Monday, December 17, 2007

Hannah, My Beautiful.

Okay, here's Hannah again. (I have a lot to put up right now, since I haven't for so long.)

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

I was given this baby book as a gift about a month ago, and Hannah has just started to play with it. Mainly she's interested in eating it, just like she seems to be preoccupied with sucking her fists for hours and hours at a time, but sometimes she does look at it. I thought these were cute enough to merit sharing.

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.

So, I've been neglectful lately, and haven't updated this blog like I've promised. But I've decided to ruin my original plan and put a picture of myself up here. Definitely not as cute as Hannah, but I couldn't exactly cut myself out of this picture, and I have been meaning to put it up for a while, so ah well, what can I do? This picture is from when Ben took Hannah and I to his school and showed us around. (He goes to SAIT and is in the AME program, for those who don't know). He showed us around the hanger, and we were lucky enough to run into a very helpful and friendly teacher, who not only let us into a usually restricted area of a plane, but also took pictures for us. This is one of them. It's of us hanging out in the cockpit.