One Year Old

Happy Birthday Baby Hannah! Today you started refusing to put a diaper on, instead wanting to stand, pantsless, looking at yourself in the mirror, smiling and saying "Hi". SMACK SMACK SMACK (prints all over the mirror) You had LOTS of birthday. Now you're sleeping, sprawled out in the bed in nothing but an orange diaper. The cake, it was adorable. You pulled the decorative raspberries off one by one and ate them. The guests didn't mind raspberry-less pieces of angel food cake. You received so many presents! Everyone wants to see you in pretty dresses and playing outside in the sun. You enjoyed playing in the big pink pool full of balloons, standing up for the camera and saying "Baby!" You also say Baby around baby Autumn. I can't believe you're a year old. Just a year ago you were a teeny-tiny. This year you're helping empty the dishwasher, pulling the spoons out for daddy one by one as he puts clean dishes away.

July

I cannot believe it is July already. This time last year we were but two weeks away from Hannah joining the family. She's so big now, I look at the photos from last summer and get all nostalgic. Yet she's not THAT big. Spent all of yesterday at Oma's, visiting with the fam. My uncle is in town. My brother joined us too. Hannah loved all the attention, all day. Auntie Karen is great with her. She sang "Hoppe Hoppe Reiter", Oma remembered all the German lyrics. Rob remembered mom's dolls names (two at least), Lucy and Judy with the green hair. Hannah fell asleep in the car and took the first part of her nightly snooze in the car seat, about 2 hours. She has been imitating us when we make kisses at her, and now when we wrinkle our noses and sniff too. She was making "mmmmmmmmm -ah" back at my stepmother (noisy kisses). She's been signing milk and more.