The Beach House!!

Last week we were able to go to St George Plantation to the beach house with some friends for a couple days..the kids had a wonderful time and so did we!! It was very relaxing and the beach house was really nice (which definitely helps!) Gabe loved hanging out with Ally, Nicholas and Jonathan but he couldn't get enough of Ally and she was so helpful with him!

Gabe and Ally playing in the water

Gabe loves the beach, Hannah however preferred the pool!

Hannah was able to catch up on her reading

It was only fitting to have Gabe take his picture next to this sign since we have the hardest time keeping clothes on him sometimes!!

10 months

Still in shock that in 2 short months she will be 1 already and this time last year when we were awaiting the arrival of this little girl 2 months seemed like so long...funny how that works.

Hannah at 10 months:

• Says Dada, down and when she points to things it sounds like she is saying dis (this)
• Really good at pushing around her walker
  
• Can stand by herself without holding on to anything for long period of time but has not taking any steps yet....she still seems unsure
• She is going to be one tough cookie...Gabe has been getting pretty rough with her, he usually ends up in time out because he's too rough
• Does not get much one on one time with Mommy or Daddy but when she does she loves it!
• Much like her brother has been challenging me with solid foods...she started off so well but has regressed
• Still waking up several times a night
• Has 4 teeth and is working on 3 more
• Several times a day she will just crawl over to me and lay her head on me to snuggle..it's really cute!
  

We just started sleep training so hopefully Mommy will start to get more sleep!!

She loves the swing!

Just like Mommy she is going to blind someone with those legs!! :-)

NY Trip

A couple weeks ago we drove up to NY to spend some time with my parents and extended family! The drive up went okay, I had to sit in the back in between the kids most of the way otherwise Hannah wasn't very happy. Unfortunately for me it made me feel a bit carsick which is no fun on a long car ride.
We did stop at EJ's dads house in VA which helped break up the drive and it gave them some time to hang out with the kids. Gabe couldn't get enough of the 4 wheeler!
There wasn't much down time once we got to NY, but we had a great time. I was able to spend some quality time with family and EJ and I had a date night and Gabe loved spending time his Nana and Papa. I was really bad about taking pictures but here are a couple from the zoo. The penguins were definitely Gabe's favorite!

Hannah enjoying the beautiful weather

And this is what EJ did when the kids started fussing in the car (listening to pandora on his phone)!! Can't blame him, I'm not a big fan of driving long distances but I have to say when I was sitting between 2 little ones that were over the car ride I was wishing I was driving!!

9 months!

This beautiful little girl turned 9 months on 4/7/10, she is so precious and such a blessing to our family!
What is little Miss Hannah up to:

• Has figured out how to climb up the 4 steps that we have in the house
• Can stand without holding on to anything for a few seconds
• Is back to being little miss talkative
• Favorite food is bananas
• LOVES Mommy as in I usually can't leave the room love, but there may will come a time when she won't want me around so I'm enjoying this time while I can
• I'm absolutely amazed at how little she really sleeps and is still waking up 3 times (minimum) a night

NY trip update coming soon.....

Easter

I just realized yesterday how far behind I am with my blogging and since I pretty much consider this a baby book I have some catching up to do!

We had a very relaxing Easter weekend, Saturday was the Wildwood Easter Egg Hunt, the weather was beautiful and it was a good opportunity to hang out with some great friends and celebrate Jesus!

After church on Sunday, the kids played in the pool and then we headed to our neighbors for some desert (before dinner) My whole easter dinner went out the window when woke up and realized I forgot to take the ham out of the freezer...oops! Well at least we weren't having company for dinner, we settled for some hamburgers and I made the ham the next night!

Hannah isn't looking and Gabe doesn't look very happy but at least EJ and I do!

The boys patiently waiting for the egg hunt


And they're off!

Pony Ride

And this was our photographer :-) !! Such a handsome little man!

Family Pics!

So these are a couple months old but I keep forgetting to put them up! My Lauren was gracious enough to take the pictures for us, which we are so thankful for (professional ones are just not in the budget right now, besides hers look professional enough for me!) I think she has done pretty much all of our family ones thus far so why stop :-) Thanks again Lauren you are truly like a sister to me and I'm so blessed with your friendship!!!

I've been contemplating...

a double stroller but who needs one when I've got this....

I was going to take the kids for a walk this afternoon and Gabe decided he wanted to take his bike so I stepped inside to grab it and turned around to see this. As much as he wanted to, I didn't let him go on the walk like this.