Christmas in Washington, part 1

Here are some picture from our trip to Washington.  There were so many pictures that I want to post that I am splitting the post in two.  Before Christmas and Christmas  These ones are from before Christmas when we were stuck inside because of the snow storm we were in while there.

I call her Santa's helper.  She is trying to help herself to the Christmas goodies that Santa has, but he's not giving them up.

Hannah's first experience with snow.  She likes it.  She had her first taste of snow and she wanted to eat more.  That's our girl!

Here we are in our Christmas outfits just back from church.  We almost didn't make it with the snow that was coming down.

Here we are getting a little air from being stuck inside for too long

Hannah loves her Papa. They laughed and played.

Cousin Lucy loved playing with Hannah.  SHe watched over her, brought her toys and even took toys back from her younger brother when he would steal them away from her.

Here is a genuine hand crafted  from what was east Germany, from the town my mom was born in.  This one was brought back by my mom when she went to visit the town.
We went to the Bellevue Botanical gardens and boy was it chilly.  We were really cold, but loved the lights.  Hannah enjoyed them, but we bundled her up so she would be able to.

Hannah Great grandma ( her Gross Oma) played with her and loved her to bits
Hannah had her own seat on the plane on the way up to WA.  Actually she spent most of her time sleeping.

I loved the shadow the sun makes

And the winner is...

I believe Shaylyn had her baby on Sunday, Dec 14th.  Is that right?  If so, then nobody wins because the 13th & the 15th were chosen, but not the 14th.  I guess baby Isabella wanted to come in her own time.

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