Hannah smiles

This is Hannah smiling at herself.  Anytime she makes eye contact with anyone she smiles, even if it is herself!

Hannah love

I took some pictures of Hannah while she was wearing both the sweater and leggings my Aunt Nancy gave her.  Well technically my aunt gave the leggings to Olivia but she has long since grown out of them.  The sweater is hand made by Nancy.  She is so kind to spend her talents and time on us.  Thank you Nancy!

These are not the greatest pictures because I was trying to get her to smile.  So I had to just hold the camera up and out of the way while I talked to her.

She really is a beautiful happy baby.  She smiles all the time now for anyone who is willing to make eye contact.  There are many willing.

She started to cry when I pulled up the blinds.  The sound scared her, and with that the photo shoot was over!

Carving Pumpkins

 I did a horrible job documenting this event.  I don't even have a picture of Ryan's Iron Man pumpkin but I was busy with Hannah.  She decided to be a bit temperamental that night.  Ann sent a fun Halloween package so we had a family party on the last full day Ryan had with us before he had to leave for his rotation in Oklahoma.  We had pizza, carved pumpkins, made treats, door bell ditched the treats, and danced to halloween music.  Okay I danced to halloween music and the kids just looked at me like I was crazy.  They are already too cool for me!

Picking our her pattern

Looks like he is going to stab his finger.

This serious face looks just like Ryan.

Eww! You touch the guts!

So gross.  Jack has yet to reach his hand in a pumpkin.  He HATES anything slimy and dirty.

Ryan had to do it all.

Busy working on his creation.

Yes I stuck my child in a pumpkin.  I wondered if she fit.  She did.

She didn't like.

 This is about as much as he participated in the pumpkin activity.  He was much better at helping frost the cupcakes.

 Kaitlynn eventually got into it.

I think she did an awesome job with her spider.

Ryan just left.  He has another away rotation for the month of November.  Bummer.  He is planning on making the five hour drive home every weekend.  Someone has to play the organ at church.  So, it shouldn't be so bad.  

The past month or so has been busy.  Hard to remember everything that made it feel busy but, it seemed like I was always doing something.  Kaitlynn is totally rocking first grade.  She loves reading and math. She is constantly making up math problems for me to solve.  I admit that sometimes they have been pretty hard for my frazzled mind to handle! Jack does a mini play/preschool group and preforms much better when it is not held out his house!  He loves Hannah more than anyone.  Olivia is enjoys testing the boundaries.  She is a real sweet heart though.  Hannah is absolutely beautiful!  Hard to believe she is already three months old, and at the same time hard to believe she has only been in our family for three months.

Most of the time Hannah just hangs out in the sling.  We are both happier that way.  I can still accomplish things durning the day but I still get to hold her.  I love being able to have her close always.

This was a proud moment for Ryan.  He saw Jack lying on the couch with nintendo controllers in hand.

Playing lego Batman! 

We have our regular trips to the library.

This was a really fun night, unfortunantly this is the only picture I have to document it!  We went to the drive in!  It brought back so many memories.  I think the last time we went to a drive in Ryan and I were dating.  The kids thought it was the coolest.  We took the back seat out and the kids sat in the back of the van filled with blankets and sleeping bags.  It was a refreshing experience to go out to a movie and not being paranoid about every sound the kids made. So so fun!

The community did some night on safety education.  Ryan had to work but I went with the kids since there was free dinner and I liked the thought of not making anything!  This police officer comes down to our neighborhood sometimes to hang out with the kids.  He is really fun.  He will get out his radar gun and let the kids see how fast they can run. 

This is the kids in the hospital helicopter, with creepy camera flash eyes.

One evening while I was making dinner, Hannah was crying.  Then all the sudden she stopped.  When I went to see why this is what I saw. Such a tender thing.   Kaitlynn it turns out is a great babysitter!  Pleas ignore all the clothes in the background.  I friend gave me all her old stuff for me to look through.

This cracked me up when I looked in the mirror and noticed that she had fallen asleep in that position.

What? you want to see somethign adorable?  Here is Hannah for your viewing pleasure.

This girl came home from school the other day missing something.

She lost it while her teacher was reading a book to the class.

He wanted his picture taken.  He just didn't want to hold still for it.

Same with this funny girl.