Hannah Stats: 7 Months

• You celebrated your very first Christmas and enjoyed every minute of the wrapping paper, bows, and Christmas lights.
• You figured out how to sit up on your own, crawl, and pull up to standing in the same week.  I guess you just wanted to do it all at once.  Nothing is safe anymore.
• You are so proud of yourself for being able to pull up and you give us a great big grin whenever you stand up to the couch.
• We started you on solids this month and you absolutely HATE them.  We've tried rice cereal, oatmeal, squash, apples, sweet potatoes, bananas, pears, and carrots and you don't like a single one.  You clamp your mouth shut and turn away from the spoon and if we manage to get anything into your mouth, you give us a look like this....

• You've gotten so good with your little fingers.  Sometimes I'll break cheerios or puffs in half and put them on your tray in an attempt to get you to eat them (ha!) but you sure are good at picking them up and transferring them back and forth between hands.
• Strangely enough, you love the vacuum.  I turn it on when you're sad and not only get a happy girl, but  clean carpet as well!
• You've been pretty sick this month with several colds and croup.  You've been such a little trooper though.
• You love Grandma and Grandpa's dog, Toby.  You think he's hilarious and especially love when he sneezes.  You also follow him everywhere and get upset when you can't keep up.
• You're down to two naps now (usually around 10 and 2) and you're almost sleeping through the night - you go to sleep at 7 and wake up around 4 to eat and then sleep till 8.
• You love your friend Nora!  Whenever you see her your whole face lights up, you start chirping (that's the only way I can describe it),  and crawl right over.
• You are such a little chatterbox.  A few of the sounds you like to make are: meh-meh-meh, muh-muh (I like to pretend you are saying Mama), bah-bah-bah, bwah, mmbwah, agbwah. 
• Your least favorite things are: any food other than breastmilk, having your nose wiped, and not being able to reach what you want.
• Your favorite things are: your Lamby stuffed animal, buttons, being sung to, reading books together, and looking in the mirror.

I love you, Hannah girl.

New Year's Resolutions

1. Plant a garden
2. Have people over for dinner once a month
3. Sew a quilt (continued from last year)
4. Move to a new state that I haven't lived in before
5. Run a 10k
6. Write a letter/thank you note every week
7. Read a book to Hannah every day
8. Compile a cookbook of all my favorite recipes
9. Write down the story of us
10. Plan a really awesome first birthday party for Hannah (ideas anyone?)
11. Study the scriptures every day before noon
12. Eat only one dessert a day (it's embarrassing that this is actually going to be difficult for me)
13. Read the Doctrine and Covenants cover to cover
14. Blog once a week-ish
15. Use coupons more