Lots of New!

I know it has been awhile since I have updated my blog, but here is an update of things we have been up too!

Hannah is as cute as ever! She is taking steps, but not walking fully yet. She loves Baby Einstein videos and Little Einstein's and we are trying to teach her some words...no luck yet....well besides Mama and Dada. She loves to giggle and make us laugh. Whenever Chris comes in the room she starts laughing and tries to run away! She really is the best thing in our lives!

Chris is still in school although he graduates this year!! Yipppeeee! We will finally get to move out of Corvallis! Haha, we really do like it here, but I am excited for a change. We will be moving to Bend in August where Chris will be going to Helicopter Pilot school. (A big change from Podiatry!!) We are excited for the change and can't wait to get going! Well, here are a few pics of what we have been doing!

Hannah loved playing the piano! She actually does pretty well and love to test out all the little buttons.

This is Hannah's cool pose! She likes wearing Chris's hat, especially to play peek a boo with it!!

Guess what? Hannah can wear hair clips! Yeah yeah! Thank you Sarah for the cute clips!

The other day I decided to be artsy!! So I made abstract art!! Like it?!!

This is Hannah's new best friend! Her cousin Cooper! We were down in Springfield the past 2 weekends and all Hannah would do is follow Cooper around. She loved trying to do all that he did and of course he tried to get away from her! haha No he also tried to play with her, he helped her to wave and they drummed on everything together!

Here is Cooper helping to push Hannah on the Dora car!

Derek came to visit us over Spring Break! We loved having him around. While he was here we went for a hike up Bald Hill.

Of course I had to take a picture of myself!

While we were resting on top Derek found a box with a notebook and some letters in it. I forget what is was called, but apparently they are all over Oregon. It's like a friendship box or something. What you do is add a journal entry or a souvenir to the box when you visit and then put it back! Anyway cheesy, but kinds cool to read back in time!

Hannah had fun, eating whatever she touched. Her choice for this picture was the camera case!

A few weeks ago we went to the Zoo with Heather and her girls! We had lots of fun! This was Hannah's first time!

These birds were cool. I had never been in this area before, but you are in the same cage as them, they can fly right up to you, land on you and you can feed them!! It was cool to be so close!

Again, here is proof of how much Hannah loves to drum!!

Just a random picture of the girls!!!!

Hannah is Walking

Hannah has been taking steps for a while now and we finally decided to get the camera out to film her. She is growing up so fast and will be walking on her own before we know it. Crazy!

Hannah Walking! from Kim Blevins on Vimeo.

Walking!

So Hannah took her first steps tonight!! I wasn't able to get a picture, but we will try tomorrow! So I stood her on the ground to get her jammies on and let go of her hands just to see and she just stood there for about 5 seconds, which is long for her! I thought that was awesome so we kept trying that over and over and she thought it was fun. So then Chris and I were walking her back and forth between us trying to let go and see what she would do. Most of the attempts were her just leaning forward to fall into us, but we had victory. I let go of her hands and she took about 4 really good steps into Chris's arms!! It was so fun to watch!! can't believe she is so old!!!

She is also a pro crawler now! She speed crawls everywhere all day long!!

Crawling!!

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Hannah decided to start crawling today!! She is all grown up!! She still has a little hop in there, but she is crawling!! Yipppee!!

update!

Last night was awesome! Hannah slept from 7 to 6am! Which was nice! She slept well, was wide awake and ready for the day when she woke up and we had one of the best days yet! She was such a happy, sweet, giggly, funny little girl!! I loved it!! Hopefully tonight will be wonderful again!! ....and maybe she will sleep in a bit more!

Advice!!

So I need some advice! Hannah now sleeps through the night which is amazing!...but she only sleeps until 5:30 ish sometimes a bit earlier. She goes to bed every night at 7pm and sleeps without waking up until 5:30. If I get up with her I change her diaper and feed her. She is still sleepy and I know she wants to go back to sleep, but if I try to lay her down she will only cry. If I snuggle her she will fall asleep quickly and stay that way for about another hour. On the other hand when she wakes up at 5:30, if I just let her cry herself back to sleep it won't work. She will cry for a whole hour to hour and a half and never go back to sleep. I know this sounds silly, but what would you do? Should I just put her to bed a bit later, so I can sleep in a bit more and she will slowly get used to sleeping longer? any ideas?

Our Trip to Sunriver

We had so much fun this last weekend in Sunriver! We were able to go with the Blevins family and we stayed in a huge house that Chris's parents rented for us! There wasn't much snow, but we found enough to sled in. We played lots of Beattle's Rock Band, toured the town, went swimming and even ice skating (although I don't have pics of that yet). It was a blast and Hannah especially loved playing with her cousins!

Hannah's cousin Natalie is so good with her! Hannah just loves her!

Here is Hannah with Dane, she loved having someone more her size to play with!

So nice story with this one! Hannah was a little crabby so I gave her a piece of licorice! Well of course she loved it and this s what happened when she finished!!

Hannah was able to sled for the first time!! No crying for her. She didn't really like her snow suit though!

All on her own!!

One happy family!

We were also able to go to a swimming pool in town. I forgot my swimming suit and we didn't have one for Hannah either, but I felt bad making her watch all her cousins play so we let her try out the pool! We just kept her in her onesie! She is hooked. She just loved every minute of swimming!

Aunt Brittany giving Hannah some snacks!

So as I was trying to get Hannah to take a nap, I got a little to comfortable!