Mother's Day

This was my second Mother's Day as a Mommy to Hannah but somehow last year we didn't get any pictures! We were out of town for a wedding and the day was not really my own...
This year we relaxed and had a great time. Hannah gave me a talking card (she thinks they are the funniest thing ever) and a gift card to Motherhood. Josh got me a card with a spa gift certificate! Yahoo! I will be using this soon. The afternoon was topped off by a 2 1/2 hour nap with Hannah. How wonderful!
Here are a few pictures from the day.

Here is Hannah and me at the table at Texas Roadhouse. She was eating yummy yeast rolls. She even ate some of the "baby blossom" and a piece of my steak.

This was Hannah's first time to sit in a booster seat (instead of a highchair) at the booth. I enjoyed being close to her to eat, but I also had to keep an extra eye on my wiggly little girl.

This picture is not from mother's day, but of Satruday when we went to the mall with Grandma and Grandpa to get her ears pierced. They look so cute! See the picture above to see one of her ears with the earing. The store had that cute little mouse for "distraction". Hannah did great and cried only a little bit. Within about 3 minutes she was happy and waving to everyone as they passed by. She hasn't noticed them since!

Josh is enjoying "relaxing" and not studying for school. He is still working full time and even took on a few extra hours of overtime this week. All in all we are looking forward to the next few weeks/months to spend more time as a family and wait for our new addition to arrive. Hopefully in less than 10 weeks! Please continue to pray for the health of our little boy and that he would continue too grow and develop correctly.

Josh GRADUATED!!

Today at 11:15 AM Josh officially became a graduate! Yeah!! Hannah was great and sat, I mean wiggled, through the whole service. I was thankful she made it the whole service. Here are some pictures to enjoy.

Here is our family after touring the Mohler home.

The proud graduate and his wife.

Josh and his parents after the ceremony.

The graduate and his proud daughter. She didn't know what to think of the cap and tassle.

Our family with Dean Jimmy Scroggins. (I feel short...)

Of course Hannah had to try on Daddy's cap before he had to give it back...

It is May!

Today has been a beautiful sunny day with a high of about 80 degrees. It is finally warming up and I am so excited about that!
In my last post I mentioned Hannah's teething woes. In all, I think she has gained five teeth in the past week. Three of them are molars. Hannah is back to her normal fun self and her new favorite thing to say is, "Na-na-na-na-na-na." (which means "no, no, no, no...") Oh dear. When she is playing with Charlotte and Charlotte has something Hannah wants she will say her "na-na-na-na" speach and grab the toy away. Now, Hannah has not learned this from me! When I want something Hannah has I ask, "Hannah, can mommy have this toy/book/remote please." Usually she is willing and will pass it right along. Lately, she has decided that when I ask for something she doesn't want to give up she should run in the other direction saying, "na-na-na-na-na!!" How do we stop this?
On my pregnancy, I go back to the doctor this coming Monday. I will have a routine visit and also my glucose test. I am not looking forward to drinking the sweet syrup and getting sick to my stomach... "Little brother" has been moving around tons and is getting cramped I am sure. As you can see on our name poll that it all seems to be split down the middle. Are you all doing this on purpose? Josh said maybe this is a sign that we should pick a completely different name... hmmm..
Josh has finished his last final test today!! We are so excited we are almost giddy. Can it be? Finished with a degree? We are excited to have a relaxing day tomorrow that doesn't include, "so when do you have to start working on homework?"

Teeth, Teeth, and Crying

On Wednesday of this week Hannah started getting fussy. She is normally not a fussy girl at all and happy most of the time. Wednesday night she woke almost every hour even if it was just to let out a howl and go back to sleep. She also had a fever of 100.7 (first fever so far). On Thursday when Hannah woke up from her nap she had sad tired eyes, and was so fussy and clingy I couldn't put her down. She snuggled on me all afternoon and evening and wouldn't hardly eat anything. (but she would drink her water and bottle) I felt around in her mouth and sure enough she has two top molars coming in on one side and two bottom molars coming in on the other side! There might be a few more breaking in I can't feel quite yet, but from all the crying and sad faces I know these teeth are giving her a hard time. Last night she woke only once and actually let us sleep in until 10am!! Today she has been more of her happy self. While I enjoyed the extra cuddle time, I am thankful the crying grumpy days are (hopefully) coming to an end.

New Bedrooms

We are getting the new rooms upstairs all set up. Here is Hannah's side of upstairs: We moved everything against the wall to cover the window and also create a play area for Hannah. In the side corner of the room I put her little kitchen with all her play toys.

This is little brother's side. You can see it is not decorated all the way. I still need to put up my sports decals and bring the rocking chair up from downstairs. Also I need to clean off the shelf with the "junk" and possibly change the curtains. Once we decide on a name (again) I will buy letters to hang up too.

Park Pictures

Here are the park pictures I promised to upload. Hannah LOVES to swing!!


VIDEO UPDATE: CHECK OUT THIS CUTE VIDEO OF HANNAH PLAYING IN HER NEW ROOM UPSTAIRS.

CLICK HERE!!

Day at the Park

Hannah has had some fun park visits over the past week now that the weather has gotten warmer. I will have to post our pictures here in the next day or two.

On another note we are now discussing again baby boy names. I have put a poll up on the side column. Please vote/and or leave a comment on you choice and why. This is so hard to decide!!

PS if we name "little brother" Andrew he will be nicknamed "Drew".

I think this is it...

Little brother is finally going to have a name! If I can get out of the habit of calling him "little brother" it is just so easy when talking about him with Hannah. Okay, are you ready?

Andrew Hudson Tillman

Now, keep in mind we do have the right to change this, but I have been feeling like Andrew Hudson should be our little boys' name. (probably call him Drew most of the time) And last night Josh was just like, we should name him Andrew. I haven't bought the letters for his nursery wall yet, but I am pretty sure I am going to be buying the letters that spell "Andrew". Thought you all should know!!

Hannah is getting much better at walking. She is super cute just trucking around the house. She can get pretty far without falling. She is so smart.

That is about all for now. Josh is on the home stretch with classes, only 3 weeks to finals and 4 weeks until graduation!!!! We are SO excited! Keep on Josh!!

Prayer Requests: Please continue to pray for a healthy growing baby boy and for Josh to study and finish up these last 3 weeks of his exams with flying colors.

Videos of Hannah Walking

The first video of Hannah walking.

The second video of Hannah walking!!

First Steps

Well, Hannah finally made her first steps! Hannah has been walking behind her little push cart for the past three months and has become quite a pro at steering around the house. Over the past few days, Hannah has let go of the cart (or couch) and would just stand all by herself. I knew walking was coming shortly. Josh and I have been coaxing her to walk to us or reach for her bear or doll but she would drop to all fours and crawl to us (or make sure she was holding onto something). This morning as we were sitting in the living room Hannah pulled up again and was standing all by herself. Josh held out the bear or Hannah to take and she shuffled three steps to get there!! Josh and I looked at each other and Josh said, "Does this count as her first steps?" Maybe we were expecting fireworks to go off with "Hannah's 1st steps!". We praised Hannah but alas, she did not want to do it again. This afternoon on two more occasions she has taken a set of 3-4 steps to get somewhere she wanted to be. We are so proud of our little girl. I can't really call her my baby anymore. She is growing up so fast!