Hannahisms

This weekend on Saturday was my dad's birthday. My mom & dad came up for dinner and we baked my dad a cake. On someone's birthday or pretty much any day Hannah likes to run around yelling "It's a party day! It's a party day!". It is quite funny.

Hannah is also funny when it comes to wind. She feels that either she will blow away or sometimes it could also be her hair or her barrettes...hilarious. If you go outside and it is windy like it has been she grabs you really tight and holds on for dear life screaming "I don't blow away!". And then as I said sometimes she grabs her hair or barrettes and is so worried that they won't blow away. I think she has been watching or reading a little too much Winnie the Pooh. For those of you not familiar with Winnie the Pooh...a big wind storm comes along and sweeps up Pooh & Piglet and carries them to Owl's house.

On Monday Adam decided to take Hannah out to go fly her Winnie the Pooh kite. They had called me at work just before they were going to go and Hannah tells me she is going to sit in the stroller so she doesn't blow away. Later that evening she kept looking outside the window and saying "It's a blustery day out there!". Again more evidence that she watches/reads too much Winnie the Pooh. And Adam reports again today that as they went to Nugget and to school Hannah was telling everyone she sees that "It's a blustery day out there!". Kids come up with the greatest phrases!

Last here is a picture of Hannah eating her spagehetti at Bistro 33 for my dad's b-day. She was shoveling it down and then the next day she was shoveling it down again. I decided to try this spagehetti to see how good it tastes and I quickly discovered why she was throwing it down like chocolate...it tasted like it had about several cups of sugar in it...it was so sweet! And if I say something is sweet you know it is.

Good-byes for Everyone!

Yesterday when I picked up Hannah from school they were right in the middle of circle time. Hannah grabbed my hand and pulled me down to sit with her during circle time, so I did. When circle time is over one kid gets picked to tap the other kids over the head one at a time with a batton like thing and that is how they get excused from circle time to go wash their hands and sit down for snack. Well the little girl picked yesterday tapped Hannah on the head early on but Hannah did not want to leave yet b/c I had not been tapped on the head yet. She was yelling to her "my mommy too!". It was too cute, but the girl didn't hear and Hannah would not get up and would not let me get up until I was tapped on the head as well. So we had to wait until the little girl excuse all 20 + other kids before Hannah yelled out to her again and reminded her to tap me on the head too so that we could both get up...I am so proud of my little rule follower. :)
Next we all sat down for snack time b/c Hannah wanted to stay and have snack time there. After Hannah was done with her snack, I went and grabbed her backpack and saw that she was going to say good-bye to her teachers which she always does. But yesterday in addition to saying good-bye to the teachers Hannah went around to all 5 or 6 tables of kids and tapped each of the 20+ kids on the shoulder and said good-bye to them all personally by name! I just stood there for like 5 minutes with a big smile on my face while Hannah said her good-byes to everyone! Again I was so proud of her! First that she knew everyone's name, and second that she was so sweet and polite to walk around and personally say good-bye to everyone. After she was done I had to give her a big hug and a kiss b/c it was one of the cutest things I had ever seen.

It's been a while...

In the month of March, Hannah's pre-school studied the continent of Europe. They asked any parents who are from Europe to make a short presentation on their country if they wanted to. So I volunteered to talk about the Czech Republic. I did this last Friday during "circle time" in their classroom as the University had a holiday. Every morning the kids sing a good morning song in English & Spanish, so I took that song and translated it to Czech and for like 2 weeks Hannah and I were practicing singing it so that we could sing it to the class. I was worried Hannah wouldn't want to sing it once we were sitting in front of her class but she did! I was so proud of her. I also made 36 little Czech flags for each kid in her classroom using popsicle sticks and printed out mini Czech flags, read them some Czech stories, showed them a Czech toy, and gave them a Czech snack. The whole presentation only took like 5 minutes and I was glad when it was over...b/c even though they are only preschoolers I don't care to be in front of an audience.

Here are the kids lined up on the wall getting ready to come in for circle time (Hannah's good friend Sydney is on her left):



Here is Hannah helping pass out the Czech flags to her school mates:



Here I am reading the class stories with Hannah "helping" out:



After I was done with my presentation I asked the kids if there were any questions and one little girl raises her hand and says "My mom and dad took me to Chucky Cheese". I guess Chucky Cheese and Czech Repbulic sound the same to her. LOL!!! :)


On Sunday we went to Funderland with Hannah's friend Sydney and her parents. We started Hannah off on this octopus ride where the kid sits in little fish and the arms of the octopus make the fish go up and down as you twirl around. At first when we put Hannah on the ride she seemed unsure...it was the first time she has gone a real ride by herself but as soon as it started an uncontrolable laughter came from her that we so wish we had a video camera for. The whole ride she was giggling and laughing...it was great to hear. Here she is on the ride:



Hannah wanted to go on every ride she possibly could she was having so much fun. She even wanted to go on the roller coaster but poor thing she was too short. I told her that that was going to be the story of her life. Instead Adam and Hannah went on the train ride and pretended it was a roller coaster.



After all the fun at Funderland, just outside this little amusement park there were pony rides so of course we had to do that too! Hannah got a horse that had the same hair cut as she did. :)



So all of those pictures were taken with my really old camera, still digital but about 4 years old b/c the other camera I had broke when I stupidly asked Hannah to hold it for about 2 seconds. In those 2 seconds she dropped it on the lens and bent the lens...which is more expensive to replace then getting a new camera. Luckily my dad felt sorry for me and is probably just so happy that someone in the family likes taking pictures almost as much as he does so he bought me a snazzy new one. It came just the other day and here are some great pictures I have taken with it:

My sweet grouchy Tulip


The camera has a feature where you can pick an accent color (in this case I picked green but it picks up yellow to) and it will only color that color but make the rest of the picture black & white. I have seen programs do this but never cameras! Maybe I am behind the times but it is news to me that cameras can do it and I am so thrilled with this feature.


Last this is a picture of my Breath of Heaven's in our backyard. I just love these flowers and the camera does a nice close up (by the way Paul if you are reading this I know it does not compare to your fancy camera and the amazing pictures I have seen you take lately but for a compact point and shoot I think it does pretty well & I love it!):


Can you tell the picture quality between the two...I can! Alright I think I have written enough to catch up. Until next time!