February Fun!

2010 seems to be going quite fast so far. Hannah continues to love to explore everything around the house, and has an attention span of approximately 2.2 seconds, so every day is full of millions of adventures :) She has started to "talk" a lot more, and is even saying a new word..."tickle". She actually says "tickle, tickle, tickle" and today even pretended to tickle her doll while she was saying it :) Who knew that she heard the word "tickle" enough to have that as one of her first words, but apparently she likes the word a lot! A few of her favorite touch and feel books have the word in it, so I guess that's where she picked it up. We're keeping track of new words, but so far it's just "dadda", "momma" (rarely--usually she just whines when she wants me :), "that", and "tickle" for now.

Here are some pictures of our February fun. It's been snowy and cold again, so we've been home bound for a lot of the time, but we still manage to have fun :)

Eating graham crackers is a new favorite pastime...and her favorite spot to eat them is sitting perched on the bottom step. She is just tall enough to be able to sit up there.




And...again eating graham crackers. This time next to some cake decorating supplies, which are some of her favorite toys these days.


Here's the cake I made for Alex's 2nd birthday. I figured I'd put pictures up so people could see it...he unfortunately was under the weather and we didn't get to have his party. So I popped it into the freezer...unsure what it will look like in a couple of weeks, so here's what it originally looked like!





Another favorite pastime is playing with her new backpack :) Putting things in, taking things out, putting it on, taking it off, running while wearing the backpack, etc.










Every morning we see Daddy off to work. Hannah waves, and gives Greg about a half of a hug and no kisses (she is very stingy with hugs and kisses!), and then when I shut the door she tries to reach through the door to get him. Here's a typical morning.


On Monday, it was 32 degrees and snowing, with about 2 inches of snow in the yard. Perfect weather for playing in the snow for the first time. It was beautiful weather and we walked around for awhile, enjoying the "warm" temperature. She wouldn't keep her mittens on when she was playing in the snow, so that was kind of short-lived, but overall she really liked it. She loves being outside, and she seemed to like just looking at the snow coming down and feeling what the snow felt like in her fingers. I made some snow balls and she liked to hold onto those...and try to eat them, of course.


new snow boots!






little footprints


On Monday, I got a random free t-shirt in the mail for filling out a survey, and Hannah couldn't get enough of this t-shirt. She wanted to carry it around, so finally I just put it on her :) Notice the banana and my glove--her other favorite toys of that moment :) It's always some random household object that she wants to play with...the kitchen timer, the radio, the mouse from the computer, the mouse pad, an apple, the remote control, etc, etc.






That's it for now. Thanks for checking the blog, everyone!