Such a girl

Hannah put this bag around her waist and walked with it between her legs. Hannah thought it was so much fun. I am sure as soon as she figures out how to put a purse on her shoulder she will be hauling it around everywhere.

Diaper party

I was in the kitchen doing dishes when I noticed something very unusual around the house... silence. We all know this means the kids and Hannah are up to something. This is what I found.

All the places to hide

I put up the babies crib last week. Hannah has recently discovered that she can crawl under it and hide. I went in the other day to find her. She thought it was funny to peak under and play peek-a-boo.

Sleeping

I love to go into Hannah's room while she is sleeping, and see the different ways she sleeps. Here are a few pictures of her sleeping with her legs in the air, and her baby by her side. Blair and I have learned that Hannah falls asleep faster and better with her baby sleeping with her.

Cute little girl

Hannah loves her bike and her Baby doll. It was so cute to see her riding along with her baby in the back.

Hannah is walking

For a few months Hannah has been taking a few steps here and there. For about a week now she has really been picking it up. Hannah walks almost more then she crawls. She loves it. It is so cute to watch her. Everytime I get the camera out to get a picture she will fall down and wont get back up. We will keep working on getting pictures. I can't believe how big she is getting. It is interesting to think that she knows what we say to her. We can ask her where something is, or to go get something and she will go find it and bring it to us. She is talking quit a bit. She says yeah all the time. If we ask her if she wants something she will say yeah. It is very cute. She can say Mom and Dad. She mostly says Dad. Hannah loves her dad. As soon as Daddy comes home she wants just Dad. It is a nice brake for me. Hannah also has recently descovered her baby doll. This baby doll is carried everywhere. Hannah has three baby dolls. She only likes the one that Grandma Merkley bought her. The others she could care less. Hannah will rock her baby and give her kiss's and hugs. She will come to us so we will give her baby loves. she gets a little jelous when we kiss her baby, so she makes sure we give her a kiss also. Hannah will be so great when this next baby comes.
Hannah has 11 teeth now. She has her four front top and bottom and three molers. We can't believe how big she is getting. She is growing so fast.

Bats

So last week I was out on my deck and it sounded like there was running water running inside our brick wall. I have been seeing Wasps going in and out of there, so I thought they were in there flying around. I came inside and told Blair that he will need to spray them tonight. I was really freaked out when I went outside a few minutes later to find out that my neighbor told me she has been seeing Bats fly out of our deck. I couldn't believe it. We went outside that night and watched as these Bats flew out. I counted 26. I called a pest control guy the next day. He told me if I don't go on my deck they wont attack me. Well I kind of need my deck. He also said to wait till winter and they will fly South. When they do that is when I cover up the hole. I didn't like the idea of waiting for Winter. I called a few more people. Critter Control came out to look at them. He is going to wait till September 1st because that is when it will be legal to kill Bats. He gave us a bid of close to $3,000 to take care of them. That is so crazy. It is a good thing HOA covers all that. I told him that we have seen one that stuck to the wall. Blair thought it was funny to flick on the deck light to catch them flying away. The one we saw was Black with a White head. He told me that those kid of Bats are not nice. So they will attack me if I am in there way. I also told him that I thought there were 26 Bats. But the other night I counted 46 and I gave up. But I could still see them flying out. He told me that there were probably around 75 to 100. It is kind of cool to see them fly in and out at night. But it is not cool to have them living in your home. I don't go on my deck. When I do they hiss at me. So I try to stay inside unless there is something I really need in my shed. I will have to keep you updated on what happends. I would post pictures of them. But it is so dark that I have not been able to get a good shot of them.

First birthday

Hannah is 1. Yeah. We started off the whole day by babysitting the kids I watch. Hannah loves them. She has so much fun playing with them. While they played I cleaned for the party that we were going to have at our house. It was a good day. After Hannah bit through her lip. She was standing all on her own, lost her balance and fell. She started screaming. I thought she just hit her head really hard. After she lifted her head from my shoulder, I saw that her lip was bleeding. I think I have finally been able to get the blood out of my shirt and garments. She still has a little sore. Hannah was so brave. She only cried for a little while and was back on the floor playing.

