Photo Shoot!

Hannah had a photo shoot the other day up n Washington. A neighbor of Heathers is a newer photographer who wanted to practice so we got all this for free! Nice, right! Hannah did such a good job and I was excited to get so many good pictures out of it. I haven't even seen them all yet. The lady gave Heather a cd with 72 pictures on it, so I can't wait to see the rest!! I love her eyes!!

Swinging girl

Hannah found out last week that she loves to swing!! She does so good in the swing and loves to sit in it forever! We live in an area with lots and lots of kids, so they are always outside. Hannah is so jealous that they can all run around and play on the toys. She just sits there and yells at them since she can't walk yet! Soon! I can't wait for it to get warmer outside since now I have a reason to go and play!

8 months old already!

8 months old already and so darn cute! Hannah loves to stand up and walk around the house holding our fingers. She is trying hard to crawl so within the next month I am sure we will have a mobil child. I don't know if I am ready for that! She has 4 teeth with a 5th coming soon. She also loves to clap and is learning how to say more in sign language. she can eat a few solid foods now so that is nice for snacks, especially when we are eating dinner and she tries to mooch.All together she is the cutest little girl. She loves to giggle and laugh with us and loves unconditionally. She loves her daddy like crazy. All he has to do is walk in the room and Hannah is all smiles, giggles and jumps up and down. She loves spending time with him! I know he loves it too!! Well next month we will have a weight and height update! I am excited to see how much she has grown!

Quick update

So here is finally a quick update on what we are up to! Our computer is in the process of being fixed, but in the mean time we have Kevin's computer so it is nice to be connected to the world again! I am feeling better about the whole sleeping issue I had so thank you for all of your comments! Now of course Hannah has a bad cold so that isn't helping my new plan, but oh well!!

This is Hannah's favorite activity! She always wants to stand up and can even slowly move along the couch.

Along with standing her bouncer is also a favorite since she can jump around. She has discovered how to rock back and forth and loves it!

The cure girl in the bath. She loves that she can sit up now and play with toys in the water....then hates it when we have to get dressed again!

This was Hannah on Christmas day. she tried a ritz cracker for the first time and did pretty good. Along with that about 2 days ago Hannah finally was able to feed herself one of those fruity puffs for babies and loved it! She is getting to be a pro!

We were able to spend Christmas morning/day up at the Swansons this year so that was really fun! We spent Christmas Eve with the Blevins, but those pictures are on our broken computer!! Hannah loved being with her cousins and getting new noisy toys to play with!

Opening her stocking gifts!

trying to eat tic tacs!

I don't know....

I am the worst sleep helper to Hannah. I don't have any clue on how to teach her to sleep on her own or sleep through the night. I am a super big wimp and know i couldn't handle her crying it out at night, but I read the no cry sleep solution, with no solutions for me.

I was able to get Hannah out of the habit of being breast fed to sleep, and I came up with a routine for nap times and bedtime, but nothing really works. I have to admit that I started rocking Hannah and singing her songs before bed, but by the time I would lay her down she was pretty much out. So now I keep thinking I should let her learn to fall asleep on her own, but it has now been 45 min of the poor girl crying since she doesn't know why I won't snuggle her.

I really need Hannah to start sleeping better at least through the night. Last week she did really good, only waking up once and we were back in bed within 15 min, but the last few nights have been 4 times awake again. She also still takes 4 30-45 min naps a day. It really is wearing me down and i feel like I am going crazy sometimes!! Anyway I just needed to vent and talk this out. I am out of ideas and I know since i can't let her cry it out at night that I will just have to endure, but can't she at least sleep for longer than 2 hours? Okay I am done complaining! Thanks for letting me get that all out.

Besides sleeping, Hannah is the most beautiful and fun little girl! She smiles at us all day long, giggles and thinks I am funny! She loves her daddy and goes on flirty on him when he walks in the room! She loves to stand up and is starting to try and walk along the couch. She is also trying to move forward, doesn't get crawling yet, but rolls around and stretches to reach what she wants. She is so cute and more of her personality comes out each day!!

Well as I finish this up, Hannah is finally quiet, which gives me more hope. I know it is my own fault that she doesn't know how to sleep on her own since I have never stuck to that, so I wil just have to endure teaching her this again! We will succeed!!! Also does anyone have any ideas of at home work I could do to make some extra money?? Anything i could do with Hannah around!! Thanks again for letting me ramble on!! I feel better now!!

soon!!!

So our computer decided to die on us! I have been without a computer this whole past week and have felt so out of touch with the whole world. It is amazing what technology offers to us and when we are without it we don't know what to do! So we now are borrowing Kevin's computer until we can fix ours so soon I will get some pictures up here!!!