Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The ultimate picture post....

Lots of stuff since the last post, so here is the recap eh?
It snowed















I wrestled an antelope

















Christmas happened, santa came here.



















We enjoyed a visit from Josh, Monica, Melanie and Abbie
















We played with our new puppy friend Xena



















We went to the Aquarium



















Hannah rode a pony,
















and an elephant at the Circus.



















We had another round of swimming lessons, this time with goggles.



















John wore this hat:



















while at Hardware Ranch with the cousins.
















Hannah also rode the luggage cart














as I mentioned earlier Hannah turned three so I made her these three cakes













but only one birthday shirt














I hope she liked it more than this face implies


















We took Hannah to Kangaroo Zoo with her best friend Jackson

















We had a February Birthday's party with the cousins















And enjoyed this awesome cake

Three Years

zero?

















one

















two

















three

















I can't beleive I have a kid that is three! Wow!

Here is a little update on Hannah:

She is amazingly smart, she knows all her colors, shapes, body parts. She can recognize all her numbers and almost every letter. She really really loves the letter H and is positive that she owns it. It is her letter. She can spell and write her name. She has also started drawing pictures of people. She drew a picture of all her friends and cousins on their valentines. Her speech is mostly perfect although she does have some adorable trouble with "th". She loves to hear stories, her favorites are about Swiper the Fox. She also loves to tell stories and we hear them constantly. She loves to read books and has recently discovered the library where she can pick out several differnt books, she really doesn't like to take them back though. She also loves to play pretend and we are often told who we get to "be" that day. She can count to twenty except she does say "five-teen". She loves music and knows every nursery rhyme I have never heard of. She also loves to sing some songs on the radio like Womanizer, Poker Face, and Brown Eyed Girl. She can sing Utah Man, and can recite the Pledge of Alleigence. She loves to watch sports, we watch the Yankees, the Avalanche, and of course the Utes. While watching sports she wants us to explain the rules of the game and also wants to know every players name.

She can climb anything and can jump and run for hours. She is doing great in her swimming lessons and loves the water. We got her a big girl bed that has a little play area underneath, and she sleeps all nightreally well. We have to give her lots of time and hugs in the morning before she is ready to get up. She usually convinces her daddy to get her dressed under the covers.

She wants to be self sufficient and she can dress and undress herself. She is totally potty trained, and also wants to do that by herself. She is learning her manners and is doing a great job on Please, Thank You, and No Thank You. She is totally perfect however on Your Welcome.
She had her first teeth cleaning and was an angel during the whole thing.
Her favorite shows are Dora, Little Einsteins, Blues Clues, and anything on Animal Planet. Her favorite toys are her blocks that she loves to stack, her baby that she loves to rock to sleep, and any ball she can play catch with her Daddy. We gave her a camera for her birthday and she loves taking pictures of her dog and the floor.
She is so sweet and caring, she wants all her animals to be warm and happy. She also wants her family to be happy and will give hugs and kisses freely. She loves to snuggle, mostly before bed and in the morning to prolong getting up.

We are mostly just amazed at her and enjoy even her bad moments. She has a great sense of humor and can get me to go from lecturing her to laughing out loud with just a look. She is an absolute joy to every one in her family.
Happy Birthday Hannah! We love you!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Thursday, November 12, 2009

New York City

I wish I had a video of Hannah saying "New York City", it is so funny. She sounds just like that salsa commercial New York City! - you know the one. Anyway, last week we decided to drive, yes I said drive, to New York City. What possesed me to do that? Still don't know. The plan was to leave wednesday night and get there on saturday. The fun actually started before we left. Last Sunday Hannah started getting a small fever, she acted fine and wasn't complaining but she was a little warm. That afternoon she started complaining that the back of her neck hurt, after a small panic attack I checked to see if she could touch her chin to her chest. She could do that so I though she was fine. Her fever kept going up and she continued to complain about her neck. At dinner she turned totally lethargic, she just sat on my lap and fell asleep. Her fever then reached 103 and we called the dr. The on-call doc told us to take her in to Instacare for an H1N1 test and a menangitis test. We went to Instacare and they told us to take her to Primary for an H1N1 test and a menangitis test because they can't do that at Instacare, nice eh? So we went to Primary and they started testing her for everything. At Instacare her heart rate was 162, so that was bad. I was totally impressed with the toughness of my kid. She watched them put the IV in her hand and never cried. The nurse was also impressed and brought her a cute pink bear. They came to the conclusion that she had pneumonia and prescribed her an antibiotic. I am pleased to say I made it through our first ER visit just fine. Hannah probably did better than I did.




















We went to our follow up and got the go-ahead to get in the car and start our drive. Luckily Hannah was starting to feel better.

Here we are at day 1:














Day 2:













Day 3:















I am sure I don't even need to mention that it's a good thing we had TV. When we got to NYC we chased some pigeons and went to the Central Park Zoo. We really had a blast, and Hannah was so good. When she got tired, she would just fall asleep, it was really cute.


























We also went to FAO Schwartz, the Knicks/Jazz game, and the Statue of Liberty:





























John got some meat on a stick, Hannah LOVED riding the subway. We flew home and we all enjoyed that as well!