Hannah

Hannah started the 2nd grade this year at Harvest Elementary School. I can't believe that she is old enough for that. She is becoming a really good reader and is doing quite well with all of the new things she is learning. She was happy to find out that a few of her friends from last year are in her class. Her teacher's name is Mrs. Richards. Her classroom is in a portable. An interesting thing about her teacher is that she has 13 children. Now that's a lot of kids!!! Here she is on the first day of school.Hannah is playing on a soccer team this fall. They are half-way through the season. This is the first time she has played soccer. She is doing quite well. She has both boys and girls on her team. One great thing about Hannah is she is the only girl that has scored a goal on her team. She plays on a full-sized field. so she runs A LOT!!! She likes it and will probably play again in the spring. Here she is with Jacob before their first game.



Here are a few pictures of Hannah in action...

It has been nearly a year and a half since Hannah lost her two bottom teeth. So finally, her top teeth have come out. Each within a week of each other. She is proud to say she pulled it out herself. Here she is with the first tooth gone.
The second tooth has an interesting story. It was extremely loose on a Friday night. She had been working on it all day long. Of course she didn't want anyone to touch it but her. That night she went to bed. The next morning she came in and announced that her tooth was gone... literally. She had woken up and found that it was missing. She searched her bed, the floor, everywhere, but couldn't find it. We decided that maybe she had swallowed it during the night. She also told us that she had dreamt that she had pulled it out. Maybe it wasn't a dream after all. That night she wrote the tooth fairy a note and explained that indeed her tooth was gone, but she couldn't find it to put it under her pillow and she hoped that the tooth fairy would understand. Of course she did and Hannah was happy about that. The funny thing was when we moved Hannah's furniture around a few weeks later, we found her tooth between her bed and the wall. She was thrilled. She was hoping to put it back under her pillow that night in hopes of "fooling" the tooth fairy. We explained that she probably would know that it was the "missing" tooth and probably wouldn't leave anything this time. She agreed and needless to say, she still wanted to leave the tooth so the tooth fairy could take it. Here's a picture of her now with her toothless grin!

Isn't she cute!!!