Peak a boo! I'm following you ... seriously.

TGIF!

Today was kind of weird. it all started at 5am.

Woke - very cranky. Then hung out with my mom & dad until my nap at 9am.
Then Jeni came over and we went to Roots (the new outlet store in Centrum). Mom got me a lot of winter clothes.
I'm really lucky!
Then I came back home and hung out with Jeni (napped as well).
Mom went to lunch with her friend Angie - she had a great time! Came back all smiley :)
Then it was more me & Jeni time. Although I was cranky, a bottle fixed that (temporarily).
Once Jeni left, we went to Centrum to do some errands and grab a Lattee.
As soon as dad came home, I was ALL smiles (super giggly video here)! I think mom was very jealous!
Then it was bedtime. Yuck!





Have a super weekend!
Hannah

2nd chances are stupid.

ola amigos! (ok, that is the extent of my Spanish)

so today was ok. in a nutshell:
6am - woke
play
8:30am - nap
10:00am - went to the new Superstore near Bridlewood with mom's friend Angie
11:45am - tried Gym-Tales (pretty much the same as Gymboree ... different location)
1:00pm - nap
3:30pm - sydney & her mom came over to play
7:00pm - bed

So I've taken an idea from a mom that used to be in Gymboree class with us (thanks Sara) and here is an idea of where I am at 8 months and 3 days.

Can do:
-roll (mostly back to tummy)
-sit for long periods
-scrawl (shifty crawl) backwards
-rotate while sitting
-rotate while on tummy
-reach for big or small objects
-say baba,dada,and babble
-chew
-remove hats/blankets from my head
-use the sippy cup
-amuse myself
-grind my teeth
-standing (not taking any steps but just standing)
-wobble on all 4 (no crawling ... yet)

Likes:
Toys 'n Stuff
-Leroy (my parents orange cat)
-Baby Einstein's Favorite Places
-rolie Polie & Topie and Bino on TreehouseTV
-rattles (anything that shakes and makes noise)
-kitchen utensils and plastic bowls
-other babies/kids/people
-balls and blocks
-fish
-anything that wasn't meant to be a toy
-any tv remoite my parents are using
-wires/strings/keychains

Foods
-anything my parents are eating
-chicken
-McDonalds
-blueberries
-Gerber products
-beef stroganoff

Activity Centers
-the Musical Playground by Leapfrog
-the excersaucer
-the Jolly Jumper
-the Jumperoo

Actions
-emptying boxes/bowls of anything in them
-dad's song for me "All hail Hannah, cause she's the very best, she's the very best at
smiling"
-hanging upside down
-being tickled
-chewing on my shoes
-stangling anything I can get my hands on (stuffed animals, markers, people)
-sitting in big girl chairs
-wind in my face
-swimming lessons
-standing

Dislikes:
-honeydew
-nap/bedtime (not severly but I like to stay awake)
-really warm or really cold bottles
-pureed food
-highchairs
-people with a lot of makeup

I may have forgotten a few but you get the picture.

So today mom took quite a few pictures of me ... However, I think tonight I'm only going to share 2. These are super and mean more.


Sweet Dreams!
Hannah

I can fly-well, not really .. but my mom shares that I can - like that Pookie?

Good evening!

So do you like my new layout? Mom did it for me last night - it looks good although she really is colour blind :)

Today was hectic.

Woke at 5:30am. That sucked for my mom.
Napped at 9am. Went to Farmboy. Visited my Grandpa. Napped at 1pm. Visited my friend Anthony (and his mom Lilliam). Ate dinner. Went to bed.

Now for the important part of the entry ...

New skill #1: Turning a light switch on/off! Ok, I can do this about 50% of the time. It makes me smile to!!! My mom taught me how to do this ... And she thinks I'm actually doing this on purpose - who knows :) But hey, it appears that I really love doing it!

New skill #2: Going on all 4's!!! Right now I'm a super duper backward crawler ... and today when I was in the midst of heading backwards, I managed to keep my knees under me and was up on all 4's. Then KERPLOP! But it was a moment that brought tears to mom's eyes.

Mom's too tired to write more.
G'night,
Hannah

1+1 = double the cuteness & triple the worry!

Where to begin? 6am.

Yes - I woke at 6am - again. I was in a super mood. Mom was really sneaky and tried to bring me to her room so she could get some more zeeze - I was not about to let that happen :)

I had a ton of playtime with my mom this morning before my morning nap. And today I tried pear for my first time. I don't mean pear puree like Heinz do it, but I ate pieces of a real pear. So cool!

My nap was about 60 min long ... Luckily I woke up just in time for my Kindermusik class. It's completely a weird thing to do. So much singing and dancing, I'm not sure mom likes it. Anyhow, I'm warming up to the idea/class. One thing though happened today - some mother (geeze I hope she doesn't read this and she really is nice) brought her child to class and the child was sick! Not just sniffles but the flu. Why? That isn't cool at all. I could have caught it. Maybe I still will and I'll be very pissed off. I have more respect for people than that.


