Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

I traveled a lot in January and February by myself because of work, but Hannah and I agreed that she could come to Indiana with me to visit my sister and her family right before President's Day. She was really excited to play with her cousins.  Here she is close to tears in the Indianapolis airport, not wanting to leave. When she went through security her little lip was quivering and she secured the compassion of the TSA officer and he gave a sticker. It was nice of him, but it didn't work. When I got home from all my traveling (I had been about 10, 000 miles since December) I was pretty tired and I canceled a lot of my schedule and just stayed home to nap and catch up on my writing. At night, Hannah still lets me rock her to sleep and here is a photo of her capturing how we both felt. This last Friday was pajama day at preschool. The kids dressed in their pajamas and brought their sleep toys to show the class. Then they made pancakes for a snack. I had the all...

Well, the rest of Christmas Break was busy. It was cold and snowy, I went to Indianapolis to visit my sister and her family and then a week later I went out west again to do dissertation research. Since then, the semester had started and I have been traveling around quite a bit particularly on the East coast. I have not been taking pictures really either. Hannah did manage to have her first dental appointment. She go a cleaning and they showed her how to floss. She did a really good job of sitting still in the chair.  She goes to a preschool that brought in a puppeteer as a fundraiser and so I took her to the show and then we went to lunch at Arby's. The show was fun, but it was more fun to watch Hannah watch the show.  I have been writing my dissertation and I am about 100 pages in. That's probably about halfway through the writing. The study is done. The data are analyzed. It's really just a matter of getting the document written. I was told that the ha...