Hannah Sayings (Part 2), Christmas Cookies and First Major Snow

After I posted the last entry, I thought of several other Hannah sayings.

"Hannah, where does Uncle Jon and Aunt Mo live?"
"Sea-waddle" (Seattle)

"Hold you, Hold you" (She says this when she wants us to pick her up.)

"Mommy, tand tup, tand tup." (Mommy, stand up... this is "required" when I hold her)

"Dopuph and Meo-ry" (Joseph and Mary)

"Dopuph, Meo-ry, Jees wrap" (Joseph, Mary and Jesus are wrapped... this happens to be the case in several of the Christmas books we checked out of the library.)

Tonight during prayer, Hannah wanted to thank God for the pilot. I suppose a very good person to thank God for, since he (or she) will be getting us to North Dakota for Christmas.

On Thursday, I finally got around to baking my favorite Christmas cookie... peanut butter blossoms. I debated whether or not to have Hannah help me, but I decided to try it. She stood with me for over 30 minutes unwrapping the Hershey kisses while I rolled the dough! Here is a clip of it. The fact that she is so quiet means she was REALLY focused!



I don't think she realized what it was that she was unwrapping, because she didn't try to eat any until about half-way through the bag. At that point, she was holding one of the kisses in her hand (waiting for the tray to come out of the oven, so we could put them on top) and it melted. I looked over to see her cautiously tasting the chocolate. OHHHHH... she ate the whole thing as you can see from the pictures.


I washed her hands so she could finish helping unwrap the kisses. I was pleased that she didn't try to eat another one. I suppose she had her eyes focused on the cookies that were arriving out of the oven.

When we finished we both enjoyed the fruits of our labors. Yummy! Of course, everyone knows you MUST eat the kiss first, especially when it is freshly melted from the warm cookie. This fact is apparently in our DNA, because Hannah knew what to do without seeing anyone else eat this type of cookie!
It has been snowing for the last day and a half here in Gloucester. Daryl and Hannah got outside to play for a little (it was COLD... 10 degrees!... so they didn't stay long). After she got over the snow making her boots "dirty," she had a really great time. Thank you, Emily, for the coat. Hannah calls it her "Emily Coat!"

She really enjoyed going down her slide into the snow. Enjoy!