Hannah Age 1 and growing!

It is hard to believe that Hannah is 

1 year old already!  To look back on the

pictures of her as a newborn and pictures now, wow!

I think it is probably the only year where you 

age the most over a course of a life time,

and where aging is the most celebrated!

Hannah is doing more things than she did last year,

well that should be a given.

Hannah has been walking for a month now

and is her preferred method of transportation.

She is slowly going from the Frankenstein looking

walk to letting her arms down a bit.  And she has

enough control to squat down to pick something up

and stand back up to continue her walk! 

She is also getting better at saving herself from 

stumbling and falling, but not always.

Hannah's vocabulary is growing as well,

not only what she says but also what she understands!

Her words or sounds she says is: Hi Dada, da,

ni-night, ba-bye, whats that, and as of last night she

said Amen after dinner prayer.

To tell you what she understands from us would 

require a lot of thinking.  She is understanding

more than I believe we know she is.  And she

is able to communicate with us by her facial expressions

as well.  For example she is getting much more picky

over the last couple weeks of what she eats

and if she does not want it she pulls a face and

shakes her head no repeatedly.

Here are a couple pictures from the last

couple months that we were not able to post:

 We went to Stowe for a weekend in February.  Here is Hannah

sitting in a rocking chair in with her snowsuit on, and less

than excited about it!

 Playing in the our bedroom and chatting away!

 Her last day of swimming "lessons", we had

a great time in the water!

 If we do not know where Hannah went, the first

place to look is behind the curtains looking out

the sliding door!

 This was the same time when she had taken

some steps on her own in March.  She walked about

5 steps from this toy to another toy she wanted to be at.

She walked over to the other toy without even

thinking about it!

 Behind the curtains again!  Now look up at

the picture above and see how she changed in about

2 months time!  She looks so much older here!

 Out to dinner with a bunch of family and friends.

Here is is so excited to sit next to baby Maia and to touch

her, it was so sweet to see her excitement!

After dinner was all done!