Hannah is SIX

I know I say this every year...but seriously where has the time gone.  This sweet girl can't be SIX already!!

 The 4 of us went out to dinner the day before Hannah's birthday to celebrate.  Then last weekend we celebrated with my family....hence this post being late.

Hannah loved her Pinkalicious cake, yummy dinner, and is having lots of fun playing with her new doll Emily Rose.  We opted for a less expensive doll since she is young and to make sure she will really play with it before spending big bucks on American Girl!

November 2015

We've officially hit the crazy busy season at our house.  Gearing up for Christmas concerts at church means lots of extra rehearsals.  It also means time to start planning a Christmas card photo session with my mom. So thankful for her and all her hard work, think we got some cute pictures.  Cards coming soon.  =)

Hannah had the whole week of Thanksgiving off school and Nathan took vacation days too.  Nice to have some time to spend together.  In addition to taking Christmas pictures we also went to the zoo.  Then the rain came and we enjoying playing at home and putting up Christmas decorations.  LOVED having both girls home!

The church children's choir did their concert before Thanksgiving.  They did a great job!  It was so fun to watch Hannah sing and see how much she's grown up.  The choir performed a musical and then some of the small group classes performed, including Hannah's puppet group.  Nathan got a video of the puppet performance but the file is too big to include here.  So a picture will have to do.  These are black light puppets and Hannah is the pink snake in the bottom right corner. (Photo Credit goes to David Alvey, church photographer)  She knew all the words and motions to the songs. (Photo Credit goes to David Alvey, church photographer)

Speaking of Hannah growing up, she lost her first tooth.  And by lost I mean, it was truly gone.  It wiggled for about a week and was hanging by a thread.  She would NOT let us pull it.  My parents came to see Hannah's program and asked to see her wiggly tooth.  She opened her mouth and realized it was gone.  My guess is she swallowed it.  She wrote a letter to the tooth fairy and was so surprised the next morning.  She found a note from the tooth fairy saying she would look for her tooth and to enjoy a new pencil and some money.  Hannah said "Mommy I thought the tooth fairy was imagination, but she's real and she left me a present!"  Her only exposure to the tooth fairy was in books so she thought it was pretend.  So fun to see her excited!

Still can't get used to the toothless smile!

October 2015

Wow October is already over....time flies!  It is finally starting to cool off a little so we've enjoyed much more time outside this month.  We've visited several parks and even the zoo.

One Friday we took a walk to the college by my parents house to feed the geese and turtles.  Abigail had lots of fun!  The last photo was taken on our walk...she loves sitting on that little rock.

My mom and I also took Abigail to the Arboretum to see all their pumpkins.  Lots of fun, but the actually pumpkin village was swarming with people.  Thankfully there were some other less popular spots to get some pictures.  We were sad that Hannah didn't get to join us this year.

Speaking of Hannah....she is still enjoying school.  We had our first parent/teacher conference and her teacher only had good things to say.  My favorite was "Hannah is helpful and kind!"  Just what mommy and daddy want to hear.  =)  She had her first illness and missed almost all of this school week.  Glad she is feeling better. Hannah is also doing a puppet class as part of choir at church.  They are learning how to operate a puppet and will "perform" one song at their program in November.

I was super excited not to have to come up with a Halloween costume this year.  Our Minnie (and Mickey) ones still fit from last year and the girls wanted to wear them again.  I was ALL over that!!!  We went to my sister's church Fall Festival last weekend and hope to trick or treat our neighborhood tonight if it doesn't rain.  No new costume pictures this year...but here's one from last year to enjoy.