This is the second song Hannah has learned. I love her smile at the end. (In case you can't tell it's Twinkle Little Star.)
Saturday, February 6, 2010
This is for David: Hannah Singing
This is the second song Hannah has learned. I love her smile at the end. (In case you can't tell it's Twinkle Little Star.)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Ben's Handywork
Ben and I have been very busy this month. It seems like Ben has no time to spare, ever. We're busy fixing up our house nowadays. Well, actually, Ben is. I watch. He's done a lot of painting and that sort of thing and since I am pregnant and want to be safe I stay away from where he is working most of the time. It's kind of annoying to have to watch and wait for results when I want to be participating in the fix-ups half the time, but it is fun to see our house transforming all the same.
These pictures are of Ben as he put it "performing a death-defying act" which meant he spent a long time on a shaky ladder, sometimes very near the top of it, just to change the light fixture in our entryway. It ended up looking really good though.
Ben and I have a ward talent show coming up and we couldn't think of anything to do to participate. Ben jokingly said something like, "I can't think of anything to do, unless they want me to change a light fixture at the church." (He's already changed five of them in our house.)
I'm lucky I married such a handyman. Among other things Ben has put a peep hole in our door for me, changed our leaky, disgusting, uncleanable tap in the kitchen, fixed a hole in the wall and a sticky drawer in the kitchen and built several very nice shelves in our laundry room and pantry. Last weekend he replaced our counter-top in the bathroom and installed a new tap there too. Everything looks very good and very professional and the best part is that Ben loves doing it!
Shoes?
These pictures were taken around mid-December when Evelyn was obsessed with putting everything on her feet. She spent about half an hour or more trying to put on shoes some days. Later on it was socks. (She says both words really well.) One day I got some cute videos of her trying to put on a shoe. I filmed her for about ten minutes. She sometimes got frustrated and threw herself backwards on the floor before sitting up to try again. She expresses her emotions loudly. She always has. She's either very happy or very upset and there's no inbetween, although her moods do change from minute to minute. I'll give her one thing though; she is very persistent when she wants to be.
Hannah this Time!
In this last picture, Ben asked Hannah to smile and "show her teeth." It looks more like a grimace doesn't it? I don't think Hannah knows how to smile on demand yet!
These are some of the most recent pictures we have of Hannah. We took them a couple of weeks ago. Hannah is so much fun. She's very independent but very shy. She loves to look at books and she's finally started to enjoy watching movies. But her favorite thing to do is have friends come over. She loves playing with other children. Or bossing them around or something like that. Just kidding. Mostly. It depends how old the kids are. If they are younger than she is, she's the boss. If they are older, she's friends with them. And she laughs a lot and runs around and plays and has a glorious time. It's fun to watch.
In this last picture, Ben asked Hannah to smile and "show her teeth." It looks more like a grimace doesn't it? I don't think Hannah knows how to smile on demand yet!
More of Evy
(Evy is the name we usually use for Evelyn. Eh-vie). Anyway... here are some very recent pictures of Evelyn. She's a very active girl. She can hardly ever sit still. (She's also very loving though. She spends a lot of the day coming up to me and giving me quick hugs before running off to play again.) You may notice that she has a black eye. She fell in the bathtub about a week ago. She falls a lot. She likes to climb. That's partly because she watches Hannah and wants to do all of the things that she does.
Evelyn is only fifteen months old but she thinks she is at least three. She's starting to talk a lot too. It's so much fun. She started talking months before Hannah did. Again, I partially think that's because she copies Hannah. She's learned a lot of the things she says around the same time that Hannah did. Although she pretends to say full sentences, usually the last word is the only intelligible one. I bet she can say fifty or more words on her own. It's so much fun! Her latest words are "boot" and "book" (she walks around practicing saying "k" and "t") and "hat." She can pronounce all of them perfectly. She also recently started to enjoy saying words like "hand" and "hair" and "eye" (as she pokes mine of course.) I can't get over how cute it is!
