The Hahnshire

Archer Lee

2012-02-13T13:13:00.000-08:00

So much has happened in the past year and a half since I have blogged. I will try to play catch up in another post. Our biggest news is our son, Archer Lee Hahn was born on November 25, 2011. He was 21 inches and 7lbs 12 oz. Here is a picture of Archer, right after he was born.

And here he is now, at 2.5 months old.

Archer is such a happy baby, we are truly blessed. Lucy is loving her role as big sister, but is ready for Archer to get bigger so they can play more. Here they are at Christmas(Archer was one month and Lucy is 3y 4mo).

Mama- I'm two

2010-09-08T12:46:00.000-07:00

It's hard to believe that my little baby is not little or a baby at all. As she likes to say "Mama- I'm two".

Lucy and her cupcake

Lucy, Mommy and her twinkle toes

The Birthday Kids

I'm still here

2010-01-12T15:37:00.000-08:00

New Years Resolution- blog more! I will put up a real post soon, just wanted to see we are alive and well. I've just been a bum!

Birthday Extravaganza

2009-09-03T12:16:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was both Brad and Lucy's birthday so it required a double the fun celebration! I started the day by making a big breakfast for everyone. Lucy had heart-shaped pancakes and an omelet. Brad had potato, bacon and cheese breakfast tacos- his fave! We decided that Lucy would have her birthday cupcake for breakfast since we were going to dinner that night and thought it would be too messy for the restaurant. It was so fun- I'm thinking we might make cupcakes for breakfast a birthday tradition!

Heart-shaped pancakes

My throne!

Lucy LOVED the cupcake. As most of my mommy friends will tell you, I'm "mean" because although I've let Lucy have cake, I don't usually give her the icing. Since it was her birthday, I let her go wild with the icing- and the sugar rush ensued! She was so pleased with herself as she demolished and ate the cupcake, at one point she tried to shove the whole thing in her mouth!

Woohoo for cupcakes!

She really like when we sang Happy Birthday to her, she clapped for herself afterwards. Then we went to Gymboree to see our friends there. She had a wonderful time playing with everyone and she got the birthday song again!

Happy Birthday to me!

Brad came home for lunch so we could all eat together and we gave Lucy some of her presents. She loved her elmo books (combining two of her favorite things) but was pretty unsure about the shoes. She also loved the dolly from Oma and Pa! My sister had come up last weekend and brought her birthday present early. It's a Little Tikes castle slide- and it is a blast! Lucy can't climb up it yet(luckily) but she loves to slide down it!

Tissue Paper- almost better than presents!

Slide!

We ended the birthday celebrations with a longstanding tradition- Rudi Lechner's. Rudi Lechner's is a German restaurant in Houston- complete with yodeling and oompah band. We started going for Brad's birthday when we first move to Houston in 2003 and have been every year since except for last year(since I was having Lucy- I guess that's forgivable). It is such a fun place- good food, fun music and cold beer. Lucy enjoyed the music and her German mac n cheese and potato pancakes.

All in all it was a great day for both Lucy and Brad!

The birthday duo!

Mommy and Lucy

First smash!

Whole cupcake to the mouth!
Lookin' guilty!

Cupcake hands

Too fun!

Presents for me!

Got my piggies and ready for dinner!

12 Month Stats

2009-09-03T12:12:00.000-07:00

We had Lucy's 12 month appointment today.

Lucy is 31.5 inches long(97%) and 21 lbs 13 oz(50-75%). This has pretty much been her growth pattern over the past year.
Yay for my tall girl!

We didn't do shots because she had a high fever earlier in the week but they did check her iron levels which were slightly low. So now I have to give her iron drops in her food once a day. The doctor said that this is pretty common in breastfed babies so not to worry.

Happy Birthday Lucy and Brad!

2009-09-02T12:54:00.000-07:00

It's hard to believe that one year ago today I had just laid eyes on my daughter for the first time. I felt like I knew nothing about her yet I knew that I loved her with everything I had. It has been a joy and a privilege to watch Lucy grow and change over this past year. She went from being a helpless baby to a smiling, laughing, walking(somewhat), strong-willed little girl. Even though I now know so much about her, she is always changing and surprising me- I guess that's what makes parenthood so fun!
I thought it would be fun to list a few of Lucy's favorite things right now:
1. Books of all kinds- but she LOVES those with photographs in them.
2. Music- the girl loves to dance. She seems to be especially fond of Conway Twitty, Ted Nugent, The Sir Douglas Quintet(She's About a mover) and all cajun music(according to Brad).
3.Elmo- anything Elmo.
4. Mac-n-cheese
5. Saying "uh-oh" anytime she drops or throws anything.

I can't wait to see what the next year brings. Happy Birthday Lucy- I love you!!!

Of course, it also has to be said that today is Brad's birthday too. So Happy Birthday to the best husband and daddy that two girls could ask for. We love you!

