International Day at Ridge

Here's Hannah at the International Day at Ridge. She had a ball playing instruments from Jamaica. She had even more fun when I brought her to my classroom and let her play my congas and bells. Here she is with a student of mine, Gracie and her mom, Summer. Summer and I have become friends this school year, and what a bummer... they are moving to Ernest Gallet next school year. BUMMER!! Summer is having a baby in June. Sha!This is Mrs. Heather Dupre getting to hold Hannah in PERSON!! She just loves my baby girl and checks her blog all the time to see how she is growing. Hannah says, "Hi, Mrs. Heather!!" After running ALL OVER the playground, she stopped to cool off at the water station.
She had a big day at the International Day at Ridge!
Next stop, Festival International de Louisiane!!!! Hoooooray!!!!!

Radio Flyer

Here is the proud baby girl in her new Radio Flyer wagon, complete with TWO seats. Do you think anyone is trying to hint around that we need another little one to fill that seat???It's great to have so many family members that love us, and who really love Hannah. My dad is in love with that baby girl. Whenever we really would like to get something for her but can't afford it, he steps in and helps us out. My dad and Emma loved giving this wagon to Hannah, and they spent all day Saturday riding around in it. Thanks, PopPop and Auntie Em!

Bike!

We finally broke down and got our baby girl a bike. Buying her a bike signifies that she's not a baby anymore, so I put off buying her one until we went to our friend's house and Hannah rode every toy they had. Then I felt bad for her... poor thing... she's so neglected and all... doesn't have ANYTHING else to play with...

This is her first tricycle. It's pink and purple and it has tassles on the handlebars, which make her very happy. Every time the tassle catches her eye, she says "oooooh." I think she's in love. The night we brought it home she stayed on it until bed time, even though she didn't know how to peddle it. She was as contented as can be just sitting on it.

She can even say bike now. Biiii, biiiii. That's all we hear around our house. That, and "bubbles!" are her two favorite things to do right now. Here she is putting down her bubbles so she can go riding again. What a rough life!

A bit of Easter!

We had a great Easter. We all went to church and then to my mom's house in Opelousas. All of Don's family were there too, so there were a lot of people for Hannah to play with.

When we came home, Hannah's PopPop and Auntie Emma came over and we had an Easter egg hunt in the backyard. She had so much fun running around the yard gathering Easter eggs... although I don't think she knew we had eggs outside...

Who's my baby?!

Battle Wounds

Hannah is wearing her first battle wound from her first climbing accident... and from what all my 'mommy friends' have told me, this is just the first of many. Ah, what joys await us!

Hannah and I were playing in her room, and I turned for about five seconds to fold a blanket over the side of her crib, when Hannah decided to get on the glider and take a nose dive right into the wooden window sill. This first picture is about ten minutes after it happened... nice red bump right on her cheek.

The next morning, it had become her first shiner, complete with yellow and black bruises to complete the look. And naturally... just in time for Easter. Perhaps I'll send these pics out instead of doing a cute photo shoot with the Easter bunny.... ha ha...