Best of Cousins

So one evening, Hannah and I watched Cambria, Anna's daughter, while Anna ran errands. Well, Hannah loves babies, and so she wanted to be with her - holding, playing and helping me with her the whole time we had her. Cambria is just full of smiles, and loved to sit by Hannah. Hannah saw Cambria roll over on the floor, and so when she was back on her tummy again, she decided she needed to help her roll over again...which is what the second picture is of her trying to do. Of course, it wasn't that easy for Hannah to do, and Cambria wasn't too sure what was going on! I can be sure she will be quite the helper when her new brother or sister comes along... :)

Hannah is 2!!

I figured a good starting over point would be Hannah's 2nd birthday. It was a Saturday so I got up and worked on decorating the cake - we had a Boz themed party. For those of you who don't know who Boz is, he is a big green bear, a Christian version of Barney. She loves to watch his DVD's and has a stuffed Boz, so I figured I would theme her party after something she loves. After Hannah's nap that day, we took her to the Waterfront park, played on the playground and rode the carousel...which, she doesn't like to get off of, but we only let her ride twice - I take a turn and David takes a turn, then we are too dizzy to let her ride more. :) After the park, we headed home and got things ready for her party, which we had at our church in the fellowship room - more room for a lot of people. She loved opening all her gifts and playing with them all, but had a hard time sharing with her friends that were there...but we are working on the sharing thing.

David & Hannah at the park

Riding the carousel

The Birthday Girl!!

Blowing out the candles

Starting again...

So, I suppose 3rd times the charm...right?? Haha...we'll see. I'm going to try this again...I'm sure I'm not going to be an avid blogger like my sister, who updates her blog almost every day, but I'm going to try hard to keep things updated. If you see I haven't updated in a while, just bug me about it and I will get on it... :)

Happy Birthday!!

Hannah turned ONE on May 31st, and since that was a Thursday, we had the big party on Saturday, June 2. We had about 25 people there...mostly relatives and a few close friends. Even Grandma Janice was able to fly up from California for the weekend and join in the festivities, which we were so glad to have her, plus Hannah got to spend a little time getting to know her better. Hannah pretty much didn't know what the excitement was all about, but everyone was having a great time! As much as she digs into her food at home, we thought for sure she would dig into her cake right away, but she didn't. She slowly and carefully picked at each little bit of the frosting and seemed to take forever eating it. Maybe its because it was something she normally didn't get to eat, and we were encouraging her to eat it, and she wasn't sure about it...who knows! :)

Little Cowgirl

Hannah got a little rocking horse for Christmas and didn't really know how to ride on it until she was about 10-11 mo old. Here she is in Daddy's cowboy hat, which she loves to wear. It plays music and makes horsey noises, which she loves also.

Tulip Fields

On the Friday before Easter, we took a day and went up to the Wooden Shoe Bulb Co in Woodburn. It was a beautiful, warm day which made for a great view of all the fields and of Mt. Hood. It was also lots of fun to take pictures of Hannah in the flowers, even though she had no idea what was going on. :)

I love my John Deere

Grandma Julie watches Hannah one day a week and has a little John Deere Gator (Grandpa works for JD) that Hannah just LOVES to ride on. Grandma pushes her around and around...and she just doesn't like to stop! It tires Grandma out!! Pretty soon, she'll be asking for a real one!! :)

Day at the Beach

During the youth kids' spring break, David took them all to Rockaway Beach in Rockaway, OR. So Carissa and Hannah met up with them on that Thursday. It wasn't Hannah's first time on the beach, but it was the first time there was nice weather and she could actually sit on the sand and test out the water. At first she didn't go off of the blanket...she just let the sand run through her fingers trying to figure it all out. Then after a while, she decided to crawl around and out onto the sand, and then she was hard to stop!! :) We even let her dip her feet in the water, although it was really cold, so that didn't last too long.