5 Months Old!

Last week we celebrated five of the most wonderful, exciting, tiring months of our lives.  The time is flying by and we are loving every second of it!  It is really amazing to see how much our little girl has changed in just a few months.  Her personality is really starting to come through.  She is very laid back (like her Daddy) unless she is hungry or sleepy (like her Mommy).  HC is very friendly and outgoing.  She loves people and she loves to laugh.  When she gets tickled she belly laughs.  I hesitate to make the comparison but to give a good description of her laugh here I go.  Remember the cartoon Bevis & Butthead?  HC sounds like Butthead when she laughs.  Hers is really sweet and not profane, but it does sound like him.  She is also big into giving kisses now.  It is really an open mouth but she loves it.  So does Mommy and Daddy!  She has started reaching some, which absolutely melts my heart.  She recognizes us now.  She will smile at us when we go to pick her up at school.  That makes a long day just fade away.  We are so blessed and we thank God everyday for our precious little girl.  

Now for the fun pictures:

She is ready to go.

Social Butterfly

Some kids are just bound to be extroverted.  Hannah Claire is one of those kids.  She has recently been making the rounds visiting some of her friends.  One of my good friends lives in Houston.  They recently had to evacuate because of the hurricane.  Thankfully everything was fine back at home and we got to see them while they were here.   

HC is a hand holder.  It's her go to move for most any reason.  Here she thinks she can stop the baby from crying.

It didn't work so she moved on to the older brother.  We had a great time seeing the Morris boys.  We hope to see them again soon (just not because of a hurricane).

Last Saturday we had lots of good friends tailgaiting with us.  You could have come by last year and seen not one kid.  Boy how things change.  We will start with sweet baby Jackson.  He and HC did some posing for pictures before the big game.  We were all smiles to begin with.  How sweet!

When you are working with little ones that can't really sit up yet, it gets interesting.  Watch the progression...

Look at that face on Hannah Claire.  Can't you imagine what she is thinking... "Why is this kid on my?"

She wasn't to upset, she went for the hand.  Notice his grin.  My guess he is thinking, "boy do I have the moves or what".  Daddy may need to have a little talk with our little angel.  

Miss EK stopped by on Saturday as well.  We had so much fun seeing her.  She was all about playing with HC.  EK was very helpful in making sure all of Hannah Claire's slobber was wiped off.

Nothing like a little smoochin from a sweet friend.

EK kept HC all cleaned up.  What a great mommy she would be:)

Sometimes you just need a bear hug!

Look at the love between these girls.  They were so sweet and Hannah Claire had so much fun playing with EK.  

Noah's Ark

Rick and Bubba were talking about a man who followed the instructions in the Bible that God gave Noah and built an ark. Here are the pictures. I would love to see this in person someday!

Following in Mommy's Footsteps

My Mom found a dress that I wore when I was a wee little one.  It was my 1st Christmas dress (1978).  Mom took me to see santa in this dress.  I don't have the picture but if we find it I will post it.  HC looked so cute I had to show her off.  

Growing Girl

I will try to do at least one post that is not about Alabama football.  It's hard because most of our pictures now come from Saturdays and Sundays.  Well we are at, or watching Alabama football games on Saturday and going to church and napping on Sundays.  In fact this first picture is the look I got when Hannah Claire woke up from her nap after church today.

Don't worry she gets feisty real fast.

Miss Hannah Claire has now progressed to eating cereal.  She has done a fantastic job.  The first time we tried she did great.  The second she didn't do so well.  I think she forgot it was food and just wanted her bottle.  I put the food in her mouth and then her pacy.  Once she swallowed the cereal she remembered how yummy it was and ate well.  We haven't looked back since. We do get pretty messy sometimes, I mean most times.  She loves her food.

Open wide...

Sometimes we are just tired and nothing makes us happy.  Isn't she so pitiful?  

She looked so cute after her bath the other night we had to take a picture.  Who doesn't love a conehead?

