New Year's Eve

For New Year's Eve we went to a kid-friendly pajama party at the Vrooman's house. Hannah wore her pjs, I rocked out in my Seniors '99 t-shirt and pj pants with messy pigtails, while Steve opted for an old sports coat and weird tie. To quote Steve, "If I got invited to a pirate party, I would go as a ninja." He's a rebel. Walter was in town and I talked him into wearing long underwear and pigtails like me. He protested about the pigtails, but I think he secretly liked them. Why else would he have long hair?

The Baileys and Holcombes were also hosting a New Year's party, but it was a dress up party. So after Hannah got some play time with Norah and they both went to sleep, we went to the formal party for awhile. Yes, in my pjs and pigtails. Walter almost tried to change into jeans, but we convinced him that long underwear were really the way to go at a formal affair.

We were back at the pj party by midnight and rang in the new year with noisemakers that amazingly didn't wake the 9 kids asleep upstairs. So it was a good night. We played Apples to Apples, we saw college friends, and we laughed at Walter's underwear. Happy 2010!!

More Snow!

When we got back home Sunday night there was so much snow we had to shovel the driveway to get in. Amazingly, the next day it was warm enough to go out and play in it. Hannah tasted the snow and was rather pleased with it this time. Steve built a giant snowman was also pleased with it...until it fell over that night. I think someone knocked it down because it was right next to the sidewalk, but we like to think he died of natural causes and fell over on his own.

Christmas 2009

We drove up to Chillicothe on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning Hannah woke us up at 5:00, but we kindly waited all the way until 7:00 to start blaring Christmas music and wake everyone else up. :) It had snowed overnight and so we had another white Christmas. As we passed out the presents, they started to pile up in front of Hannah. The stacks of gifts made her so freaked out that she started crawling away crying "ma ma ma ma!" We took away the pile and put them in front of her one at a time and she was much happier. She didn't help with the unwrapping as much as I thought she would, but she enjoyed playing with the new presents. We fit in Christmas gatherings with my family, Steve's family, my mom's side, and Steve's mom's side before going back to Kansas City Sunday night. Here's some pictures of Hannah's first Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Black and White

Busy Hannah

Just a typical night for a busy little girl.

Hannah Stats- 9 Months

She is now 30.5 inches long (over 97th percentile) and 20 pounds 10 ounces (80th percentile). She was a trooper at her doctor's appointment. She didn't even notice the first shot and on the second shot one she just gave a little yelp and that was it.

It was a big month in the life of Hannah. She learned to clap her hands, crawl, pull herself up to standing, and she even walks a little while holding onto furniture. After a few head bumps and gashing her eye on the table, she quickly learned how to sit down from a standing position! She can say dada and mama...and sometimes she even says them to the correct person. :) Her first two teeth are coming in on the bottom, too!

She is having a ball at daycare now that she can play more with the other kids. She still has never cried when I drop her off. She just crawls right over to Pat or some of her toys without even looking back at me. But then when I pick her up she immediately stops what she's doing, gives me a big smile, and crawls over for a hug. So cute!

Her personality is coming out more and more. Hannah has a quiet, serious, "engineerish" side so she carefully studies any new object or person she comes across. But once she is comfortable with something she is loud and laughing and silly. She loves being tickled, hitting objects together to make noise, and reading books on my lap. She also gives me kisses (slobbering on my face while making a noise).

Snow!

Hannah's first time in snow. She was very happy...until she felt it. But even then she was only mildly annoyed that it was cold. Then she tasted it and was VERY unhappy that it was cold. Note: The red mark next to her eye is from an unfortunate run-in with a coffee table.

Warning: The pictures below will make you say "awww!" Hannah's too-big snowsuit with her little feet sticking out is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Okay, I'm biased.

Standing

Even weirder than seeing her all of a sudden sitting in her crib is seeing her STANDING in her crib. This is how I found her one morning. She is now pulling herself up on everything. Pat said the other two kids at daycare were playing with something on the coffee table the other day. Hannah just crawled over, pulled herself up to standing, and gave them a big smile as she started to play, too. She's finally able to play with the "big" kids!

Paper Towel

Hannah does not like getting her face wiped off after a meal. However, she does like trying to eat the wet paper towel.