My sister-in laws, Nancy and Katherine came over to help me with a cake and Hannah. Katherine was a big help. She played with all the kids. She took them out side to blow bubbles. They were out there for about ten min. because they saw a daddy long leg. Nancy and I made Hannah a cake of a Duck. It turned out so cute. Hannah had three cakes. A duck, a free cake from Albertsons and a square one I did in case there was not enough. That is right. Albertsons gives away free cakes for your child's first birthday. It was so cute, and such a nice size cake.

Everyone showed up at our house, We talked and watched Hannah/Me open her presents. Hannah got a lot of clothes. Hannah also got a little bike she can ride or push. I can not forget the box of Twinkies that she got from her uncle Spencer. He figured that kids only like toys for a few minutes and then they are off playing with something else. But I am sorry Spencer. There is no nutritional value in Twinkies so I don't think I am going to give them to her.Katherine also made her the cutest blanket. She will love it when winter comes. Thank you Kath. After presents Hannah started on her cake. She had a hard time at first. She would get a little frosting on her fingers and eat it, then wave to everyone. Hannah did this till Blair took her hand and smashed it in her face. After that she was all for it. She was covered. But she loved every minute of it. Hannah had a great birthday. I can't believe she is one. It has flown by. She is almost walking. She is always standing up on her own. She just is scared to take those steps. She will get there. When she does start walking she will be all over the place. She climbs on everything. She will take after her dad. Hannah we love you. You bring so much joy to our lives. Our lives are so much better with you in them. You know how to put a smile on every ones face. You are loved by so many people. We are so thankful that the lord brought you into our family. We love you.

Thank you to everyone that came to her birthday. The gifts were very much appreciated. We love you all. I do have some pictures of her birthday that I will post later.

It's A.......

So it has broke. We are no longer keeping it a secret. We want everyone to know. So here it goes. We are having a girl. Yes another girl. We are so excited. It will be so nice that Hannah will be having a sister. I hope that they will become great friends. Sorry to all those who were thinking it was a boy. We are very excited.

Boy or Girl

So we went in today to find out how the baby was doing and what we were having. The baby is doing great. I am now due December 7th and not the 10th. The baby is almost a pound. It was really cute. He or She would keep thinking about putting her or his hands in the mouth. Every time the thing would rub on my stomach my the feet. The baby would kick it really hard. He or she was moving around like crazy. But they did see what it was. And we are going to keep it a secret till the baby is born. Sorry everyone. We want it to be a surprise to you all. But we are excited to have what we are having.

Such a sweet brother

Last week was my birthday. My sister Wrote me a text and told me happy birthday. My mom called me so say happy birthday. While I was on the phone with my mom my two brothers, Luke and Garret sang me Happy birthday in Russian and Spanish. The one person I thought would of called or text ed would of been Jesse. I didn't think anything else of it. My dad ended up calling me two days after my birthday and Jesse ended up calling me last night. He felt so bad. I told him it was ok. I really was not hurt by it. Well today My brother came to my house and he walks in with a dozen flowers. It was so sweet of him. I told him thank you and I loved them. What a sweet brother I have. Jesse is so kind to everyone. He has such a soft heart. He is the best brother and friend anyone could ask for. I love you Jesse. Thank you so much.

4th of July/My birthday

As most of you know my birthday is on July 4th. Blair, Hannah and I went up to Bear lake for the weekend. Blair celebrated my birthday on the 3rd before going up to Bear Lake. I woke up on the 3rd to the house decorated. It was so cool. I looked on the table and saw this great cake. I couldn't help but laugh. If most of you can't tell. It is a pregnant women. Didn't he do a great job? Blair also bought me the DVD Newsies. He also bought me a new phone. I loved my pre-birthday. I have such a great husband.





