Christmas is in the air!

We went up to the Carousel in Tilden Park last week and saw Santa, rode on the carousel and saw a tons of lights and Christmas trees of every sort.  It was really fun!  Hannah liked the carousel.  SHe and I rode on a pony together.

We saw Santa leaving his little house and asked if we could get a picture. My mother-in-law said, "boy Santa, it looks like you lost some weight?  he said he was from the South Pole.I had to smile and snicker a little at the comment.

 Hannah didn't know what to make of it all, so she kept her eyes on me the whole time as you can see in the picture above.

Here we are in front of the lighted Christmas scenes

My mother-in-law put Hannah on top of this huge stuffed Reindeer.  She  just took everything in.

Paris said this is our little Yoda.  She will soon be joining the Jedi force.

Hannah was too cute for words, so I had to take a picture.  I know we have a lot of bath pictures, but when she's this cute how can you pass it up?

We were rolling the ball back and forth.  I wanted to capture a good sitting picture.

Last Tuesday, we visited Paris at his new office.  He whole department moved to a new and bigger location.  We brought him lunch to eat together, but we spent the time on a tour of the new place, talking with each other and his co-workers, that we have no time to actually eat. So Hannah and I ate after we said goodbye. 

After we had lunch, Hannah and I went to play at a park nearby in China town.  Everyone at the park was of a different nationality.  We felt like a fish out of water, but all the parents  including me, just smiled at each other and continued to play with their kids.  

The race is on

Well Shaylynn told me today that she was in labor on Monday, went to the hospital and got hooked up to the monitors, but wasn't quite ready so they sent her home to rest.  The rest was good, but the labor pains went away and now she is back to waiting. She promised Luke she would try to wait until Monday. 

Natalie, sorry but you are out of the pool.  Karen and myself are out as well.

 Kelly Jensen said she wanted in and was wondering if there was any hazing involved before she could join. What do you think girls?  Should we let her in?

Of course you can be let in, but first you have to tell us all about your fabulous time in New Orleans building houses for the Katrina victims.  I'm jealous!  Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.  

Kelly I will put you in our poll for Dec 16th.  ( My dad's birthday and the day I will have total peace and quite in my little basement apartment.- everyone that lives above me is leaving for 3 weeks)

look below if you forgot the date you choose.  Good Luck!

A November to Remember

I pulled out a q-tip to clean some wax out. This is the first time Hannah saw a q-tip and she couldn't resist touching it and of course, putting it in her mouth.  But the funnies things happened, she caught  it in her toes and was kicking her legs so it kept on moving around and I couldn't grab it in time before she put it in her mouth.

We went to Golden Gate Park. We tried to play, but our little one was fussy and just wanted to go to sleep. It  would of been nice if she had slept in the car on the way over there.

 

Grandma Fox wanted to take us there bless her heart.  She walked with Hannah while Paris and I had time to walk around and talk.  We don't get to do that very often.

I bought this ball 2 weeks ago and she is now ready to play and roll the ball with to me.  We roll it back and forth.

This one is my favorite.  I got her super smiley.  Hannah is so cute. When I call her name she looks at me and give me a big smile.  It's fun to have her so smiley.

This one was taken in the morning.  We were playing with mom's blanket. Hannah loves to play with it because she can put her fingers through the hole.

Shaylyn's Due date Pool

That's right girls, here it is.  Sorry it's taken me too long to get this posted up. I've been sick so all the free time I had recently, I have been sleeping. This is my first free moment of not sleeping to post the dates of our due date pool.  Here you go:

Natalie- Dec 2nd

Karen- Dec 5th

Leslie- Dec 6th

Fenna- Dec 8th

Heather- Dec 9th

Britney-  Dec 10th

Rachel- Dec 11th

Tamara- Dec 12th

Shaylyn & Becca - Dec 13th

Jeni R.- Dec 15th

Kelly- Dec 16th

Erika- Dec 25th

Remember to stay tune to see who wins because there is a prize that will be revealed when baby Isabella decides to reveal herself!

family fun!

Here is our latest family picture!  It took a few tries, but we got it.  

We have a little tikes playhouse in the front and Hannah was enjoying a little fruit while sitting in the house.  Her 2 cousins, her mom and dad were all in the house together. Paris was filming her and I was there to hold her incase she decided to lean one way or another. Anyway,  it made for a packed house.  Paris has to climb out of the window to get out. It was really funny to see him inside the house.

We were just playing around, giving her lots of love and affection.  We just can seem to give her enough kisses!

Hannah likes to touch my lips and mouth as well as my nose.  SO I try to eat her hand and she thinks it pretty funny!

Here's daddy  and Hannah playing around

We were having a little tummy time.  She's really getting good at holding herself up

On Halloween, Hannah spent a little time with her cousins  and Tunte trick-or-treating.  This picture was taken after we finished.

