I can't believe she sat up today!

Well, it finally happened. Hannah sat up all by herself today, and I have the photos to prove it. She stayed sitting for about 3 minutes before toppling over, but she was so proud of herself! I am very proud of her too, especially since that means I can stop lugging the car seat into the grocery store now! We have one of those seat covers for the carriages at the grocery store that has an over the shoulder harness, so it will keep her sitting up, but won't restrict her. I can't believe she can sit up on her own now!!!

Otherwise, that's really about all the news from here. We're going on a mini-vacation with my parents this coming weekend up to Wells, Maine. I'm excited to go. It's only 2 nights, but it should still be a lot of fun.

Well, here are the photos I took this morning. The last one is my favorite.

Hannah Newsflash!

Hannah laughs out loud for the first time!

June 25, 2008

While playing with her dad on Wednesday night, Hannah was heard laughing out loud for the first time. The sound was so wonderful that it made her mommy and daddy laugh right along with her. Hannah's laughter for the first time was extra special, since she has been fighting off an illness for almost a week, with repeated trips to the doctor. Hannah's laughter is a sound her mommy and daddy can't wait to hear again!

Pictures!

Long time, no big news!

Well, as you probably saw in my post two days ago, Hannah has FINALLY cut her first tooth. My little baby is getting so big! She has turned 5 months old today! At her check up last Friday, she measured in at 27 inches and 16 pounds! She's almost outgrown her car seat. If she keeps growing at this pace, she'll outgrow it by August. I'm hoping to get some pictures of her posted later today, but we'll see what happens =)

I spent the morning weeding our garden, which is coming along nicely. My cherry tomatoes already have some growing on it, which is really exciting, and the lettuce is almost big enough to start cutting and eating! Something has been eating the leaves of my pepper plants, though, and I'm not really sure what it is. It kind of looks like ants. They're not getting very big, but they do have some buds on them, which is promising. Even if the peppers aren't huge, that is fine. I'd just be excited to get some out of my own garden! The zucchini and summer squash are doing FANTASTIC, and growing like crazy. That's one of the things I'm the MOST excited about! We eat TONS of zucchini and summer squash every summer, so I can't wait to not have to get any from the grocery store! Granted, I usually get it at Fiddleheads down in Dover, it would still be nice to have our own.

So that's about all the excitement our little home can handle at this point =). John's school finished up on Friday, so he's now on vacation. We have a long to-do list this summer though, so we'll see just how much "vacation" he really gets. Tomorrow we are going to a family reunion-thing, so hopefully that will be fun. We're staying overnight at my parents too, which is another good thing about John being on vacation. It makes doing stuff on the weekends SOOO much easier.

Anyway, got to run. Time to go pick up cat litter. Woo hoo. =)

Big news!

Hannah's First Tooth

June 18, 2008

After months of drool-soaked shirts, Hannah's first tooth was spotted on June 18, 2008 poking through the gum. Mom and dad are excited about the new pearly white, but know this is just the start of many months of fussy teething. One down, 19 to go!

Life in the slow lane...

Not much to report on the home front today. The garden is growing, which is exciting. I can't wait to see how it does this summer! If anything, I predict the lettuce and the sweet peas will do well. Hopefully everything does, but we won't know for a while more.

Hannah started eating actual baby food this week, so far she's had sweet potatoes, and today she started on carrots. She LOVED those! She'd barely finish one bite, and she'd be opening her mouth for the next bite. Maybe it's because of all the carrots I ate while I was pregnant.

Anyway, now I just want to post some pictures of Hannah!

Things around the house

So much to update, so little time... It's amazing how fast the last few days and weeks have been going! Just when I think "Phew, my blog is all updated!" Something happens and BOOM! I need to update it again!

Things around here have been good but busy. Work has been crazy lately, with new families moving in and families moving out. But, it's been a good busy. I've felt efficient and useful the last few weeks, which is a really good thing.

Friday was John's 7th and 8th grade bands trip to the festival they play in every year. It was a long day, but we had fun. This was (we think) my 4th year chaperoning the event, so I've pretty much got it down as well as John and his co-teacher do. We left the house at 6am, got to the school around 7, and had the kids on the bus by 8:15. We were making great time, and got to the school the kids were performing at about 1/2 an hour prior to their warm up time. Unfortunately, the school had just come out of lockdown for a drug arrest (it was a high school), so all of the performances were pushed wayyyy back. John's school was slated to perform at 12:40, and didn't get to go on until about 1:20. The kids handled it really well though. His band got a gold, which was great. The chorus performed, and also got a gold, so things were good. The second part of the day was spent at Six Flags New England, and we couldn't have had a better day for it. We only got 3 hours at the park, which was a bummer, but the kids were awesome about it, and the weather was awesome, so the kids still had a really great time. Most of the rides were running, so none of the kids got disappointed by not getting to go on anything. John and I got Hannah a really cute Wonder Woman onsie, which is super fun. There are some pictures of her in it below.

John and I have pretty much spent the weekend recovering from the trip, and doing things around the house. This year, we planted a vegetable garden, so hopefully it will do well. We have leaf lettuce, sweet peas, cherry tomatos, yellow bell pepper, orange bell pepper, cucumbers, zucchini and summer squash. I'm so excited! I hope my garden does well. I spent a lot of time outside planting and working on it yesterday, so I can't wait to see how it does!

Monday the 19th, Hannah had her 4 month check up. She did great! She had to get 4 shots, which really stunk, but she handled it like a pro - some screaming, and that was it for the day. She measured at 26 inches long and 14 lbs 11oz. I'm sure she's gained weight since then. She loves to eat her rice cereal, and I'm starting to wonder when to add more things to her repitoire of food.

Tomorrow, Hannah is going to see her first parade - we're meeting my parents and grandmother in Concord for the Memorial Day parade. I'm excited to take her. It's supposed to be sunny and 80 degrees - what a way to kick off the unofficial start to summer!

I guess that's about it from here. I posted some recent photos of Hannah. I still can't believe she's 4 months old now! Goodness! Where does the time go...

Mommy, I'm sleepy...

Huh?

Look! I'm playin' video games!

But what does this thing DO?

I'm a playin' baby, mom!

Hannah's secret identy, revealed!