Hannah

Benefit Fish Fry

Sunday was a benefit fish fry for a Perry community member-Jayden Souter-who was diagnosed with a Wilm's Tumor in June of 2009. She's only four and even though I don't know Erica, her mom, very well, I consider her a friend. Plus, Jyden is 4 and that's too close to Natalie's age. If I were in their shoes, I know I would appreciate ANY help from anyone!
ANYWAY...they hosted a wild game and fish fry at the Perry Pub and we went around 2:15. The place was PACKED!!!! We left and came back with our neighbor friends, Wade and Megan Cottrell and Jessica Hammes, to a still packed house, but there was at east a few seats. They had a band-"A Country Mile" that started to warm up and Natalie immediately stood up and started taking her jacket off. Andy asked her what she was doin and she said, "They are going to play music and I'm going to dance!" While she waited, she ate 3 pheasant legs! She said, "This is the best chicken ever" We won't tell her! She doesn't know the difference anyway.
Afetr a few songs up front, we moved closer to Jessica and the Cottrells where it wasn't SO loud and Natalie played with Ceci and Finn (Cottrell) until all of the sudden, the band started "Redneck Woman" You would have thought there was fire in Natalie's pants the way she pushed people out of her way to gett o the 3 feet of dance space available to tear it up on the floor! She cracked us all up! She definitely has her Momma's moves! Minus the cyclops! ;)

Work-out buddy

Andy and I started P90X last week-it's a rough one...especially when I get up at 5am to do it. I admit, I've been a slacker not doing the full program each day...but come one, they are an hour (at least) each! I don't have that kind of time!

Anyway, this morning I got up with Hannah around 5am to change her feed her...usually she'll go right back down, but since the time change-she's been totally opposite and going to bed earlier (rather than later) She sleeps great and usually sleeps later than that, but today she was bright eyed and bushytailed ;)
So I turned on the legs and back first and while I did the moves, I noticed that Hannah would look at me and then the TV and then kick her legs...like she was doing the moves too! So cute! Then when I put in the abs DVD, she started kicking and "running" to the music and kept looking at me, then doing some more...definitely made my day!

Bedtime Stories

So Natalie and I tell each other stories every night before bed. Usually she'll cut in and take over. This is how hers went last night: "Once upon a time, there was a princess named Isabella and she had a prince who wanted to marry her. The Prince would say, "Oh please won't you marry me, Isabella" But she said, "No, I want to go to school first" So she went to school and loved learning. Then one day, the Prince came to Isabella and said, Oh please won't you marry me? and Isabella said, "Okay but you have to buy me flowers first" and so he did and they got married at Chuck E. Cheeses and lived happily ever after. The End


Too cute! It's hard to keep from laughing when she starts telling me these stories!
Plus... Princess Isabella has to finish school before marriage? LOVE IT!

Oh my...

So-I've said this before, but Natalie cracks me up! She says such funny things. Sometimes it's due to the fact that she doesn't pronounce some letters correctly. For example, she can't say her "F's" properly yet. They come out sounding like "epp"...here are some things she has said lately...funny girl!

"Mom, Hannah can't walk because her wittle wegs"
"You need to go paster Mom, my tummy is talking loud"
Last night, I'm sure Andy helped with this..."Mom, hurry up, I'm not getting any younger in here"

She also starts sentences like I do..."Well, Mom, I guess we can do that"
I love that girl!

Hannah Grace

December 14th at 10pm something or other (it had been a long day/night) Hannah Grace came easily into this world. She weighed in at 7lbs 11oz and was 20.5 inches long. She came out screaming! :)
Needless to say that her big sister, Natalie was a little more than THRILLED to meet her "new baby". She's loved her from the start!

Late night

So last night was our first trip to the ER with Hannah :( She started developing a rash around 6:30 and by 8:30 I was worried so I called her Doctors office and they suggested, because of her age, to get her to the ER. SO...we waited...for almost 4 hours for the doctor to come in and tell us that it was something called "viral exanthem" meaning there was really nothing to be done about it except watch and wait. If fever comes, we ned to call again, but otherwise she was fine.
Thank you God!