Weekend Fun

It's been a while since I've posted any pictures, so here's some things that we've been up to.


After a half hour of debating, Hannah decided she wanted to ride this new trampoline ride at our mall.  The girl running it was great!  She convinced Hannah it was like jumping on a bed and then strapped her up and helped her jump WAY up.  She loved it once she was going!

Addie is busy growing and working on the walking thing.  Her favorite food is still pasta and meatballs and her curls are all coming in.

Hannah's growing and entertaining :)
- I was telling her that I had completed 4 loads of laundry.  Hannah said "That's awesome."  It's great to know she appreciates it :)
- I was video tapping Addie walking with her push toys, and Hannah jumped in front of the camera to to the Pledge because she wanted to be on camera
- Hannah now 'reads' to us at nighttime'
- We're still working on sharing with Addie.  Its getting better.  Hannah now follows Addie around until she drops something and immediately picks it up and plays with it and says its her turn.


Hannah is also obsessed with Santa.  She really didn't into the Santa thing until AFTER Christmas.  We sing at least one Christmas song a day and every day she wants something, she tells me that Santa is going to bring it.  So far Santa is bringing the following:
- Leggings
- Matching bathing suits for her and Addie
- a Purple ladder to get to the top of her dresser
- Snow
- Hair Ties for mommy
And of course I can't remember any of the good ones because I'm trying to write them down.  I really need to write things down as they happen. 

Early Planning

Addie's 1st Birthday is quickly coming up! 


Hannah is super excited for Addie's party.  Every day she tells me what color she wants to decorate Addie's party.  So far its been Orange, Pink, Purple, and Brown and then back to Orange.  Hannah also has made it quite clear that I must have balloons for Addie's party because HER yellow balloon ran out of air and it had to go in the trash. 

Maybe I'll just let Hannah plan the whole thing.  She seems to have some good ideas :)

Valentine's Day

Hannah was really into Valentine's day this year.  Before the BIG day, we cut out hearts and painted in pink, red, and purple on poster board.  It is going to be hung up in her room. 

Valentine's Day morning was a little hectic.   The night before we made her Valentine's day bags for her classmates.  Hannah's part was to color the little cut out hearts for each of the bags.  All she really did instead was ask where her cookies were. 

So that morning she was dressed in all pink and red and got to bring in a special stuffed animal for Show & Tell.  We put Addie in pink pants and a white turtleneck with little hearts all over. 

That night, Hannah got her first lollipop.  We waited a long time to give her any candy.  We just don't have a lot of candy in our house and she never really missed it, so it wasn't a big deal.  But she loved that lollipop.  She licked most of it on Wednesday night and then it went into the fridge and she finished it on Thursday night. 
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Addie starts her new classroom on Monday!  Yeah!  She's moving up to the 'movers' room.  Addie is doing great with pulling herself up and now she's using the toys and walking around pretty steadily :).  I took a video of her moving.  Then I had to video Hannah saying the Pledge of Allegiance because she wanted to be on camera too. 

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I can't wait for Spring!!  This mid-mild winter is just making it difficult to wait for Spring to actually get here.  My goal is to try to get Hannah into swimming lessons early spring.  I really think she would enjoy it.  The best thing would be to get Hannah into the 8 week class, then do the Mommy and Me class with Addie the next session.  We'll see...

Midnight Race

Funny things happen when you're half asleep -

A couple nights ago around 1:30am, I can hear Hannah awake in her room and asking for me.  Normally if she wakes up in the middle of the night, she'll be awake for like 2 mins and then fall back asleep.  So I just stayed in bed listening.  Then I heard her little footsteps getting out of bed and I knew she was going for her door. 

Now, a little background - our bedroom door is open and both dogs sleep in our room.  Each of the girls sleep with their doors closed.  Since Foster is new to the family, he is not use to any door opening in the middle of the night without me actually doing the opening.

So, back to the story.  I hear Hannah walking towards her door and before I can get out of bed, she turns the knob.  Foster freaks out and starts barking and charging down the hall.  Bailey, not wanting to be left out of the fun, jumps out and starts running and barking after Foster.  Remember, this is 1:30 in the morning.  I'm now running and trying to not yell at the dogs for fear of waking Addie.  The three of us get to Hannah's door and I turn around and Daddy is standing there as well.  I tell the dogs to go to bed, tell Daddy to go back to bed and see what Hannah wants.  Never one to pass up negotiation skills, she says "Go downstairs for just 5 mins."  Sorry kiddo, it’s the middle of the night.  So I get her back in bed. 

In the morning, I asked Daddy why he got up.  He said 'everyone was up and running, so I got up and ran.'  Apparently he had no idea what was going on :). 

Warmer Days and Super Bowl!

I’ve been talking about my one dog a lot, and it will come up again later on today, but I thought I would focus the beginning on how the girls are doing. 

We had a couple ‘warmer’ days and Hannah finally had a chance to test out some of her outdoor Christmas toys.  She got to test out her new VW Beetle and drove it all over.  Only problem is that when she hits the gas pedal, she is always looking to see if I’m watching her, so she isn’t watching where she’s going.  But overall, did pretty well driving it.  We’re working on the whole steering thing.  Hannah also got to try out her tricycle.  Her feet almost reach the peddles!  She can get the wheel turned half way, which essentially means she can move forward about 2 inches and then move backwards 2 inches.  But she was super excited! 

On Tuesday night Daddy went to a Flyers game.  At dinner I was explaining to Hannah that Daddy went to a hockey game.  Literally that’s all I said.  And Hannah asks me if Daddy is going to wear a helmet (I sweat she’s a genius).  I explained that he is only watching the game and doesn’t need a helmet.  She then tells me that she is going to wear a helmet so she doesn’t fall down.  That’s when it dawns on me that she was watching football and is a little confused.  So I attempt to explain that.  But that doesn’t get me anywhere.  She was very determined that when she gets older, she’s gonna wear a helmet so she doesn’t fall down.  So my daughter has great aspirations to be either a football or hockey player.  Anything that requires her to wear a helmet. 

And my little Addie is speed crawling now.  We find her all over.  And we’re moving towards walking!  She loves to hold hands and walk, but when she has a toy walker, she’ll only go 1-2 steps and then kneel and kneel and push the cars.  The greatest thing she does right now is scrunch her nose when she is laughing.  I would love to show you all a picture, but for the life of me she won’t do it when the camera is out. 

Now I’m being asked what Addie wants for her 1^st Birthday!  Yikes!  I don’t know.  I still have 1 ½ months to plan and think about it.  Don’t make it come any faster!

And of course, we can’t go a week without a Foster story.  To keep a long story short, I’ll just number out the details – (background is we are hosting the Super Bowl party with 15 adults and 10 kids)

1. Projector lightbulb on big TV goes out at 7am on Saturday morning

2. Put TV on ground and we all run out to drive an hr to get a new lightbulb

3. Daddy gets TV all back together and put on TV stand and it doesn’t work at all

4. Something is dripping down the back of the TV

5. Foster peed on our TV.  On the back, into the wires. 

6. Daddy spends 5 hrs blow drying the back of the TV

7. TV works, cable box blows.  Daddy runs out to get a new cable box ½ hr before Comcast closes

8. TV works great on Saturday night and all day Sunday.

9. TV blows 5 mins before Super Bowl halftime. 

We did see the rest of the game.  Just on a much smaller TV.  Thank you everyone that was there for being good sports J

I need to start writing a little more frequently so these aren’t so long J