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.

New adventures!

Hannah and I are enjoying the sun on our cellar ciser.  It was a easy Saturday morning.

Grandma Fox took Hannah to the little farm in Tilden.  Here we are looking at the cows!  Right as I took the picture, the cow moved it's head so you can only see his body.  Oh well!

I took like 5 pictures to get this one and almost missed her smile.  Do you notice that her hair has fallen out and is now growing back a reddish brown!  About 2 weeks ago, Paris and I looked at Hannah and said, where did all your hair go?

Here is Paris with his Aunt Marsha.  We stayed at her house in Salt Lake when we where there about 2 years ago.  We really like her.  She is not married or have any children.  She was hestitant to hold Hannah because she said that babies always cried when she held them.  I reassured her that Hannah was pretty easy going and would be no trouble.  She held her and I was right.  Of course, it helped that I was right next to her and playing with  her.  That is how I got that smiley picture of Hannah.  Aunt Marsha was renewed in her faith that not all babies cry when she holds them.  Good Job Hannah!

I thought this picture was so cute because if you look close, Hannah has her hand on Grandma Fox's arm.  She sat with everyone like this for about 10 minutes or so. She is becoming such a big girl.

Hannah loves to play with her toes.  She grabs on to them and gets so excited!

On labor day, we went over to Lisa & Emmons' place and had a fabulous BBQ.   Isadora is a great cousin and takes great care in paying with Hannah.  Tunte Leslie couldn't pass up a picture with her favorite neice, now could she!  Of course all my neices are my favorite.

Daddy and Hannah!  We are always looking to take the perfect smiley picture.  This one comes close.  She is definately smiling with her eyes.  They look brown in this picture, but they are actually a beautiful blue color like her dad.

We bought a seat, high chair, for Hannah and her she is!  She has a little growing to do, to fit  in it, but I'm sure we will use it for a long time.

Hannah is so cute right after her bath.

One of those hot days, we put her in her bath tub like a pool and she just hung outside in her swim diaper and enjoyed the atmosphere.

Here's another angle of the same day.