Well, this is not Hannah Kate's first hair cut. This is just Reed snoozing in her chair....but isn't that peaceful? And check out these jowls!! She's just eating, sleeping and growing!
This is HK's first trip to the salon! She was such a good client! She was very quiet once we got there and just soaked in the whole experience. We went from lots of uneven ends to a cute cut that already makes our curls seem fuller. She climbed up in the chair and wore the cape around her neck like she's done this for years. She did eyeball Mrs. Meg's scissors pretty hard but sat very still during the whole cutting process. And very happily claimed her watermelon sucker upon completion.
We've been sleeping and growing alot around here. I caught Reed with her eyes open this morning and wanted to share. 3 weeks old and still the happiest baby!
Life has been good with baby #2! I guess that I'm seeing that it's more of a frame of mind than actual difficulty adjusting to baby. With HK, it was a whole world transformation going from two adults to having a little bean completely dependent on us. With Reed, we're already adjusted to that huge factor and she's just going with the flow. It's been more challenging to help HK adjust and stay normal all at the same time. But God is good and we are becoming better at this every day. In fact, today I get to go find out about registering Hannah Kate for gymnastics! Hoping this will give her an outlet for some of this built up winter energy! Happy February!
Sarah Reed Hooker was born last Sunday morning (1/10/10) at 6:30 after a very brief and wonderful labor. (If I'm allowed to say that.) It really was not bad. We called Daniel's parents Sunday morning about 3:00 after I awoke to some strong contractions and realized that my water had broken. Mimi rushed over to be with HK and off we went. We arrived at the hospital about 3:30 am and after getting a little pain medication for the contractions and laughing a little while waiting to completely dilate (and making a few phone calls to my family while on pain medication?), I was ready to deliver about 6:15. We had to wait for the nurses to get Dr. Beckham in the room and Reed arrived at exactly 6:30. The first week at home has been really wonderful, too. Mom has been here helping with running the household and keeping me company and Mimi and Papaw have been close at hand to help keep HK's life as normal as possible. We've had lots of visitors checking in on us including our sweet cousins- Mattie, Mark and Mary Glenn (with Aunt E and Uncle Mark, of course)- who have been so sweet and excited with us! Reed has just taken to nursing and no glitches thus far, which is an answered prayer. Everyone is adjusting relatively well to the new normal and starting to get accustomed to being a family of 4 now. Thank you all for your warm wishes and kind words. I am absolutely in love with this new little wonder. Here are a few pictures of our first week. Blessings.
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Here are some of my favorite shots of HK her first New Year's (has it been two whole years since then?)...And we begin this new year eagerly anticipating the new addition of our family. With a little less than 3 weeks to go, our house is full of excitement and preparations. We celebrated New Year's Eve last night with good friends at Nola's in Indianola and highly recommend it. For that matter, we highly recommend going out with just adults. Quite refreshing and the words "if you do that one more time, we'll have to have a spanking talk" never came out of our mouths. Cheers to a great new year full of opportunity!
We had a wonderful Christmas! Here is a highlight that captured some of the magic...
We're so excited it's Christmas time around here! 
We have made a couple of visits with Santa thus far but have also had to discuss how we can't see him everyday; he has to go back to the North Pole sometimes; and others like to visit with him, too. Our Christmas list has been so fun listening to this year. It started off very simple with a candy cane. That's what she remembered Santa giving to her last year at the mall and that's what she wanted again this year. Then she realized that things could be requested....and a Dora Umbrella has been the highlight of the list. One Sunday she decided to announce that she wanted "a diamond"- this was totally unprompted and almost made water come through my nose. And to clarify, "a diamond necklace" was added. Yesterday she was sharing with Mimi her list and she added a big elephant. Thank you, Mimi, for explaining to her that they have to live at the zoo!