In Bear Lake Blair's grandma rented a boat for the 4th. Hannah loved it. She ended up falling asleep on the boat. We later played in the water. She didn't mind that either. Grandma Perry was holding her and running in the water as we played Frisbee. She loved the water hitting her legs. Hannah was also very interested in the fireworks. The ones that were to bright to look at she would cover her eyes. she was so tired from the long nights of staying up that she fell asleep while watching the fireworks.


We had such a great time in Bear Lake. For those who have been up there, we all know how much fun you can have. But we also know how sometimes you just have to get out of there before you go insane by some things that are said, or things have to be done a certain way. But for the most part it was fun.

Random Pictures

Hannah loves to wake up and come sleep with us in bed. I wake up before both of them and I can never help but take a picture of them. They are so cute.



I love to make Hannah's hair stick up while she is in the bath. It is starting to get so long. I love it.

Hannah loves to sit in her chair. I think that Hannah and Blair are sitting a lot alike in this picture.

Last call

Last chance. I am going to be changing my setting so only those that I allow will be able to see our blog. So if you have not given me your email address please do so now. Thank you for those who have. You will have one more week. You may either comment it to me or send it to me email. chelsie_m@hotmail.com. For those of you who think that I have it and you have not left it in the comment then I do not have it. So leave it or you wont me able to see my blog.

Dry Drowning

Blair sent me this video about a little kid who died from drowning hours after he went swimming. So scary. I think that all you parents need to watch this video. I hope that we are all a little more careful. I know I will be. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24982210

Email Address

I need to get every ones email address. I am going to block my blog so only those emails I have will be able to see my blog. I have had people I don't know get on and write comments. It is a little weird. And it is not in English. so if you want to see my blog post a comment with your email address. Thanks.

Random stuff

So I know I haven't blogged in a long time. I don't know what to blog about. I look at peoples blogs and I see that they do so much stuff during the week. Well my weeks consist of watching kids during the day and cleaning the house. So I guess I could post pictures of me cleaning my house. But I will try to keep a blog once a week. And I guess this is more for me as a journal then it is for you. But it is also for you.
Well we were told that our pool in our condo was going to be up and running for memorial weekend. We were disappointed when it wasn't. We then got told it will be up June 10th. Well it wasn't. We keep waiting because we are hot and we are paying HOA on this pool that is dirty and has scum in it. Well yesterday we found out that they said the pool is clean and it is ready to go. It is not ready to go. I wouldn't even let my dog (if we had one) swim in it. It is so dirty and sick. I have talked to Blair. He is going to call the HOA board and give them a talking to. I wouldn't want to be them. Hopefully it gets going soon. We would love to swim in it.
Yesterday for family night we decided that we would spend our family home evening going to Wal-mart and Home Depot. We needed to get some wasp killer. I have hit down so many wasps nets when we first moved in. One has come back. It is on our patio. It is sad because I don't dare to go out. So now I just need to get up the guts to go spray it at night.
Hannah is going to be a year old on the 22nd of July. I am so excited. It is amazing how much she has changed in the last month. she is acting so big. I am going to attempt to make Hannah a duck cake. That is right. A duck cake. She has a rubber duck that she puts the head in her mouth. It has been her favorite toy since she could put it in her mouth. So we will see how it turns out. This is what I am wanting it to look like.

Wish me luck. I am excited to try it.
On July 15th. We will find out if we will be having a baby boy or a baby girl. We are so excited. Blair and I really think it is a boy. We will see. We are wanting it to be a surprise for everyone when we have it. so we are debating on telling ANYONE what it is. What do you think?
Well I just wanted to let you know what was going on in our little house. Not much but at least I have a recent blog up.

