Eeewww! Squash? Gross!

The other night, we fed Hannah a whole thing of peaches but she was still acting hungry. So her mean father decided to try giving her squash again, even though she hates it. But this gave me the chance to get a video of the hilarious faces she makes when we feed it to her. Unfortunately, this website will not let me upload it! Argh! It's frustrating me. But here are a couple of pictures instead. Hopefully I'll be able to get it to work soon.

Doin the laundry

A few nights ago, Hannah was being super grouchy. We tried everything. Dan even took her back to our bed and read to her, which usually works, but this time it didn't. So he brought her back out to the living room where I was doing the laundry and stuck her in the laundry basket. I don't know what it is about children and laundry baskets that makes people want to put the two together, but it's so cute! As soon as he put her in the basket, she stopped crying and sat there, happy as a little clam, for like 15 minutes! What a goof.

6 Months!!! Where does the time go?

I can not believe that Hannah will be 6 months old on Wednesday! It's so crazy. I really don't know how that happened. This month has been great. She's grown up so much this month. It is amazing to watch her learning and growing more and more every day, and she has made lots of strides this month in her physical abilities. The biggest change this month is definitely her eating ability. We started with rice cereal on Christmas, and she took to eating like a fish to the water. She absolutely LOVES to eat. It is her favorite part of the day and she gives me pouty faces all day until I give her food. Her favorite so far, I think, is pears which were the first food we gave her. Until tonight, I would have said that she's liked everything we've given her, but she just proved me wrong. She HATED the squash we tried to give her tonight. It was really funny. I wish I had a picture, but of course she stopped doing it as soon as I got out the camera. Also, she liked bananas, but unfortunately she got her Dad's slight allergy to them. She was super unhappy for a day after we gave it to her. It was so sad. So far, she's had pears, peaches, bananas, carrots, and squash.

Hannah is getting very close to being able to sit up by herself. In fact, she's perfectly capable of sitting by herself, she just has trouble staying focused enough to stay there. She's such a busy little girl! It is extremely rare for her to just sit back and relax. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only time she does so is when she's nursing and sleeping. In addition to learning how to sit by herself, she's been working hard on learning to crawl. She's not as close to mastering this as she is with sitting, but she's a lot closer than she was last month. She's getting up on her arms and rocking a little, but she's not quite able to get back on her knees yet.

Hannah is such a happy little baby. It makes life so fun. She does have bad days just like any baby, but they are thankfully the exception and not the rule. There are a million other little things I could talk about. I love her so much. Being a mom is such a blessing and it's so much fun. It's a lot of hard work, too, but it's totally worth it, and seeing this sweet smile every day makes all of the not so wonderful parts (like puke and poopy diapers) seem to disappear.

More fun with cousins

I love living so close to family and being able to spend time with them. It's so much fun, and my nieces and nephew are so cute. On Sunday, we took dessert over to Dan's brother, Seth's house so he would be able to meet Emily. Abby and Brigham were in rare form, being crazy and loud. Brigham kept asking me to take pictures of him and to let him see them. Abby was running around doing somersaults and the like. They both wanted Hannah to get up and run around with them. Hannah was mostly cranky, but did spend a little time playing.

Pears

Hannah loves to eat. She was okay with rice cereal, but she didn't love it. Then we gave her pears, and it was like the heavens opened for her. She loves them. She's turned into a little piggy. She scarfs the food down as fast as you can get it in her mouth. We've since started carrots, and she loves those too. Basically, she loves food, and she was VERY ready to start eating. She's really good at it and really enjoys it.

Reading

Hannah loves books, as I've said before. And she really loves for her Dad to read to her... probably because he reads to her in all sorts of crazy voices and accents. She has learned how to hold the books and it's so cute. I love these pictures.

Emily!!

Today my newest niece was born. Emily Whitworth is a beautiful 7 pounds 4 ounces and 20 inches long. She has lots of pretty strawberry blonde hair and looks a lot like her mom. The doctors were prepared for a difficult ride today, but thankfully none of their concerns came to fruition. Both Lacey and Emily are happy and healthy.  Hannah didn't know what to think of Emily at first, but after a little while she warmed up and actually started trying to touch Emily-which of course we didn't let her do. She had fun hanging out at the hospital and meeting her newest cousin.