Hannah turns 1!

My little Hannah is 1!!! I can't believe how fast the year has gone. I would share all of the pictures from her birthday here, but there are so many of them, so I posted them to Facebook and will share the links so everyone can see them:

http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=677200999&k=34AXQ4R6SVVM5ACFTGZTQS

http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=677200999&k=56LUZ5Q3VV6M5ACFTGZTQS

I had to split them up into two albums because Facebook only allows 60 pictures per album. The first one has pictures from her actual birthday, plus our family portraits in it too.

Things around here have been busy, mostly from Hannah's birthday. I'm glad things will start to settle back into our routine! On the upside, for the next week or so, the amount of housework I'll have to do will be cut down greatly because of all the cleaning I did for the party! That's a nice relief!

Well, best get going to get ready for church.

Just playing catch up!

I realized it's been a while since I've been on here to catch up, so I figured I'd stop in and show off some pictures of Hannah and I playing at the Children's Museum on Friday of last week. We had a great time, and we will be planning to go again on her birthday. We got a membership there from my aunt Pat and my cousins Bonnie and Marc for Christmas, so we'll be able to go a lot more often. We're also thinking of taking Hannah on Martin Luther King, Jr. day, since John will be off from school. We'll play that one by ear.

John is STILL battling whatever it is that he has been sick with for 5 weeks now. He went to the doctor last week, but she didn't give him anything other than a nebulizer treatment, an inhaler and a nasal spray. I still think he should have been given an antibiotic, but I'm not the one prescribing.

Hannah is now up to 10 teeth in her little mouth - she's just about completely cut two molars on the bottom, which she's taken like a champ, because everyone just tells me that those are such difficult ones to cut. She cut two in the front the Saturday after Christmas. We haven't noticed any molars on top, but she's definitely got the two on the bottom.

So, here are some more pictures now!

Remember 2008?

You Remember 80% of 2008

You were paying attention during 2008. And you remember what happened really well. You'll be able to talk about 2008 for years to come... Even when most people have forgotten what went down.

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Now that they've been given out...

I can share Hannah's Christmas pictures with everyone!!!

Newsflash

Hannah's First Step

December 15, 2008

On December 15, 2008, Hannah took her first step. This small step towards walking is a giant leap towards toddlerhood! Her mom and dad are incredibly proud and taking this new development one step at a time.

Ice, Ice Baby

Thursday into yesterday we had an ice storm that hit NH almost as bad as the storm 10 years ago. Fortunately, though, the roads weren't too bad, but ice formed on so much stuff that there were downed trees and power lines blocking roads everywhere. We went without power off and on during Thursday night, but it went out for the day at about 4:30am on Friday. John got up to check on our sump pump, which the well was full. He bailed out some of the water, but it was useless. At 5am we both got up, and bailed out more water, but it was coming in just as fast as we could get it out. At about 8 in the morning, our good friend, Jared, came over to help us with the water, because I needed to keep an eye on Hannah. Because we had turned the heat up in the house during the overnight, it wasn't freezing in the house, but it was below 60, so it was getting chilly. The storm didn't last long, but we were without power until about 6:50 Friday night, when PSNH played a cruel trick on us - our power was on for about 30 minutes when a transformer blew (I saw the explosion out the window, and John and I both heard all the noise) and we were without power again. We had only been able to get the house warmed up to about 60 degrees before it went out again. We had dinner out at a Chinese restaurant to thank Jared for all his help (he stayed all day to help bail out the water), so it was good to get a hot dinner and get warmed up. I took Hannah out in the car during the day too so she could get warmed up and we could pick up some groceries - we did manage to find one store that was open and running on a generator. No heat though, which was kind of a bummer.
We have a neighbor with a generator that let us plug our sump pump in with an extension cord while the power was down, which was a life saver for John and Jared.
Anyway, we got our power back last night at about 10:45, but the sad part was that we forgot to switch our sump pump off the generator and back onto the power, so when our neighbor shut off the generator, we had no pump. Oops. Needless to say, we woke up to a flooded basement. It wasn't terrible, and we've finished the clean up already, it's just still a bit damp. At least we had the forsight to tile our computer room floor.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the damamage at our house:This was a branch that broke off our pine tree in the front yard. Part of it was sticking out into the road, so the town helped clean some of it up.

This is out back yard with some branches down all over the place. We have some massive clean up to do today.

The branch you see behind our grill next to our clothes line actually damaged our chain link fence. How it didn't hit the house, we'll never know.

The lovely fence problem...

Our broken down front yard tree again.

The fence again. Remember that you can see our clothesline in this picture.

More back yard damage...

A kind of blurry picture of the "damage" a branch did to our roof. Fortunately, it also didn't do anything structural.

Remember that clothesline you saw earlier? Yeah, it's gone. Another branch fell, narrowly missing John, and took out our clothesline.



The ice on our honey suckle bush.

Icicles on the deck

The honeysuckle



Trees that are ice covered.

Lots of pictures to update!

I've been crazy busy lately, but I have a lot to update!

Hannah turned 10 months old yesterday! I can't believe how fast the time is going, and I don't want her to grow up any more!!! She needs to stop right now! She's so much fun at the age she's at that I'm always afraid of what it will be like as she gets older. She's a pro at crawling now, and loves going up the stairs! In fact, several times in moments of... forgetfulness, Hannah has managed to start climbing the stairs because we forgot to close the gate at the bottom! She wants to start standing up on her own, and will now start letting go of things for a few seconds and is getting better at maintaining her balance before falling down or grabbing on to something again. She'll be walking before we know it, and I'm DEFINITELY not ready for that!

I've been doing a lot of knitting lately, gearing up for Christmas and such. I'm trying to make some gifts this year, and more than just the two I managed to get out last year. So far I've already done one and a half gifts, so I'm well ahead of schedule for now. The rest of the winter I plan to knit from my stash, as well as work on a sweater that John bought the yarn for as a birthday present for me. I can't wait to get started on it! By the time it's done, it will be to warm to wear it!

So, here are some pictures, as promised!

All bundled up and ready to go out!

Hannah and the kids at Moms Group

Hannah learns how to unload the dishwasher

Hannah thinks this Santa guy might be a little scary (he was a really nice guy though!)

Hannah gets a piano lesson from Daddy


Coronet hat, Lion Brand Vanna's Choice yarn, Dusty Purple, size 8 needles.

This hat is one of the few that are being made for Christmas gifts this year. I'm excited about getting some hats done, and I have been happy with the way this one and the one I'm working on have come out. Hopefully I can keep up the pace!