9 Months Old

This little munchkin is 9 months old today!

It's weird to think that now she's been outside of me just as long as she was inside of me :)

9 months pregnant...

9 months old...

Either way we still really love her!

Today she had her 9 month check up. She weighs 19.5 pounds and is 28.5 inches tall (she's just about as tall as He Ping Ping).

She's really slimmed out. When she was born she was in the 99th percentile for weight and the 70th percentile for height. But now she's only in the 50th percentile for weight and has gone up to the 80th percentile in height. We love watching her grow! She sure is fun!

Sleeping Beauty

I thought this was a funny position to find Eleanor during her nap today. For some reason she always crosses her legs while sleeping. What a little lady :) Also, she loves her bunny.

She sure is cute when she's sleeping.

She climbs!

So Eleanor has turned into quite the little climber. She has recently climbed Baby Everest, our staircase. Her first attempt took her about 3 minutes but she is getting pretty quick. I can't believe how big she's getting. It's so fun to see her little personality and watch her learn and grow!

Here's a link to the video. It was too long to put right into the blog.

Video of Eleanor climbing the stairs

Bachelorette Junkie

So I've really gotten into this season of the Bachelorette. Well actually, let's be honest, I guess I get into it every season :) I was so happy to see Jillian finally get rid of Wes a couple of weeks ago. I thought he was totally sleezy and a major jerk for "having a girlfriend" and all that stuff. Well I found this interview with him. It turns out he might not be so bad afterall because ABC peeps did some major editing and also it might actually be Ed with a girlfriend! We'll just have to wait and see how all this drama turns out. This reality Steve guy also suspects that Reid will come back and proclaim his love to Jillian!

Here's a link to Reality Steve's Blog. Scroll way down for the interview with Wes.

Yes I'm Goin' to Carolina in My Mind

So we kind of had a surprise vacation to North Carolina. The company Andrew's working for this summer has an office in Charlotte, NC so they sent him down to meet with some people for the project he's working on. Andrew's parents live about 3 hours from Charlotte in Wilmington so Eleanor and I decided to tag along and make a vacay out of it.

Andrew had to be in the Charlotte office Monday-Friday, so we just hung out in the hotel and at the pool while he was at work. Charlotte isn't really a sightseeing kind of place. It's really nice and clean and pretty, just nothing really touristy to see so I'm sorry to say I don't have any pictures from our time in Charlotte :( Actually, I probably only took like 10 pictures our whole trip. Ooops. Luckily Pam took a bunch, so I've stolen some of hers

We spent the weekend before and after in Wilmington with Andrew's parents. We got in on the 4th of July. We went to Taco Bell and then to a fireworks show on the beach. Eleanor loved the fireworks and I was in heaven because they had a snoball stand there. Yumm.

Here's Eleanor on our plane ride there. Luckily she did really well.

Here we are at Pam and Doug's favorite restaurant...Taco Bell!


At the fireworks show. Eleanor was very sleep deprived by this point.


After our week in Charlotte we headed back to Wilmington. Here's Eleanor with Grandma Pam.

On Saturday we did some sightseeing. First, Grandpa Doug wanted to take Eleanor for a walk where he does his running so we went to Greenfield Lake and walked around for a little while.



We even saw an alligator

Then we headed to downtown Wilmington and walked around and looked for a place to have lunch.



Then we went on a boat ride down Cape Fear River. This is an elevator bridge...the whole middle part lifts up like an elevator to let ships through. Cool, huh?

USS North Carolina

Eleanor was so tired she was able to fall asleep on the boat ride.

Grandma Pam standing in front of our boat, Henrietta II

Here's Eleanor before church on Sunday

After church

Returning our rental car...Does this look like a Pontiac G6 or similar?? I don't think so!

Well we were supposed to fly home on Monday night but our flight kept getting delayed until finally it was cancelled so they booked us on a flight Tuesday afternoon. Well when we got to the airport on Tuesday, the flight was overbooked so they were looking for people to get bumped to a later flight. We decided to do it to get some free vouchers so they booked us on a flight for 6:00 PM. That gave us time to go to the beach for about 2 hours. I wish we would have known about all these delays so we could have spent like a whole day at the beach! Well when we got back to the airport our flight was delayed so we didn't end up leaving until like 8 PM. That made us miss our connecting flight in Atlanta by like 15 minutes so they gave us a hotel voucher to stay in Atlanta that night and then we got put on a flight the next morning. So we finally made it home on Wednesday! What a mess!

Here's a video of Eleanor crawling around the airport. She was loving all the space to roam around!

In other news, here's a video of Eleanor pushing her little walker. She's getting pretty good at walking with help. Apparently I walked at 7 months old, so we'll see how much longer it takes Eleanor. I have a feeling the day she learns to walk will also be the day she learns to run!!

Sleeping is no fun

Now that Eleanor is a little more mobile, she just wants to play in her crib rather than sleep. She's figured out how to go from sitting to "crawling" and crawling to sitting. Sometimes when I peek in at her she's just sitting up in her crib talking to the wall. In the last day or so she's starting pulling up on things. Last night after I put her down for bed I thought it was too quiet too soon. I thought maybe she was just really tired and she conked out, but I highly doubted that.

I went in to check on her and I found her standing up just having a grand old time. I sure do love this little girl. She's so fun to have around!

Here's a cute little video of her reaction to seeing me...

Eleanor is 8 months old and Andrew's Birthday Weekend

Eleanor is 8 months old and just as cute as ever. Here are some of the other things she's been up to.

I think she's figured out when I get the camera out it's time to smile.
Here she is showing off her TWO teeth.

She's been practicing her yoga. Freddie informed me that this is "downward facing dog".

She can kind of wave

She is a jumping machine

I got her a little pair of sunglasses for when we are out at the lake and she seems to really like them. She's pretty good at keeping them on...

....most of the time.

She would always go after my flip flops so I got her her own pair for a buck to chew on.

We have this little key chain that plays the BYU fight song and she goes crazy for it whenever we push the button. We've got a little cougar on our hands!

And lastly, she still sucks her thumb, either one will do.

Last night Andrew's company had a work party at a baseball game so we went to that. Unfortunately we didn't make it all the way to the fireworks, but we still had a good time.

Eleanor's pretty fierce in her new sunglasses

Here she is enjoying a tootsie roll pop

In true Hansen form I made Andrew open his presents before his actual birthday. I got him some work clothes and socks and razor blades. He also got a letter in the mail saying he received a $2,500 scholarship for next school year. That sure makes a good bday present!

He had a package from his parents to open on his actual birthday though. They got him a law school polo, a Chick-fil-a gift card, some snacks, and sent him some Tom Clancy books from their bookshelves for some summer reading.

Of course we had to go to Chick-fil-a for lunch. I think I could eat there everyday!

So could Eleanor

When we got home I made his chocolate chocolate chocolate birthday cake and some yummy frozen strawberry lemonade (so easy and good --- just blend frozen strawberries and lemonade in the blender and voila!)

We had one of Andrew's friends from school and his new wife over to have cake with us. We went to their wedding about a month ago and they gave Andrew a framed picture from their wedding.

Eleanor really got a kick out of the birthday candles!

Happy birthday to Andrew and happy 8 months to Eleanor!

Andrew's Birthday Dinner

Andrew's birthday isn't until this weekend but his work is having a party at a baseball game so we decided to go out for his birthday dinner last weekend. If you love Benihana's like we do, then go to their website and sign up to be in their birthday club and you get $30 off of your dinner. So we both had a yummy teppanyaki dinner for only 16 bucks. Happy early birthday to Andrew!


And here's our master chef...