Birthday Girl!

Hannah Caroline is 1! Wow what a year and what a big girl she is. She is a true pleasure. Hannah is funny and for sure has her own personality. She is going to keep me on my toes. Hannah adores Mabel and Mabel adores Hannah...which is the best. Don't get me wrong they test each other but deep down it is all admiration. Ok here is to Hannah.

Happy Birthday Hannah
Getting ready for the Ice Cream Birthday Party.
Yum Ice Cream.
Birthday Hat!
Fun new toy and a lot of standing by Hannah

Baa Baa Black Sheep - Mabel's version

This is taken after lunch and after I have been taking movies of her singing for about 10 minutes....she was getting pretty funny. A food high and a little sleep punchy makes for one silly girl. The funny thing is she's "giving" bags of Wool to a lot of people. My favorite is one for the "masker" and Ben (a friend down at school) and Alyse (our new babysitter). She had a little bit of a cold so a little nasaly too. Enjoy.

I'm calling it!

It's Official Mabel is potty trained....and we are very excited and so is she. It went like this....we started by wearing underwear and haveing a few successful days of peeing on the potty then we had a short week of no potty and all accidents (let me tell you I almost through in the towel) then from one day to the next we were back at it and doing the potty dance and eating M&M's and peeing and pooping on the potty. I would take a picture but that would be pretty funny since I don't know if you all need to see her going to the bathroom on the potty, don't get me wrong it's cute and one of the best parenting moments. I am calling it official because we have been accident free for more then 5 or 6 days. I know we will still have accidents but she is doing it all and has graduated from the little potty on the floor to the toilet where Mom and Dad sit! She sleeps in underwear for her nap and is in a diaper at night....I don't know when I will tackle the night time potty training as Mabel is still in her crib and happy as can be and I plan/ hope she will be in it until late summer or Fall. So to have her not be able to get out of her bed and go pee seems hard to ask her to hold it all night. Anyway I am super excited about it all as you can probably tell.

And before you know it I am going to be "Calling it" for Hannah walking....she has had one or two standing sessions of about 3 seconds and is starting to " walk" behind the stroller. So fun and so cute. Watch out Mabel:)

Finally Sticky Snow!

So we made snowmen!

Our stylish snowman at home.
Our really big snowman at school with some friends. Beautiful sunset and playing in the snow.

At the bottom of the slide.....Mabel making sure Hannah is having fun.

Enjoying an evening snow session.

A rare picture...Pat and I without the girls.

Picnic with "Friends"...I am excited for real summer picnics outside.

Butt Sliding and Piggy banks :)

Now that looks fun....you should see Hannah go down it!

She is an old pro at this now....wow so cool and she is pointing at everything.

February Fun

In the fastest shopping cart in town! Pretty cool huh.

Getting ready for a great ride down the snow.

Hannah is getting so big...riding Mabel's "bike"
Yup more snow!
This was in the airport at Christmas...what a helper.
More skiing on packed powder.

Making Banana Bread with a smile and eating it too.
Finger painting....sooooo fun.
Yum "long noodles"
Playing in the sink....an all time favorite thing to do right now.
Sitting pretty up in the counter watching Mom.