Recent Portraits

This is Braden's most recent school portrait. I love it because it is a good shot of his toothless grin. He is doing really well. He enjoyed first grade, and is now enjoying having more time to play with his sister, splash in the wading pool, and read. This summer will be busy, but fun for him. Next week he will attend Shuttle Camp at the New Mexico Museum of Space History here in town. He is very excited for that. It will be daily, Monday through Friday for 3 1/2 hours. He continues to enjoy Taekwondo, and is also looking forward to doing swimming lessons again. We will also be taking part in the library's summer reading program again for the third year in a row. It will be a busy summer, but there will still be plenty of time to just relax and use his imagination.

Here is one of Lydia's most recent portraits. She is wearing the pretty dress her Aunt Hillary bought for her to be a flower girl in her wedding. She is also looking forward to a fun summer. She is signed up for ballet lessons, and is so excited! She loves doing the summer reading program as well. They will earn prizes for every four books we read together, and Braden is already being a big help by filling out her book logs for her after we read books. They will also go to Story Time once a week, and family activities, like puppet shows, story tellers, dancers, etc., every Friday. We are hoping to enroll her in the next session of swimming lessons with Braden, but her age/level requires a parent to be in the water with her. So hopefully Morgan will be able to do that with her since I will probably be too bouyant to be of much help.

Summer in Alamogordo is hot and long, but the community provides a lot of activities to keep it fun and interesting for the families. Every week the movie theater has two days of free children's matinees. This week we saw "Robots". Other movies we will see are "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Madagascar", and "March of the Penguins". The schools also offer free breakfast and lunch to all children in town. Last year we enjoyed meeting friends at school and eating meals together, then playing on the school playground. That starts again this coming week, and I am looking forward to not having to do as much grocery shopping or cooking during this last part of my pregnancy.

I am getting very big and uncomfortable, but I still have a tremendous amount of energy. I feel very driven to get everything ready for our baby's arrival. I have been washing baby clothes, putting together baby gear, rearranging closets and storage to make room for all of the stuff, and deep cleaning the house. We are preparing for our first yard sale next Saturday to make room in the garage for a mini van. My official due date is August 3rd, but if the baby is measuring big when I go in for my 38-week check-up, my midwife will induce me. That will be around July 20th. Since I have gone early with my other two pregnancies my midwife believes I will go early with this one as well. So I am hoping to have the baby sometime at the end of July. We will definitely keep you updated, and hopefully there will be some pictures of another adorable Hanners baby on this blog very soon!