Indian Yell

Just another new thing that Hannah has learned.  She finds it fun to clap her hands and now make noises with her mouth.  It's fun how every morning when Hannah awakes we go and pick her up and she starts to clap.  It is so cute.  I love her smiles.  How can anyone ever get mad when a kid smiles like this. 

 

Climbing

So yesterday, Sunday the 3rd of August, I was downstairs watching Hannah and she decided that she wanted to go over to the stairs.  I watched her and next thing I knew she had climbed up the first stair.  Now let's go back a day.  Sabrina thought it would be fun to show Hannah how to lift her leg and get up the stairs.  She must have thought it was fun and wanted to try on her own.  Well I got up and went over to Hannah as she continued to climb the stairs.  Dang kids learn fast.  So I just let her keep climbing (standing behind her to be there in case she took a tumble.  Well as you can see she made it all the way to the top, with a little slip towards the top.  Good thing I was there cause she would have fallen all the way back down.  Little did she know how close she was to getting hurt bad.  It's amazing how fast they grow and how fast they learn.  I love to see her grow.  

Hannah is proudly showing off her teeth.  She now has seven pearly whites, three on the top and four on the bottom.

I have a couple of videos that I tried to download, but technical difficulties resulted, so I will keep trying.  

After

These are the after pictures.  My dad and Jacob did all of the hard work.  I just ran the errands and brought drinks and helped with the clean up.  The second attempt at finishing went much smoother, and the results look great.

Before

These pictures are of our house in Monroe after the stucco, and before we got the trim painted.  We went down over the 4th of July and scraped the peeling paint and primed.  It was a big two day project, and at the end the north end of the house (shown above) was completely done, but the south end and the front were just primed.  The primer was really thick and didn't flow through the sprayer very well, and there were warped boards and other obstacles to paint around.  Even with the primer it looked better, but two weekends later we returned to finish the front and south end.

I keep thinking that I will get around to posting, but it never happens.  Taking care of four kids leaves less down time than before, but the babies are napping and the older two are watching a movie so I have a rare quiet moment.  Just one more week with the older two, then it will be back to just the babies.  I will have one week off, since all the kids will be traveling down to southern Utah with their mom while she goes down for an audit trip.  Hannah and I will go spend the week with my parents, and Jacob will join us for the weekend.  This summer has passed so quickly!  I have some pictures and videos to download, but I don't have the camera cable since it ended up in Jacob's computer bag.  If I remember to get it out tonight I will add the most recent pictures of Hannah.  

She is crawling and pulling herself up to the furniture, and getting in to all kinds of stuff.  She has been pretty mild about getting in to things until about the last week, when she really figured out the crawling thing and has just taken off.  I have been trying to avoid baby-proofing, but I can't wait any longer.  Just one more thing to do on my seemingly never-ending list.  Wish me luck!

Little Peanut

It's Official!!! 

We are going to have another kid.  Crazy that we are already working on number 2.  This little peanut's due date is January 6th.  Sabrina is going through all the early pregnancy "stuff" right now and not enjoying it.  Hopefully it won't last as long as it did with Hannah.  We are still not sure if we are going to find out the sex this time.  We are leaning towards finding out but will decide for sure by the time the ultrasound comes around.