Hard to believe that almost 1 entire year has passed since Hannah entered our lives! What a year it has been! Our little bundle of energy is into everything and has curiosity without end. I am told this is exactly what her daddy was like at her age, so I guess she comes by it honestly!
We have been very busy and hardly at home since the start of the holiday season. We started the season by traveling to Green Bay via Ladysmith and Hannah and I stayed by Thom’s parents for 2 weeks. Thom was coming back to the area the first weekend in December to attend a Packers game with a coworker and to attend some meetings, so we decided it made more sense if I just stayed in Green Bay for the additional week. Although several people (myself included) were stricken with the fly the week of Thanksgiving, we had a very good time and got to spend some time with Andy Noth’s family. H and Sage seemed to enjoy each other’s company a little bit more this time and actually had a couple of good natured wrestling matches! H also got her first taste of playing out in the snow.
H and I drove home with Thom and then spent a very short 11 days at home before we started our journey to Minnesota for Christmas. We now take 2 days to do this trip with a hotel stay. The trip was pretty easy. Having a DVD player in the van was definitely a wise choice as Hannah seemed to enjoy having a diversion from time to time. She traveled really well and we were very lucky! We did run into some blowing snow on the highway, but the roads were fine so it was a little slow going, but we still made it in good time.
H’s major firsts this post are that she learned to walk on the first of December while at Grandma Linda’s house. Unfortunately, daddy missed this, but he saw it a few days later when she was still pretty wobbly! She is working on her molars, and one is starting to cut. She is also being switched over to milk and seems to really like it, so that was not too hard 
We stayed a week at my parents at Christmas and Hannah got to play with Kayla and Raegan a lot, which was enjoyed immensely by all three! Hannah go a lot of gifts for Christmas, someone must think she was a good girl this year!! While at my parents, we also held a small, early first birthday party for Hannah and a 2nd bday party for Raegan so that we could celebrate with family that will not be able to make it to Hannah’s party at home. 
As you can see from the photo, she definitely likes cake.
Hannah would like to end this post by announcing that she is going to be a big sister to twins next summer!
She is also starting to talk and has a few very understandable words, kitty and daddy. She also nods and say yeah, but that is a little too common of an occurrence to say she knows that she is saying . There are a few that sound suspiciously like thank you, mommy, and all done.
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