Monday, January 30, 2012

Yummy Yummy in My Tummy

Dear Hannah,

Today we gave you your FIRST "solid" food {besides the little tastes of stuff Uncle Justin and your grandma gave you without mommy knowing}. You didn't hate it but you didn't love it, you were just interested. You didn't even really make too many faces like I was expecting.



Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Can't believe it!

One year ago today I found out the most exciting news, today was the day I found out I was going to have a baby! I was going to have you! I remember the day so clear, almost like it was yesterday.  I remember peeking at the pregnancy test expecting to see a negative but instead with great unbelief, seeing a very light second line. I could not believe it! I was smiling so big, but I still could not believe it. I had to take a few more tests to convince myself. Finally  a few {okay maybe five} tests later I finally convinced myself it was true! No words could describe my excitement!

 Waiting for your arrival seemed like an eternity, and now you are here laying in my arms! It so hard to believe your arrival seemed so far away and now as I look back I can't believe how fast time went. Now you are my big 3 month old {almost four!} You have quite the little personality! You are such busy baby  and you keep me on my toes! You are very opinionated as well! We love you so much sweet girl! I can't believe you are mine forever! I still can't believe it was just one year ago that we learned of our little blessing growing inside of me!

Love you Princess

Friday, January 13, 2012

Miss Independent

Dear Hannah,

You have become our little Miss Independent ALREADY{?}. Once upon a time you would let me rock you to sleep or snuggle you until you fell asleep. NOW you just won't allow it. Somedays you will still let me but for the most part you would prefer that I just lay you down in your bed. You don't even cry. As soon as I lay you down for your nap or bedtime you nod off pretty quick. Its a little bitter sweet for me. I love that you can fall asleep all by yourself, but I also miss being able to snuggle with you until you head to dream land. Although I won't complain, I am just happy you fall asleep so easily! No need to let you cry yourself to sleep {which I totally disagree with and never would do so anyways!}


Sweet dreams my love!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Music to my ears!

Dear Hannah,

Today you laughed for the first time! It was so stinking cute!!! I was playing with your cute little fit {that I cannot get enough of} and you just let out the cutest laugh! I wanted to get it on video, but there was no video camera near by and I was having too much fun to stop and find one! Grandma was able to get a picture though :)


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

3 Months!

Dear Hannah,

I know I say this a lot BUT I still just can't believe how fast time is flying!My Baby Girl is 3 MONTHS!? You are getting so big so fast and you are changing so much, almost daily! You are definitely not my tiny little newborn anymore, which is a little bitter sweet!

You have become quite the little stinker lately. Once upon time I could snuggle you up in your blanket and sit in my bed to rock you to sleep. Now {even though you are soooo tired} when I snuggle you in your blanket and lay you in my arms you get so mad, especially if I am sitting down. I have to stand up and walk around and sing to you in order to get you to sleep. Speaking of sleep, you have been sleeping sooo good at night. You usually get up once or twice, depending on the night. Either way that feels so amazing! Especially when compared to the every hour or two!

Not to mention when you are awake, you would prefer us to stand up {with you facing out and dangling your legs} and walk around or bounce you. You love to be on the move!If we lay you in our arms and cradle you, {like we did when you were teeny tiny} we are quickly reminded that is not allowed :) You want to be up and part of the action!

You definitely love to be held! and I am okay with that, because I love holding you! so much that Daddy and Grandma tease me that your head is getting flat from "never holding you", of course its quite the opposite! {nice and round}. The downfall of you thinking Mama's arms are more comfortable is that {lately} when I lay you down to sleep, you wake up very quickly! Don't get me wrong! I do love holding you {reread the beginning of paragraph to reconfirm that ;)} It does make it hard to get things done when you are not sleeping. BUT then again, you will only be this little once, so the laundry and dishes can wait!

I'm definitely loving this new thing about you... You KNOW who your Mommy and Daddy are! without a doubt. You will easily smile at anyone, even strangers, but we can get the biggest smiles out of you very quickly. Especially Daddy, all he has to do is look at you and within seconds you are smiles galore! Lately when others are holding you, you look for me, and sometimes you are so happy with some people holding you. You go from zero to sixty very quickly and only Mommy can calm you down.


You have become my little "inch worm". When you were 10 weeks I put you on the floor and you started to try and push your self forward. You couldn't quite figure out your arms but you would push you butt up with you legs and then slide forward, making you look like a little worm. SO funny! Once you figure out those arms I am going to have to keep those floor VERY clean!

You are growing right before my eyes! When I pick you up now, you feel so sturdy! I love it! Also {much to my dismay} some of your cute 3 month sized clothes are too small! So sad! Time for them to retire!

I can't believe how quickly you are developing and growing! These past three months have been amazing! I look forward to the many months ahead of us and to see what adventures you are going to bring us!

Love, Mommy!

Other fun facts about Miss Hannah
  • you have a love-hate relationship with your binky
  • You want your fingers SO bad, and you are getting better at getting a hold of them (which I believe is the cause of your the love-hate relationship of the binky)
  • You have started to drool so much!
  • of course you still love to "talk" to us!
Nicknames:

Princess
Monkey
Drool Monster
Hanners
Sweet pea
Beautiful
Baby Girl