Pics

swimming with "angel" cousin Juliana
(Juliana sang "Angels We Have Heard On High", giving us Christmas in July at the pool! Or was it "Hark the Herald")

a classic moment

"Mommy, take a picture of me with the flowers!"

another classic "Hannah" moment

"Here's a flower for you!"

Hannah-ism of the week

"Great Gramma is Grandma Debbie's cousin."
"Actually, Great Gramma is her Mommy."
"Oh. Great Gramma is very old, but she loves me very much."

please be joking...

DD had two hair clippies in her hair this morning. Sometime while watching videos, they disappeared. When I asked Hannah what happened to them, she innocently replied, "they up my butt."

So far there are no signs that that is the case.. but I want to know where she got the idea to say that?!?

8 pm update: I found the missing clippies underneath a sleeping bag upstairs. They were not where she said they were. Whew!

photos of the week

Monday- Cousins at the zoo with GrandWendy.
I love how the girls are looking at eachother.

Meerkat Manor- 3 out of 4 looking at the camera isn't so bad!

Monkey

Reading her new book from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

A photo of Grandaddy's Digital Photo-Art

the excitement is building

"I can get my floaties, and I can get my beach ball, and I can get my bucket and the shovel, and put my hands in the sand. I can go swimming. I can get the crab, and uncle N and aunt C and cousin M and cousin E can get the crab."

Someone is already planning ahead for our next family trip to the beach... next summer, perhaps?
I'm not sure where this narrative came from, Hannah was sitting playing with Daddy and Custard (her imaginary friend who lives in anyone's hand when it's in claw position). All of a sudden she started talking about going to the beach.

a little young to think about this...

but she does. Ever since watching "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella", Hannah has been entranced by the idea of weddings, wedding dresses, and getting married.

"mommy get married?" She would ask.
"Mommy and Daddy got married a long time ago," one of us responded.

She calls her fancy dress up dresses "wedding dresses", and tonight she put some blue tulle over her head like a veil and called it her wedding dress.

"I marry my brother?"

"We're glad you love your brother, but when you're much older, hopefully you'll marry someone else," Daddy responded. Yeah, older, like 30.