School time and Play time

Hannah has been going to school for not even 2 weeks now and we can tell already how much she has learned! Here are some examples and stories...

• Hannah is learning her days of the weeks...she has a song and has been trying to sing it to Mommy. Hannah keeps telling Mommy to just ask the teacher...she'll teach you!
• She loves to cut! Don't be alarmed if you open an envelope full of cuttings some day! She's very proud of her work!
• Hannah can recognize and LOVES to point out the American flag! She keeps saying "Mommy, there's your favorite flag!"
• She told us that her teachers taught her if she has to cough to cough into her elbow.
• She said if you know the answer you have to raise your hand and put your finger over your mouth!
• Hannah has made several friends. The ones she talks about the most are Olivia and Helena. She also tells Mommy ever day that Matthew keeps making those dinosaur noises again! Boys...
• She'll tell us that she misses Leah but she doesn't miss Mommy during the day.
• She really likes her teachers Ms. Julie and Ms. Lisa. She talks about them every day and pretended to call Ms. Lisa over the weekend to see how she was doing.
• Hannah has become more comfortable talking to others. We've seen her answer when asked "what's your name," or "how old are you?" Usually she just stares at the person. We've told her in the past that you can answer them if Mommy and Daddy are talking to them...but before school she never talked to anyone if she didn't really know them.

Leah has been adjusting to having Mommy all to herself. She really doesn't take a morning nap well anymore. She's a little young to give it up but we think she just likes being with Mommy and doesn't want to sleep. We are trying to get her use to playing by herself too as she hasn't since the day she was born. She's getting more use to having others watch her too as Mommy's been taking her to the gym a couple of mornings a week, and to church for different events. She's been doing good and we don't get paged anymore to have to go get her!

Playing at Daddy's work

We brought lunch today and ate it in Daddy's office. Then we played in the fitness room while Daddy taught class. Here is a cute video of Hannah and some pictures. Make sure to go to the web page, http://www.hannahandleah.blogspot.com/ as the videos do not work through the email. two seconds before she fell off the treadmill bumping her head then screaming!

Hannah could pick up this 6 lb ball! She looked like she was in the "strongest girl" contest!

Leah is 9 months old today!

Leah is 9 months old today and very active! Comparitively speaking...Hannah wasn't crawling until 9 1/2 months. Leah can crawl, climb up the stairs, and stand up when holding onto something! She's trying to catch up to her sister, who is also very active. Leah goes to the Doctor on Thursday for a check-up and shots. We will let you know her measurements and how she did then. Also, the countdown until her birthday has started...we are having her party on her 1st birthday, November 15th, so be thinking about your plans as we are thinking about it already!!

Visiting Friends and Family in Ormond Beach

We spent a week in Ormond Beach at Renee's parents' house as her family from TN was in town. Renee's parents were out of the country so we had the whole house to ourselves, which worked for all the stuff we needed for the girls! It had been over a year since Renee's cousins had gotten together so we thought it would be a good chance for them to play together and for everyone to meet Leah. The week went by fast but we had a lot of fun seeing friends and family. Here are some pictures and a video of us at the beach. The video isn't the best but it's all we could get with all the kids everywhere.

Ava Mantegna loved the pool but doesn't want to get in a float anymore. She's growing up so fast and now lives in Orlando with her parents, Julie and Chris.

Erin, Alli, Hannah, Emily and Leah- they are 2nd cousins?? Jennifer and Renee are cousins so what does that make them? Either way we all call each other cousins.

Aunt Jennie had fun with all the girls.

Andrea is a old family friend who's family was vacationing in Florida from TN as well. We finally got to introduce our girls as they were born on the same day, 6/16/06!

We had Jennifer (old friend of Renee's) and her family over and had the girls play together. Hannah and Saige are 2 days apart and became instant friends!

We went to see Uncle Jon's new apartment. Very nice! Hannah loved the fish and his roommates kitty until it hissed at her.


Uncle Jon was excited to play dress up, princesses, and watch movies with the girls! But I think he liked swimming with them the best!

The princesses had a great time at the Aunt Jennie's birthday party!

The famous "everyone to the slide" picture!

Renee's friends, Amy and Dorene, from 5th/6th grade- still friends, these girls where in our wedding too!

We are Disney crazy!

We spent two nights at Saratoga Springs Resort- a Disney Vacation Club to see how we liked the DVC resorts. We took a tour of their model rooms and of their new resort, Bay Lake Towers. We ended our quick trip with a DVC event where we got to meet Mickey and have a dance party with the Chipmunks! We all had a great time and love Disney even more!

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