Tot Spot

2009-08-17T17:59:00.000-07:00

I've been meaning to upload these pics for a while, but you know... The point is- I'm doing it now :)
There is an exhibit called the Tot Spot at the Children's Museum in Houston and it is absolutely amazing! It is for tots 6-36 months. Lucy loves that everything there is her size and she is free to roam where she wants. Her favorite things there are the ball pit and the the walking ramp.
We've been several times and each time we go, she discovers something new!

Tunnel Time

Driving around in my automobile

Ball pit!

Blocks!

,She loved this thing so much, I had to buy her one at Gymboree!

Big Lite Brite

Love the little chair

Who's that cute baby looking at me?

Lucy "walking"

2009-07-29T16:07:00.000-07:00

Firecracker, Firecracker, Boom Boom Boom

2009-07-05T14:12:00.001-07:00

I love any holiday where you can dress festively, and the Fourth is no exception! Aunt Valerie got Lucy the cutest outfit so I had to capture a few pictures of my little firecracker!

Self-portrait

Happy girl!

Mommy and Me Swim Classes

2009-06-30T06:40:00.000-07:00

Some friends and I decided that it would be fun to enroll the kiddos in a swim class. So Lucy and I signed up for a two week course, with four sessions per week. The age range was of the class was 6-18 months so I wasn't sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a lot of fun.
We sang a bunch of songs and did activities. Lucy really liked the one where I'd hold her on her belly facing me and she'd kick her legs as we walked up and down the pool(singing a kicking song of course). She also liked Humpty Dumpty, where the babies sat on the edge of the pool and then would be pulled in on the "had a great fall" verse. They quickly learned to anticipate this and would lean in during that part
The one thing that scared me a little is when we had to dunk our babies. We would count to three and then blow in their face(so they'd hold their breath) and the quickly dunk them. Lucy didn't seem to mind it at all but it freaked me out!
Swim class was fun and I'll definitely do it again next year!

About to be dunked!

Humpty Dumpty

Pass the baby

Get your toy!

9 Months

2009-06-11T10:27:00.001-07:00

Lucy was 9 months old as of the 2nd. My baby is almost a toddler... hard to believe. Her dr.'s appt went well. She was 20lb 2 oz (50-75%) and 29 inches (75-90%). The doctor said she was a happy and talkative baby :) She also had to get one shot, but she recovered in less than a minute- I was impressed!

She is now crawling EVERYWHERE, and usually in the opposite direction that I want her to go. When she first started to crawl, she would follow me around and stay close. Now she is more independent and ventures out on her own. Which means I am constantly chasing her around. Thank goodness for doors and baby gates! She can also climb up stairs, though she hasn't figured out how to climb down. She just plops on her booty and leans back- needless to say I am there to catch her. Lucy also has started to "hug" her stuffed animals, pillows, and me. It is really sweet and breaks my heart every time she does it. She also likes to try to bite my face, though I'm told she is trying to "kiss" me. I guess I need to teach her that kisses don't involve teeth!

Lucy is also pulling up to standing on anything she can- the dishwasher, walls, couches, your leg. She started cruising and will walk around the bed, the couch etc. She even will let go and can balance for a second or two before crashing down.

With all of this mobility has come quite a few scratches, bumps and bruises. Luckily she is resilient and usually won't even cry. Of course, it scares the bejezus out of me every time. I keep joking that I'm going to put her in a helmet, knee pads and elbow pads. Well, part of me is serious but maybe that would be a bit too cautious.

Lucy is also talking up a storm, it seems once she started to crawl the floodgates opened. She loves to "read" a book to herself- it is adorable! I think this age is my favorite so far as she is just so happy, inquisitive, and hilarious. She really is the best baby I could have hoped for.

I love you monkey!

On the move

Up the stairs

Reading her book

Pillow snuggles

Bear hug or half nelson... you decide.

Lucy is a crawler!

2009-05-14T10:35:00.001-07:00

Lucy crawled for the first time last night! Brad was home so we both got to see the maiden voyage(although it was a short trip of only about 4-6 crawl steps). I guess I better start babyproofing!

I was able to capture some of it on video today. Excuse Lucy's nakedness, she had just eaten lunch. Yay Lucy!!!!!!

The Downtown Aquarium

2009-05-07T05:04:00.001-07:00

At a mom's night out last week, we decided that since the babies liked the aquarium part of the zoo so much we should take them to the Houston Aquarium. So this past Monday a few moms and I loaded up and headed downtown. I have been wanting to go for a few years now- it was actually outside the aquarium in a limo that Brad proposed to me!

We got there right when it opened and there were only a handful of other people there. The aquarium is not very big and probably takes about 30 minutes to go through so we went through the whole thing twice, once with babies in strollers and once holding them. They really liked when they could get up close to everything.The babies LOVED it!

