Happy Easter!

We had planned a big family Easter get together, but because several members of the Diggs clan was plagued by the tummy bug making it's way around Austin we decided to post-pone the big gathering.  We spent some time with the "cousins" followed by a relaxing Sunday of yard work, laundry, ironing, and nap time.  (When did she get to be so big?!?!) 

Because I can't resist the previous years Easter pics.......

Jeep

Sterling (or has Hannah affectionately calls him "Jojo") has a jeep.  He and Catherine invited me and Hannah to go to Snow Beach (snow cone place) downtown.  We jumped in the jeep (me, literally, jumped in) and we buckled Hannah in the car seat and off we went.  She must have really liked or been really tired as she fell asleep going and coming!

Butterfly House

The first Saturday of each month Home Depot has a Kids Club where they build something.  This month was a butterfly house.  We showed up at 10 hoping to be one of the first one's so Hannah could get the coveted orange apron, but no luck....it started at 9 and they had run out.  I was sad.  I want her to own her very own orange Home Depot apron.  We gathered our materials and began to build.  Hannah (again) was more interested in telling Richard how to build and stack orange buckets.  She did like using the hammer (as Richards' finger found out)!  We can't wait to see what we're building next month!

Sass

Well, so far we've sailed through 2 1/2 without tantrums, fits, and falling on the floor kicking and screaming.  We're high-fiving each other for this feat!  However, Miss Hannah is a bit of a sassy pants.  Our conversation yesterday morning couldn't go without a blog post....

H:  Mommy, I'd like circle pancakes for breakfast, please.  (Papa Charlie makes "H" pancakes, so she makes sure to tell me that she wants "circle" pancakes).

T:  Okay, Hannah. 

I go off to the kitchen make the pancakes and add some cinnamon applesauce to her plate thinking she would like to dip the pancakes into the applesauce since she doens't have syrup on them (too sticky for morning trying to get ready for work routine!). 

T:  Here Hannah are your pancakes.

H:  looking at the plate  Mommy, did I want applesauce?! 

T:  Uh, well, Mommy thought you might like to dip your pancakes in the applesauce. 

H:  No thank you, Mommy, I eat them plain. 

Well, she knows what she wants and doesn't FOR SURE!  :) 

Kids Club at Home Depot

Richard found out that Home Depot has a Kids Club that meets one Saturday a month where kids can build things.  I can see our house filled with Hannah building projects soon enough.  Richard may have to build a book shelf for Hannah creations to display all of the fabulousness.  Saturday was "build a wagon planter".  Hannah's favorite part was using the hammer and telling us how to build her wagon.  Hmmmmm.....I wonder who she gets that from?!   She had a lot of fun (we did too) and walked away with a wagon for her strawberry plant.  We also bought a box planter, some tomato and carrot seeds, and another strawberry plant to grow.  I think it's going to be really really neat for Hannah to watch her produce grow and then get to eat it!  I may be more excited than her. 

H-E-B

Hannah loves our weekend shopping trip to HEB.  She loves to help me by putting things in the shopping cart.  She has her own shopping cart at home that she got from Santa Claus that she loves to push around the house and pretend to go to the grocery store.  The grocery shopping day (Sunday) came around and she wanted to take the cart with us including two of her babies (Baby Anna and Baby Alice) along with two blankets for the babies.  I caved.  I totally let her bring the shopping cart.  I'm sure it will bite me later, but she wanted to soooo bad.  She was so good at HEB with the shopping cart.  She followed closely behind me, she put "Hannah snacks" in her cart, and she didn't run in to anyone.  I did mostly hear "she's so cute, what a cute shopping cart" and only got two nasty looks from other shoppers.  So, all in all, it was a good trip to HEB and Hannah was super thrilled!

You scream, we scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!

While I was volunteering for the rodeo, Richard and Hannah went for a special treat.  It was her first trip to Baskin Robins and she chose strawberry!  She dove face first in the ice cream cone, it was priceless!