A Little Story Called Hannah

Run, Run, Run

I have recently begun running, which means Hannah has too. I have entered a few races, but was fortunate enough to have someone take Hannah while I ran. I say fortunate, because the past 2 races I have done this week have posed some new running challenges to me that I never really thought about. I mean, in all honesty, I should have thought about it since these same things happen all the time when we run regularly- for some reason I was thinking an actual race may be different- HA!

We ran our first race together on Thursday. Hannah had a blast. We were only sidetracked once with an emergency potty run. We also partook of the END of race munchies (bananas, water, etc.) before the race even begun. I bet these people didn't think they were providing an after school snack for Hannah!

Today, we ran another one that was longer than Thursday so Hannah was a little more ancy. Not to mention we were running by the lake and playgrounds, which is one of Hannah's favorite things to do- you can probably imagine how that went without further explanation. We stopped many times to pick up fallen flip flops and chap stick. Oh, and we had one melt down after I passed the drinking station half way through and didn't get her a cup too. Geeze, that was horrible!

So we are both learning how to do this together, but we both are really enjoying doing it. Hannah likes to show off her running skills too before and after the race. And like I mentioned before, she loves the snacks! So here is a picture of us after the race today. I totally forgot my camera on our first race!

Our Beauty Pageant Face

This was actually taken on Mother's Day at my sisters house. We had an awesome day. Hannah and Claire played all afternoon in the water toys. It was a blast.

So a few nights before this, Hannah and I were watching a TV show where a girl won a huge prize. Needless to say we made fun of the way she reacted, and hence came up with our beauty pageant face. This is Hannah's impersonation of what you do if you win a beauty pageant. Claire got pretty good at it too.

Hannah's Birthday

I know its been about a month since her birthday party, but I wanted to get pics up anyway. Sorry for the delay, busy life, computer broke, excuses, excuses.

Here are some pics of Hannah's 3rd birthday party!

Hannah with her friend, Mia, at the playground.

Hannah with her awesome Abby Cadabby birthday cake (Thanks Grandma)

Hannah with her new Dora bike! (Thanks Dad)

Hannah and all her friendly helpers playing with the new toys.

This is Hannah after we got home. She obviously didn't know what to play with first, so we attempted to do everything at once.

It was a fun party!

The Little Things

Hannah is getting to be quite self sufficient these days, and I have to say that I LOVE it. She is also a great retriever of things. Again, I LOVE it.

The other day she did something that I usually have to help out with. I said, "Wow Hannah, you don't even need me anymore." She just looked at me cutely and said, "Yes I do Mommy."

I just kind of stopped in my tracks when that came out, smiled and savored the moment.

Hannah's Surgery Aftermath

Most of you know that almost 2 weeks ago Hannah had a little surgery. The video below was right after we got home. The medicine was still in full force. It was good comic relief after everything, even though it was the expense of Hannah!

During all of this Hannah was also seeing double. She was watching Sesame Street and told me that there were two Elmo's. Then we were looking at pictures and she told me there were two Hannah's.

We are doing much better now! Back to school and life tomorrow!

Funny Hannah Talk

I think I could go on forever with these, and I have probably told a lot of you these same stories, but I thought it nice for me to save the memories for Hannah.

Hannah has become quite the little speaker and reasoner. Below are some Hannahisms.

Bath Tub:
H: The waters hot mommy.
M: I'm sorry.
H: It's not your fault mommy (haha. don't tell her who ran the water.)
M: I'm sure the water says its sorry too.
H: The water can't talk it doesn't have a mouth. (Haha. silly me.)

When I grow up:
This started because we were singing a song on one of her Cd's that talks about not wanting to grow up....
H: When I grow up I am going to be a mommy and cut strawberries.
M: Then what are you going to do.
H: I am going to drive and take you to school and I will go to work. (I bet you wish you were me because according to Hannah I get to go back to daycare where they MAKE you take naps. Hate it for me."

Going to Daycare:
This discussion happens about every morning.
H: Where we going?
M: To work and daycare
H: I don't have to got to daycare today, I went yesterday. (Geez. That's all I can really say about that one.)

American Idol and the microphone:
This happened when one of the guys was singing REALLY close to the microphone.
H: He doesn't do that. That is for singing the ABC's.
M: ??????????

Coloring on the way to school:
H: I am drawing a castle with my hand.
M: Pretty.
H: Look. TADA! (Now a lot of things are TADA)

I have tons of them and now that I sit down to write about it my mind is going blank. I need to just write them down. Needless to say, we are having fun and laughing a lot. The mind of a 2 (almost 3) year old is amazing. Oh, we have a new monkey song that may be funnier than the last. I have to capture it on video for everyone. It's awesome.

Dance Machine

This one is hilarious. Hannah likes to turn on my radio in the morning and dance around while I get dressed. She was particularly in the groove this morning. Check out the music in the background. This is what we jam out to at my house!

Oh, also pay attention that she is really dancing for the camera since she is smiling so intently that she looks a little...well....I'll let you just see.

My first experience with Fun Dip!

Hannah got a lot of yummy candy for Valentine's Day and below is our first experience, at least that I know of, with Fun Dip. I held the package most of the time and we only had one spilling casualty (Thankfully Bill had a new dust buster close at hand).

In case some you have forgotten the awesome candy Fun Dip. Its the package that comes with the edible stick and you basically dip the stick into the powder and you lick it off. Yum!