls will help her out there. -Andrew

It seems there might be a slight resemblance between Hannah and her doll... at least between their hair anyway.

Again, thanks to Jillian for getting Daddy in front of the camera.

She really never put the doll down the rest of the night.

I am not sure why Jillian was trying to separate those two, but it did not work out.

OK, maybe there are more than three pictures of this event. It was one of the cutest things I have ever seen. Kind of like when a young boy gets his first BB gun.

The hug! Hannah has barely put this doll down since she got it. It is so cute to see her carry her doll around...

The "turn"...

It is rare I wish we had video in lieu of photographs, but this three shot sequencer does not do this justice like a video would. Momma bought Hannah her first (new) baby doll. Momma knew best in this case... Hannah just loves this doll. Check out all three pictures...

Hannah got her first laptop computer for her birthday. The loyal readers already know there is an "Advanced" comment on the way... She is so advanced she can already hit the same button repeatedly and make the same noise over and over again.

Hannah had a little reaction, to the cake (or the pink icing). She never acted sick or bothered, but she did get some red marks on her face. Aunt Leigh sprung into action and ran down the street to get some Children's Benadryl from Aunt Danielle's house. Shortly after Hannah took her medicine the marks disappeared. Momma and Daddy had planned on teller Hannah she is allergic to sweets to combat the Chambers sweet tooth, but there could actually be a little truth in it.

Here is a little proof of Hannah getting tired.

As I said in the last post, Hannah was starting to get really tired. She still did a good job opening her presents, of which there were many. Hannah would like to thank everyone who brought or sent a present. It was enough just to have everyone there, but the gives were much appreciated.
As an aside, Stephanie and Andrew can tell you exactly which children's toys will talk, sing, or jingle in the car trunk for 7.5 to 8 hours during the drive home. Hannah can't tell you, because she was asleep much of the way home.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to... And I want to.

Next it was G and Pop's turn with Hannah and her cake. She was starting to get tired of everyone staring at her eat her cake, and she was definitely getting tired. It is hard work turning 1 year old.

BB and Papa got their turn to pose with Hannah and her cake. You can see Hannah is starting to feel a little heavy and is sliding down in her seat.

Hannah took some time off from the cake to discuss some stock diversification strategies with Papa. You can see Hannah brought up some points Papa had not considered. He was very impressed.

Daddy is in two pictures in a row, it must be a record. Thanks to Jillian for getting Daddy in front of the camera.
After eating so much icing, Daddy thought she should at least try the cake. BB did a wonderful job on the cake as always. If you are wondering, the cake was NOT low fat, but we told Hannah it was. She is always watching her girlish figure.

You can almost see the wheels turning, "Daddy just wiped icing all over my nose, I think I can return the favor." Hannah is more adult than Daddy and held back. Daddy can be so juvenile!

After Hannah spent a little time eating the cake like a little lady (sans mess), we decided to give her a fork to see if she could create a little bit more of a mess. It worked, but not like we wanted. Instead of getting more on her face, she started swinging the fork around and flinging cake on the floor and the innocent bystanders.