Christmas Day

Hannah was super excited about Potato Head Santa!  Thanks Baby Kate!

Thrilled with her digital camera!  Maybe now I'll get mine back?!

Pat the Bunny!  Thank you Aunt Dee and Uncle Josh!

Playing Doctor with Papa and new baby.

Lots of food, family, and fun....

Shopping cart for my baby....

This is what Hannah has asked Santa for since we began asking her what she wanted for Christmas in November!  This is the first and only thing she had ever said she wanted.  Funny thing though, she did not want the cute pink plastic shopping cart, she wanted a shopping cart like we use at HEB.  After helping Santa search high and low, east and west, we found one (thank you Learning Express!).  Santa left it unwrapped under the tree and it was the first thing she saw Christmas morning.   Her expressing was priceless!  She ran down the hall, "Shopping cart for my baby!!!!"  It was so awesome!  Oh, and I love the classic just woke up, in jammies, with messy hair opening gifts.  Love it.

Christmas Eve

Hannah and I made special sugar cookies just for Santa.  Santa was pretty lucky that these were also low-fat and somewhat healthy.  I just love my Cooking Light cookbook!

Merry Christmas to all!

Christmas with the Cousins! 

So, I know I'm a day late posting Christmas wishes and cheer, but I couldn't find the USB cord for the camera.  So, we're going to pretend that today is December 25th again.  Merry Christmas to all friends and family! 

Santa's Message to Hannah

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/91702e67496cbb2d002cdb6a3cff91a3


So so cute!

Santa

The meetings with Santa Claus have begun.  Hannah is still not so thrilled about him. She knows what she wants, "shopping cart for my baby", and know who he is, just not wanting to get within 2 feet of him.  We first visited the Hill Country Galleria where we saw Santa.  She didn't want to sit on his lap, but she was willing to share her animal crackers. 

Coffee

Hannah is in her copying Mommy and Daddy stage, where she also thinks we're super cool. Anyone that knows me, knows that I'm a Starbucks junkie. I love it. I love the flavor, the red holiday cup, the atmosphere of the store, the friends that I've met at 7:30 every morning, it's my thing. Hannah and I had to kill some time on Saturday and what best place to kill time, than Starbucks?! Here is a picture of Hannah enjoying her "coffee". She was so excited to have a cup like Mommy.

Hannah's "Llama Llama Red Pajama"! This is her FAVORITE book and when she saw the Llama she was so excited! She said, "Mama, Llama Rejama"! (what she calls the book). She wanted to take a picture with it, until it started making noises.....following this picture was a look of fear and tears!

Hannah and the lioness. I'm sure the lion thought Hannah would be a nice snack.


Hannah is looking for the bear.

Hannah and Richard super duper excited about the Austin Zoo! ;)

www.austinzoo.org

Free Housecleaning!

I love that Hannah is no longer afraid of the vacum! She now wants to help me clean. She can push it on the tile, but wears herself out trying to vacum the carpet. :) I'm really enjoying this age where she wants to help clean, wants to help do the dishes, wants to help pick up her toys/books/etc, and wants to feed Max and Daisy. I'm going to bookmark this post for when she's 16 (who am I kidding 6) and refuses to help.

We went to the Domain for the Christmas tree lighting. Hannah got a balloon flower and made some dog ears! She had a great time running through Macy's until the 2 PM nap time melt down happened. :)

Lots of Blog updates.

I have been a slacker with updating the blog. I can't update the blog from home since Miss Hannah truly believes that Elmo lives in the computer and when it's turned on she insists that we put Elmo on. So, it's a little hard to update with pictures, something profound to say, and prevent Hannah from hearing me tapping away on the keyboard. So here goes......

Me and Kristen met up on Saturday for our annual tradition of the Chuy's Giving to Children Parade. We donated toys to needy families. Hannah is smitten with Miss Kate. She played with her, hugged her, pulled on her, patted her head, and just gave her lots of love. Who blames her, Miss Kate is hugable goodness!

Hannah's Look-Alike Doll

Doesn't this doll look like Hannah? :)

Cousins!

It's Heatblast (Brady), Cat Girl (Katie), Wonder Girl (Milla), and Dorothy (Hannah). They had such a great time together at our Halloween Party on Saturday.

Just for fun...Halloween from years past

Hannah Banana at 2 months old, First Halloween

Hannah Shark, October 2008

Hannah Kitty, October 2008, Daycare Halloween Celebration

October 2008, Halloween Week Fashionista

O' Hallows' Eve

To celebrate O Hallows' Eve Hannah dressed up as a ballerina today. She was so excited to put on her leotard, tights, and ballerina slippers (and not be going to dance class)! She confirmed with me several times that I was NOT taking her to dance class, that she was a ballerina today at daycare. She also reminded me that she did not like dance class. (I'm so sad about this and crossing my fingers that one day she'll be begging to go to dance class!). Here's our love all decked out in her ballerina gear!

Very batty Halloween dress!

Nana Annette,

Thank you so much for making my this Halloween dress! The colors are perfect. I really like the polka dots and the fancy ribbon around the edge. My favorite part of the dress is the bat! It's perfect for Halloween! It's still pretty warm in Texas so I wasn't able to wear my long sleeve white shirt, but that's okay, Mama said I still looked very cute. Thank you very much for taking the time to make my special Halloween dress. I love it!

Love,

Hannah

P.S. Mama is a quick learner...she gave me a mini pumpkin to hold to distract me from running off while she's trying to take my pictures. Mama, is so smart!

Wednesday, Day 3 of Halloween Fashion Show Week

Hannah loves the camera. Really, if they made a cheap-o digital, I would buy it for her. She loves to take pictures. I have to delete over 37 pictures from her taking photos this morning. Thank goodness for digital! I would have wasted a whole lot of film otherwise. Here's her third Halloween outfit this week. Again, chasing her around in the morning to take a photo is now a game. :)

This cracks me up!

Another image from Teresa Maureen Photography. (www.teresamaureen.com/blog) This photo just cracks me up! Hannah is a riot!

Working.

When Hannah colors she calls it "working". It's really cute. Here's some pictures of her at work. She's a very busy little lady.