August...catching up

This is the first of several posts catching up on the past couple of weeks! Hannah's been perfecting her crawling by exploring the house and pulling up to stand on everything! She loves to pull up on me especially--and crawls all over me! She's also been babbling a lot and at times is VERY talkative. She also learned to do the "raspberry" noise and does this frequently. Her first tooth appeared a few days ago, accompanied by lots of drool :) She's also been having fun in "Parents as Teachers"--meeting with her parent educator and going to play at the Early Childhood playground, which was lots of fun. She's been a little traveler--going to South Dakota to visit the Drymalski's and making apple cider with them. South Dakota was definitely Hannah's idea of fun--getting to spend tons of time outside, plus older kids and lots of animals--she had so much fun she never wanted to sleep! Pictures from South Dakota to come soon.

Hannah still loves to jump in her Jumperoo occasionally. Greg tried to take it down and put it away (imagine...he wants to put something away???), but I refused because that would mean that Hannah is growing up too fast :)


This is Hannah's look of determination that she frequently has as she crawls everywhere and gets into trouble...


And this is Hannah getting into trouble... She loves our big jar of corks and pulls up to stand on it frequently. Not exactly safe...but she always does it with this big smile.


Reading her favorite book. We've read it over and over and she still loves it. Her Grandma Jan (former librarian) is proud, I'm sure!


This is Hannah's post-walk daze. I'm not sure if she gets overstimulated or gets put to sleep by the walk, but whatever it is...she's dazed.


Looking pretty in her dress...


All smiles!! (And she's quite the healthy eater!)


Hannah says "Mom! Why do you keep taking my picture??"


"Wait, why am I not getting any water out of this??"


"I'm too fast for mom!! I'm making a quick getaway!"


"My favorite teething toy...dirty shoes. The dirtier, the better."


"Pulling up to stand on my human jungle gym...Mom!! This is the view that mom has about 1000 times a day."


"I eat "puffs" now! This is when I was eating fruit-yogurt puffs...yum! I'm still mastering eye-hand coordination, though."