Evelyn My Sweetheart!
I'm in love! Evelyn makes my heart swell every day. She is a bundle of life and personality and joy. She's such a happy baby and she is so much fun! She's so adorable! Her face is always filled with expressions that make me laugh and smile and appreciate life just because it's obvious that she does! I don't think anyone could be any sweeter! It's no wonder that her name means "life" or "light!" It's obvious to me.
I'm back!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Hats and Shoes
Hannah's favorite game right now is dress up. She puts everything on her head that could possibly fit there, and she loves to try on shoes. It doesn't matter whose. She tries on mine, Ben's and even Evelyn's. And when we go places and there is a front entrance with shoes, she's in heaven. Until I stop her from losing everyone else's shoes, of course.
These are some of the pictures I've taken this month. It's so much fun to take pictures of my babies.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Evelyn's First (Sort of) Walk
Evelyn, on the other hand, looked interestedly around for a short while and then fell asleep. Our walk was only a few minutes long, since it was only six degrees outside. Ben thought it was a beautiful day. It hasn't been that warm in a long time. But we didn't count on the cold wind that blew across our faces, and we had to return earlier than we would have liked.
I love this picture. The girls look so cute together!
We Just Can't Get Enough of Each Other!
I love the way Hannah loves to hug and kiss Evelyn. Evelyn loves it, too. She loves any attention that Hannah gives her, no matter what kind it is. I really hope they will be able to grow up feeling close to each other. My greatest hope is that they will be best friends. Aren't they just so adorable?
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Where did Hannah go?
This is Evelyn searching for her playmate (Hannah of course). Hannah had walked away and Evelyn was trying to see her for as long as possible. It's so much fun to watch them together. There isn't anything I would rather see.
By the way, I'm glad I don't have to put my body into contortions like that just to see what is going on!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Look! I'm Flying!
Okay, so Evelyn is much more active than Hannah was. I know mostly all babies "fly" but Hannah never did. It's so much fun to see Evelyn doing it. I left her on the floor for a long time, taking pictures. By the end she was zonked. It was hard to take pictures since Hannah kept on wanting me to take hers instead.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Mommy, Come OUT!
I was in the laundry room where I have my changing table set-up. I was changing Evelyn. Hannah likes to follow me from room to room, but I had gone in and shut the door. Suddenly I heard Ben, who was home at the time, say, "Be careful! Don't open the door!" I guess Hannah decided she wanted to come in after me. He took a couple of pictures and then moved her away from the door so I could come out. (Hannah doesn't actually know how to turn the doorknob and push at the same time. I'm grateful. She couldn't have opened the door. It's cute to see how she tries though.)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Best Friends Sit on Each Other?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Computer Technician
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Making Empanadas - Quite a Story!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Learning How to Dress Myself
Here's Hannah...again. Why don't I post pictures of myself? It's because I don't take pictures of myself. I take pictures of everyone else. Most of the pictures I take of myself just don't turn out. Usually it's my nose that is completely disproportionate. Ah well. Hannah's cuter than I am anyway. So, on the 10th I tried a new dress on Hannah and told her she looked gorgeous in it. Then I took it off, so she could wear it to church the next day. She didn't want me to. She was pretty upset about it, in fact. So I gave her the dress. I guess she wanted to wear it pretty badly because it's the first thing she actually successfully got over her head. Then today she started putting on one of her onesies. She's never done that before either. She put it on over the new dress which she wore to church today. I thought it was pretty cute. It sure would be nice if she could learn to get dressed by herself.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Evelyn's First Rattle
Elf
It's so fun to take pictures of Hannah in hats nowadays. She never used to let us take pictures of her in hats because she hated them and didn't wear them. She still doesn't particularly like them. We usually get her to keep them on by saying, "Let's go look in the mirror!" (Yes, we bribe her.) She loves to look in the mirror. In this picture Ben is trying to keep her excited about seeing herself since she kept on trying to yank the hat off. We didn't even get the picture that we wanted. When we first put the hat on her it stuck straight up and she looked just like a perfect little Santa's elf. This picture turned out fairly well, but (no offense Ben) it would have been so cute without Ben in it.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Here's Evelyn! Isn't she just the most adorable little thing? She does a fairly good job of holding up her head. She did a really good job before Christmas, especially. And then we didn't really put her on her tummy at all for a couple of weeks, since we were travelling and visiting, and she kind of forgot how to do it. Every time I would put her on her tummy she would scream and fuss after just a few moments, and rub her nose back and forth on the blanket without lifting her head. Then, suddenly, it was as though something clicked in her mind again, and she started holding up her head again and enjoying her tummy time more. It was kind of strange, but I'm glad she's over it.
