A few hours old
1 year old
2 years old...boy how she's changed!!!
While we were gone, Anna stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Bills. She did great while we were gone although it took her awhile to adjust once we got back. She tried to pretend that she had forgotten all of mommy and daddy's rules. :0)
She was able to spend time with her cousins...Kenley, Grace, Eli, Wes, and Drew.
Anna loves to teach Kenley all of her tricks! They've snuck up the stairs together more than once and I'm sure there will be more times in the future. Monkey see, monkey do!
Poor kid with 3 sisters!
Seriously now!!
We had a great time playing at the park this morning celebrating Anna's 23 month b-day. It's hard to believe that in one more month our baby (I know I need to quit calling her that) will be 2. Goodness, it goes too fast! It doesn't seem as hard this time though as it was when she turned 1.
Anna loved the slide and was able to do it all by herself by the time we left.
This is a great playground as they have different sections of play equipment for all different ages of children.
We have a swing for her at home but no where to hang it so we're going to have to get serious about buying a swing set or finding a tree to hang it from so that we can hear her giggles of excitment at home. This was obviously her favorite thing to do.
Michael was bummed he didn't bring his fishing pole but at least we got to enjoy watching the ducks, even tiny babies, swim. Next time we'll have to remember to take some bread to feed them.
We spent this past Saturday with Daddy's family celebrating Grandpa and Grandma Burch's 80th and 77th birthdays. Anna had a fun time playing with her cousins and all the new toys. She did a good job playing on the car ride there and slept part of the way home. She even took a good nap away from home...YEA!
Playing football with Grandpa and Bayli
Grandma and Anna playing telephone (one of Anna's favorite toys!)
Snuggling with Aunt Jenny
Hunting Easter Eggs with Uncle Matt (a few months late but still tons of fun!)
I don't realize how big our little girl (she's not a baby anymore for sure) is getting until I see her in pictures. Wow, they grow so fast!!
Dressing up is not limited to just Sundays for Anna. She loves to wear my shoes and is even coordinated enough to brush her teeth and walk around in high heeled shoes. What a goof!
As you can see, she's quite the good helper when it comes to playing in water and getting all wet and soapy. :-)
Anna was a good helper when it came to packing boxes. She eagerly threw anything and everything in boxes. :-)
At our new house, she loves to run in our backyard. It's good sized and the trees provide good shade and a home for many birds and bunnies which we love to watch. We've even seen a raccoon prowling around back there.
We put her kitchen in our kitchen at our new house and she plays with it a lot more now. She's often cooking for her babies and feeding them. It's so fun to watch her play as she imitates us more and more each day. We don't even realize the things she notices us doing.
She LOVES to wear her sunglasses everywhere. It doesn't matter where we are, she wants them on!
Her first major boo-boo occured 2 weekends ago while we were sorting through boxes in the garage. She was playing on her John Deere tractor, riding around in the garage and before I knew it, I heard the wheels start spinning rather quickly and realized she was headed down the driveway. Our driveway is a bit steep so she pipcked up speed and away she went with her feet pulled up enjoying every minute of it until she got to the bottom of the drive and the tractor caught on the lip where the road starts and it through her off the tractor into the street. She loves to give us heart failure!! The Lord was watching over her and protecting her because it wasn't more than a minute after I got down there to get her that a car came flying around the corner and could've run over her had I not gotten her out of the road in time. Her eye was swollen shut for an entire day but it didn't seem to bother her. Thankfully her boo-boo has healed up very well with just a small red spot above her eye right now. It doesn't look like there will be a bad scar so that's a blessing as well.
Anna and her buddy, Matthew, are checking out the goodies in their eggs. Click on the "Easter eggs" link above to see her finding her eggs. I think I've finally figured out how to add movies to her blog. Also, the clothes pin clip on the back of her collar (seen in the video) is the way the nursery identifies the kids without them really noticing. Each clip has the child's name and ID number on it and it's also one of the safer ways to identify the kids without using sharp pins or strings that would wrap around their necks.
Mom and dad brought Anna a wagon that my sister no longer wanted and she had the best time going for rides in the backyard last weekend when the weather was nice. Too bad it had to turn cold again. She asks to go outside everyday but the wind chill has just been too cold the past few days. Hopefully we'll get some warmer weather soon.
Mom (Grandma) and Wesley defintely got their exercise in for the day!
Anna was so excited to see all of our family especially Uncle Nate. She'll really love having him close next year when he moves here to the same city for college. I see some date nights in our future as we'll have a great babysitter close by. :0)
