Flushed with glee

Today I was journaling in our home office on Nathan's computer.  Hannah was playing by herself nicely and I could hear her go back and forth from her bedroom to the bathroom.  She often likes to do this.  She will also go into the bathroom and open and close the linen closet.  It's kind of cute because you'll hear her say "Bye.  Bye.  Bye..." as she is closing herself into the linen closet.  She is so silly.

Anyways, back to the story.  As I could hear her go in and out of the bathroom and her bedroom I just kept typing away.  This side of the house is very child proof so I know she can't get into anything too messy.  Then came the silence.  Hmm...what is she doing?  I decided that this silence was probably stemming from her reading a book in her room, which is often the case.

Then all of a sudden I hear it.  WHOOSH!  It was the flushing of the toilet.

Uh oh!  What did she just flush?  I instantly backed away from the computer, ran out of the office and into the bathroom thinking "Great...what toy did she just flush down the toilet?"  As I am running in, Hannah is running out with an ENORMOUS smile and a very gleeful laugh.  She was so proud of what she did.  I couldn't help but laugh.  After inspecting the situation, she didn't flush anything down the toilet (yet) as the lid was still closed.  Apparently she just discovered the handle and the magic involved with pushing it.

I guess the journey of Hannah and the toilet has officially begun.

For Amy

Okay Amy...this video is for you per your request.  I decided to record Hannah saying her words and doing her sounds in the bathtub so she wouldn't be so distracted by the recording light on the camera and she did fabulous!  Enjoy.

Hannah's words and sounds

Mount Nittany

One of the first things that Nathan wanted to do when we moved here was to "hike" Mount Nittany.  Mount Nittany is a decent sized mountain for Pennsylvania, though to those who are from the west, which we are, it is more like a large hill (hence the reason I put hike in quotation marks).

So yesterday I had one of my fabulous visiting teachers babysitt Hannah for the morning (thanks Pamela!) while Nathan and I went and climbed Mount Nittany as it only takes a couple of hours. For the first 700 feet or so it's a little strenuous because your climbing up a steep incline.  Once it plateaus then it's more like a leisurely walk.

Mount Nittany has 7 overlook points where you can view the valley of the State College area, but we only had time for 2.  The first overlook we went to is called the Mike Lynch overlook.  At 1,940 feet you can see the entire campus of Penn State, and the mammoth Beaver Stadium (where the Nittany Lions play football).

The second outlook shows a view of the northwest, and it is also the summit of Mount Nittany at a whopping 2,040 feet.

Did you  noticed in the pictures that it was really overcast?  Yep...Nathan and I got caught in the rain just after we summitted.  By the time we made it back to the car we were soaked.  It was kind of fun though hiking in the rain.  And no Mom we are not going to catch pnumeonia or anything.  The weather was slightly muggy and not cold so don't worry.

When we got home we took off our shoes and socks so that we wouldn't track mud all over my clean floors.  Hannah saw the shoes and couldn't help herself (she's really into shoes right now). She stepped right in my red Eccos, put on my sunglasses, and she thought she was so cool.  By the way, the reason why I am a little blurry in this photo is because I was loosing my balance.  I had to post it though because Hannah looks too cute.

Those were our adventures of Mount Nittany.

Mt. Nittany picture courtesy of 3dnworld.com

It happens every year...

Our Anniversary

Happy eighth Nathan!

Jay Leno worthy?

I'm thinking about sending this into Jay Leno for when he does his headline show.

I was cleaning up paperwork today and getting rid of old things that we no longer need.  One of those things just happened to be our old insurance cards.  I looked on the back of the card and couldn't help but laugh at the instructions for what to do if you ever lost your card.

If my card was lost, how on earth am I supposed to know what number to call?

I'd like to meet the person who wrote that on the back of the card.  Genius.

The latest projects

Before we moved from Iowa (and I could no longer take advantage of my sewing class) I made this skirt.  I decided to do brown corduroy for the skirt, and then I made four different colored sashes to go with it.  I felt like by doing that I could get a few different outfits out of it.

For the spring/summer seasons I could wear the green and blue sashes.

And for the fall/winter seasons I could wear the orange and red sashes.

On my last day of sewing class I made this little organizer out of some scrap materials that I had.  It was so easy to make.  It hangs on the wall right next to the sewing machine so that it makes it convenient for you to grab whatever you need.

And my latest, and by far the biggest project of late, has been making Hannah's quiet book.  I only finished the pages of the book so I still need to do the hole punches with the silver rings, and then make a cover for the book, but that is several months off.  I ordered the printed pellon pages from this website.  It was kind of fun to color in the pages with fabric markers and to make the pockets, but I am so glad that these pages are done.  They have been a pain in the butt.

Calling Sage...

Hannah would like a play date with her old gal-pal!

Plus I'd like to catch up with Sage's Mom, and Nathan and I would like our Iowa home teachers to come and visit.

We miss ALL of our Iowa friends (not just Sage).