pictures of the new place

Here is Hannah taking a bath in a real  bathtub.  For the last 10 months she was bathing in her baby bath tub. SHe looks so small compared to the large tub she is in.

Here is our fabulous kitchen. I think it may be 3X as big as our last one.  Boy do I love it!

Here is our bedroom. It is a cherished thing not to have your own room. The closets are nice and the doors buffer the talk radio our neighbor listens to. Yes, he is almost deaf so he turns it up loud.  What can you do.

Here is our bathroom.  Not too big, but it suits our needs

Here is our big girl having fun sitting in the sink. She is almost too big to sit in it, but I wanted to capture the moment before she out grows it.
These next pictures are funny. I put Hannah in her crib as a way to orient herself in her new room. I was tying on the bumper and so she decided to do one of her favorite things- suck on the ribbons that hold the bumper on. Some of the ribbons are fraying because she plays and sucks on them while she is trying to fall asleep.

Here she is

Now she is discovering the bars as she has in the past, but loves to stick her arms and fingers through the spaces

What do you see Hannah?

fun in the crib.  Isn't it great how the smallest things are engaging to kids!

New place, new design

Sorry we have been MIA on the blog scene.  I bet all of you that have been checking our blog are frustrated to see that no changes have been made for a month and a half.  Sorry about that. We had some problems getting our phone and internet connected once we moved. It took 2 weeks to get the phone connected and turned on.  Then it was turned on, but the connection wasn't coming through. So we waited another week for a serviceman to come out.  Now here we are, connected. It's amazing how much you can get done when you can't spend time on the computer scouring the internet as Paris does.  I missed all my friends and checking in to their blogs to see what has been happening.  When I finally logged into my email after 3 weeks of not checking it, I had 201 emails.  

Back to the MIA story.  It all started when we decided to move out of our basement apartment and into a snazzy new apartment in Alameda.  It is twice as big and with 3 bedrooms and a large kitchen, not to mention a great living room we had to grab it.   We are happy here and are finding Alameda to be a great little community.  Everyone is nice and helpful.  There are some great parks and the water is so close, it's nice to have everything in such a close proximity.  Stay tune for some pictures of our place.  

I have to say that giving Hannah her own room has been such a great step for her.  SHe is falling asleep on her own and she has room to roll around and practice crawling. SHe is almost there and we are excited for her next step.  We have our own room, finally and it is such a nice thing to have. Not to mention that we have time alone, which we all need.  Thanks for staying in touch and pictures will come very soon!