New word of the day

Hannah is learning to say new words so fast I can hardly keep up with her.  Today's new word is "mine."  Isn't she too young to know that word?  :)  And just where did she learn it???  Well, at least she doesn't know what it means!

The Smoke Detector Update

This morning the smoke detectors went off again, so Mike went and bought a new one.  He had replaced all the batteries yesterday because he thought they were going dead, but evidently that wasn't the problem.

Keetha, I thought the same thing yesterday...that all the BEEEEEEPS!!! were blanking out cuss words....but I decided to post it anyway.  LOL!  :)

Beeps in the Night

Beeps......that's not a strong enough word.  Screaming, high-pitched BEEEEEEEEEEEPS! is more like it.  BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!  They pound in your head BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! and won't stop BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! and you're trying to figure out how you ended up downstairs BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! when you were just in bed!  BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!  How BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! did I get BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! down here?  BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!  What in the world BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! is going on?  BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!  Why BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! can't I think?  BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!  

Mike and I were awakened at 5:30 this morning to ALL of the smoke detectors going off.  We are in Manteo trying to get the beach house ready to rent and were sleeping quite soundly when all of a sudden all 8 smoke detectors started beeping.  We did have enough sense to look or snif around to see if there was a fire or smoke, but nothing!  Worst of all, we couldn't reach any of the smoke detectors, so we're running around the house looking for anything to stand on.  We just got furniture in the house 2 weeks ago and I didn't really want to stand on it.  And we didn't have a step-stool or anything.  Mike finally got a bucket to stand on and got one of them off the wall.  Still beeping...screaming....aaaahhhh!!!!  I pulled a swivel chair across the master bedroom and used it to climb on the dresser so that I could reach the smoke detector.  However, I didn't know what to do once I got to it!  So I climbed down and went to find Mike.  He was coming upstairs with a ladder that he got from the basement.  He told me what to do and while he went after one in another bedroom, I climbed up again.  As soon as I touched it, all the beeping stopped.  Mike had gotten the other one off and all was quiet.  We just looked at each other like....what in the world!?

Some of you may be wondering about Hannah during all of this.  She sleeps in her own little room next to ours with the door closed.  We're thinking, great...it's 5:30 in the morning, Hannah's going to wake up and there will be no more sleep today....  On a side note, did any of you see a news program (like 60 Minutes) a couple of years ago that did a piece on sleeping children and smoke detectors?  They said that kids don't hear them when they're asleep.  We thought at the time, yeah, right.  Well, we're here to say that it is true!  Hannah slept peacefully through the whole thing!  There were at least 3 smoke detectors screaming right outside her door and she didn't even move!  It was such a strange morning!  To top things off, once we did get back to bed and just started to drift off, a huge crow sat outside our window yelling at something.  I couldn't help but to think about what I would say on my blog......

This is the smoke detector that when Mike took it off, all the rest quit beeping!  :)  He had to get a ladder....

This is outside the master bedroom.  Hannah's room is up there on the left.

Hannah sleeping....

The chair I stood on....

....to get on top of this dresser to reach this smoke detector.

A Year Ago Today...

1st Birthday Pics

We had Hannah's 1-yr pictures taken today. I'm not really happy with the ones I got, so I need you all to vote. Which one is your favorite and why? If you could only get 1 of these pictures printed and you had 50 of that one, which one would it be? Please vote by Wednesday! Thanks!

Hannah's 1st Birthday

Hannah's 1st birthday was on Friday, April 10th, and we had her party outside on the new deck on Saturday the 11th. She had so much fun.....and got sunburned! The sun reflected off of her high chair, I guess, and burned her little arms. They've finally stopped peeling, I think, but still look red. :( We had friends and family over for hamburgers and hot dogs and an Easter egg hunt.

Sorry the pictures are in reverse order. I didn't plan ahead like I normally do.....

Hannah loved opening her presents. She even enjoyed "reading" the cards! :)

Hannah is "drinking" out of a cup with a straw. She didn't know how to do that yet but she loved this cup!

The lamb was definitely a favorite. Before we went on to the next present, we gave them to Jon to keep track of. When we gave him this lamb, Hannah gave him "the look." She wasn't sure what he was going to do with her precious lamb!

Hannah loved her birthday cake! She dug right in!

I actually made Hannah's birthday cake (with Mom's help. She smoothed out the white icing and I did the rest.)

Hannah's personal cake. She helped herself to some icing.

Here is Hannah eating a hamburger. It's a huge burger and she ate half of it!

Hannah liked chewing on her large tomato slice. It didn't matter that I had cut up half of it. She wanted to chew on the big piece! :)

Some things about Hannah.....

• She can say "apple," "ball," "daddy," "hi" and "yucky." She used to say "kitty" and "Zach" (the cat's name) but she hasn't in a while.
• She is just starting to cruise but is really good at crawling! She stood by herself yesterday!
• She can point to your mouth, nose and eye and say "eye" when she points to your eye. :)
• She can sign "milk," "more," "I'm hungry," "night, night," and wave "bye, bye."
• She loves to "talk" on the phone.
• She loves to push buttons.
• She can feed herself with a fork. She will stab at her food with a fork until something sticks and then can put it in her mouth. Her hands still work the best for getting food into her mouth.
• Her favorite food is yogurt.
• Her favorite toy is any bath toy! Or phone! Or anything with buttons!
• She has 4 teeth....the 2 front teeth on the bottom and 2 "fangs" on top!

I'm sure there's more important things that I'm forgetting right now, but it's late and I think I'll go to bed. I still can't believe that my baby is one!!!!

The New Deck

Here are pics of our new deck...