Fun with the Flowers

Hannah spent some time in our neighbor's yard the other day. Our neighbor, Mrs. Vicki, has some gladiolas and other flowers blooming right now, and Hannah decided she needed to smell these flowers. She told us that she needed to smell them right away, and she wasn't budging until she smelled them.

She was all decked out in her white outfit with matching bonnet, so we decided to let her have a go at these pollen-infused beauties. Not only did she try to SMELL the flowers, she tried to EAT them!!! If you look closely, you can see the pollen all over her mouth!! What a cutie...

Hannah with her Peeps

I have been terrible about taking pictures of only Hannah, and not Hannah with other people. So here are a few pics of Hannah with her peeps. Here is Hannah with her favorite person in the world... her Nanny!!! I'll say to her, "Hannah, who loves you?" and she replies "Mama!" Then I say, "Hannah, who do YOU love?" Her answer: "Nanny!!" How do you like that!! Sheeesh!!!

Here's Hannah with her mommy. Ahhh... such love.

And here is Hannah with her DaDA! (Emphasis on the second syllable).... more like this, "daa DA!!! He loves his baby girl.

So little blogging...

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. I got real sick recently but now I'm better. Here are some of the latest pics of Hannah. She is 17 months old now and running around like mad. It's hard to get a single picture of her actually looking at me now because she's so busy moving all the time. She just heard the train passing by...

This is her mad face. Her PopPop had just told her to give him that plastic trash that was in her hands, and she thought it was a new favorite toy. She did NOT want to give up her new found treasure.

Here's my little angel. I bought her this dress over a year ago in Houston, and I just had to get a picture of her in it one more time before I pack it away. I used a Cokin cold color diffuser for this pic to give it that 'hazy, dreamy' look. Unfortunately, Hannah decided that the pic really needed a beach toy right in the middle of the shot. Little turkey.

Happy Mother's Day

Here's Hannah in a pretty flower dress that her Aunt LiLi gave her. She was adorable in it on Mother's Day. We had a big time on Mother's Day... we went to church, then afterwards, we went to Copland's for lunch with GiGi, LiLi, Nanny, and Nanny's new friend Jason. Hannah really liked him (so did the rest of us!!). Hannah ate big time good food at Copland's. She had bowtie pasta appetiser with spinach and artichoke dip, and she nearly licked the plate clean. She was a very good baby, so she must have known it was an important day.

"Hooray!!! Mama, I was a good baby today!!!"

Festival Baby

Hannah is a Festival International veteran. She has been every year of her life. She went with me last year, just the two of us. And this year she went with a bunch of family and friends. Tammy, Amy, Linda and I brought Hannah on Saturday and we spent most of the day there. We heard the Imagination Movers, Son de Madera from Mexico, and the Chris Hare quartet. I went to college with Chris, so it was great to see him performing with his group at the festival. I think she is getting the hang of how to 'hang loose' at the festival. Here she is listening to the Chris Hare Quartet.

Hannah and her nanny went to cool off in the water, and I managed to immortalize some little boys falling britches in the process... thanks kid...

That night, Tammy, Amy, Hannah and I went back to the festival and saw Eddie Bo, Group Fantasma, and Beausoleil with Michael Doucet. Hannah just chilled out in her stroller and cheered for all the bands. So cute! Here she is enjoying herself with some bizarre toy her nanny gave her....

Sunday after church, James, Tammy, Amy, me, and Hannah went back downtown for more international tunes.We saw four groups: Frigg- a fiddle group from Finland, Solas from Ireland, the Lovell Sisters (my personal favorite) and Amazones: Women Drummers of Guinea. They were AMAZING! Hannah had a ball dancing and watching those women play their drums. It was a great festival weekend and I'm so glad it was such beautiful weather for festival!!

My Little Tornado

Yes, that's my beautiful baby girl. What has happened to that once sweet, docile child I once knew?? I haven't posted anything lately because Hannah is just too busy to stop for photos these days. She is my little tornado. She runs all over her toys, plows into the furniture head first, tries to dive off of the couch, ottoman, and other furniture, and is basically a big mess. She's also started throwing temper tantrums. Is this the beginning of the "Terrible Twos" that I've always heard of?? If so, she's starting early. She literally throws herself onto the ground and beats it, screaming at the top of her lungs. She also has taken up the sport of beating on her own body if she's mad. Ah, the joys of motherhood...

Here she is in her wagon. That's about the only time she'll be still long enough to get a picture of her. She has her "BUBBAHS" with her. Her bubble maker. She screams BUBBAHS wildly as she drips bubble juice all over her outfit...

Here's Hannah with her gramma, "GiGi." GiGi came to spend the weekend with Hannah and me. We had a big time reading books, playing with toys, and chasing around the little tornado.