Archive for April, 2010

Its been a busy few weeks on the development front. Hannah rolled from her belly to her back (she’s done it before when I wasn’t watching, so it was fun to actually see). She figured out she can flail and hit the toy hanging from her carseat and making it jingle. Her flailing skills get a little better every day, now she can even get some things into her mouth (after first hitting herself in the forehead and the eye). Hannah loves standing up, so we hold her around the waist, or prop her against something and she’s pretty happy.

I got a job at our church as the nursery director. It’s 20 hours a week and I get to staff and supervise the nursery, and play with babies! Hannah gets to come, and she really enjoys watching all the other kids. I think she’ll love having a place to go with different toys and lots of little friends. I’m adjusting well to being back at work, but the house definitely isn’t as clean as it was. I work Sunday, tuesday and wednedsay mornings, wednesday evenings, and every other monday morning, and some special events.

We got a new electric lawn mower so we can cut the grass, and I had fun cutting the back lawn last weekend. Adam has been trying to construct a way to keep the dogs off the lawn when they’re just going out to use the bathroom. We had some 2 foot tall plastic fencing, but the dogs were jumping it, so we got some 4 foot fencing and Chloe promptly demonstrated that she can also clear that. Luckily the weather is getting nicer, so the lawn is recovering quickly from all the running that happened during the rainy season.

This weekend we’re enjoying hanging out at my parents and spending time with my brother Ben and his wife Vicki and their daughters Madelyn and Alayna. Fun for all the girl cousins to meet, today all 4 cousins were here, but none were awake at the same time. Hopefully we can get some cousin pictures later.

Today at birth to three Hannah weighed 14 pounds, 13.4 ounces.

I haven’t been updating the blog much since I’ve been using her nap time to sew. Yesterday I made a couple of bibs, you can tell they are homemade, but Hannah doesn’t seem to mind barfing on poorly sewn items. =)

Lots has happened in the last few weeks. Hannah found her hands. We were getting ready to take Adam to work one rainy morning and had to stop and make a video since she figured out how to hit the little toy that’s been dangling from her car seat handle for the last month. Last week she giggled, and since then Adam has been able to get her to do it again a couple of times, but we haven’t quite figured out her funny bone. Yesterday she went to the church nursery for the first time while I was at bible study. It was hard t leave her, but reportedly she was very good. They laughed about how she looks so small but it so heavy when you pick her up.

Hannah has been sleeping lots during the day (she still sleeps pretty well at night, just wakes up around 2 and 5 to eat) I thought maybe she was in a growth spurt, but she’s been sleeping lots for over a week now, so maybe she’s just getting a new routine.

Today I took her to get pictures taken at walmart, to try and create the 3 month photo of me when I was a baby. She did great and we got a super cute shot of her smiling, but  won’t get the prints for a week. We got back the pictures that Amanda Smith took of her and Henry and they are fantastic. Once I figure out the new upload program for the blog I’ll get them all up.

Other than that we’re all doing well. Adam is enjoying work and having fun creating all sorts of new systems. Dash and Chloe are bored due to lack of walking, and ready for the sunny season and more time outside. Yoshi is actually becoming rather friendly (apparently the trick is to ignore cats and they’ll come to you).