Hannah

This is Hannah...

She is my mighty mini. She is the smallest of our triplets but not by much and what she lacks in size she makes up for with spunk! Never afraid to be the first to try anything...that is unless you ask her to, then she's shy all the sudden.

Today Hannah is staying home from preschool because last night she woke up with the pukers. But even sick she can barely stay still for more then a second. This morning, after a long night, she wakes up at 7:45 bright eyed yelling (we are forever working on our quiet voices) and jumping, "Mommy, I don't have the pukers any more!" Hannah is also a jumper. She loves to jump. But mom's aren't always sure jumping and yelling is a good idea for someone that has just spent the night throwing up. So in my attempts to keep her from jumping up her breakfast I resorted to letting her play on my iphone.

 I'm not one for a lot of video games, in fact the only game console we have is the original Nintendo and even that is buried in a box somewhere in the storage room. However, Olivia has been struggling with her math lately so I downloaded a few kid friendly educational apps and the kids are loving them and learning from them too. Anyways, Hannah has not had any more of the pukers since last night so I'm hoping that it was some fluke deal and the rest of us won't be getting it!!!

Here are some other pictures of Hannah over the last few months.

She loves her Packer shirt (seriously it's her favorite) and she loves making things. These are her glitter pumpkins she made this fall. A few of Hannah's favorite creative outlets are coloring, painting, using sidewalk chalk, and putting puzzles together. And she loves, Loves, LOVES wearing swimsuits! Everyday this summer she would get up and put on a swimsuit no matter rain or shine. She still tries to sneak one on every now and then, but then I have to remind her that when it's cold outside swimsuits are only for hotels. Then she'll ask when we get to go to a hotel. :)

Hannah also loves head bans, this one in particular. She got it from her Great Aunt JoJo this summer for being one of the many beautiful little flower girls in her wedding. (Which I want to write about as well sometime.)

Hannah loves to have fun, be silly, and push buttons, as in peoples buttons. :) And course I think all my children are smart but I always have thought that Hannah is sneaky smart. You never think she is listening or paying attention but somehow she gets it. And the thing I love most about Hannah is that she loves with her whole heart.


If you are interested in the apps I recently downloaded here they are.

• Farm Fun - Animals Play and Learn All in One
• Monkey Preschool Lunch Box
• First Math for Preschool 3 to 6 years
• 1st Grade Math: Splash Math (This one was for Olivia and she really likes it and it seems to be helping)

Olivia

Seriously now, isn't she just the sweetest looking thing you've ever seen! Okay, so I may be a little bias but she really is the sweetest little girl. Olivia is my little helper, my little mini me. She is kind hearted, caring and sensitive. She is a protector of her younger siblings, always watching out for them and sometime tattling on them. :) Liv has been learning so much at school and she loves to try to teach her brother and sisters. She is also getting more into fashion and doing her own hair. So far she has learned how to pull her hair back into a ponytail, and braid. I'd like to say I taught her how to do both but I'm pretty sure she learned it at recess. Don't get me wrong, this little girl can give some attitude from time to time but she is always quick to turn it around.

These two pictures and the one at the very top of all four kids were taken by Adam's cousin Muffy Sadler. She can capture some pretty amazing things with her camera. 

The rest of these pictures are just a few of my favorites from this summer.

 After she lost her first tooth.

 In the suite at the Kernels baseball game.

 Having fun on a giant blowup slide!

 Talking with some new friends she made at dad's Red Top baseball games.

Trying out the pool on our first big family vacation.

I just love this little girl

Okay, So It's Been a While...A Long while

Alright I know, it's been a while since my last post, but what can I say I've been pretty busy the last two and a half years! There's been potty training, tantrums, toddler beds, big kid beds, birthdays, holidays, preschool, kindergarten, first grade, field trips, family trips, and moving just to name a few. All of which I am wishing I would have recorded in this blog, because lets face it, unless I have it written down and documented I am probably not going to remember it. It's a sad fact for me, but now that I am willing to admit it I am hoping that it will help encourage me to keep on journaling in this blog. 

It would take me days, weeks, and probably months to try to go back and talk about all the things I have listed above so for right now I am just going to talk about right now. And then maybe if I get in a grove I might post some throwbacks every now and then.

So here we are. This picture was taken at my beautiful sister-in-laws wedding. I would like to thank the hair, makeup, and the fake tan people for making me look less like a frumpy, yoga pant wearing mom, and more like normal person. Also the things you can do with the right photo editing tools is amazing!

Olivia is 6 and in 1st grade at Prairie Ridge Elementary. She is a little mommy and an awesome big sister. 

Hannah, Hayden, and Jonathan are 4 years old and in preschool at the same school as Olivia. They are having a great time learning, exploring, and making new friends. So far we are keeping them all in the same classroom. I'm not sure what we will do in Kindergarten but for now that is the plan. They seem to be pretty independent so I don't worry about that, but what I do worry about is everyone forever asking them them "Which one are you?" Obviously this only only happens to the girls. :)

This summer we moved to Fairfax, which is literally less then 5 minutes from our old house. We loved the house because of the neighborhood, location, backyard, and space. But there were a few things that weren't really going to work with our family dynamics so for the last four months we have been working on a few thing things to make our "new house" our "new home" and I'm happy to say that we are finally there, just a few minor details left to complete. I am planning on posting more on the remodel later. 

So I'm really hoping that in between dropping kids off at school, running errands, picking kids up, meals, family time, church, clubs (and I'm not talking about nightclubs), cleaning (or my attempts to clean/pickup) I'll be able to take some time and just write.