Hanna's Home

Pat-a-cake

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it, and prick it, and mark it with a "B"
And put it in the oven for Hanna and me!

("B" - for Brad...)

A bow for my hair

Hanna has just enough hair for a velcro bow. And somehow that bow completely changes her appearance. What a pretty little girl. Each day I tell her she is beautiful. Children can never hear that heartfelt comment enough.

Serious business

Eating ice cream is serious business.

I've been told it takes a lot of focus and precision and just the right consistency of ice cream.

Some things are truly an art...

worth the rest needed afterwards.

Dualing pianists

Not one, but two sets of hands mastering the keys. How much fun is that?
Girls, turn and look at the camera...

Awesome!

Hanna and her cousin Taisa sure do have fun playing together. Oh, you should see them dance and twirl.... enough to make you dizzy with laughter.

Thanks for the visit over Christmas Taisa. We'll see you again in the spring when baby #2 arrives!

Babushka

We were playing peek-a-boo with the tea towel the other day.  I couldn't resist making it into a little babushka for Hanna...

Monkey see

Monkey do...

Hanna's thinking, "So that's how I can reach everything that mama puts at the top of the fridge. Thanks dad for the idea!"

Meanwhile, dad is just restocking his liquor cabinet after a great holiday season not realizing he's planting the seed for many adventures to come.

By the way, in celebration of Ukrainian Christmas yesterday...

Khristos Narodyvsya!
Slavite Yoho!

Hope you read phonetics.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

With the New Year rolling in, Hanna and I want to thank all our readers for your wonderful comments and well wishes.  We both have so much new to experience this next year and can't wait to tell you all about it.

First things first...

Hanna needs a big kid bed soon as she's mastering the balancing act on the railing of her crib right now... she could go either way and I'm afraid the floor is going to get it!

And mama? Well, I'm going to get back into the recording studio in January. And did I tell you that I'm having a song I wrote for Hanna illustrated as a children's book? And that an article I wrote is being published in a self-help book with 101 authors, including Mark Victor Hansen (author of Chicken Soup for the Soul)?

Yup, it's going to be another exciting and fun-filled year.

Wishing you a wonderful start to the New Year. Remember that newness exists in every moment.  Leave the past behind as wonderful memories.

With love,
Paula