hana learns that she does not walk on water

jon got a flip mino hd for christmas. that means that taking video of hana is now easier than ever (although uploading it to the blog is still painstakingly long... as is evidenced by the delay in posting).


i'm not sure if that's good news or bad news in the blogosphere. but we have some cute video of her singing (sheepishly) into her new microphone among countless other selections.







one day while we were on vacation, we took hana to the park/beach at lake chabot. the weather was nice and since i'd been sick, hana had been a little house bound the previous couple of days. around the shore of the lake is a little man-made beach where hana likes to make "cupcakes". in truth, hana will make a cupcake out of anything at anytime: sand, dirt, blocks, pure air... what was especially endearing was how she would make her cupcake and then sing happy birthday. the first time she did this was the week before, at home with a cupcake made from thin air. it was so sweet, both jon and i were a little misty.



also at this trip to the park, hana and jon made several trips to the water's edge to get buckets of water and wetter sand for the cupcake operation.




the water was pretty calm and glassy that day so hana thought she would go darting out on it... that is until she she realized that she can't walk on water. she fell in face first to about 6" or so of water. hana was freaked (as were we all) but fine. of course, we didn't bring an extra change of clothes so we had to strip her down to warm her up, which left her wearing nothing but her diaper and her jacket, which she'd fortunately shed before the incident. needless to say, that ended our day at the park. jon did a post-splash interview once we got back to the car where hana discussed lessons learned.