1st pedicure

I use the term 'pedicure' very loosely as really it was just Mommy painting Hannah's toes, which is all she will get for a long while (forever if her Daddy has a say). It all came up because Mommy painted her toenails Monday night. As this rarely occurs, Hannah very much noticed and very much wanted her toenails painted too.

Sitting patiently. We picked out a nice light pink color (look closely as you may not see it otherwise) since I wouldn't let her have the same color as mine (a bit much for a 2 yr old, right?).
Our pretty, painted toes!
For the record, Daddy wasn't very happy with the painted toenails. As you might have guessed, he thinks it is a bit early to be painting nails and well, all things girly are completely lost on Daddy.

Gardening

Our second Sunday in a row spent outside in the garden...a second truckload of mulch and a very dirty little girl.
Hannah loves playing in the mulch while Joe and I are cleaning up our yard.

Our new row of trees that Joe planted last week, 3 of which are fruit trees. It looks like it might be a while before they bear any fruit.

Day trip to Connecticut

Yesterday, we took a road trip to Darien, CT to visit Joe's cousins. It was a 3 hr drive (and a nice trial run before our 9 hr road trip to VA in a few weeks). Hannah did great in the car and entertained herself quite well. Joe's cousin, Anne and daughter Kira (Anne just adopted Kira from Kazakhstan a few months ago), were visiting from Utah.

It was such a beautiful day and we spent all afternoon at Jane's house enjoying the sunshine. Here's Hannah playing baseball with Joe and Justin (Justin is pitching therefore not in the picture).

After naps, we went to New Canaan (which very much reminded Joe and I of La Jolla minus the beach) to walk around and eat dinner before driving home. Joe and cousins Anne and Jane with all of the kids.

Outside at the farm

Our first day outside at the farm of the year. After raining in the morning, the sun was out and it was beautiful. Joe was cutting back the fruit trees while Hannah's job was to move the branches that fell to a pile.Hannah taking a break from her duties to climb the small ladder (with Mommy's supervision, of course).


After finishing with the cutting, we all carried the branches far back behind the barn. Hannah insisted on carrying what was one of the heaviest branches. She got about 3/4 of the way when she finally admitted it was heavy and asked for help (boy is she stubborn!).After dropping off the branches, Joe showed Hannah where the beavers were eating away at one of the trees.
The day wasn't without a bit of drama as we were there to witness one of Grandpa's anxiety attacks. While we knew he had them, we'd never seen one. It was a very stressful situation on both Joe and myself whereas Thelma (who is very used to them) went about her business as if all was normal. Once things died down (thanks to his anxiety medication), we ate lunch. Hannah and Thelma then went for a walk to get some pussy willows for us to take home.

The last week or so...

No posts for a bit as my laptop has bit the dust....with the help of a tantrum by Hannah (spilling a glass of water) and Mommy (not turning it off right away) regardless of all of Joe's effort to salvage it. Thankfully, because we have this blog and I had posted some pictures to Kodak gallery for a Hannah scrapbook for the grandparents for Christmas, we haven't lost all of our pictures from the last 1 1/2 years.

So now I am on sitting in Joe's "man room'' on the 3rd floor on his computer and thought I'd post a few pictures from the last week or so. A bit of a mish mash.

Our self proclaimed "princess", notice she is trying to wear my rain boots that go up well past her legs. Amazingly, she always manages to stand up and walk around in them though.

Owen's 2nd birthday part on April 5th. Cheri had made all of the kids "car cakes" to decorate with all sorts of colored frosting and candies (and then eat of course).

Hannah decorating her car with Daddy's help.
On our ride home from Owen's party with her lollipop. Too funny.
And last a few pictures from yesterday. It was such a lovely day outside and we took full advantage! Hannah's newest acquired skill....riding her tricycle.
Cheesy grin!
After riding around for a while, she decided it might be fun to help Daddy dig holes for our new trees. It was so cute to watch her try to imitate how Joe was using his shovel.
And notice...no jackets!!! And this was 630 at night. Today is back to normal for April...rainy and in the 50s, but that one day of beautiful weather made my week! Living in Amsterdam and now here has definitely made me appreciate nice weather much more! Of course, in San Diego almost every day is nice year round so it's easy to take it for granted.