Birthdays 2012

Here is the first batch of pictures from Aaron and Hannah's birthday celebrations.  We had the Smith family birthdays on a Sunday evening to celebrate all the Smith birthdays [we are honorary Smiths!].  Lots of fun presents (mostly books and a sit and spin!) and a great time catching up with everyone.

To the park we go!

January held some pretty mild temperatures so we got to play outside a good bit.  Hannah loves to go to the park.  Her favorites are the slide and swings.  Hannah recently discovered that it was great fun crawling through the tunnels and climbing up the stairs!  It has rained several times this past week and been too wet go to the park.  You would have thought it was the end of the world.  All you hear is "slide? slide?"

Happy Valentine's Day 2012

Here are a few pictures of our Valentine's celebrations- we spread it out over a few days.  We took some pictures Sunday after church with Hannah in her cute heart dress.  On Monday we ate our Valentine's meal: ranch house pork chops, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, a little wine.  And the best dessert ever: cinnamin roll cake!  Tuesday brought in a host of gifts for Hannah: a Winnie-the-Pooh movie from Mimi/Papa (along with a skype call), an adorable heart shirt from Nana, and a book and a ball from Mama/Daddy.  Aaron got some special flavored coffee and I got a flower ring.  Pizza for dinner and off to a Cougar basketball game- hooray for Valentine's Day!

Books and boxes

Hannah and I went to the library story time for toddlers for the first time last week.  She loves to read and be read to so I thought we would try this new experience.  Hannah did so well during the actual story time- we listened to books, sang songs and popped bubbles.  When we left the story room and out into the children’s book section Hannah decided to wander off and talk loudly.  And there is a toy train track around the ceiling of the room- she thought that was the best thing ever!  So she ran around yelling “Train! Train!  Look- train!”  We will be going back this coming week but I think we will leave as soon as story time is finished.

To explain a little bit about the pictures above, Hannah's great grandmother "Mimi Jane" stayed at our house at Christmas and taught Hannah that riding in a box was really fun.  Now whenever Hannah sees a box, she says “Ride, ride!”  She thinks that boxes make a good place to read a book as well.

Valentine's Crafts. . .with a toodler

Hello Friends!  I am finally back blogging.  Here is part 1 of our Valentine's craft projects.  Hannah had some serious giggles while doing this.  The best part?  The finger paint was made out of yogurt- crafty and delicious :)