On Friday, October 2, 2009 at 5:31 pm, Hannah was officially a 2 year old!  That morning, we got her out of bed and started singing the Happy Birthday song to her.  When she busted out in tears and wails, we stopped.  She didn't like that but got over it very quickly, with some tickles, she was giggling again.  I took some pics of her before school in her cute birthday outfit, equipped with birthday bracelet, clips, shirt, and stretch pants.  For lunch at school, we brought cookies for all the kids in her class and they sang 'Happy Birthday' to her.  Later that night, we celebrated by having Rob, Candice, Maddie, Chip, Stacey, Brooke, and Jocelyn over to celebrate with pizza (Hannah's fav) and birthday cake.  It was a wonderful day!  Her is the link to check out our blog 2 years ago, the day she arrived - http://blog.ourfam4u.com/2007/10/13/baby-hannah-has-arrived.aspx 

Happy Birthday sweetie pie!  We love you!











The birthday cake stare...

She wouldn't let her hairstylist get the cape near her, she was squirmy until Pablo and the rest of the Backyardigans were playing on the TV in front of her, she hated the blow dryer but loved her sucker!  In the end, her hair looks adorable!  We have a braid of her clipped, 2 year old hair that equals 5 inches!!!!!  No joke!  Check out the before, during, and after first haircut pics...









Check out the kid with the mohawk behind Hannah in this picture...

















Showin off and flippin her hair...

Hannah apparantly loves Calamary, who knew?!  She could not get enough when we went out to eat at a neighborhood pizzeria with Tim, Candice, Maddie, and Rob.

This morning, Hannah's school hosted a Pancakes for Parents breakfast so any parent can have breakfast with their baby at school.  Daddy was unfortunately not able to make it, so I took Hannah by myself.  I kept telling her "Mommy is going to school to eat breakfast with you, we are going to eat pancakes together" and she was so cute, like a parrot, everything I said, she repeated.  She would get stuck on the word "pancake" and say it over and over again.  After breakfast, I dropped her off in her classroom, hugged her tight, kissed her, told her to have a good day and waved bye bye, the usual.  But this time Hannah walked to the door with the biggest smile on her face, held onto the door jam with an outstretched arm, peeked her head out the door and into the hallway, and said "bye bye Mommy, I love you, have a good day too."  She then blew a kiss to me, waved then went back in.  Are you kidding me??!!  Melt my heart, so cute!  I literally almost died!  What a wonderful way to start my day!

All smiles...



But after a while, what else should a 23 month old do in a long car ride besides smell her toes?



And taste her toesies?



Mmm Mmm Good....
(check out her drool)



"Oh dear" Daddy says...

When I picked up Hannah from school today, 1 of her afternoon teachers told me that Hannah really helped her out today.  3 other little toddlers from her class were banging on a door in the classroom while the teacher was trying to quiet them down.  Her attempts wern't working when Hannah went over to each 1 of them and tapped them on their shoulder, put her finger over her mouth and said "shh" and some kind of baby talk the teacher couldn't understand and the other kids actually listened to her and stopped what they were doing.  She said it was really sweet and very helpful.

I don't think legs are supposed to bend that way?  LOL!!!

You take your eyes off of them for 1 second!  Tom and I laughed together and got a big kick out of it.  We wanted Hannah to pose for a picture in front of her masterpiece...

Teacher's Note:
"During gym she bit another friend.  Please talk to Hannah about not biting others.  Other than that, she had a good day."

Whuuuut???  Ok, so we thought it was kinda stupid and absurd to talk to our ALMOST 2 year old about something that happened at 10:00 AM that morning but ok, if you say so.  It went something like this.

Daddy:  "Hannah, listen to mommy and daddy right now.  We do not bite others.  NO bite."

Mommy:  "Hannah, NO bite, we love and hug our friends but NO bite."

Daddy:  "We DO NOT bite our friends.  Ok?"

Mommy:  "Hannah, say "DO-NOT-BITE-FRIENDS."

Hannah, with no eye contact, looking down at her feet, and sitting on her chair, in her adorable baby talk babbled: 
"Dun-no-by-fins."  (kinda)

Daddy:  "Good, now let's hug and kiss."

So we hug and kiss each other.  The day after our talk.

Teacher's note:
"Hannah enjoyed the class project- community helper: The minister.  She almost bit a friend today.  Please encourage her not to bite."

Mommy's stipulations:  How do you ALMOST bite a friend?  Do these teachers have children?  Do they know how hard it is to sit your ALMOST 2 year old and have a talking to about something that happened so long ago?  In her defense, I was a biter so she had the genes to become a biter.  This is not an excuse but more of an explanation, yea, that's it! 

Almost 2 year old, almost biter, that's progress for us!    'Biting' to an 'almost biting' status is good for these parents.