after bath fun!

Hannah is starting to love to read books.  It's been fun for me to read to her and fun for her to see and hear new things.  I have a whole slew of books for her.
After Hannah has her bath, she loves to run out into the living room and into the kitchen where I usually am preparing her bottle.  I say, "hello naked girl?"  You look so cute!

She was having fun playing around before bedtime. 

She also has learned to climb on this chair and play around

This is more fun than sleeping

Fun in Washington!

Hannah just loves stuffed animals and here she is holding a mountain lion

Hannah is reading a book with Papa. She loves her Papa!

Happy 4th of July!

Uncle Kurt took Hannah for a ride on the 3 wheeler. She didn't know how to response to something so new and different.  What's more American than going 3 wheeling?

Tunte Lindsy gave Hannah some homemade ice cream and I thinked she liked it, Can you tell?

I love this picture because it's just me and my best friend, Doggy, as well call him.

She liked to carry him around where ever she goes.

Hey doggy, look what I found!  She loved that corner of Grandma and Papa's yard.
Oma ( gross Oma, or Great Grandma) loved to play with Hannah!

Hannah took a liking to Oma's kitties and wnated to take them home with her.  
Oma was so generous to let us take the kitties home with us. When I dropped her off to get my hair cut, thank you Oma, we brought the kitties back to their house
Hannah has fun with her cousin Abby  and loved to have someone else in the back seat with her.  We went to a Kelsey Creek Farm, played on the toys, walked around and had a great time.

Isn't she sweet with this beautiful sweater on?  Hi cutie!

We had fun pushing the laundry basket around the kitchen floor and even took a couple of rides in the basket

Where should we go to next doggie?

We had fun at Luther Burbank beach and park. She just loved the rocks.  We sat at the water's edge and felt the waves crash into us.

We made some new friends and had a great time with the warm weather we had while there.

Hannah was still long enough for me to put in some pig tails.  She ws having fun playing with all the ads from the Sunday newspaper.

look how cute those are

She loves that Ensign and was so intent on looking at the pictures

How cute is that?

Tunte Lindsy, Uncle Kurt and Oma came for dinner on Sunday and Hannah had a good time reading the ads with them all.

These fuzzy socks were fun and when I put them on her arms, she has even more fun

It was funny, watching her try to pull them off.

While I was getting dressed one morning, Hannah was sitting there with me and found my bra and started investigating this thing. She started putting it over her head so I had to capture it.

This is my first experience with uploading a movie. It is not very long, but it works and I will try to do more in later posts.

Washington, here we come

For the next two weeks, Hannah and I are going to be in Washington. My parents asked if I could watch their house, water my mom's plants, take care of their kitty, Simon, and look after my Grandma. Did I forget to mention that I am also managing my dad's business in checking emails, phone calls and keep my dad in the know. Sounds busy right? Well it is and I am also spending time with my sisters and their kids as well as keeping Hannah happy playing and engaged in activites throughout the day.

I have some fun pictures to share, but forgot to bring my USB cable with me, so they will have to wait until I get home. I just bumped into a old mission companion's blog address and she remined me that I have many miracles in my life. The top 3 miracles are:

**That I met and married my wonderful husband in the Seattle temple. Since I was a little girl, I had been dreaming of getting married in the Seattle temple.

**IT's a miracle that we have super good insurance to afford a emergency c-section and 3 days i n the hospital with constant care of me and her. For that matter that I carried an almost 9 pound baby without any problems.

**IT's a miracle that we live in a area where we can live an organic lifestyle with beauty products, delicious fruits and vegitables as well as bread and meat.

I love my lifestyle and the bay area for that matter. The opnly downside is that so many other people love it too that I feel cramped andready to move to a more coujntry setting.

I love spending time with Mom and Dad

"How much do I love thee, let me count the ways"

I love my table and play at it all the time.  Look how mom painted it so full of color.

Daddy combs my hair when I get out of the bath. He then puts my pajamas on and reads me a story.

There's an urge that I can't resist, so I must push

I have to push with all my might and most of the time, my face turns pretty red. Thanks Dad for taking these pictures of me.  I knew you would capture me at my best.  :)

Standing up for your rights!

Last week Paris and 400 other people picketed outside of the AOC ( Administrative Offices of the Court) in San Francisco.  We got this picture from the San Jose Mercury News online.  If you click on  the picture, yo will see Paris in the middle. Can you spot him?

He and his co-workers are defending their jobs.  The CEO of the Alameda Court system is laying of 73 people because the court's has no money to afford these people, but the AOC has been given money by the Federal government to help the court system keep there employees, but the AOC is holding onto the money and putting it in a rainy day fund to use for their own buildings. So 73 hard working and not-so hard working men and women will lose their jobs in 2 2 1/2 weeks.  Doesn't seem fair, does it?

May Days

Hannah has mastered the ability to eat her own yogurt.  She loves scooping it up and putting in her mouth.  She is so proud of herself for being able to do this.  the one thing she is still working on is pulling the food of with her lips, so she uses her teeth which then piles the yogurt all over her face like in the picture. SHe gets most of it in.

I bought her a table and chairs for a last birthday present. She is so excited to have her own chair and table her size.  

I have a basket of stamper markers I rarely use, she loves to play and suck on them. I don't really take the caps off unless I am playing with her.

Then there is daddy's nose.  Hannah just loves to try to bite it.

Here dad, do you want a pen too?

Lots of pens, oh my!

Hannah loves to give mom kisses on the mouth. She sees mom and dad do it, so she wants to do it as well.

Having fun in the kitchen has been great now that she has discovered the plastic lids and containers. She just loves to take them in and out of the basket.

Happy Birthday & Mom's day to me!

That's right.  My birthday fell on Mother's Day this year.  It's hard to really enjoy both celebrations at the same time,  but I did celebrate and tried to do as much as possible.  Paris let me sleep in and then made some birthday waffles  and fruit salad. 

Here is my fabulous birthday cake. Carrot of course. It had pineapple, coconut and yummy icing. Thanks Lisa, it was the most delicious cake I ever had.

Here we all are after dinner, I made spaghetti and meatballs with cornbread. Lisa &  Em brought a salad and the yummy cake. Thalia decided to cover her face for the picture.

Here we all are blowing out the candles. Isadora asked if she could help me, so we did it together. It was fun to have them over and the day went pretty fast.