Pushing the Chair

So sorry about the super scary voice in this. It gets me every time. This is in October sometime. It was the first day I had ever seen this. Stephen told me he had seen her do it before. I wanted to make sure to have this on here.

Does she resemble???

Wilson, Tom Hanks best friend until he lost him at sea?
Kinda

Hannah's got the munchies

Wow Hannah! That banana looks tasty!

Where did you get it from? Oh, you snuck it from the fruit bowl?Couldn't quite wait for me to open it for you?
I'm glad you ejoyed it angel!

I'm Hiding!

Found Ya!
Hello Beautiful!

Geez

I'm loving the Mommyhood!!!

A Reason to Wean

So do you remember a couple of blogs ago when I said that Hannah had her first tooth? I tried so hard to get a picture. It just wasn't happening though. Hannah's the boss around here and what she says goes. She refused to cooperate (not that she knew what I was trying to do). I ended out with a ton of pictures like this.and this. By the end of our bazillion photoshoots to get a shot at the pearly whites,
mother and baby looked something like this. These little teethy have been in for a month and still no good shots of the bottom teeth.

But like I said, Hannah's the boss around these parts. She'll show 'em when she is good and ready. She's so obliging.

F.Y.I to anyone who is wondering. Those chompers can do some damage.

How does your garden grow?

So while the little girls slumber, I want to share my little garden with you.

My mom has always had a garden. I have fond (and some not so fond) memories of it growing up. Grandpa Dollar also used to have the most amazing garden too. I remember many times my Grandma Dollar giving me a gallon bucket so I could pick my tommy toes (cherry tomatos). I absolutely love tomatos and can eat them like an apple. As a little girl I loved this and I have always wanted to replicate some of the wonderful memories of that. Unfortuately, the green thumb was not passed down.

My first garden in Tuscaloosa, I don't even think I got a seedling out of it. The next year in that garden, I planted my cherry tomato bush that I bought from Lowes that already had tomatos on it. I guess I had some tomatos. (That's a generous description) I even killed my tree that I was supposed to plant and let it do it's own thing. I drowned it. How do you do that?!?! How do you drown a tree??? And let's not forget about my ivy, ugh, like I said black thumb!

But, anyways, I'm no quitter! I convinced Stephen that we needed to plant a garden here in Montgomery too. We had these huge bushy bushes that we decided to take out. We had 3 box hedges and 1 holly bush. Box hedges were easy breezy to get out. The holly bush made me almost lose my religion. What a little booger. (It probably didn't help that that was the bush that I cut our extension chord in half) Here is a picture of the 3 easy stumps. My muscle man getting the hard one out
Hooray! We got it out!
Our little visitor

We planted the tomato bushes really late in May. They really took off. I had no clue that they would grow so quickly. They quickly out grew Hannah. I was so excited to see them get blooms. They were everywhere. Tomatos had to be just around the corner. I waited and waited and waited. Patience isn't easy.

They finally started to arrive. Every morning I would go out and check them and count how many there were. (There really wasn't that many but I loved counting them) The tomatos are like magic. It was probably the absurdity that counting tomatos could make you happier. But it totally worked. I was always happier.

It even made her happy.
Finally, the first one was ready to be picked.

Nothing like a good ole tomato sandwich!

R.I.P. squash and cucumber that never had a chance against that blaring Alabama sun. You gave a noble effort those first few weeks. You shall forever be missed from my dinner plate.