Sorry this blog has been silent for over a month. That is the longest stint in about 2 years. YIKES!! (I guess all good things come to an end, no??) The reason being, we are just really enjoying our sweet Anna girl! We're having a lot of fun, and her new-found mobility keeps us forever on the move, and extremely busy! My goal will still be twice a month... but now, I'm wondering if realistically it should be once a month... and more often if I can.
Thanks to those of you for continuing reading. There are quite a few pictures, and even a couple videos. Her stats will be at the end...
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| She has started to twirl her hair while she is drinking her milk. |
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| Investigating a spray bottle... she even spritzed herself a little bit with some water. |
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| Her cousin Bryant came over and showed her the joys of a bean bag chair... She LOVES her bean bag chair now! |
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| Milk, pretzels and hair twirling!! |
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| Everything is a "hat". If it can go on her head... it could possibly be a hat! One time she even put my cell phone on her head and looked me and said "at" (hat). She is cute as can be! I have now put out some of her winter hats in her toy bins, and she likes to put them on her head. |
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| Cheese! |
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| A pretty dress for Father's Day! |
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| We met Jer's parents for dinner on Father's Day. I captured this sweet kiss she gave her Papa! |
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| She fell asleep in the car on the way home from playing with Grandma & Grandpa Leeper. I see this face regularly. It makes me laugh. |
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| In the recent weeks she has taken an extreme liking to this "Ginormous Elmo." One day she insisted on bringing him along with us on our evening walk. Yeah, it was probably a good 80-85 degrees outside! Silly girl!! |
slept at Aunt Jill & Uncle Dawson's house. Here's
a funny video to go along with the previous picture
above. :-) Love her!!
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| One hot Saturday we hit up the sprayground. All 3 of us went, and we had fun! |
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| Aunt Katie & Uncle Todders came up to see us for the 4th of July! Auntie came when Anna was sleeping. She snuggled right in when she woke up. And a big GOLD STAR to Auntie Katie for waiting so patiently for Anna girl to wake up, before going to get her. You made her mommy happy. |
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| We turned our pumpkin's seat around to a forward facing seat. Now she enjoys bringing fun toys with her. Today's, treat was her ducks. |
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| And, here's Ginormous Elmo as her lap riding buddy. |
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| This is baby Elmo. We like him, because he is smaller and does not take over everything. I thought it was hilarious one morning that she was feeding Baby Elmo Cheerios. (She was even using proper technique, and correct form!) |
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| Giving Elmo a few more. |
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| And here's some for herself. |
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| When a spoon doesn't quite cut it... just lift up the bowl, and drink your Cheerios! |
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| We also had the wonderful opportunity to go to a baseball game with Aunt Jill and our cousin's Bryant, Valerie, and Deanna. Unfortunately our game was rained out... but on our way home De bought us ice cream at McDonalds! Aunt Jill spoiled her, and helped her with a little ice cream. Her first cone!! (She did really well!) |
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| And loved it! |
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| She kept wanting more! |
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| We also have been frequenting our local parks. Anna is becoming quite the pro at slides. Here is a great action shot. |
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| Now, when you see this face... it's the "naughty" face. It usually means she's up to no good! Watch out of you see it. It's totally cute, but completely misleading! |
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| Some days she prefers to have a bunch of animals/toys on her lap. She has some of her favorites here... Baby Elmo, her baby doll, and her puppy. All topped off with a cup of milk! |
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| Daddy too mommy's car for an oil change. So Anna and I went to the Y for a bit. That means we had to take Daddy's new car... it's a convertible. She liked it! (For those of you worried about the safety of a convertible, and the lack of roof to take the impact of a crash should the car roll over... I want you to know that I didn't take her on the freeway, and we didn't go faster than 35 miles and hour. We don't take her in this car regularly, but it's safe. So don't worry.) |
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| Today, on our way home from Grandma & Grandpa Leeper's house, I see this regularly from my review mirror now. It's sweet. |
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| I took these pictures at the Captain's game. She sure does love her Aunt Kimmee!! |
Now, for her current stats...
Sleep: Anna is still on the Prevacid, and as long as she isn't teething, she does really well. Anna usually sleeps from 9/9:30pm-7/8:30am. Anna likes her routine. Currently, we ask her if she's ready to go to bed, and then she responds with "teeth" and heads over to our baby gate. Then we go upstairs, brush teeth, and wash her hands. And in the past few days of this blog post, we've added sitting on the potty. (Information on this below.)
Eating: Anna continues to do well eating, although her favorites are still those wonderful baby food pouches, and milk. She eats a variety of foods, but still enjoys a baby food pouch or two during the day. Some days she eats more or less of them, just depends. Anna has done really well eating sandwiches too, especially grilled cheese! She some days will eat anywhere from 1/4- 1/2 grilled cheese. She also likes to eat a variety of fruits... apples, bananas, grapes (quartered), pineapple, cantaloupe. Most of the time she gets her veggies in baby food pouches, but I have successfully gotten her to eat peas, corn, broccoli, sweet potatoes, carrots, and green beans. Those are harder to get her to eat on a consistent basis though. As far as snacks go, her favorites are pretezels, yogurt melts, and cheerios. Anna likes to eat chicken, turkey, and ham as well.
Clothing/size: We are mostly wearing 18 month clothes. She is too tall for 12 month pants, but still fits regularly in a 12 month short sleeve/tank top shirt or sweaatshirt. Anna is still in size 3 diapers, and size 3.5-4 shoe. At her 18 month appointment she weighed 22 pounds (even). (I'll have to add at a later date her height. I forgot to bring her book, and need to call the doctor's office.)
Potty Training: We are not officially potty training. We are just in the "get acquainted with the potty phase." However, we got our potty on Thursday, I put her on it a few times, and then on Saturday I put her on the potty twice and she peed on it twice. She has since gone on the potty 5 times, and in 3 days I've put her on it 7 times. So... we're doing really well. We still have not taken the plunge to underwear, but I think after our vacation, we'll just see how it works.
Words: Anna continues to add words daily, I have no idea how many... probably 60-70?. One of her favorite things to do now is work on letters. She has a triangular-prism shaped toy that has flip letters, shapes, gears, a mirror and xylophone. She loves it! She does really well repeating letters A-F, and words associated with them, and last week we added letters G-L. We also recite the colors, and shapes on the toy. Anna continues to LOVE, LOVE, LOVE music. She always wants to be sung to, or listen to music and dance. It makes for good variety in our day.
Walking: Anna has embraced her new-found mobility. She is no stranger to walking, and has now even taken off with running also. Anna seldom crawls too. She is such a big girl. It's also fun, now because she is in a whole new level of following directions. Jeremy or I can give her something and ask her to throw it away, and she walks over to the garbage and throws it away.
Well... I think that should do it! Again, thanks for checking in on us... I will try to do better in the future! Hope everyone is well!!
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