Remy and Pilgrim

Valentine's Day weekend, Eric and I went to Dallas to have a weekend away and we had a really great time. It was nice to have some time just the two of us to hang out, shop at Ikea, and explore Dallas a little bit. Hannah, Remy and Pilgrim were all at my parent's house for the weekend. On Sunday, when we got back, we found out that Remy and Pilgrim ran away that Saturday and hadn't returned. Dad and my uncle looked for them all afternoon, and Eric and I looked again on Sunday, but we didn't find any sign of them.

We returned to Fayetteville and it was so wierd to not have our dogs with us. We spent the next two weeks not knowing anything about them, and missing them terribly.



On Saturday, Feb 28th, we received news that Pilgrim was no longer with us. The details are too hard for me to blog about, but we have spent the last week thinking of the good things and remembering how sweet and loveable our big bear of a dog was.



When we found out where Pilgrim had died and knew the direction they ran, we hung fliers with Remy's picture, hoping someone would call. This past Thursday, Eric received the call we'd been waiting on, and it was amazing news! Remy and Pilgrim had wandered into a yard, and while Pilgrim ran off, Remy stayed and had been staying on their back porch the whole 3 weeks. What was even more amazing is that the man who called had been working on my uncle's barn, not 100 yards from my parent's house!!!! He lives about 5 miles from my parents and had been at the barn working almost every day that Remy had been missing. It just happened to be my day off and Eric took a few hours off work so that we could go pick up Remy and bring her home. She had lost some weight, and she has been a little traumatized since coming home, but she is slowly coming out of her shell and becoming her old self again. It has been interesting to see how she interacts with Hannah, because Hannah had barely started crawling when Remy left, and now, Hannah is all about being all up in Remy's business. But, we took Remy to the vet today to have her checked out and we got her microchipped in case anything like this happens again.



Thanks to everyone who prayed with us and for us.. .It is bittersweet to welcome Remy back with open arms... we are so glad to have her home, but we are still missing Pilgrim. RIP sweet buddy.

Pilgrim and Tasha, 2008

9 months old!!

Hannah, you are 9 months old!! At your 9-month appt, you weighed 20 lbs, 15oz (80th percentile), were 25.5 inches long (75th percentile), and your head circumference was 19 inches (90th percentile). As your daddy put it, "that's a Crowell head for sure!" (For our friends that read the blog, according to Eric, his side of the family all have large heads... I'm not really sure if this is true or not, but he swears it is. For Eric's family that reads the blog, I secretly think it's just him.)

You just started crawling a couple of weeks ago, and you are quickly becoming a pro. You also started pulling up on things and standing up, which means nothing is safe now!

The pediatrician said you could start eating real food now, so we have been introducing it to you slowly... but you can't seem to get enough!! You love yogurt, cheese, ham, chicken, taco meat, avacodoes and you somehow manage to eat almost a whole bag of yogurt melts a day (ok, ok... with the help of your mommy... but they are really good!). Also, you really love these puffs that look a whole lot like Cheetos which make me feel slightly guilty for feeding them to you in restaurants. I want to bring the Gerber can they come in and say "Look... she's supposed to eat them!"

Every day is something new with you Hannah, it is just such an exciting time. We love you Boo!

Crawling!

Hannah is now officially crawling!!! She has been army-crawling for the past three weeks or so, and then all of a sudden she just started crawling for real! It was so cute, and then we started clapping and saying "yay Hannah" and then she just looked right at us and sat up and clapped along. It was great!

But, when we tried recreating that on video, it sadly didn't work. Guess you just had to be there :)


But here is a video of her crawling down the hallway. Our girl is getting so big!!!

2/15 UPDATE: Since this first day when she started crawling, she has been non-stop! Here are a couple of cute pictures of her in action :)

Pardon the drool :)

Gymboree!!

Hannah and I have started going to Gymboree classes on Mondays as a fun mother-daughter bonding thing... a couple of weeks ago, Eric went with us and took these pictures!

It is so much fun to watch her interact with the other kids, and it's really amazing how quickly she is learning things by watching them. I feel like she has gone from just sitting there to standing to army-crawling in just a couple of weeks. It's crazy!

But, I have so much fun going with her.... it gets us out of the house and we usually have lunch with Daddy, or go shopping afterwards, so it's a great girls day out.

Dedication day

Yesterday was Hannah's baby dedication day at church and it was so great! Hannah's Mama, Papa, Great-Aunt Pami, and Aunt Katie came and we had such a good time. The header at the top of the blog was the slide they showed when we walked up. I thought it was so cute, I put it on the blog!

We had dedication with our good friends Jamey and Hilary and their two precious babies, Carter and Calla. Carter and Calla are truly miracle babies and they are just so adorable and sweet. We love them and it was so special for us to share this day with them!

Our life verse for Hannah is Joshua 1:9, and it is our goal to teach Hannah that God is always there for her and He will never leave her.

Hilary's family recorded the entire thing and she put it on YouTube, so I copied the link from her page :)

Here it is: BabyDedication 2/7/2010

We love you Hannah and we will always remember this sweet day!!

Haircut!

Hannah had her second haircut on Thursday and we think it turned out much better this time! Perhaps its because I didn't attempt to do it on my own :) Anyways, that night we took some pictures to try to get a cute on for her baby dedication that is in a couple of weeks. She was in a super good mood that night, so the pictures turned out great!

This last one is the one we're using for her baby dedication... we think it captures her perfectly :)

Merry Christmas!

We had such a great Christmas this year - Hannah's first! Of course, she didn't really know what was going on, but we had fun helping her unwrap her gifts, and she definitely enjoyed all the family time! I think she's beginning to realize that when we go to Mama and Papa's that she is going to be the center of attention at all times. We may have to work on that later on :) Here are some pictures of Hannah's 1st Christmas!

Hannah loves this rattle from her Grandma B and Grandpa B! She plays with it all the time!

This was Hannah's go-to move with every present


Hannah loves her new Cabbage Patch dolls... she especially loves making out with them :) Actually, she's chewing on their noses. I don't know which is worse!

I don't know what was going on here!



My mom and dad bought her a wagon and she loved it! We all took turns pulling her around and when we would stop, she would start moving her body to try to get it to go again. It was so funny.

My friend Scot came over Christmas night for awhile and it was so great to see him! Scot moved to PA a couple of years ago, so I don't get to see him very often and I was so excited for him to meet Hannah finally!

This Christmas was actually a White Christmas - which is pretty impressive for Oklahoma/Arkansas! It started snowing Christmas Eve around noon, and by the time we woke up Christmas morning - it was so beautiful!

We bundled Hannah up and took her for a ride outside!

This picture is hilarious - Dad acts like it wasn't freezing that day!! Nice outfit Dad :)

And finally... Eric tried getting a picture of Remy in the snow, but this was all he could get! She was not a fan :)