In addition to of all of the fish, there is a white tiger exhibit and a little amusement park outside. The white tigers were pretty scary, there is only a sheet of glass separating you from the massive beast. He was walking back in forth in front of the babies and then I walked up to the glass and he POUNCED at me. Holy moly, my life passed before my eyes- I jumped and squawked and everyone got a good laugh! We also went on the shark voyage train, which was awesome. You go on a ride around the park and through a shark tunnel where they are swimming all around you. At the end of the ride, a huge fake shark jumps out of the water and that scared poor Lucy to death. I guess mom and baby are both scaredy cats!

Reagan, Evann and Lucy

Me, Lucy and the scary tiger

Self-portrait

The real scary tiger

Shark tunnel

It's zoo time!

2009-05-07T04:38:00.000-07:00

Lucy, Ethan, Chloe, Carter, Evann and Reagan

We went to the zoo a couple of weeks ago with some of our Gymboree friends. Although there seemed to be a million school buses at the front gate, the zoo was relatively quiet. The weather was also perfect while we were there, not too hot and not too humid- not an easy thing in Houston. And we left the zoo at the perfect time- it started to POUR about 10 minutes after we left!

If you have never been to the Houston Zoo, I would highly recommend it. The exhibits are amazing and the children's zoo is neat too. Lucy enjoyed being outside and seeing new things, but I don't think she was able to see a lot of the animals. The animals are shown in their natural habitat so it was hard for the babies to find them. Her favorite seemed to be the aquarium and the monkeys. My favorite was the snakes!

The beginning of the day

The aquarium

The giraffes

Worn out!

Georgetown

2009-05-06T17:19:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago Lucy and I went to visit some of our friends, The Bretts. Brad and I became friends with Shannon and Tami at SWT and they are now the proud and busy parents of THREE kids! Throughout my pregnancy and since Lucy's birth, Tami has been my sounding board, advice giver, parental mentor, breastfeeding cheerleader and then some. I hadn't seen her since my baby shower, so we were very excited to have a chance to see her and also the day in the life of a mother of three(ages 6, 2.5, and 4 month old).

We had a wonderful time visiting with everyone. Georgetown is such a fun city, I absolutely love the big park with the river and ducks- all within walking distance! We played in the front yard with a splash pad and enjoyed the deck in their backyard.

Bailey and Reece were so good with Lucy and she got the biggest kick out of watching them play! And Reagan(the baby) is an absolute doll. She is so laid back and sweet! The funniest part of the visit were how many other mommies called Tami with questions, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one!

All in all the trip was a blast and we can't wait to see them again! Lucy is banging away

Bailey, Lucy, Reagan and Reece

Me and Lucy

Lucy is having fun

Bailey and Lucy

Lucy

Bailey and Reece jumping away!

A baby stare-off

Easter pics, a little (okay alot) late

2009-05-06T17:08:00.001-07:00

I have been MIA lately and I know all of you (okay, at least Grandpa Jalufka) are waiting for updates. We had Easter at our house this year. Valerie, Jerry, and Grannie and Grandpa Jalufka joined us for an Easter feast! Everyone came up on Saturday and Brad did a yummy and SPICY shrimp boil. Then we played Taboo and Trivial Pursuit into the wee hours of the night. Even though the girls lost to the boys during TP, a good time was had by all. And I'm still not convinced that someone had been studying the cards a la Consuela. My suspicion lies with Jerry as he seems to know all of the really obscure things.

Lucy in her bunny hat

Easter basket!

Classic sister self portrait

New things!

2009-04-15T16:52:00.001-07:00

Last week was a very busy week for Lucy. On Tuesday she was lying on the floor, playing with her toys as usual when all of a sudden she pushed herself into the sitting position. I couldn't believe it! Later that day I put her down for a nap and she started to wail. I went in her room to check on her and she was sitting up in the crib, banging on the side. It was soo cute I had to take a picture of her in there. Her face is red from crying, but she is smiling too.

She also started "talking" a ton last week. It was like the flood gates had opened! She is just nonstop babbling and the funniest thing is her tone when she does it is so serious. I think she's been listening to my road rage a little too often!
Also a few times she's crawled out of the sitting position, but I don't think that's an officially mastered skill yet. Just as often she kerplunks down on her side or rolls on her back.
With the arrival of a tooth on Saturday, it was a very big week!
Here are some random pics from the last few weeks.

