Carrots with what?!

Hannah is not a fan of eating any fruits or vegetables. We constantly offer but we usually always hear "Hannah no like it". One thing Hannah does like a lot is ketchup. She likes it on a lot of things she eats or dipping things into it. Tonight Adam offered her one of his carrots and suprisingly she said yes! I was quited shocked but then I was even more shocked when Hannah asked for ketchup. I asked her if it was to dip the carrot into and she said yes. So I got up and squeezed some ketchup into a bowl and off to work Hannah went dipping and eating her carrot dipped in ketchup. Hey, whatever gets her to eat a veggie I will do it. Here is some proof:

"In the Motherhood"

For any mother that needs a good laugh out there "In the Motherhood" is a bunch of short made for internet stories about the tales of motherhood. They are written by real mothers and sent in. Leah Remini, Jenny McCarthy, and Chelsea Handler start in these episodes and they are very funny. Go to http://www.inthemotherhood.com/ and watch an episode or two or more I am sure you will be able to relate and have a good laugh about it. Enjoy! :)

Ewwwww!

Last night after we finished dinner, Adam & I continued to sit at the table and chat while Hannah cooked something up in her "kitchen". All of a sudden she stopped, turned, and looked at me with a really funny look. I asked her what was wrong and after a brief period of silence she says to me "Mommy I check your diaper". WHAT?!! I thought as Hannah ran around to the back side of the chair I was sitting on and pulls down the upper part of my pants like all us moms/dads do when checking our little ones diaper to "check my diaper". Adam and I laughed and apparently I was good to go b/c she went back to cooking. I then asked her what about Daddy's diaper? So she ran around to the backside of Adam's chair, pulled the upper part of his pants down, looked for a minute and then said "EWWWWWW!!!". Apparently Daddy's "diaper" was not clean. :) We didn't stop laughing about that one for a while. It is so funny how kids copy what you do.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Well it is Valentine's Day and yesterday at work I got a little early Valentine's surprise. It was a box and inside was a beautiful bouquet of roses.



I called Adam to thank him of course but also wondered why they were a day early? Well apparently if they had been delivered today they would have been $20 more! Talk about capitalizing on the day!! So I was glad my husband was frugal and sent them to me a day early. :) This way I get to enjoy them longer and they smell so good! My whole office smells wonderful.

Since Hannah is making the transition to the Preschool Room right now I had to get 36 Valentine's Day Cards for the Preschool Room and 13 cards for the Toddler Room last night. Why might you ask I waited until last night? That would be b/c Adam neglected tell me until yesterday that we needed to get these cards. I hadn't dropped off or picked up Hannah from school this week b/c Adam and my Mom somehow managed to cover that so it wasn't until yesterday afternoon that I went to her school for the first time this week. Anyway, I also found out it was pajama day at school...how fun! So here is a group shot from this morning of all the Toddler Room kids in their pjs.



Aren't they cute!? Hannah looks like the ring leader of the possy to me with her arms wrapped around the shoulder of the other 2 girls. I can clearly see that she is ready for preschool with all the smaller kids around her...well not by size but by behavior.
Here is another few cute shots:





I hope everyone has a happy day!

Snow Day At Soda Springs

We had a great time on Sunday at Soda Springs playing in the snow at their Snow Park with the Telford Family. It was Hannah's first time in snow and she loved it. It was also a beautiful day out...so warm. Looking up at the ski slopes really had Adam & I thinking how much we miss skiing! Here are some great pictures of the day:

Hannah all bundled up and ready to go...shortly after this picture was taken Hannah fell into that puddle on her left...luckily it was warm out so she dried off really quickly:




Working hard to walk in that snow:



Look I have gloves on!:



Lovin' the Snow Carousel...basically it was intertubes attached to poles that went around and around...Hannah really enjoyed just kickin' back and being twirled around:



Flying down the hill in the intertube and lovin' it!





Taking a break from tubing to just play in the snow:









Snow Family:



Silly picture:



After lunch it was back to more Ski Carousel:



Doesn't it look like all she needs is a drink to complete this picture :) :



Bye-bye to the snow...until next time...which will be soon! :)

ROCK ON!

