Water Babies

A few Sundays ago Hannah and Haley had a big first, they went swimming for the first time!  My parents have a pool and Leah LOVES to go swimming so we spend a lot of time at their house during the summers so we all hoped the babies would love the water as much as their big sister/cousin does.

Sweet girl ready to get her toes wet!

So excited!

Hanging out with Aunt Tracy

First time to touch pool water!  It was pretty chilly still but she had a good poker face and didn't even flinch.  She was way tougher than the wimpy grown-ups!

Examining the cool float that Lainey and Pops got her

It passed the taste test!

This face cracks me up.  We told her it wasn't a good idea to drink the pool water!

After watching the girls swimming around for a while Haley was ready to test the waters!  LOVE her sweet bathing suit/cover-up from her Gabou.

She loves it too :)

Hannah was excited for Haley to get in the pool with her!

Haley wasn't so sure about this pool thing at first...

She had lots of fun after warming up to it though, I just didn't have my camera on me then.  It looks like we're going to have three water babies in the family!

Rachel Is 30!

I'm WAY behind on blogging again, work and just life in general have been keeping me super busy so I haven't had much time to blog about the fun stuff that's been going on.  We've been having lots of fun and Hannah is experiencing so many things for the first time. :)  The weekend before last Austin, Hannah and I headed out of town to surprise Rachel for her 30th birthday!  She had an idea that a party was going on but she had no idea that us, her parents and so many of her cousins were coming in town for it as well as so many of her friends!

This is what it looks like taking a road trip with Miss Hannah.  It's awesome.  :)  She's passed out the majority of the time.  When she wakes up she's good and rested and ready to party!

Dean did a great job on all the party details!  Here are her two birthday cakes!

They just got back from a trip to Ireland last month and this cake is a replica of a really neat house that they took a picture of while they were there!  How cool is that??  It was so good too! 

Hannah and CiCi waiting to surprise Aunt Rachel! 

The view of the river from their backyard 

Happy girl 

Eating Daddy's hair.  Hey, if you put it in front of her, she WILL attempt to eat it! 

Us with Austin's cousin Jason and his wife Melissa.  I'm short.  Ha. 

Best pic we got of Mommy and baby girl 

Rachel with her cakes 

This is a very typical picture these days.  Her fingers are ALWAYS in her mouth!  I think we've got a few more teeth trying to make their appearance! 

Hannah giving her Aunt Rachel some lovin'  

You think she loves this little girl??  Just a tad! ;)

The next morning we headed to breakfast before we went back home.  We didn't plan to all coordinate outfits.  Well, Austin was orginally in a blue shirt but when I saw that everyone else was in pink and green I asked him to change to match for the picture.  Ha!  The rest of us just happened to be dressed the same. :) 

Papa C, CiCi and Hannah 

It was a great trip!  Happy 30th birthday Rachel!!

Hannah, Did You Like That Catheter??

Last week was a rough one for our sweet girl.  :(  You wouldn't know it by the way she was acting but she was sick.  She got a stomach virus and other than the sick symptoms of a stomach virus she acted completely fine, just her regular happy self.  It pretty much started Tuesday morning and she was eating less and less as the week went on and by Thursday morning we were at the pediatrician's office getting her checked out.  Poor thing only had 13oz on Wednesday and 8oz on Thursday!  She was dehydrated big time (she did NOT want to drink anything) and by 6pm on Thursday she had a fever of 101.4.  I called the doctors office and they said to take her to the ER.  Not what we wanted to hear but we just wanted her feeling better so off we went!  I do have to say, you feel a little silly going to the ER when your baby is acting totally normal, she is just such a happy baby that I think it takes a lot to break her sweet spirit.  But, we knew what the dr said was the best thing for her so we packed it all up and prepared ourselves for the long night.  This isn't our first rodeo if you recall....

Hannah was very interested in all the other sick people in the waiting room.

Tired baby.  This was probably was 9-9:30 and she was sleeeepy!

And she's out!  Poor thing finally fell asleep about 20 mins before we were called into a triage room.

We finally got into an ER exam room around 10:15 and Hannah had to get a quick catheter done.  She was NOT happy!  It was the only time she cried the whole night, she is such a good baby!  I probably would have cried too so I don't blame her for being upset one bit.

Back to her normal self!

A funny little video of what Hannah thinks of that mean catheter!


