Crawling and Climbing

The day everyone warned me about has finally come. Hannah is officially a crawler and a climber! She is all over the place. It has been so much fun watching her explore everything, but it has also been a lot more work. Gone are the days when Hannah would sit happily on her blanket in the living room with her toys surrounding her and be totally content.

Hannah is also working on her third and fourth teeth (the top two). This has made her a little more grumpy, but I am always amazed at how consistently happy she is.

I have a video of her crawling, but am still figuring out how to put it on here, so for now here are a few fun pictures of what Hannah has been up to:

Hannah's first trip to the zoo with some of her cousins. This look on her face about sums up what she thought of the zoo. Hopefully by the end of the summer or maybe next year it will be a little more exciting for her.

Hannah loves sitting in the laundry basket while I fold the clothes. I think she thinks she is helping because she will pull out a piece of clothing, shake it around for a while, and then choose something else and do the same thing over and over. It is one of my favorite things Hannah does.

She also loves playing peek-a-boo while we fold the laundry.

I don't know if most babies sleep like this, but I think it is the cutest thing. Hannah sleeps like this every night. In the morning she always has big red circles on her knees and I always wonder if her legs fall asleep.

Hannah climbed in here one day and just stayed like this for 20 minutes while she played with some toys.

This is Hannah's favorite toy right now. She loves pulling herself up on here and exploring all the different buttons.

Hannah's first Easter

Last Saturday morning we heard Hannah babbling in her crib. We went in to get her up and found her like this. That was the first time she had climbed up and was waiting for us at the side of her crib. Now it has become a regular occurrence.

The last 8 months with Hannah have been so much fun. I love my little girl and I love being her mom!

Happy Valentines Day (a little late)

We celebrated Valentines day a little late this year. Back in February Jake and I decided we would put the money we would have spent on each other for Valentines Day toward tickets to see Lifehouse and Daughtry. (We bought the tickets around Valentines Day, but the concert wasn't until April).  Jake has always wanted to see Lifehouse in concert and we really like Daughtry, so we thought this would be the perfect concert to go to. It was a lot of fun spending the evening with my sweet Valentine and listenting to some fun music.  Lifehouse was a little disappointing, but Daughtry was great.

I made sure Jake and I both went equipped with our handy dandy earplugs to protect our hearing (it is the speech pathologist/audiologist in me).