Christmas Snow 2009

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First Steps

Hannah has been standing on her own and taking her first steps this week! Oh my goodness, my little lady is growing up. :) I feel like she tends to accomplish her milestones when she's in new places. She started crawling when she stayed with the grandparents in July while Daniel and I were in Michigan (so yes, that means we missed it. Oh well). Now that we've moved, she's getting brave and wanting to walk (I guess so she can explore?). She crawled all the way down the stairs backwards by herself yesterday, which is very exciting.

Speaking of moving, I should have some pictures soon. We're slowing getting things set up and put away. Now it's just a matter of motivating myself to take the pictures and then upload them to my computer. :)

Anyway, just wanted to share that Hannah is starting to walk!

Happy Birthday and Closing

So, Hannah's birthday was on the 5th of September.... I know.... a while ago, but I'm just now getting an opportunity to upload some pictures. Both sets of her grandparents came up for the day, which was awesome! And, Abigail, David, and Ava came as well to see their little niece. We also had a few friends from town come... Tim, Jim, Craig, and Kim and their new little girl Camryn. It was a lot of fun and very nice to see everyone. Hannah got some great presents that have been keeping her very busy. :) Below is her cake:

It was an icecream cake, so she didn't have much of a chance to get messy. Sorry. :)

Daniel and Ava:

Ava and Hannah playing with one of her new presents... a Little People house. She loves this thing!

The birthday girl, again in her high chair, with not much of a mess. She's trying to figure out how to feed herself with a spoon.

With regard to more Hannah updates, she now crawls over to the window whenever someone leaves, peers up over the top, and waves goodbye. Very cute. She did her best to sound out the words "monkey" and "chicken" the other day. She got the first syllable of each word out, so I think that's good enough for now. Her first lateral incisor has broken through, so I'm just waiting for the other one on the bottom to poke out. At her well baby check-up, the doctor said that he could see her molars bulging, so he figured those would be in within a month or two. Grrreeeeat. The teething never stops. Hannah is getting very good at figuring out how to get down the stairs, and she's becoming a pro at cruising. I do believe she'll be walking fairly soon, for better or for worse. :) We also got her a forward-facing car seat, which she seems to like more than the infant carrier.

Daniel and I close on our house TOMORROW!!!!! Ahhh I can't believe it. Seven months in the making, and we're finally here! Praise the Lord!

On another note, we're starting Hannah on cloth diapers very soon. I've ordered a few BumGenius diapers, and some other kind off ebay, which I am very excited about. Cloth diapers have come a looooooong way in the last 20 years. I am hoping that Hannah will potty train quickly with these bad boys, whenever it comes time for that. Plus, it just makes me sick to my stomach when I think about how many disposables we go through in a week and that it just sits in a landfill somewhere. Yuck. I shall keep you posted on how the cloth diapering goes.

That is all for now! Hopefully we'll have some pictures to post of our new house and its progress soon!

Watch Out

T-minus 6 days and counting until we make the move into the long awaited house we have been building. Everything has gone very smoothly despite a few setbacks. Calie and I were not crazy about the placement of the thermostat and doorbell on the wall in the pick below so they move them to the right ever so slightly to make them easier to get to. I start the pictures below with the things that have annoyed us the most about the new house building flaws. I guess it is safe to say that I snuck in there this afternoon and took some pics with my cell phone (sorry for the quality). The first thing is the window in the spare room; kind of close to the wall don't you think? The second picture is one the builder doesn't know I am going to complain about, but the tiles in the kitchen floor have a line that is off-color compared to the rest and it is a eye sore even though the picture does not do it justice. The rest are just some pics of the house in the final stages. Enjoy! (and yes the house next door is for sale; want to be our neighbors?)