After getting some more meds (which were AWESOME by the way!), getting her to take a bottle finally and getting her temperature back to normal we were sent home!  This sweet girl was exhausted and passed out on the way home.  It was the latest she's ever stayed up.  She still woke up at 6am...

She's feeling much better now and is almost back to normal with her eating.  Even when she was sick all week and spent the night getting poked at (the nurses all commented on what a good baby she is) she never got fussy or even acted like she wasn't ok.  She is such a strong baby girl.  We are so proud of her!  We love you soooo much Hannah Lee and are so happy you're all better!

Announcing...

Hannah Lee Townsend!

I just realized that after eight months, I never shared Hannah's birth announcement on the blog.  I'm ashamed to admit that I majorly slacked on her announcements!  I had them ordered and at the house by the time she was about six weeks old and for some reason it took me FOREVER to send them out (she was about four months old when they finally went out)!  There are several people who were supposed to get them but I never found their addresses so instead of asking them like a normal person I just kind of forgot about it and they never got one.  Shame on me.... Oh well, here is a scanned copy of our precious baby girl's announcement!  She was six days old in this picture.

The front

The back

 

The whole reason I picked this particular announcement was because there was room on the back for a message and I just really liked that.  I love going to friends and families houses and seeing her sweet face on the side of their refrigerators. :)



Picture Catch-up

I'm FINALLY catching up on posting some of the pictures we have of Hannah so look for a couple posts in the next few days.  :)

Way back in January (told you I was behind) Tracy and I took the girls to get their pictures taken in these adorable frilly outfits that her sweet coworker made for them.  These are all scanned pics so they aren't that great of quality, FYI.  The girls were barely sitting on their own at this point so it made for a pretty interesting photo session.  Two adults, two barely sitting babies and one very active toddler.  You can imagine how this all went!

Sweet girls.  It's so funny that Tracy and I are sisters and look similar to each other and our daughters couldn't look any more different from each other!  Different skin tone, completely different eyes, different features and hair but almost the exact same weight.  I wonder if either one of them will be a shorty like their Mommas....

I love how Haley is holding onto Hannah here

Sisters!

Hannah Lee

Cutie cousins who are going to be dressing alike until they won't let us anymore!

In March Austin and I took Hannah to get her pics taken again.  Look at how much bigger she was just two months later!

LOVE this pic!  She is such a happy girl!!

The whole purpose of this photo session was the tiny little gold locket she's wearing.  That locket was her AJ's necklace when she was a baby and she's saved it all these years and gave it to Hannah for Christmas.  It was so sweet and Austin and I knew we just had to get her picture taken in it for AJ to have in her room.

It's crazy to see how much she's changed just in these few months!

School Days

A few weeks ago Hannah had her 1st school pictures day!  I was SOOO excited!  I don't know why, but I was.  I was even more excited to see our baby girls pictures because I KNEW they would be great!  I don't think Miss Hannah has met a person that she didn't love or wouldn't smile for so I had a feeling she was going to be the shining star of her class.  I was right!  :)

 My favorite

Our sweet girl 

Happiness 

Austin said "why is the background SO blue??"  My answer "because they are SCHOOL PICTURES!"  I know it's silly and the background is horrible but what school picture background isn't super ugly?  That's one of the reasons that I had to buy them all.  :)  When I picked up the pictures I asked the photographer how he got her to smile.  His answer, "I just smiled at her".  Perfect!  :)

Can you tell I'm proud of our sweet girl?



Easter Fun

Easter morning after seeing what the bunny brought and watching the big kids go on an egg hunt Hannah was wiped out!  She took a little nap while we watched everyone play.

She woke up with enough time to get her picture taken a few more times with the bunny Aunt Rachel got her. 

She LOVED it! 

Sweetness 

LOVE her frilly Easter outfit from Aunt Jan's store!  CiCi got it for her months ago. :) 

Hannah with her Papa C and CiCi 

We got on the road to Waco and got to spend the day with all the cousins and Great Granddad and GG

We then walked down the street to get some of the cousins pics with the ape (with three of them under 3 it's not the easiest thing to do!).  This ape is painted for every holiday, Baylor event, etc.  It's famous in Waco and just down the street from where we spend the holidays.  Noah was so sweet and held Hannah for the pic with his two girl cousins

Emory, Noah and Hannah

The funniest looking Easter bunny I've seen in a while! 

Her face cracks me up here.  It's like she's thinking "WHAT?!  I thought the Easter bunny was furry Mommy!  What IS this thing?!"

 I hope you all had a wonderful Easter with your families!