No longer toothless and ruthless

2009-04-15T13:17:00.000-07:00

Lucy's first tooth is finally coming in! She'd been chewing on her tongue a lot and on Saturday my mom took a peek and sure enough, there was a tooth! It's tiny and barely poking out, but super cute! Unfortunately the teething seems to have caused her to wake up continuously during the night. A small price to pay for pearly whites I guess.
Lucy has also decided that maybe solids aren't too bad. All though she is still not THAT excited about eating from a spoon, she humors me. Her favorites these days are apples, pears and sweet potatoes. She tolerates carrots, peas, zucchini. She does not like white potatoes(who doesn't like potatoes??), wasn't too crazy about peaches and seems to despise bananas.
I am still making her food and I really enjoy it. Not just because it is cheaper than store bought food(though that is a plus), but I like the fact that I know I am giving her the freshest food possible.
In the next few weeks I plan on adding some spices to her food to liven things up a bit and also some meat! I can't wait to see her reaction to that :)

Bluebonnets

2009-04-15T13:05:00.000-07:00

Like every other person in Texas, I had to get pictures of my child with the bluebonnets. There are so many in this area, it's really beautiful. Of course, most are on the side of the highway and I didn't want to stop there. So I drove around Lake Conroe and found the perfect patch. And only one bluebonnet was harmed in the making of these photos. (See above picture)

Hippety Hoppety Easters on its Way!

2009-04-02T11:00:00.000-07:00

Today we went to The Woodlands mall to get a picture with the Easter Bunny. I wasn't sure how Lucy would react to a giant white rabbit, as she seems to have a stranger aversion these days. The line wasn't too long, but the kid in front of us screamed through the entire process. I held my breath and gently placed Lucy in the bunny's lap. She turned and looked at the bunny for a few seconds... and then she turned back to me and smiled!

Solids or not

2009-03-10T18:21:00.000-07:00

I am in the process of expanding Lucy's repertoire of tastes and textures. We started small a few weeks back with some rice cereal. Although Lucy would make some funny faces, she seemed to tolerate it. Then I moved to sweet potatoes, one of my favorite vegetables. She didn't seem excited about this either, but again she tolerated it.

I then decided that maybe she would like to try some fruit, a banana perhaps. That was comical. I don't think she swallowed one little bit of any of the banana I gave her. Not to be defeated, I tried several days in a row but she was just not biting (literally).

I then had a brilliant idea, maybe what Lucy was really craving were peas, the delightfully sweet pint-sized morsels that I dearly love. Well, she gagged and choked and spit and spattered and let me know without a doubt that peas were not for her either.

Somewhere along this journey, Lucy also decided it would be hilarious to "blow raspberries" while she is being fed. This results in a nice showering of orange, green and white all over both of us. Which she seems to thoroughly enjoy.

I made applesauce and will give her a taste tomorrow. Only time, and our outfit, will tell if she likes it.

6 month stats

2009-03-05T16:47:00.000-08:00

By her doctor's scale she was 16 lbs 13 oz which is in the 50th percentile. 27 inches long, which is 90th percentile and her head is 17.5 which is 95th percentile.

Go Lucy!!!!

1/2 a year old

2009-03-03T06:08:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was Lucy's 1/2 birthday. To celebrate, I sang a lovely rendition of "Happy half birthday to you" (well, I thought it was lovely) and a full day of playing. Unfortunately I couldn't find a recipe for birthday cake that was safe for a 6 month old, haha, so we ended up with sweet potatoes.

I know I say this every time she is a month older, but I CANNOT believe it has been 6 months since my sweet girl was born. I love her a million times more than I could've possibly imagined.

Lucy is also a whopping 16 lbs 15 oz! Yay Lucy!!!!

Happy Girl

Loves that thumb

Smiling

Sweet Potatoes!

Grandparents

2009-02-24T05:16:00.000-08:00

We had all of the grandparents come visit us this weekend. My parents came down on Saturday and watched Lucy so I could go and get some things taken care of. I got to have lunch with Jackie for a very belated birthday lunch. We both left the babies at home for some adult time. The sushi was sooo good(as was my glass of wine) and it was very relaxing. We did a little bit of shopping afterwards and although we were baby-free, they weren't far from our minds. All we shopped for was baby stuff. Haha. I guess that's the way it goes.

Here are some cowgirl boot socks that I got on our shopping excursion.

Then the Hahn's came down on Sunday and they watched Lucy while we went to the hospital to visit Mike. Brad and I ended up eating dinner at Denny's at 11:00 that night. It was weird without Lucy, but also nice to have a meal with just the two of us. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to eat dinner using BOTH of my hands since one is usually holding or rocking Lucy.

Last week was a long one and I was very grateful to have all of the extra help this weekend! Here are some pics from the weekend.

Lucy with my parents- Grannie and Grandpa

Lucy with Brad's parents- Oma and Pa

Lucy checking out her Pa

Snuggles with Grandpa

Lucy and Oma

Lucy and Grannie

Bouncing is what Lucys do best

2009-02-20T16:45:00.000-08:00

First Meal

2009-02-19T14:40:00.000-08:00

Lucy had her first meal 2 weeks ago, but I'm just now getting to post about it. I made the rice cereal from scratch, got her strapped into her bouncer (we didn't have a highchair yet), put a bib on a her and then went for it! She was receptive to the whole idea of eating and would open her mouth WIDE for the spoon. But once the food got in her mouth, it was a different story. She screwed up her face and gave me this look like "what are you doing to me?". Then she pushed probably half of the food back out of her mouth.

