Happy First Birthday Hannah!

Hannah celebrated her birthday in Bend last weekend with her cousins, aunts, uncles, Nana and Boppa. She seems to have really "grown up" in the last few weeks. She has been practicing her walking and now surprises us daily by walking into a room to find us or heading down the hallway after Clara with her hands held up high in the air for balance. Clara likes to hold her hand while she walks, which usually lasts a few steps before they both fall down! Hannah's vocabulary is expanding weekly and some of her favorite words are "go", "up", "more", "all done", "abba" (for her pacifier, or any pacifier she sees in the house), "cup", "wawa", "ow"(usually said after bonking her head on something for attention), "whoa" (when she almost falls over), and of course "mama, dada, and Clara". She likes to call for "mama" when she wakes up in the morning, and if I don't respond quickly enough, she then starts calling for "dada" who jumps to rescue her from the crib! The poor little thing came down with the flu yesterday, so the pictures are from her party last weekend, and I think we will wait until tomorrow to celebrate her first year with her Elmo cake. Hopefully we will get some good pictures of our 1-year-old with cake all over her face when she can enjoy food again!