Nice to have company

I was sitting home yesterday just bored watching the kids I watch and Hannah play. I get a text from my sister-in-law Nancy if she can come over and be bored with me. She came over and we had a blast. Well I wouldn't say blast but she is so fun to be with. She is the nicest person I know. She is always happy. and she loves to talk. I love her. She really is a amazing person. I know one day she will make some guy the luckiest guy in the world. She has so much to give. We love you Fancy Nancy. Thanks for being all that you can be.

No more

Tuesday night was a long night for me. Hannah just kept waking up screaming because she wanted a bottle. Well I knew she didn't need one. I went in to give her her Binky. She was so mad because it was not what she wanted. So she took it out of her mouth and chucked it across the room. I couldn't believe the attitude. So I turned on the light. This was at 2 in the morning. She was mad that I turned on the light. I gave her the Binky back and turned the light off again. She chucked it again and then started screaming a blood curdling scream. I had it. I shut the door and let her scream. The next morning the bottle was gone. I was not going to have a kid act like that for a bottle. She has not had a bottle sense Tuesday night. Wednesday was a hard night. She decided she was going to scream from 3-7 till she got a bottle. I was not giving in. She finally went to sleep and she has not asked for a bottle sense. Right before bed I give her a glass of milk and that is it. She goes to bed and she has slept through the night ever sense. It is a great thing. But I am proud of my self for getting rid of the bottle at 10 months. YEAH ME!!!

Fun at the Zoo

Saturday Blair, Hannah and I went to the Zoo with some friends of ours. They have a one year old girl. We had so much fun. Hannah loved all the animals. She really loved the bigger animals. They were easier to see. My favorite part of the Zoo were the Elephants. They were so cool. They built a new place for them. It was fun to watch the Elephants put on a show for us. My second best thing was the White Alligator. It was really cool to see. It just sat there and watched us. As we moved to the other side of the glass you could see it's eyes just following us. We also saw this really big turtle. That was amazing they can get that big. After we were all done we had to see how be compared to a gorilla. Blair is really close. Check out the tigers paw. It is so big. I was so amazed. For those who have not gone in a long time and have kids. I would recommend going. It is really neat. I have not been sense 9th grade. It was a lot of fun. It might not of been as much fun if Hannah wasn't with us. Sorry for the many pictures. But we had so much fun I had to show you most of everything.
Thank you Liz and Sterling for going with us. We had so much fun.

Finally a clean house

Ever sense we have came home from Aruba my house has been a mess. Hannah got sick right after we got home. She had a runny nose, diarrhea, a cough and a temperature of 103.5 degrees in one night. I took her to the doctor the next morning. The doctor told me she had a really bad ear infection. So she has been on medicine. It has taken her about a week to get over it. But now that she is finally able to play on her own and not be held all the time. I was able to clean today. I love a clean house. It feels so good. I am now OK with whoever comes over whenever. It is again presentable. Not much has happened lately. We had a blast on our trip. It was so good to get away and relax. We were by the pool most of the time. We did take one day and go snorkeling. That was good. The fish are not nearly as pretty as the fish in Hawaii. But it was still fun. I had to hold Blair or Nancy's hand the whole time because I am so scared of Sharks. But I am still alive so I am happy.

ARUBA

So we finally made it. After staying in Atlanta for two days because we missed our flight. We all finally made it to Aruba Saturday afternoon. It is so great here. It is so nice and warm. Hannah is not sure what to think. She has wanted noone but me because I think she is not sure where she is. and I am the safe one. She has been so tired. She has been sleeping so much. Last night she slept all night. It was great. It is here second night sleeping through the night sense we have been gone. I think we just might need to go out of town more often. But It is so pretty here. Here are some pictures of what it looks like.

I also have to tell you how cool but also very freaky this is. So everywhere you go there are igunas just laying around. They are not scared of people. They just lay and bask in the sun anywhere they want to. They would lay on the rock RIGHT next to the pool. All you had to do is stick your hand out and you would touch them. Here is also some pictures with Hannah swimming.