Little Indian

She loves her little Indian hat she made at school!

Andrew and Jackie's Wedding!

So last week we made a very long trip down to Florida for Andrew and Jackie's wedding. The car ride down there is just so long and Hannah was excited to go and stayed awake just about the whole ride. She was in good spirits as long as she had a snack and a cool toy to play with in the car. We spent time at both my parents house and Sam's parents house. It was really great to see everyone that we had not seen in a while and for them to get to see Hannah and see how big she is getting. We were definitely missing the comforts of our own home by the end of the week and Hannah had started to get sick so we cut our trip short by a day and headed back home. It was so nice to get back in our own beds!

Here is Hannah sleeping in the car on the way down. At the very end of the trip she finally gave in and took a very short little nap with her blanket in hand as usual.

Excited to finally be out of the car!

Hannah had not seen Aunt Amy since last Christmas. Amy also brought along Hannah's future Uncle Josh. They got along great!

So after spending most of the week down in Florida it was finally wedding time! Sam and I were so excited to see Jackie and Andrew get married. They are just perfect together! Hannah came with us to the rehearsal dinner so she could see everyone, but we decided to leave her at my parents house for the wedding. She thought it was fun to yell "dada" throughout the entire rehearsal, so we decided it was best to not have her doing that at the wedding. It was definitely a good decision though as we did not get back from the wedding until late and Hannah would have been losing her mind if we tried to keep her up that late.

Here is most of the Sampson family except for Andrew and Sam. We are all dressed up and ready for the wedding to start!

Andrew and Jackie's first dance!

The "Brothers"

Sam and Andrew looking very handsome!

Andrew and Jackie had a beautiful wedding and we were so happy that we were able to be there to share it with them!

A Thanksgiving Party

Today at Hannah's preschool they had their Thanksgiving party! Each parent had to sign up to host one of the partys for the year and this one was mine. The kids were so cute! There are just four sweet little girls in her class. When I got there they were all wearing little Indian headbands with feathers in them. I wish I had brought my camera! I brought them the world's messiest cookies....They had sprinkles everywhere! I was supposed to be doing a craft with them and we made little turkeys out of paper plates and painted them. The kids had such short attention spans and I ended up finishing Hannah's for her. I read them a cute little Thanksgiving story which most of the kids actually listened to and enjoyed. Then Hannah proceeded to show me every toy that they had in their classroom. Hannah is the smallest one in there but was talking the most. She is such a little chatterbox! They were so good and played so sweetly together. It makes me very excited for all her future little school projects!

The Bump

So people have been asking to see pictures of the baby belly. I have not taken nearly as many pictures this time as I did when I was pregnant with Hannah. My belly is getting bigger so much faster this time! Here are a couple recent pictures.

A Little Sponge

I don't mean to brag but I have just been so impressed by Hannah lately! She is just like a little sponge now and it is so fun to teach her new things. She is so eager to impress us with her new skills and loves to copy what we say. She can now point to just about all of her body parts and tell us what they are and her new cutest trick is that she will tell you what sounds animals make. My favorite is when she throws her head back and says "Moooo!" She barks back at our dogs now and meows at our cats. It is pretty cute!

Here she is showing us where her belly button is

She also has become pretty good at using her fork which makes meal time much cleaner. Hopefully soon she will be able to move from the high chair to the table to eat with us! She is also quite the climber these days and has figured out how to climb onto the dining room table chairs. This means that she can now also reach all the things we put on top of the table to keep out of her reach. We will have to modify our babyproofing to keep up with her Today she even tried to be a big helper and throw away some papers for me. We told her what a good job she was doing by helping, so she then proceeded to "help" by throwing a bunch of her toys in the trash too!