Since then she's been eating about an ounce of rice cereal almost every day. She seems to be getting the hang of it more and more each time. We went and got her a highchair and she seems to enjoy that. It has an activity center built into the tray so it gives her something to do while I get the food ready.

I'm not sure what food I'm going to do next, but my goal is to make all of her food myself. I got a book from Brian about how to make and freeze baby food and it has some awesome ideas and recipes. It's called Cooking for Baby and I highly recommend it!

Flowers, Firearms and Funny Sounds

2009-02-19T14:11:00.000-08:00

Lucy had a wonderful first Valentine's Day! Here is a picture of her and Daddy with the Valentine's Day gift he gave her. I cut off the bottom but it was a rose with a little teddy bear- so sweet! I got a dozen roses and a gift certificate for a massage- yay!!!

Lucy went to her first Gun Show at the George R. Brown. LOL. There were some interesting folks there, but she seemed to sleep through most of it though. Maybe she'll be more into the boat show. There was a National Cheerleading Competition going on next door. After seeing the (tiny) uniforms, makeup and big bows that they were wearing, Brad said "I hope she isn't into that".

Lucy is also making all sorts of funny noises. She does this "clucking" thing with her tongue and also sucks in air and makes a scary sound. She loves making funny noises and even funnier faces after she hears herself.

Brad watched Lucy on Sunday so I could get my hair done and they had a great time together. He said they practiced crawling. First he crawled around to show her how it was done( I wish I could have seen this!) and then he helped her try it. Although she is not quite there, she is definitely getting close. She can push her belly off the floor and scooch herself around.

Lucy in Daddy's cap

Lucy moving around

5 Months

2009-02-02T16:42:00.000-08:00

Lucy is 5 months today. It is so exciting watching her grow and learn new things. She can now bounce herself in the jumperoo. Sure, it's only by her tiptoes, but it is still pretty cool. She also rolls like a maniac and she'll roll herself out of the play-gym and into the middle of the living room floor. She really likes to do this when I'm not looking at her- she's sneaky!

Lucy has also developed the lovely skill of pinching. Yup, as if hair pulling wasn't enough, now she pinches! She likes to grab the flab of my arm and do her worst. I made the mistake of saying "Ouch!" really loudly which of course she found hysterical. So far there have been 8 attacks, a few resulting in small bruises :(

We did a photo session where mommy stalked her with the camera for most of the day- I think she wanted my sunglasses back!

Yummy fingers

Her hair is out of control!

Hugs!!!!

Tickle Tickle

2009-02-02T14:24:00.000-08:00

Lucy has just recently become ticklish- it takes her a while to get warmed up, but at about 15 seconds she starts cracking up. Enjoy!

Gymboreeeeee!

2009-02-01T14:51:00.000-08:00

I wrote a few weeks back that Lucy and I were going to try out The Little Gym and Gymboree to see which we liked better. Well, the results are in.... Gymboree YAY (and The Little Gym- NAY). So we are now official Gymboree goers. It is so fun to do all of the activities and sing the songs- Lucy especially likes Gymbo the hand puppet and watching bubbles being blown.
We've also joined a playgroup in Conroe and met with some of the moms/kids at Chick-fil-a on Friday. It was nice to chat with some of the other moms and I look forward to going to other events(like Mom's Night Out)!

Lucy & Daddy's Blazer

Monkey Girl & Monkey Boy

So sleepy

Rockin' the Baby Adidas

Play Time

Let me tell you 'bout my best friend...

2009-01-30T07:03:00.000-08:00

A couple of weekends ago Lucy and I went to go visit Jackie, Mike and Mimi (and Milo). We had a nice visit for the most part until we went to lunch and Lucy SCREAMED the entire time :) So it goes- life with a baby. We hadn't seen Mimi in probably a month and she was looking very grown up. For those of you that don't know Mimi, she was born 3 weeks before Lucy. They should have been 5 weeks apart because Mimi came 2 weeks early, but then Lucy came two weeks early too.

Mimi was sitting up on the couch with no assistance. I put Lucy next to her to take some pictures and Lucy kept falling over! Jackie took some pictures of the two of them, and the only thing harder than getting a good picture of a baby is getting a good picture of TWO babies. Lucy was like the Tasmanian devil- moving around a lot- so some of the pictures of her ended up being blurry. But Jackie did get some good ones.

Lucy(18 weeks) and Mimi(21 weeks)

They are actually looking thru us at the TV...

Flashback- Lucy(5 weeks) Mimi (8 weeks)

Busy busy

2009-01-19T15:26:00.000-08:00

Lucy had her 4 month doctor's appt last week and I'm proud to say that she is gaining weight like a champ! She weighed 14 lb 7 oz and is in the 50-75% for weight and was 25.75 inches which is the 95% for length. She got 3 shots which made her very unhappy for about 5 minutes and then she was over it. The doctor said I could start her on some solids like rice cereal if I wanted to, but I think I'll wait a few more weeks. I'm in no hurry to get her on real food, when BF is so convenient and seems to be enough to fill her up.

