i apologize for it being Jan 12 and me still putting christmas pictures up. but we don't have alot going on right now, and these are cuter anyways. Top left: i had the bright idea of spending some time with meghan and my mom (and lar, in spirit!) somewhat alone, so we went out for coffee with just hannah and emerson. oh my. you'd a thought she had a venti espresso, zooming around starbucks, throwing crackers, eating crayons, entertaining everyone but me. immediately after this picture she fell facefirst off the chair, too. back to the highchair for a while. and note to self: hannah's much too old and still too young to take anywhere. under 6 months or over 4 yrs i think. Right: we had a modified christmas dinner at dad and bunny's house, and hannah thought temporarily she was going to get to sit at the kids table. (again, back to the highchair.) then my dad came in with a pretty good santa impersonation and she started to cry. like most kids, i think! i know christmas isn't about giving presents, especially more presents to people who don't need them, but i have to say it was fun to watch hannah and her cousins opening their presents. we got good video, and i can't find it! i am very upset. :-(
Hannah and Kennedy are great friends. i'm sure one day hannah and parker will be too :-). it's probably a combination of closer in age and the boy/girl thing. unfortunately, one of their favourite games was 'grab the babou and keep it away from hannah'. as you can imagine, that was a tearjerker. for hannah, at least. and the whole time they fought (as much as hannah can fight against someone twice her age and twice her size :-) over this little car.
i know this is a bad picture, but it's the only one i got with hannah and Dad. With 4 kids running around, we didn't have much time to take pictures. so, how do i look with 2 kids? my mom tried about 10 x, and the only one with hannah looking cut my head off. oh well. i know i'm not important anymore!
"would you people just get out of my face and let me sleep???"
Hannah got to work on her 'gentleness.' She did fairly well, but i think she tried to pull her hair out a few times.
my mom got her a music set, non-battery operated. yeah! she does well with the cymbals
it was warm enough in VA to go to the park. nana and pop-pop enjoying a calm moment with the Tornado.
You dont' even want to know how many times we tried this picture. we did the everyone seperately, then a big crisp group picture. i tried distracting hannah with cookies, actually.
Hannah got cowboy boots and a pony for Christmas. Except the pony belongs to all crisp grandchildren, current and future. she loves her boots. i thought maybe these would be too hard to pull off, but nope. the second we get in the car, off come the shoes and socks as fast as she can. and she throws them around, so i have to climb all over the place looking for them. and we're usually late already. agggghhhhh, toddlers!
we ventured out on an outing because we had so many adults for one child. it still didn't really work. this store had a little play area where David watched Hannah while we browsed. I figured out why they do that. it isn't a convenience to the patrons. it's so that your kid gets hooked on something while they play with it and thinks it's theirs. or at least should be. and yes, we (patrick) got suckered! we actually have never bought hannah a new toy, and precious few from the consignment store. so patrick really enjoyed getting her this cute little teaset. (wooden, no toxins! and no paint, either) it was supposed to entertain her during dinner. . .
all photographic evidences to the contrary, dinner was a nightmare! we definitely have to do something to encourage small bits of sitting down at a time, building up to a real dinner. it's like she has a time bomb inside that will go off if she's still longer than 3 min. i eventually got up and walked around outside with her, and ate from a to go box on the way home. again, agggghhhh toddlers!
all (or most) frustration aside, though, we are really enjoying her right now. she knows so many words, and she's so expressive. the time on the weekends that we get to have as a family is so precious. i live for it. we're getting even more settled now, we joined our church this morning. I am organizing a neighbourhood playgroup that i'm going to advertise for this week. hopefully i can build relationships with some unbelievers. I also am going to a volunteer meeting for LifeTalk, a crisis pregnancy center that's just getting started. Our town of 100,000 doesn't have one yet. I thought i would have to fold laundry or something because I always have to take Hannah with me, but the lady I spoke with said they were looking for mentors, which would be an amazing opportunity. I would love to become friends with someone and help them through a difficult situation. I've never been someone's support like that.
Patrick has lots of ideas for the upcoming year, he's so motivated. he has alot of shows coming up, some i may be able to help him with. we had the office over for a belated holiday gathering, so i got to know people a little better. He's playing basketball at the church right now, and planning on doing the men's bible study. at 6 am. the poor guys. the women's is always during the day. the men have to squeeze it in before work. but wait a second, i guess i was the one getting up all hours of the night for an entire year. never mind, i don't feel bad!
so, other than a very disappointing night last night, something about the playoffs, we are doing well. i'm pretty sure hannah will be doing her own blog pretty soon. yesterday i was trying to get her to eat her fish and i said something about brain development, and patrick said we should try to impede her brain development, if possible. i thought, that might be a good idea, i think she's already ahead of me half the time. i could always plop her down in front of the tv. :-)
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