I was driving with Hannah in the Volvo yesterday and listening to 107.9 The End. I don't have a CD player in the car so we can't listen to "Hannah's Music". The song "Stronger" came on by Kanye West...your typical as Adam and a few other people I know would call it a "hoopty" music. It has a very good beat and I said "Hey Hannah this is a good song we can dance in our chair to this one". To which I received the very annoyed answer with a finger pointed at me from her of "No Mama, Hannah no like this song, Hannah like Van Halen....ROCK ON!" And when she said "ROCK ON!" she had her hands up in the air trying to make her two fingers stick up like you see on people who say "Rock On". Obviously Daddy has been working on her in the Prius as Van Halen is his absolute most favorite band ever. I tried to coax her to listen to "Stronger" by Kanye a little longer to see if it would grow on her and she said to me again with a very annoyed voice, "No Mama, Hannah no like this song, Hannah like Van Halen!!". Great...so being the nice mother that I am I turned it to a rock station in an attempt to find some Van Halen for her but instead found Guns N' Roses...to which she was very happy with and again exclaimed "ROCK ON!". I think she drives in the car with Daddy too much and I need to add to this girl's taste in music so it can include my "hoopty" music otherwise I will quickly be out voted on choice of music to listen to in the car. But I guess Classic Rock isn't bad as I am listening to Def Leppard right now. :)


In other music news...a while back when Hannah was learning her ABCs she had this fridge magnet that would tell you how each letter sounds and then it would sing you the "ABCs". Adam didn't care for it b/c it annoyed him so he decided to add a spin to it and teach Hannah to bounce up and down with her hands out and say "uhhh uhhh uhh" while she sang her ABCs...talk about hoopty. I believe that she just figured that while singing the ABCs you are suppose to do that b/c she would always do it. They even questioned us at school about how we sing the ABCs at home since while they were singing it all nice a proper at school Hannah would bust out with "uhh uhh uhh". I had Adam explain that one to them. Anyway, I haven't seen Hannah do the "uhh uhh uhh" in quite some time while singing the ABCs and so I asked at school today if she has done that recently. And they said why yes she just did it the other day on the playground outside. Another little girl was ever so properly singing the ABCs when Hannah approached her and said "No Katherine, sing uhh uhhh uhh" as she proceeded to demonstrate to Katherine how she was to do it. Katherine of course just looked at her like she was crazy and continued to sing it the right way and Hannah again tried to correct her to sing it with the "uhh uhh uhh" added. I can just imagine my daughter with her finger in Katherine's face trying to teach her how to sing the ABCs with the hoopty in it. The teachers just said they laughed b/c Hannah makes them laugh. That's my crazy little girl. :)

So Sick

Thursday I went to work and lasted only about 2 hours when I had to go home b/c I was freezing and on the verge of throwing up. It came on so fast! I got home, cranked up the heat got under 4 blankets and was still shaking b/c I was so cold...clearly I had a fever but I was too cold to get out of bed to take my temp. Along with having a fever I threw up...fun times!! It was horrible! When I was in the bathroom throwing up, Tulip came by, took a look at me, and ran. It was quite funny. I haven't been this sick since Hannah was in the hospital in Dec 2006. Luckily my mom was coming up that day to pick Hannah up from school already b/c she had been in Brazil since mid December and hadn't seen Hannah for a month and a half! When my mom came home with Hannah I was laying in my bed just feeling terrible. Hannah jumped on the bed and said "Mommy Get Up!". I told her I was sick and I was going to stay in bed. So with a worried face she said again "Mommy get up!". Again I told her I couldn't and now she looked really worried. She said "I lay here with you". I told her to go play with my mom but she refused! She literally crawled under the covers with me and laid there frozen with me. Now keep in mind the girl usually can't sit still and she was just laying next to me absolutely still. It was so sweet and she was so worried about me b/c she had never seen me like this but at that moment I just wanted to be alone! I let her lay there for about 5 minutes and then I had to pick her up and drag her kicking and screaming from my bed into the living room. She was yelling "Mamacita! Mamacita! (yes she calls me that now from time to time) in complete hystarics. I felt horrible and my mom looked scared but I just dropped her in the living room and ran back to my room and locked the door. I was just so exhausted and I knew she would stop crying in a little bit...which she did. All it took was for my mom to read to her and then I could go back to sleep...ahh.
The next day I felt much better, well at least my stomach and fever did, but I was still very weak and had to stay home from work. Hannah was again so sweet and thoughtful, the first thing she said in the morning was "Mommy how is your belly? Belly o.k?". It was so cute! While it was nice to have another day of rest I was suppose to go that day to a Creative Memories convention in San Jose and have a nice dinner and a night of scrapbooking with the girls which I had been looking forward to for 2 months and I could not go to. I had to wait and go on Saturday which was still fun but it would have been more fun to go and spend the night...oh well.
So now I am back at work feeling almost 100%. Some food still bothers me...I don't know what it was that I had but I hope none of you get it! :)