Hannah Claire's school has theme days every week.  Last week, Monday was hat day.  Here is Hannah Claire about to leave for school.  She follows all of the theme days if Mommy and Daddy remember and she has that color/item clean (each have only happened once).  Oh, and we broke the rules on purpose Friday because it was wear yellow day and we all know that HC has to wear something Alabama on Friday and Saturday.  She decided to wear her cheerleading outfit that Nana gave her.  Yes, she decided.  I held up both Alabama outfits that she has and she stared at the one from Nana.  Since she is so fashion forward that is what she wore:)

I guess the cereal doesn't always fill Hannah Claire up so she has to nibble on what she has.  Piggy is always a trusty option.

While not eating piggy, Hannah Claire enjoys playing with piggy and horsey.  Notice her bib.  She has a nack for either taking it off or turning it around like a cape.  While taking it off is pretty impressive, it loses its flare in a picture.  The cape look is so much cuter.

Again, our child goes hungry.  She looks at the food tray and cup holder and wonders where the food is.  

Thanks to everyone who keeps up with our little angel.  She is so loved and we are so thankful to everyone who loves and prays for her.  

This is Alabama Football...

Our family is loving this football season.  Here are some pictures from the UA/Western Kentucky game.  Hannah Claire is hanging out in Pappy's hat.

When it gets too hot HC gets to hang out in her diaper and cut up with Nana and Pappy.

It is time for a family photo from Bryant Denny.

More cutting up with Nana!

Now for our trip to Athens.  Shane and I got the opportunity to go to the Bama/UGA game.  It was our first trip to Athens and needless to say we LOVED it!  Thanks to Aunt Lorie and Uncle BJ for coming and keeping Hannah Claire.  We owe you guys big time!  As you all know there was a blackout in Athens.  So you can easily guess what we wore to the game, white.  You can see all of the black behind us.

We had to take a picture of this.  Notice all of the black lined up to leave the game.  There was a lot of hype about the blackout and then a strength coach from Alabama said that the UGA fans were going to a funeral.  Well, this was the biggest funeral procession I have ever seen:)  

We hung around until the end of the game.  As a good Alabama fan we had to wait for a round of Rammer Jammer.  Once we got out of the stadium we were not exactly sure how to get back to our car because we came out a different way.  We thought we were going in the general direction.  We were trying to cut through some buildings to get back to the main road and what do we stumble upon?  The Gameday set.  So of course we decide to hang out there for the post game broadcast.  We were having a blast.  We even got on camera but it was so quick you really could not tell it was us (that's twice now, the first was the Clemson game).  I guess I just don't get crazy enough for them to slow down and stay on me.  Maybe I need to work on my fan mania when the camera is around.  They wrapped things up and we were about to leave when Chris Fowler turns around to address the crowd.  He informed us that Saban would be joining them on set in a few minutes.  Well we had to stay.  We got a few pictures but they are hard to see.  Maybe you can tell a little something.

We had a blast.  I'm glad we took that "shortcut".  Oh, and we were going the right way.  We went straight to our car and got out pretty easily.  Roll Tide!

Our Big 4 Month Old

On September 9th we celebrated 4 months of fun with our little lady. She is such a blast. Hannah Claire's personality is really starting to show. She is a big cut up, just like her Daddy. She loves to laugh and grin at us. She is also big on sucking her fingers. No particular finger, just whatever ends up in her mouth. She has even mastered sucking her fingers and her pacy at the same time. She is very talented. We did the usual pictures in the red chair. We took tons because she was a little fussy at first but Daddy got some smiles for us. These are the best pictures of all that we took:


Daddy tried to get his picture made with Miss Priss. As you can see she prefers to be alone while she is doing her modeling for pictures. (I just love that look.)

Now she is just annoyed with us and the camera. Poor baby!

We did have a doctors appointment. HC weighed in at 12lbs. 4ozs (25th percentile) and measured 24 3/4in. (75th percentile). She is long and lean (if only Mommy was long and lean). She really has fun at the doctor's office. Here she is awaiting our doctor.


I picked HC up from school and we were both tired from a long day. We took a little nap when we got home. Daddy took some pictures of our much needed rest. Aren't we so sweet? I could stay like that forever!

We closed out the 4 month celebration with a little playtime on our furry rug. HC spent some time playing (I mean chewing on) her giraffe. We had a great day. These montly celebrations are coming too quickly.