We have been going to a new mom's group for about a month now. The first time we went Lucy was just staring at all of the other babies, unsure what to make of the whole thing. She is an old pro now and either plays with or ignores the other babies depending on her mood. Before Lucy I didn't really pay attention to babies so it is interesting for me to see them in the different stages. There are babies there that can sit up, babies just learning to crawl, babies doing yoga(there is one who is ALWAYS doing Downward Dog). Tomorrow we are taking a trial class at The Little Gym and then Thursday we're taking a trial at Gymboree. Whichever one we like the best will be the winner.

Lucy and Clark

Look at those shoes!

Refusing to smile for mommy.

Looking so serious.

A sorta-smile.

4 Months!

2009-01-04T12:58:00.000-08:00

Lucy turned 4 months on Friday. Crazy, crazy. Brad and I were sitting on the bed last night just staring at Lucy, marveling at our beautiful daughter and wondering what we ever did before she came along...

Her personality is really starting to show these days and I am so amazed at what a wonderful little person she is. She smiles easily but you have to work for it to make her laugh. She's very inquisitive and likes to look at everything and her eyes will follow you around the room. She's active ALL the time. Even when she is just sitting there, she kicks her legs constantly and waves her arms. She's a cuddler, but she also has periods during the day when she wants to be left to her own devices.

Physically she is getting stronger too. She has great control of her head and neck and is sitting up (assisted) pretty good. She is very in to grabbing things these days. Her doll, toys, pacifier, my hair... and it all goes straight into the mouth. She has been drooling like crazy so everyone says teeth are coming soon. I've heard teething can be pretty bad so I'm a little nervous.

Her sleeping pattern had gotten a little disrupted. I think the holidays threw off her schedule and she's also been congested and it gets worse when she is laying down flat. So for now she is back to sleeping in the bouncer in our room. The other issue is that her weight gain had slowed down pretty drastically. I took her to the pediatrician who said Lucy looked fine so it was probably just a dwindling supply. So I basically had to feed her non stop for several days. She seems to be back on track and making up for lost time- she gained 8 ounces last week! But again, I think this disrupted her sleeping too. So instead of sleeping through the night, she is up 2-3 times.

Good news is Lucy is growing like a weed again and she doesn't seem to mind the changes in her sleep. Bad news is that Mom is getting horrible sleep and feels like a zombie :)
I plan on trying to get her back in her room as soon her congestion clears up.

Here are some pics of our lovely Lucy.

Christmas

2009-01-04T12:41:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone. We have been having technical difficulties in the Hahn household so I haven't been able to post anything. We have satellite internet at the house and it has been having MAJOR problems for several weeks now. In fact, I had to come to Brad's office just so I could get online!

Back to the point of this post... Christmas. This year we did things very differently. We had Christmas with our families at our house. Hahn and Jalufka combined. It was a lot of fun and I was very lucky to have so much help. My main role was to get the house prepared for company, and between my mom and Brad's mom, they did most of the cooking! It was a very good thing and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Lucy made out like a bandit (big surprise). She got such cute outfits and toys.
Her big present from Santa was a Jumperoo. At first she didn't know what to think. We put her in it and her feet didn't even touch the ground! But after we put a pillow in there, she started to enjoy it.
She didn't think too much of opening all the presents but I'm sure by next Christmas she'll have gotten the hang out it. Or she'll just enjoy ripping up the paper...

Here are some more pics from Christmas Day.

The Hahns

2008-12-23T11:47:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

The incident

2008-12-18T11:16:00.001-08:00

Well, I had my first big scare since becoming a mommy. On Tuesday the new shower curtain I had ordered arrived. So I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond to get a shower curtain rod. I came home and hung it up and marveled at how wonderful it looked.
Later that afternoon I decided to take a bath. I put Lucy in her bouncer(like I always do) and sat her next to the tub. I went back into my room for a split second when I heard a crashing sound followed by Lucy screaming. I panicked and ran in there to see what had happened. The rod had fallen down and was laying next to the bouncer, but I couldn't tell at this point if it had hit Lucy or just scared her. I picked her up and quickly inspected her. Luckily there was no blood, but her face was red from crying so I couldn't tell if there was a bump. I loaded her up in the car and called Brad and my mom. I wasn't sure what to do, I didn't want to take her to the emergency room and wait for hours and then be told it hadn't even hit her. My mom suggested I call her doctor's office, so I did. They said to bring her in and they would check her out. Of course, as soon as I got to the office she had fallen asleep which I thought was a good thing(and far better than screaming). The nurse informed more that in case of a concussion, I couldn't' let her sleep. Let me tell you how much she loved being woken up...
After giving her a thorough checkup, the doctor said she was fine and to get ready... because this was just the first of many more "incidents". Ha, I think I aged 10 years in that one day and earned a few more gray hairs!

She's a big girl now!