Here's one of her favorite cousins posing after a tiring night  of trick-or-treating.  It was so cute, Isadora watches out for Hannah and takes care of her.  Here's an example-On Halloween as we walked to each house, Isadora would walk up the stairs to knock on the door and say trick-or-treat and get a piece of candy. But then she would grab another piece and give it to Hannah so she wasn't left out. It was so cute.  I had so much fun!  Hannah was quite and just took it all in, I think. There was so much going on, she did good.  Lots of people said how cute she was, which made me feel good inside.

Favorite Tunte, as she likes to remind me of

This was earlier in the day with her cute Halloween outfit on.  SHe will only have her first Halloween once, so I had to take a picture

bath time fun and more!

We had dinner with my sister last week  and after dinner Hannah joined her cousins in the bath tub..  They were so excited to have her there they wanted to make sure she sat in the middle of them both.  Isadora told me that she was saving the middle for Hannah and made sure her sister knew as well.



The water was a little high for Hannah, but she was only in there for a short while and I watched her the whole time.

Hannah is sitting up these days

Loves those shoes.  A girl after my own heart!

Reading, talking and playing all at the same time.

Hannah does this as her signal that "hey mom, I'm sleepy, put me to sleep already"

3 Peas in a Pod!

So here we are, our Hannah's first Halloween.  So I thought it would be cute, inspired by her costume to be 3 peas in a pod.  I  wanted to do something simple and inexpensive, so I went to Joann's fabric store and got some green fabric which I sewed and made wraps for Paris and I to wear with matching green pea pod hats.  Hannah was of course the main attraction, we were dressed to complement her cute costume.

In the end, we won an award for "Best Garden Variety"  We have a certificate and some starburst candy to show for it.  

Here is all 3 of us together

Here is a close up of the star of the show

Here is the one that put this whole thing together.  Thank you Hannah for taking nice long naps so I could put this all together.  The funny thing is that at our Halloween party for the ward, the gym was so hot that I ended taking Hannah's costume off after 10 minutes of roasting in it.  We did the trick or treating and the costume walk. 

Halloween is in the air!

SO I am getting really excited about Halloween.  I love decorating and the fun and delicious foods that come with Halloween & Thanksgiving.  Cupcakes have to be my most favorite dessert.  I have this really cute cupcake stand that holds 12 cupcakes.  If anyone wants to borrow it, just let me know.  I hate to have it just sitting in storage when it could be used.

I bought a pair of Halloween socks for Hannah.  So this picture is our last summer activity. i say summer loosely considering it's October.  We were invited to go with my sister and her girls.  They belong to a swim club so they have a nicely heated baby pool along with the regular pool. It was fun and Hannah splashed around. 

 I got this swimsuit for $1.50 at Target in their clearance section. It fits her great, but the straps were loose so I just fixed them and here we are.  Doesn't she look big for her age in this picture.

This is hilarious. I was getting breakfast ready and when I turned around to see how Hannah was doing, she had this sock in her mouth.  

Here she with the socks still in mouth playing with her toes.  She like sucking on her toes.

Dad and Hannah out enjoying the sun!

Here's Hannah looking  at herself in the mirror.  She reached down and tried to suck on it, of course. She then started talking to the baby in the mirror.

On Thursday, last week, We had just finished lunch and while Hannah was waiting patiently for me to clean up the lunch dishes, she sat there with her hands clasped and just looked at me.  She has been clasping her hands like this when she gets tired.  It's her sign to me that she is tired. Then she looks at me and says with her eyes, I'm ready for my nap.

September's activities

So I tried something new and this is what I got.  I sorry I haven't posted in almost 3 weeks.  Where has the time gone.  Everytime I thought about posting our new pictures, Hannah was sleeping and I didn't want to go into the room where she was sleeping because she is very curious and wakes up to see what is going on.

This picture with her sucking on her toes is so perfect because when we had our 20 week ultrasound, she was sucking on her toes.  Now we have a picture of her doing the same thing.

I was letting her suck on this apple and it slipped from her hands and stayed on her chest for at least 5 minutes without her knowing .  I had to get a picture of it.

I put her in bed and have fun seeing her a littl girl in such a big bed.

Hannah is learning how to drink from a cup.  She does good most of the time, but loves to chew on the spout like her in the picture.

Hannah loves her bath and has fun playing with her toys.  I thought these were fun to see.

We are excited about our first Halloween with Hannah and have already got her costume ready for the ward Halloween party. She is going to be a peapod.  Paris and I will dress up and be a family of peapods.  Thanks Lisa for letting me use the costume.  

 Sometimes I think she is so cute dressed up that I take pictures to capture her cute outfits! I know it sounds silly, but I love clothes and Hannah has been given such cute things.  Does this sound to vain?  

I've wanted a girl of mine own to raise in the gospel and teach her the principles of the gospel.  To read to her and play games.  To hug and kiss.  The clothes are not very important once I remember the more important things of life.  It sure is fun, though!

I'm sure things will change once we have another child, then I will just be worried about whether she has pants on.  Which reminds me, I went to story time at the Kensington Library and there was a toddler there with her very pregnant mom.  What was of note is that the toddler has only a t-shirt and diaper on.  The mom looked a little worn out and so I'm sure it was a struggle that she didn't want to deal with.