Update, Saints Gear, and the Park

Hannah had her 18 month doctors appointment a few weeks ago. Do you remember me explaining that her clothes is kind of awkward in the last post? At her doctor's appointment she measured in at 21 lbs. 5 oz. and 33 1/2 inches tall. That puts her in the 8th or 9th for weight and 90-something for height. She is REALLY tall! What the heck?!? I don't' know where she is getting this, but I am happy. I've always hoped that she would be taller than me. Of course it could stop at any point, but I love the idea of her being tall. I guess because I always wanted to be tall, (and since I don't believe I will be growing vertically any time soon) I am happy that my daughter will get the opportunity (at least according to her "stats"). Aside from a nagging cough that has been around for over two months now, Hannah is doing great. She talks all the time, despite that fact that we can't always understand her. For instance, she has been saying something like this: "myoth-ern. Myoth-ern!" for several weeks now. Jon and I discuss what we think she might be saying with no conclusion. Tonight it hit me. She's saying, "My turn!" I was feeding her some yogurt (which she prefers to do on her own, always) when suddenly she reached out, said "Myoth-ern!" My turn, I get it! I just love watching as her little vocabulary explodes. You just never know what's going to come out of her mouth on any given day! Anyway, I better get to the pictures. I have to go to work tomorrow and Hannah needs a bath! We are having Thanksgiving at our house this year so I am sure that I will have lots of new things to blog about soon!Hannah's wearing her Saints t-shirt. Her Dad went to the Bronco game that day, so she felt free to wear her "True colors."

Supporting Drew Brees. Also, check out her super curly hair! I am loving it more and more each day!
Hannah and Jon before the game. I love this picture!

It was beautiful out one day and so I picked Hannah up from daycare and headed straight to the park in our neighborhood. I was trying to get her pumped up on the way over by saying, "Hannah, are you ready to go to the park?!?" She was SO excited when she got out of the car, she might have wet herself (she wears a diaper so if she did it's really no big deal). There was a big yellow lab/mix dog sitting with his owners. She squealed with excitement. I swear the interpretation of her thoughts was, "Oh my goodness Mom! You said we were going to the park but I had no idea I was going to get to pet a dog!!!"

She had a great time for the rest of the afternoon, even after the doggie left. She ran all over, went down the slide a couple of times, and tried to climb the rock climbing wall. All the while, wearing her sweet shades!

"Driving" the car after the day at the park. She had to sit down just like Mom, but she couldn't see very well.

This one cracks me up. She is passed out cold, on the second step up. I guess she was trying to get to her bed, but didn't make it. I thought she was with Jon and Jon thought that she was with me. Really, she was on the stairs. A few days earlier she had fallen asleep on the small portion of carpet at the bottom of the stairs. Silly girl (and maybe silly parents for not keeping better tabs on her!). I hope you like the updates. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!

Second Annual Halloween Extravaganza

I am truly remiss at my poor blogging the past few months. I am going to try to get caught up this week and will hopefully be able to stay that way through the holidays. I don't get a whole lot of internet time these days since I have been working and sit in front of a computer all day (and can't get online there either). So there are no guarantees, but I am going to try! Someone told me this year that Hannah is either going to love or hate Halloween by the time she's five. I don't really care either way, but I know that Jon hopes that she loves it. It is his favorite holiday. He's really not in to scaring people or anything, he just loves dressing up (and finding cheap costumes). Believe it or not, these are not all of her outfits/costumes. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of her in her lion costume or in either of her Halloween dresses. It's a lot to keep up on! Anyway, here they are. I hope you like them!

Frog...with highwaters...this is how most of her costumes were this year. She is really still wearing 9-12 month sized clothes although they are all too short. Most of her 18 month size clothes way to big in the waist, but even still a little short. Her costumes were all 18 months, but were highwaters or caused baby wedgies! No good, but what can you do?
Hannah as a witch. She was really happy this day, although it was mostly because her Dad let her wear her gloves.

We have a Halloween cat. Hannah loves him. She puts him to sleep often (covers with a blanket and pats his back). She was chit-chatting with him here.

Bumblebee. She did not love the bumblebee outfit the first time I tried to put it on, but begged us to put it on her the day after Halloween.

Cindy's flower outfit. Please notice the purse with the wiener dog in it...she also had a flashlight with it. The accessories might have won the competition between Grandma and Grandpa Haddenham.

I love Hannah's face here. She's like, "Seriously? This is dumb!"

Does this amazing miniature llama need explanation?

Livin it up on top of the hay pyramid at the pumpkin patch!

Hannah's always been a big fan of slides, this giant hay slide was no exception.

The way that Hannah preferred to wear her Grandpa's dragon costume. Do you see her "big girl" bed too?

Dragon! Ooo...scary!

Dragons are hard to catch on camera. They are very fast and don't stand still for very long at all!

Jon and I went out with some of our friends. We were Clue characters. Mr. Green and Ms. Peacock. Afterward, we all came back to our house and played Clue!

Wait! Here's one of the Halloween dresses! We didn't get to go trick-or-treating this year because Jon, Cindy, and I all got food poisoning. At least Hannah doesn't know what she was missing, but I was a little disappointed. I was kind of looking forward to the opportunity to raid Hannah's candy bag after she went to sleep, but since I really didn't need to do that, I can certainly live without it! I hope you enjoyed our Second Annual Halloween Extravaganza. Stay tuned next year for the next one!