2008-12-10T04:36:00.000-08:00

Well it's official... Lucy loves to sleep in her room! Okay, maybes LOVES is a bit of an exaggeration. She tolerates it. But either way, she made the transition pretty smoothly. The LullabySpa is a godsend too. She loves to stare at the light show! I think the biggest struggle has been for me to get used to her not being as close by. Of course I didn't sleep much the first night but I'm adjusting :)

I got her a bumbo seat a few days ago and she seems to like the new point of view it gives her. She looks like such a big girl sitting up in it. I'm also attempting to make(last minute) Christmas cards, so we played dress up yesterday. She didn't seem too into it, but I did get some hilarious pictures.

Look at that headband!

In her bumbo

She is actually THROWING her pacifier at me!

So pitiful

Ok mom, are we done now??

Big Night

2008-12-05T12:20:00.000-08:00

Tonight is the BIG night! Lucy has been sleeping in our room since she was born. The past week I've been having her take her naps in her own room to get accustom to it. It's been pretty uneventful and she seems to laying in her crib and looking around at everything. She has the most decorated room in the house so there is a lot to look at.
So tonight I'm going to try to put her to sleep in there for the evening! I'm optimistic(foolishly??) that things will go smoothly. I bought her a Homedics Lullabyspa that Jackie recommended to me, it plays music for an hour and also projects a picture on to the ceiling. It works like a charm for Mimi so I'm hoping it works for Lucy!
We are also going to get our Christmas tree tonight. I didn't get a chance to put one up last year since we had just moved so I am super excited about it!
Here are some more pictures of Lucy and also some of her nursery for those of you who haven't seen it.
Lucy's Room

More Lucy's Room

Her favorite Dolly

Not looking too happy

Playing!

Throwing gang signs, as usual

Bird is the word

2008-12-02T19:59:00.000-08:00

I was completely slacking this past week and didn't post anything so here is the update.

Lucy and I went to Victoria the Monday before Thanksgiving to hang out with the grandparents. Luckily both both sets of grandparents live close to each other so it's easy to visit with everyone. It was a good week and we had lots of fun visiting, shopping and playing Trivial Pursuit(even though we got our butts kicked). Lucy got to meet some of her extended family for the first time. I think she did pretty good and wasn't too overwhelmed even though there were tons of people.

Lucy is 3 months today and I can't believe it. Time really does fly. She is still sleeping through the night like a champ. I put her down to sleep at 9pm every night and she usually wakes up between 3-5 to eat and then is good for the rest of the night. She also rolled over for the first time (completely unassisted) last week! Lucy got a dolly from her Oma Hahn and it is her new favorite toy. She'll stare at it forever and just smile, like they are having a private conversation that nobody else can hear. She has also started this new impatient cry when you're not doing exactly what she wants... I'm calling it the Diva Cry. It's really loud and high pitched and I'm hoping it's just a phase- ha ha.

Here are some pics from last week.

5 things

2008-11-20T12:33:00.000-08:00

I got an email chain from a friend that asked you to list 5 things you've learned in the past month. Instead of responding to that I decided this would be a perfect place to post my answers... but I'm doing 5 Things I've Learned This WEEK

5. I've learned that Tofutti cream cheese tastes like playdough- and not in a good way
4. I've learned that I'm completely out of the loop- I 'd never heard of the book/movie Twilight until a few days ago. Of course, I immediately went out and bought and read the book. LOVED it by the way.
3. I've learned that Lucy can sleep for 6 hours straight(3 nights in a row and counting)!!!!
2. I've learned that Silence can be a glorious sound.
1. I've learned that Lucy is the most amazing thing in the world(okay, I've known this one for sometime)

Yay!

2008-11-17T11:13:00.000-08:00

I took Lucy to the doctor today and there was no blood in her stool! Yay!!!!!! This means she was definately having a reaction to either the dairy, eggs or nuts in my diet. The doctor thinks more than likely it was the dairy. When she's 6 months old and her digestive tract is more mature, I can reintroduce it into my diet and see how she reacts. As for the eggs and the nuts, the doctor said I can try that in a couple of weeks. I'm so excited and relieved that she is doing better! Yay for Lucy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday Morning Treat

2008-11-16T06:28:00.000-08:00

I don't have too much to say this morning so I thought I would just post a picture of my smiley baby.

Bummer

2008-11-11T11:31:00.003-08:00

Lucy and I went to the doctor today to follow up from last week. There is still blood in her stool so I have to take her back next week so that they can check it again. The doctor did say it could take a few weeks for things to get better. I am bummed that we didn't get better news but I am hopeful that next week everything will be okay.

Lucy also got her two month vaccinations. She screamed bloody murder for about two minutes and then she was fine. She's tough :)

Lots of stuff

2008-11-10T17:21:00.000-08:00

It's been a full week since I started the elimination of dairy, nuts and egg from my diet for Lucy. Thankfully she seems to be feeling much better. We go to the doctor tomorrow for confirmation. A lovely side effect of all of this is that I am getting closer and closer to my pre-pregnancy weight... less than 5 lbs to go!

