Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve with Abuela Keta, Tia Maribel, Azenette, Junior, and Isai.







And back home opening Christmas Eve PJs.

Memorial Day weekend (eh, Labor Day)

Hannah went to her first high school football game on Saturday. Last year she went to a middle school game, but this was the first high school game so it was special. Azennete, Pete's niece, is a freshman cheerleader. She is in between the "pyramids" on the left.


And also on the left here.


And here with me.


Hannah got up to watch Azenette cheer, but the rest of the time she preferred looking at her books.



After the game Hannah showed off her new walking skills with her cousins. Here she is with Robert Jr.


And with Isai.


Robert Jr, someone always has to put it on!




After the game we went to Mom and Dad's. Sunday Uncle David's family came over for dinner. The last few times Hannah has seen her Tia Teresa she has been a little apprehensive. She's not exactly scared of her, but seems to prefer to look at her and talk to her while being held by someone she sees more often. Sunday Teresa came upstairs with me while I nursed Hannah before nap time. After a few minutes Hannah sat up suddenly, looked right at Teresa, and threw out her arms to be held. Teresa glowed! Hannah ended up playing with her Tia on the floor for a good 15 minutes. She knows how to get out of nap time, at least for a little longer!


For some reason Grandpa LIKES taking naps! Hannah tried to help him stay awake.


Even Uncle David got to hold Hannah long enough to take a picture. She didn't try to hide her uncertainty about it though!


In other exciting news, Hannah sat in her rocking chair for the first time this weekend. She is the third generation to use this chair, and it's changed color a few times. Mom had it while it was a blond/natural color. Then when I had it it was white. Now it is a Longhorn chair!


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This morning I took Hannah on the front porch to take a few pictures of her walking. It was a challenge, and not all that successful. Still, there were a few cute pictures!

Background story to this picture: So we get outside. Wow! Outside! Outside is fun! There is new stuff. Oh LOOK! Here is half of an Easter egg! It's not exactly like the Easter eggs in the house. Those are whole Easter eggs. This is a half. And it's blue. Some of the ones inside are blue, but not this slightly sun bleached blue. And there is new space to walk! There are no wood floors inside. Wood floors feel different. And sound different. OH! And here is the porch swing! Did you know you can move it? Back and forth? AND side to side? It's fun! And you can put your slightly sun bleached blue half of an Easter egg that you found on the wood floor on the swing. Uh-oh! The half egg fell behind the swing! Hurry, hurry, hurry. Got it, coming back around - oh wait. Is that my mom calling my name over and over? Should I turn, ever so briefly, her direction? OK, I looked. I was even relatively cute. Are you happy?


Almost a smile, are we done now?!


OK Mama, one real smile, just for you.


Now I'm taking the camera


OK, we can take one picture together, but then I'm really done.

July in Review

July was such a busy month that I did a poor job of updating the blog. Here are some of the highlights.

Hannah spent some time swinging in the back yard with her friend Meadow (when it wasn't raining)


She also played with her friend Meredith at the park between rainy days.


She went swimming with some friends. (She was not happy to be out of the pool, either!)


Uncle Brian brought Hannah maracas from Mexico. (Water jugs make a good drum with maracas)


And Grandma and Grandpa brought a hammock to swing in.


We went to the lake with Grandma.


There were ducks at the lake!


And Grandma fed Hannah apples.


Hannah also played Smackdown with Isai


Stacia and Taryn came to visit (with Kennedy and Grace.)




If Grace can go up a slide backwards, so can Hannah!


It was a nice visit, we all took time to stop and smell the roses.


We all went to Sea World




And watched some really funny shows - before it started raining!

Swimming pool

A few days ago I bought Hannah a swimming pool. This was one of those "new mommy moments" where something seems really obvious and easy, but isn't. I thought I'd buy a swimming pool, put some water in it, put the baby in it, and we'd all play. Nope, not so easy.

First of all the box said it needed a level surface. Well our yard is a slight incline. No big deal, it would just be a little deeper on one side, right? Wrong. It's a LOT deeper, and the pool bulges on that side.

Next, you are supposed to spread the bottom as smoothly as possible. Well that sounds easy, but it really isn't. And those wrinkles are hard to get out with even a little water in the pool!

Then there is the water itself. It's in the sun, it should be warm, right? Nope. It's not. It takes a lot longer than it seems it should to warm up!

And there is the baby who likes to pull up. Once I finally got her into the cold water she wanted to pull on the side, which ment the side bent down and the water spilled. Ahh the fun!

Still, we like the pool. And I think we will like it more in a month or two!







Time to get out!


Isai's method was to swing until he was hot, run and jump in the pool until he cooled off, then run back to the swing to warm up. Good method!

Isai lost a tooth!

Hannah, Isai and i went to lunch with Mom and Dad yesterday at Jason's Deli. While we were there Isai showed us that he had lost a tooth! The tooth fairy brought him $2! I always got $1 - guess that's inflation for ya!


Hannah was happy to see her grandma and grandpa even though she had spent all weekend with them