Hannah and her Tricks

I know there have been lots of picture updates lately, but beyond that I haven't really given a whole lot of info on Hannah. She's doing so many neat things and is having a lot of fun (as usual) exploring her house everyday. For starters, she had her one year check up last week and she is still on her normal track...really tall and skinny. She was 18 lbs. 9.5 oz which is somewhere around 13% if I remember correctly and 30 3/4 in which is 93% I think. She is growing well and the doctor said that if she keeps this up she could be a six footer! Wouldn't that be amazing?!? I always wanted to be tall and well, I'm not so I think it would be super if my daughter was tall...I guess it would make up for me not being tall. But then again, who knows...I guess we will know in 12-15 years! At the doctor's appointment, I asked about weening her and the doc said the best way to ween off of the bottle is cold turkey. So, that's what we did. The first few days Hannah was not a fan of drinking milk out of her sippy cup, but she's getting better. She's also eating more and more of what we eat which I have been a little stressed about because I am not the best lunch eater. I love breakfast and have been incorporating more fruits & veggies into dinner for a long time now. Lunch however...I fall short. I really don't like lunch and have always struggled with what to do for lunch because I really don't care for sandwiches. Anyway, all of that to say, I have issues, I know. I just found an amazing website though that has baby/toddler food, www.weelicious.com, and I am excited to try some out next week!

Sorry for the digression. I was talking about Hannah's "tricks." For one, she's walking now. She took her first steps several weeks ago, but was far more interested in crawling than walking, despite the excessive praise that she got when she walked. Then, after a week of people being at her beckon call to carry her everywhere she needed to go, she had to buck up and practice her walking. She's gotten much better, although she's still a little wobbly and goes back to crawling when she's tired. While that's exciting and all, it's not nearly her cutest thing that she is doing right now. She is so funny and you just never know what she's going to do next.

The girl is definitely my daughter. While I don't LOVE shopping and am very cheap when I do shop, I have always had a special place in my heart for shoes. Given the opportunity I would buy shoes over anything else. I love them, and so does she! This kid is awesome! She tries to put on any pair of shoes that she can. My sister was even trying on some shoes at the mall when she was here, and Hannah snuck over to try some on too! Hilarious! So needless to say, the picture above is not an uncommon sight in our house these days. Hannah will just be walking along and then stop to try on whatever shoe happens to be lying around as she is passing. Super cute!
This is just one of her many new outfits that she has been sporting lately. This is an outfit from Las Vegas, but as you can see in many of the previous posts, she is sporting some seriously cute clothes. My new favorite place to get baby clothes is H&M. It's a trendy little store in NY where my sister bought a bunch of stuff. I remember seeing it the first time I went to NYC in Time's Square and thinking that they had really cute clothes (they have adult clothes too), but I just figured it was super pricey (because it was in Times Square). I was wrong...it's really reasonable. Cheap+stylish=Super cute Hannah!

Is this adorable or what? How is it possible for this to be comfortable? I don't know, but apparently it is. I love watching her sleep. It's just so peaceful. Another thing she is doing is putting lotion on. Faking it of course. She pretends to do so many things. She fakes putting on lotion, brushing her hair, pretends to eat stuff, and my favorite is when she pretends to talk on my cell phone. She puts it to her ear and says "elro?" which we think is Hannah talk for "hello." So stinkin cute, but I am totally bias!

She is also facing forward in her carseat. Here she is sleeping, but normally she gets fired up in the car. We get to a certain place every time and realize that she has been chatting it up the whole time. It's like she can now be apart of our conversations or something. While she only know She's also been religious about giving high fives and blowing kisses!

And tonight she added a new cute thing...eating popsicles. She has eaten a few before, but never by herself. A friend of ours mentioned that a popsicle might help her teeth feel better, so I bought a box of those all fruit bars. Her favorite, of course, is lime. She likes any and everything that citrus, including lemons and oranges. I just thought this was so cute, so I had to snap a picture. And what's even more incredible is that she ate the whole thing! Things got a little dicey once she got towards the end because she couldn't reach the popsicle part anymore, but not to worry. She figured it out and just pushed it to the top of the stick. Well, I guess I can be done bragging about my sweet baby. I know that technically she's a toddler now, but until she tells me any different, she is going to be my sweet baby.