Photo shoot by Gary

While we were in Chicago, Gary took some great pictures of Hannah Gray in the studio he has set up in the basement. He really got some great pictures- thanks Gary!

Chicago!

Last weekend we flew to Chi-town to see the Illinois Petros and meet baby Audrey.Even Annie drove to Chicago to surprise us. We had such a great weekend! The cousins all had such a great time together.  It included a trip to the zoo which was such a fun place. It was a great smaller zoo that had awesome exhibits and was super easy to get around with little ones. Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Gray and the polar bears

Here you can see 

that Hannah Gray found some "handles"...

Here are the Petro cousins on the Merry Go Round. Hannah Gray 

was FREAKED out. I think all the animals moving really bothered her. So I put her b/t Grant and Norah and that didn't help either, but it made a cute picture! :)

Our flight leaving Chicago was delayed a little over an hour which put our flight right smack during bedtime. Hannah Gray did great, but she refuses to sleep if she's being held. So Daddy made an emergency run to the bookstore and came back with another Eric Carle, "Brown Bear Brown Bear" which was probably the best spent 7 bucks in a LONG time.

sleepin' baby

Every night before Ethan and I head to bed, we check in on Hannah Gray. And just about every night we're extremely amused by her sleeping position. So we decided to take pictures a few nights in a row to try and capture it. We did three nights in a row, then we were out of town and had some camera issues. So we'll resume it again this week. I guess it should also be noting as to how she starts out the night. We put her down every night in the middle of the crib with her head towards her mobile so she's looking at it. And this is what we get a few hours later...

learning from Daddy

Last weekend, Ethan started to teach Hannah Gray one of his favorite pastimes...

"Look at me daddy, am I doing a good job?"

10 months (a little late)

Here are Hannah Gray's 10 month photos. I'm getting less and less every month b/c it's getting so much harder to keep her in one spot, let alone with Tanner too! (for whatever reason, her face picture keeps rotating once it goes on the blog- sorry I tried)

bedtime reading

Hannah Gray loves her books, or maybe she loves turning their pages even more. She's recently begun to "love" on people, toys, Tanner, etc. She tucks her little head in and it almost seems like a head butt, but she leaves it there for a second so you can totally tell she's snuggling and trying to love on you. Anyway, we have this bedtime book and it's a different baby animal and it's parent on each page. I noticed this "loving" while we were reading this book, but only on the page where it was the puppy and the deer. She would turn through all the pages and only do it to these two animals. So last night I had Ethan come up with the video camera to check it out. Turns out she decided to love on many more animals!! (Sorry about the background noise- the neighbor was working in the yard with a weed wacker and our windows were open!)

a little help here!

So Hannah Gray is grabbing onto just about anything to try and pull herself up, including Tanner. Tanner always manages to be close by when we're playing on the floor. So yesterday, Gray would scoot on over to him, grab the hair/skin on the top of his back and start pulling! I kept grabbing her hand with one hand, trying to pet Tanner with the other and tell him "good boy" for being so passive. Then I'd quickly try to scratch his back where Gray just about pulled his hair out. He never even flinched. I think she had enough hair so close to the skin that it didn't really bother him. Here's a picture though; it's part of the act just b/c I'd end up jumping in to save Tanner before I could get a good shot of her really supporting herself with him.