Toque and Mittens
Monday, January 5, 2009
A Little Bitty Box for a Little Bitty Girl
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Expressive Evelyn
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Little Climber
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Exciting World of Plastic Bags
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The One Way She Sleeps
Monday, December 15, 2008
I didn't forget about Evelyn
Family Home Evening Adventures
This second picture didn't capture the moment very well, since I took it at a bad angle, but Hannah decided our empty boxes were just simply meant to climb on. She hasn't been much of a climber since she fell down the stairs one day, but she still has moments.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
My Little Model
Isn't she just adorable though? My little model queen.
Friday, December 5, 2008
First Spoon Meals
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Hannah Baby
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hair All Gone!
So...I did it. Just like I said I would. I told everybody that as soon as my baby was born I was going to get a haircut. It wasn't very hard to do, since I was really ready for a change. One day I had noticed that my hair was very long...longer than it had been for several years. I wanted to grow it out just as long as it was before. I could be a couple of inches short of my goal, but it did reach the small of my back. I loved the way it felt on my elbows. But I had to use a lot of shampoo, and it took forever to dry, so I always wore it up, and I didn't really like the way it always got in Evelyn's mouth when she was trying to eat. I could get used to having shorter hair.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hannah's New Little Doll
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Evelyn's Fourth Day
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Our New Little One
So, everybody, pictures, like I promised. I really think that the pictures speak for themselves. I am the Mom in green (obviously) and Hannah is the sweet little beautiful girl gazing in awe and wonder at her new sister. The new sister is Evelyn Jane Hildebrandt, born October 18, 2008, weighing seven pounds and one lonely ounce, and both of her Grandmas appear in the pictures too. Alas, you can only see my Mom's arm, but there is a lovely picture of Ben's Mom, Jane. Enjoy!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Hannah's Second 1st Birthday
So, everyone, lots of immediate family members (mostly doting uncles) have been asking to see this video, and it sure is cute. Ben had said that he didn't mind missing Hannah getting her first taste of icecream, as long as he could watch her eat her first bite of cake, but Mom convinced us to wait anyway, and Ben was very glad we did. It was a lot more fun to watch her get her first taste of icecream than it was to watch her eat her first cake. Since then, Hannah has delighted in eating anything cold. She'll down a whole popsicle in just moments. I guess in some ways she's just like her Daddy!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Hannah's First Birthday
I've got lots of pictures for this one, but I couldn't help it. Hannah was delighted with all of her gifts, especially the little picture book Linda, my sister, made her. She still loves to touch the soft spots on the book.
Hannah was so spoiled on her birthday. She received a lot of gifts from her aunts and uncles and her Grandma and Grandpa Hogenson. It was a really big birthday party for such a little girl. She got lego and a Fisher Price phone and books and electronic toys and all sorts of things. We chose Stephen to help her open the gifts because he played with her the most during the summer while we were in Calgary, and they became pretty good friends.
I think Hannah is so lucky. There are so many people who just adore her, and love her, and cuddle her and spoil her. I don't think she'll ever have reason to think that she isn't loved with so many people around "loving her" all the time!
