Nine Month Pictures

Nine Months Old

Hannah is nine months old today. She had her nine month appointment last Friday and weighed in at 15 pounds 1 ounce and 27 inches long. You may not have remembered but I did that she weighed 15 pounds at her 6 month appointment. A gain of 1 ounce...not so good. We all had a TERRIBLE stomach flu about a week before Hannah's appointment. She had only had her appetite back for about 2 days before her doctor's appointment. I knew her weight wouldn't be great. Today we went back for a weight check and she weighed 16 pounds 2 ounces. That's a gain of 1 pound 1 ounce in one week! Needless to say she is feeling better and eating much better. The doctor put her on the weight gainer diet and she's loving it!

Like Father, Like Daughter

Today Hannah found the basket of old newspapers. She loves paper and loves to page through books so what better to do than drag out the newspapers and sort through them. Ben and I just laughed as she pretended to be reading the paper. It's possible that she's seen Daddy do it a time or two.

Hannah as been wound tight today. She has been racing around the house and talking up a storm. We had a relatively calm morning and then Daddy came home from loading trucks, and that's when it all started. I'm looking forward to the day when she can help me a little bit and expend some of that pent up energy! She's napping now so I'm hoping for a longer than usual nap time.

Watching Daddy work outside. The squeals and giggles never stopped the entire time she could see him.

Posing for Mommy.

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Backwards Binkie

Little Miss Hannah has never really been into using a pacifier. She used one for a few weeks when she was about one month old but that was it...until she started teething. I start by putting the pacifier correctly into her mouth and she takes it out and turns it around. She prefers to chew on the handle side rather than to suck on the rubber side. She carries it in her mouth as she crawls around the house looking rather silly. She apparently hasn't read the book "What to Expect in the First Year" as she has sworn herself off of baby food or anything pureed, insists on using a pacifier backwards and recently started blowing bubbles in the bath tub (that's for another post). Those "how to be prepared as a parent books" are lately of no use to me since our Little Miss seems to want to do things differently!

Daddy's Little Girl

I think finally Hannah may be turning into a "Daddy's Girl." Daddy was holding her this morning as he cruised around the house and she was saying "Da Da Da...". He came in to say "good bye" before going to work and when he went out the door Hannah started crying. I opened the door to let him know that Hannah was upset he was leaving. She immediately stopped crying when she saw him waving. I closed the door and she cried again. Now she's crawling around the house saying "Da Da Da...". She can say "Ma Ma" but apparently it's Daddy's day today. If you know her very well you know that she often only wants Ma Ma. This takes a little bit of pressure off of Ma Ma now to see that she wants to be consoled by someone else.

On another note...we farmers always have to talk about the weather. It is so windy and dusty (from bare fields blowing) here that at times the visibility is only about 150 yards. We always joke that we are donating real estate to Malin and Langell Valley. I think we will hunker down in the house with a fire until it's time to feed the cows.

Happy New Year

Wishing you a happy and blessed New Year!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas. We were fortunate to spend ours with lots of friends and family. We spent Christmas Eve with our friends Laurence and Sarah. Christmas morning we woke up and opened our stockings and a few presents with Hannah. About noon Grandpa Lee and Grandma Mary showed up and we opened the rest of our presents. Grandma and Grandpa got Hannah, among other things, a xylophone. While I'm interested in developing her music skills early I may go insane while she learns to play it. Right now she's just interested in chewing on the mallet. (Sorry music people if that's not what you call the thing you hit it with.) I'm sure it won't be long before she it tapping out a tune on it.

About 3:00 the rest of the family showed up. Two of my uncles and their families came as well as my Grandma. We had 12 for dinner and had a great time. I smoked up the house cooking prime rib...really I was following the directions and it actually turned out fine. Dinner was topped off with desert and a couple of more presents. Hannah had so much excitement that she napped for a total of 1/2 hour over the whole day. It was early to bed for her while my Mom and I played a new game and Ben and Dad relaxed in the recliners. Now I'm off to clean up the aftermath and put the new goodies away!

Stocking are hung by the chimney with care.

Christmas morning

8 Months Old & Merry Christmas Eve

Hannah is eight months old today! She is doing really well. She is crawling like crazy. She is now pulling herself up on everything. In the mornings when I'm getting ready she likes to pull up on the bathtub and walk along it. I don't think she'll be walking tomorrow but it's not too far away. She's babbling up a storm. The most distinguishable words are "Da Da" and "Ma Ma".

I was asked what her favorite toy was and couldn't really think of one and then I remembered...Mom and Dad's cell phones. Last night she was playing with mine and holding it up to her ear. "Monkey see, Monkey do." That's a lesson to us to make sure we are doing what's right because we have little impressionable eyes watching.

It feels like we have had a week of Christmas already. Saturday night we had Christmas with Grandpa Randy. Last night we had Christmas Grandma Bev, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Two down and two more to go

I don't have any new pictures of Hannah and I thought that a post is kind of boring with out a picture. Here's a little glimpse of what it looks like around here. Some snow but not really enough. Hopefully the New Year will bring some more.

Bubble Bath

Hannah had her first bubble bath last night. She is teething again and has been kind of fussy so I hoped that a bubble bath might soothe her. At first she cried when I put in her. I guess she didn't like me messing with her bath. Eventually she got over it and started to enjoy herself.