I absolutly love these pictures our friend Kim took for us. Anna is in two special dresses in these pictures. The white one my mom made for her, and the pink one a friend of the family made for me when I was two.
In these last three Anna is singing "If your happy and you know it clap your hands.." She loves to see this song and do the motions while singing.
I can't believe two years have flown by since Anna was born. She has grown up so much . It is so much fun to see her personality develop! She is sweet, cuddly, determined, indepentent, and lot of fun. We celebrated her birthday lots of ways all day long.
We woke her up singing "Happy Birthday". And gave her her present from us. (Barn and farm animals.)
We made cupcakes together.
We had a party with friends at the playground.
We skyped with both sets of grandparents.
We ate lots of junk food :)
I think it was a successful celebration.
Here are a few pictures of the day
We enjoyed being outside to play today! It is the first time it has been warm enough to play outside since December!
Anna has been talking for a while now. She loves to chat -- most of this "chatting" is nonsense words but she seems so think we all understand it. She will tell herself stories when we are riding in the car or when she is in her crib. It is quite cute to go in to her room and hear her talking up a storm.
There are some words that we can understand:) She also uses sign language for some words too.
Sign:
more
all done
eat
milk
byebye
Says:
Momma
Daddy
byebye
walk
water
milk
eat
more
book
all done
Anna
no
ball
stuck
baby
chicken
meat
doggy (or ruff ruff)
voom (for car!)
Here are a few videos from the last few weeks.
Anna walking along on our front walk. Jake and I realized we didn't want to forget her cute wobbly walk.
Here are two videos from our time on the playground. She loves climbing up the steps, sliding down the slide and running around to do it again. She and Kara chase eachother around from the slide to the steps giggling. It is their own game they came up with. You can hear Kara giggling in the background of one of the videos.
I has been forever since I put up new pictures. I have birthday pictures still to put up with, plus ones from the last three months. But here are some resent ones to enjoy!
We have been enjoying a beautiful couple of fall days. So the playground was a great place to hang out.
We have had a lot of fun at the zoo. Anna and Kara loved looking at the animals. They were so cute as they stared at the animals. We were even able to see a 3 week old baby giraffe.
Anna wearing a beautiful dress my mother made for her baptism
I posted over here today
Anna just discovered her walker yesterday... She loves it so much that she gets mad if we try to pick her up when she wanted to walk with it. Here are a couple of cute videos of her with it for the Grandparents:)
Anna turned 10 months about a month ago, but I am just now getting around to writing about it. Time is flying so fast. If I forget to post about it then I know I will quickly forget it.
Anna love to "smile" for pictures! If she sees the camera then she scrunches up her face and lifts her head up. Often times this meas I get a silly picture of her or I miss her face all together like here (but it is so cute I don't want to forget it):
This is the first month when it has become crystal clear to us that she knows exactly what Mommy and Daddy are saying. She understands "stop", and come back. Though we have caught her choosing not to listen sometimes. The other day she was begining to crawl into the kitchen and I wanted her to stay and play in the living room so I told her to stop and not go into the kitchen. As soon as I said that she started crawling as fast as she could to get to the kitchen before I could reach her! She is a little rascal sometimes.
I realized that I have not kept track of her first words. She understands what we are saying and often tries to mimic us but her speech is not very clear so I haven't known whether to record them as words or not. She says "Mama" expeccailly if she is hungry. She will also say "stuck" when she is in her high chair or in her carseat and is tired of being there! I will add more of her words when I can think of them.
Anna loves to pull herself off on things, and can even climb stairs (Mommy found this out the hard way when we were at someones house who had a second floor and found Anna halfway up the stairs within minutes of crawling out of sight.)
She likes most foods that she has tried though we have stuck to fruits, veggies, and oatmeal, wheat, and meat. She seems to be allergic to eggs but we are hoping with time she with outgrow that.
She has struggled with eczema for 8 months and we are finally seeing relief. She has seen a new doctor and the medicine he put her on is working. For the first time she is not scratching herself when I change her shirt. I can even put her in shorts and she does not spend all of her time trying to scratch! I am so thankful for this.
She is still waking up once to eat at night but other then that she is a good sleeper. She take two naps a day (morning around 10-11:30 and afternoon (2:00-4:00) and then goes to be around 6:30-7:00) She will then sleep until around 8:00 (other then eating) and wakes up happy and content to play in her crib until we come and get her.
She also loves to read board books. We can often find her looking at one and turning the pages. Her favorites are "I wrote to the Zoo" and Osbourne's touchy-feel books.
These are just some things that I want to remember about Anna.
Well our little daughter made a rather large step today (even though it wasn't really a step). Anna was crawling over to see Daddy on the couch and climbed up to say 'hello'. Jake got my attention and when I looked over there was Anna completely standing not touching anything. She had toys in both her hands and it looked like she forgot to hold on. She was grinning and smiling and seemed to have really good balance. After a few seconds, which probably felt alot longer than they actually were, she touched the couch again and couldn't understand why Mommy and Daddy were so happy!
Additionally while feeling her gums we noticed today that she now has 2 toophies... The poor little girl was really having a hard time going to sleep last night and now we know why. So far she has two little teeth on the bottom.
Anna's tooth started peaking out today! She doesn't like it when I put my finger in to check on the progress, but I felt it! She hadn't been fussy but then after her afternoon nap while I was holding her, she started to try to "head bang" me with her mouth. I thought it must mean something was up so I felt inside and sure enough I felt it. I gave her two teething tablets and she seemed fine the rest of the day. She even slept from 11:00 to6:30 last night! (Which has only happened a few times lately!)
We also haven been spending lots of time outside since it has been so beautiful. I set up the playground outside and it was fun to see all the kids explore it today. Here are a few pictures of our time.
I feel like Anna has changed SO much in the last two weeks. It is amazing how big of a milestone crawling is. In the last two weeks since Anna has started crawling she also has started pulling herself to a standing position, siting up on her knees, going everywhere around the house, crawling into closets, crawling and getting stuck under chairs. She will now sit up in bed when she wakes up at night- this makes it a lot harder for her to fall back to sleep on her own. She also loves to wake up at and play and sing in bed:) It is lots of fun to hear her after her nap- not so much fun at 5:30 in the morning! She loves to laugh, and will often laugh if she hears us or someone else laughing or crying! She like her way and is starting to fight us if she wants something we won't let her have. (We are firm with her and don't give it to her but she is starting to show a more stubborn personality. She is still learning what the word "no" means. I don't think she is really trying to push the limits when she hears "no" it just does not yet mean much to her yet. We have been experimenting with blanket time (a time where she can play but must stay on the blanket.) She seems to get the idea - if I tell her no, to stay on the blanket she won't try to crawl off... we will see how well this will continue over the next several months. She still loves her blankie and sleeps with it over her face still. She also LOVES her pacifier and won't sleep easily without it. She enjoys playing and will even play happily in the playpen for a long time. Being put in a high chair, her carseat, or the playpen does not seem to bother her at all, she just watches or plays contentedly from whereever she is.
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