Anyhow, after Kindermusik I went to Starbucks to eat. (I'm such a cutie!)
Then it was off to home for some wind down time and my afternoon nap.
During my nap, my friend Syndey came over because her mom had an appointment. My mom is super woman and babysat Sydney while watching me :) We played together nicely and had lots of smiles (video here - it's awesome!)!


Then after Sydney & Jen left, mom and I hung out. Nothing too eventful.

It was a long day :)
Hannah

Spanish Chicken is my White Castle - not Burger Shack

Ok, so today was a little off because I was still recovering from thw busy/late weekend.

I got up at 6:30am ... ouchy for mom! Ate at 7am, and then played for a bit.


I was so exhausted by 8am that I went back to bed for 30 min. Ouchy for mom - only 30 min.

1 first coming up ...
I fell asleep on my tummy! Yay! This was a big deal for me ... maybe I won't wake my mom sometimes when I can't roll over. ALTHOUGH as I was falling asleep - I think my mom found out my secret that I really can roll from my tummy to my back (I did it twice when I didn't think she was watching)

Then we went to do errands. First we got the entire Gerber Little Graduates collection at Walmart. After we headed to Starbucks ...

4 firsts coming up ...
1. Tried Strawberries (no reaction so far and they were extremely tasty!)
2. Drank from a straw (for 2 seconds :))
3. Ate the Heinz 12 month jarred food - I didn't gag because it was chunky enough that I knew to chew.
4. Was fed with a fork (way cool!)

After Starbucks (11am ish) I went home and Jeni (my super-duper-babysitter) came over. Also, Sally dropped by with her 5 week old princess - Shayla. Mom, Sally, and Shayla went for a walk while I played with Jeni.

Then mom did something incredibly dumb. She broke my crib while lowering it. Arg! Just as she discovered it was borken - Jen (& Sydney) called. They came over for a play date. Mom was a little late for the party because she had to go to Walmart to get another crib. Ouchy for mom!
I got to eat for dinner Spanish Chicken & Ravioli with Vegetables.


Around 6pm ish, everyone left and dad came home.

A long bath, a super bottle, and it was lights out - in my lowered crib.

Nighty night!
Hannah

p.s. HaCoUrTnEy good luck with school this semester! Please kick some ass so you can be my teacher one day! Pretty please!

"Sweet like candy to my soul" - DM

Happy 8 months old to me! Holy Cow! When can I lose the prefix 'baby' and use 'little girl'? Soon? Oh yeah!

I'm pooped.

On a normal day:
6:30am - wake up
9am - nap (60 min)
1pm - nap (60 min)
7pm - bedtime

Today:
6:30am - wake up
8:30am - nap (60 min)
12:30pm - nap (60 min)
4pm - nap (60 min)
7pm - bedtime

Geeze I'm over tired! I know it's cause I went to bed last night pretty late. Geeze I'm pooped!

So what a weekend I've had already
... Friday's Post & Saturday's Post.
Today was no different.

Got up at 6:30am and played with the parents until my first nap at 8:30am. Then around 10:00am my mom and I went to synagogue. It was my first time. Not sure how I liked it. I was extremely chatty and the lady behind me wasn't smiling at me like poeple ususal do when I do my 'dadadad' chats :(.

I met an old friend of my mom's and her husband. Pretty smart cookies!
Oh, and happy one-day-early first-anniversary to them .

May your marriage be like a fine wine and only ever get better with time.

(mom - that is sooo cheesy!)

(this was their assigned seating card for their wedding) After synagogue I came home and had some awesome time with just mom & dad. Tried honey-garlic chicken wings for my first time. Pretty cool! And messy to.Speaking of food, tonight I tried something else new. I'm into eating people food now. I'll still have some cereal in the mornings but the rest of the day I'm going to try and eat what my mom or dad would eat. So tonight I ate a Little Graduates Entree. It was incredible! Although I wasn't fond of the metal fork mom tried to use. Tommorow mom will get me a plastic fork. I ate so much and actually asked for more. I'm also addicted to their puffs.

Tonight I giggled and smiled SOOOO much! My parents were in heaven!!! They say I light up their lives ... I love it :)

Here are some pictures of me all dressed up after I came home from synagogue:

I'm starting to look like a little girl! Wow time flies.

Seems like just yesterday I looked like these:


Those are in order from 3 months pregnant to about 4 months old. My eyes stayed blue! And became so beautiful - yes, I'm tooting my own horn :)

(sadly my mom is tearing as she is writing this - if anyone wants, she has taken photos of me everyday *yes, everyday* since I was born and you can see them by clicking on the months where the archives are on the bottom right of this page. geeze you'd think she was proud or something!)

I was so tired tonight I even missed swimming class - sorry Nick & Shawna & Hannah.

Have a super week!
Love Hannah
(& her cheesy mom)