Happy Birthday Hannah!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Hannah Walks
The second video is kind of funny. We took it today (the 30th of July). She's getting better at walking and has taken over twenty steps now. However, she usually chooses the shortest route to get somewhere, as you can note since she headed for the couch first. Mom was holding the video camera, and a "kazoo," (incentive, you know), and half-way through her Grandpa suddenly rushed out seemingly from nowhere, and this video is the result.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Growing Up So Fast Part II
The picture of Hannah sleeping is really cute. My brother David babysat her and when I came home I found her asleep and took a picture. Ever since she learned to roll over she's preferred to sleep on her stomach, usually with her face planted into the sheets. The picture of Hannah standing up is the most recent one of her, at about eight and a half months. I was working on the computer and when I turned around I found she had pulled herself to a standing position to get the books on the second shelf (which she isn't allowed to have.) That's the first time I saw her do that, but she did it again today, although she propped herself up on the toolbox instead of on her walker.
Growing Up So Fast
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Hannah Changes
So, the first picture is of Hannah wearing a headband her great grandma sent her, and the second, obviously, is of Hannah playing with her feet (it's been her obsession for quite a while, every since my Mom pulled her feet up and bonked them on her nose), and the third picture is of Hannah with a spoon, which she also loves, since she loves to eat and that, to her, is what the spoon represents. Back to the second picture. It's funny that Hannah really likes to be undressed nowadays, because she can get at her feet better. The first thing she does when I take off her sleeper or change her diaper is grab her feet. It makes for an interesting diaper change.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
I am Bragging
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Christmas and New Year's Celebrations
Ben and I had a really good New Year's Celebration, too. We spent part of the night at a friend's home talking and playing games, but, ultimately, we had decided that we had never spent a New Year together, with just the two of us. So we did. We drank a sparkling grapefruit cider or something akin to it (Ben was really excited since he could drink pop, having made a New Year's resolution the year before to abstain from it for the year), and we played Skip-Bo, which is my favorite card game. No matter how often I play with Ben, or which card games I play with him, he always wins. It's uncanny really. But that was that. Very romantic. I hope we do it again someday!
Monday, December 17, 2007
Hannah, My Beautiful.
Hannah's so cute, I just can't resist putting up pictures of her. Sometimes I get carried away. I know more isn't always better, but sometimes it sure is more fun! I love how Hannah is learning to be more interactive, and how she is learning to like playing on her tummy (she used to hate it), and I love how cute she is, and how expressive and beautiful her eyes are. I love everything about her. Of course I do; I'm her Mommy. And just to show how cute she is, and to prove my point about her enjoying to eat everything, I have a kind of funny video following this text. Ben started taking it just as she grabbed onto her chair and started to eat it. I'd tell all about it, but it really is more fun to watch it, so just click below! (Sorry about all the background music...I really wanted to capture Hannah, but you have to listen closely to hear her...).
I also have a story to tell. Well, it's sort of a story. I think one of the times I've loved the most with Hannah is when she figured out who I am. I breastfeed her, and one day she kept breaking her latch and looking up at me, and she would suddenly smile or laugh or try to start talking to me. Sometimes I'd catch her looking at me in a calculating sort of way. After a couple of days I realized she was starting to figure out there was a person attached to her dinner. Now whenever she sees me preparing to feed her, she gets really excited. She rarely breaks away anymore, as if in surprise, to look at me. She's figured out I'm there. It makes me feel really special. What beautiful moments!
Hannah, The Scholar
Hannah is starting to get a lot of personality. It's obvious if she doesn't want to do something, or if she wants to do something else, and sometimes she complains about it. She's generally a very good and very quiet baby, though, with an easy going personality. She's easy to pacify or placate, and she's generally very happy and smiles a lot. I really enjoy this stage of her development, since she's starting to communicate with me (or at least I'm starting to understand her when she tries to communicate with me), and I absolutely love seeing her laugh!
Boeing 737
I have no idea how to spell "Boeing 737", but the good thing is that these blogs are edit-able, so if I realize I've made a fool out of myself, I'll just go and change it. I like that.