Crazy Squirrel

As I was sitting here feeding Hannah a few minutes ago, a squirrel came up to our sliding door. He got right up to the glass and peered in. I thought "Oh, cute squirrel, you are inquisitive about our world! You want to look in at this house that stands out as different in your woods." Then my cat, Cedric, ran up to the window, I suppose thinking very different thoughts. As they looked at each other through the glass, the squirrel tried to jump on the cat. That squirrel just went from cute to crazy. While he wasn't foaming at the mouth, jumping into a house on a cat seems like it might qualify as unusual behavior. Do we have rabid squirrels?

And now for something completely different. Hannah does this cute thing with her arms when she is in her exersaucer (she used to do it in her jumper, but we have retired that toy so that she can learn to walk): she puts them in the seat bucket and then just leans forward or back and uses her forehead to touch things. She's quite the little headbanger.

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High Chair and Halloween

Hannah's first Halloween has come and gone, and I have to say: we were pretty lame. Our original plan was to go trick-or-treating with some friends (including previously mentioned Jade), but Jade and her older brother got sick. Sad. So we stayed home. Hannah got to hang out in her giraffe costume for about 5 minutes.

Then we took it off of her. I guess we could have gone trick-or-treating, but it would have been a little weird, since Hannah can't have candy. "We have a cute baby, so you should give us candy. We would give it to her, but that would make us bad parents." I'm always ready to take one for the team.

Hannah is also moving from her bumbo seat into her high chair. I tried her in it for her breakfast today, but she kept slipping down; I don't think I had it angled right. So she got fussy and I ended up feeding her on my lap, but I did get a picture of her first.

Heidi is going to get her a haircut this week. She definitely needs it, but I'm still a little sad about that. Sure it's frayed and frazzled in the back, but it's the hair she was born with.

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