My parents came in on Friday night and stayed with us. On Saturday we went to Babies-R-Us to pick up a few things and there were big bellies everywhere! I can't belive I looked like that 9 short weeks ago. Here is a picture of me a month before I had Lucy... look at the belly!

Today Lucy and I had lunch with Valerie in The Woodlands and then did some shopping. It was a wonderful day although Lucy slept for most of it. She is really easy to travel with right now and it seems that the noiser a place is, the better she sleeps. I will try to appreciate that now because I know it won't last forever!
I'll post an update tomorrow after the doctors appointment, wish us luck!

2 Month Check Up

2008-11-03T11:06:00.000-08:00

Today was Lucy's two month check up. We got some good and some not so good news. To start with the good news... Lucy has been growing like a weed! She weighs 11 lbs 15 oz and is in the 75 percentile for weight. She is 25 inches long and is in the 95-97% for height. The doctor said she looked very healthy!

As for the not so good news... Lucy had been very fussy and uncomfortable all weekend. The doctor determined that Lucy is having an allergic reaction to something in my diet... more than likely it is a milk protein intolerance. So I am now eliminating ALL dairy, eggs, and nuts from my diet.

I take her back to the doctor next week to see if the elimination of those foods have fixed things for her. I sure hope it works. The doctor did say that most babies outgrow this allergy by the time they are a year old...

But for me this means no more CHEESE. I will be going to the store later to see what kind of soy alternatives I can find :)

Here are some pics of Lucy from this weekend:

If you're happy and you know it...

2008-10-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

My lil' pumpkin

2008-10-29T15:29:00.000-07:00

I had big plans of taking pictures of Lucy at the 7 Acre Woods pumpkin patch. I went on Monday and they were closed but I did find out that admission was $5. So I went back on Tuesday and all I have to say is it is a good thing that I didn't have to pay the $5(no one was working the gate so I snuck in) because there were only 20ish pumpkins left in the "patch" and some of them were bashed in. It was a sad sight. I however was determined to get pictures with pumpkins so I went to H-E-B and bought my own dang pumpkins to make my own dang pumpkin patch. So after lugging them upstairs(the best light) and setting up everything, Lucy was not very cooperative. She can be pretty smiley but seems to have an issue with pumpkins. In fact, she looks pretty unhappy with the whole set up.
The best laid plans... Maybe I'll try again tomorrow :)

The BIG 2-8

2008-10-26T14:16:00.000-07:00

I had a wonderful birthday this weekend, although it was quite different than how I usually spend them. Instead of being out on the town with my friends, I chose to hang out with my family... and it was perfect. I had a great time visiting with everyone and props to Brad for his yummy etouffee. Although I still want to know WHO ate all the peppers??? I also got some wonderful gifts including all 7 seasons of the Gilmore girls, a makeup palette and money towards a camcorder which I will be getting next week! This means videos of Lucy are coming soon. I also got a beautiful necklace from Brad that I absolutely love.

I went and got my hair done on Friday and my in-laws got to babysit Lucy. What I thought would be a fairly quick trip turned into a 5 hour ordeal! But all was well when I got home and I know they enjoyed getting to watch her. That 5 hours was the longest I've been away from Lucy since she was born(and I only called to check-in twice!!).

Speaking of Lucy, I know she had a good weekend too. She loves all the attention she gets from her grandparents and aunt Valerie and uncle Brian(who she got to meet for this first time!).

7 Weeks and Millipedes

2008-10-21T07:41:00.000-07:00

Lucy is 7 weeks old today. I can't believe how fast time flies, it seems like only yesterday we brought her home from the hospital. She is smiling more and more these days and it just melts my heart. Sometimes I still can't believe she is actually here. I can't wait to see the amazing person she is going to grow up to be. Here are some pictures to chronicle her changes so far.

Lucy right after she was born.

In the hospital

One Week

Two Weeks

3 Weeks

4 Weeks

5 Weeks

6 Weeks

7 Weeks

And now on to millipedes... They are invading our house in droves. I did some research online and it says that after a big rain they like to come inside. But the big rain was a week ago and they are still coming in. I am going to Lowe's today to buy some insecticide because I can't handle this! One tried to crawl on my leg earlier. Sick sick sick.

Newbie

2008-10-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

I decided that I am going to attempt this blogging business. The point of it, if there really is one, is to stay connected with my friends and family. My darling little Lucy was born 6 weeks ago and at that moment my life was changed forever. I hope chronicling my adventures (or misadventures) in motherhood will be somewhat interesting and entertaining. I'm challenging myself to make at least one post a week and maybe SOMEONE out there will read it. Haha, or not.

This is a pretty boring post but it's my first so cut me some slack... I'll try harder next time. Here is picture of Lucy at the hosptial.