Snow Filled Weekend

We woke up to around 12-14 inches of snow on Saturday.  The boys were so excited!  I got their snow gear all on and sent them out to play and then layed Hannah down for a nap thinking I would have some quiet time.  After only 30 minutes the boys were all whining and wanted to come in so I decided I would have to be a good mom and go out with them since Aaron was at work.

They wanted to sled, but the little hill wasn't working so I told them to try going down the stairs.  We had enough snow that it actually worked pretty good.  Austin is in the orange coat and Zack is in the blue.

 Gavin was in a mood yesterday and his boots were a bit small which did not help matters!

 It was up to their knees if not higher.

After sledding we decided to build a snowman.  Austin and Zack named him Black Tooth.  I had a lot of fun spending the morning with my boys.

Then we came in and had some hot chocolate and they all got to put in as many marshmallows as they wanted to.

When Aaron got home from work we had movie night and watched Madagascar 3.  It was a fun day!

On Sunday when we woke up there was probably an additional 4 inches of snow on the ground.  Aaron woke up with the flu in the middle of the night and the kids were acting a bit sick plus because of some other reasons I decided to stay home from church.  I was really bummed that Aaron was sick because I kept thinking it would be the perfect day to go sledding.  Then I finally realized that I could just take them myself so as soon as Hannah went down for her nap me and the boys headed out. 

Gavin was in a mood again.  All he wanted to do was run down the hill or eat snow and whine, whine, whine.  I didn't get any pictures of him sledding because pretty much every time he went down I just put him on a sled and pushed him down.  Yeah, I'm a good mom like that.

We had lots of fun and finished off our sledding with a snow ball fight.  I'm so grateful for moments like these!

My baby is 6 months!

I can't believe Hannah is already 6 months!  She is such a blessing to our family!  She is the sweetest, most content baby I've ever seen.  It is rare when she cries and so when she does I have a really hard time not holding her, even when it's night and she's supposed to be sleeping. 
She is still behind on her development and her Pediatrician is talking about doing an MRI if things don't get better.  We are all really hoping that she's behind because she's so content and not because there is something wrong!
On September 17th she had an assisted roll over from her belly to her back for the first time.  If I get her half way there she can do it.  On October 22nd she rolled over twice from her belly to her back all by herself, but she hasn't done it again since then.
She got her first tooth (it's her bottom left front one) on November 6th.  It's awfully cute, but since she's been a biter while nursing from the day she was born I'm not loving it!

She loves her brothers and they LOVE her!  She gets no breathing room when they're around and they fight every day over who gets to hold her first.
She has really bad eczema so her Pediatrician had me go off dairy and we are trying a new lotion.  Good for her, but bad for me it seems to be working so far.  I miss chocolate!
She is just barely starting to fit in to newborn shoes.  I can't believe how little her feet and hands are. 
Her hair stands at least a good 4 inches off her head now.
I get stopped every single time she leaves the house by people who can't get over how cute she is and I have to agree!
We started feeding her baby food.  Her first food was applesauce.  To say that she dislikes eating food would be an understatement!  She never opens her mouth for a single bite and just clamps her little lips together as tight as she possible can.  It is so frustrating!  We have to pry her mouth open just to get food in there and then she just pushes it all out with her tongue or gags on it.  If it wasn't for the fact that I felt like I got chastised at her last appointment for not feeding her very much I would have probably quit trying.

 

She found her tongue a couple of weeks ago and she is hilarious to watch.  She will stick it out and then just sit there and play with it and stroke it like she's petting a dog.  If Aaron touches her lips she will stick her tongue out like she wants him to play with it.  She is such a funny girl.

She also loves to play with her hands.  She will intertwine her fingers or make a perfect U (which makes Aaron very proud) and just sit there and watch her fingers.  

I love her more than I would think is possible!

I decided to try putting her in the jumparoo to see if she would like it, but she couldn't reach the floor so her dad put some blankets underneath to help.
I don't know why we got so lucky to have this sweet, beautiful, amazing girl, but I will forever be grateful that she's mine!  We love you Hannah banana!
6 month stats:
Length:    24 1/2 in.    15%
Weight:    14 lbs. 12.5 oz.    25%
Head Circ.    41.4 cm.    20%
Petite and Perfect!