Happy Thursday

Our morning photo shoot 

Anna's fort 

Wednesday

Such a big girl: sitting at the table in a regular chair

Such a lady: crossing her legs 

A Substitute?

Tonight as we were getting ready for stories, we couldn't find Wee Little Chick. Honestly. Ir was not in its usual spots. Anna patiently looked for it in both of her book bins in her room, back and forth, back and forth, but it was not there. But then HOORAY, Mama to the rescue found another book that was almost identical. Right? 

NOT! Little Chick DID NOT go over well. We got maybe 2 pages in and she was not happy. We tried One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, but that only lasted 3 pages. Finally we went on a hunt around the house and TA-DA....Wee Little Chick was found. On Mama and Daddy's bed, right where we read it last, probably only 15 minutes earlier. 

And Yes, once we found it, it was book choices #1, #2 & #3 tonight. 

First Bowl of Cereal

Summer Vaca Day 1

Little Chick count as of 3:56 pm: 8 times, plus a few more on her own. We still have 3 1/2 more hours left before bedtime.

Look out: Whomever is coming to visit soon (Eh-hem....Kevin, Jocelyn, Aunt Aimee, Uncle Chris, Nanny, Noony) YOU will be reading Little Chick to Miss. Anna if Greg and I haven't already hid it. And if it's not Little Chick, it's whatever other book she's stuck on because today time has been allotted as so:  20% playing with toys and 80% reading books. Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset she's reading all day, I just need a break from Little Chick.

7:24pm: Little Chick chosen for bedtime story #1. I bet a million dollars Greg puts it down and she chooses it again for book #2 & #3.

Growing Up

So Anna is a "B" word expert. She likes saying, bye-bye, book, ball, balloon and knows what bike ride means (she gets all excited and runs to the back door - I tried going out the front door yesterday as Greg was bringing the bikes around and she was not having it until I finally showed her the bikes were indeed in the front yard).

She also knows what a chick is and says something to the effect, "shi" for "chick". All from our lovely book, Wee Little Chick. Anna can point out the chick on the page and can also find the pig in some pictures.

Other newbies:  "shoes" as "shs". One of her favorites is, "Where did ____ go?" and puts her hands up like she asking a question and then goes and finds whatever you've asked for. Once in a while she'll say it as, "wuh-ga" which seems like a mix of where and go. Today we asked he "Where did Daddy's shoes go?" and she found his shoes and then went and tried to put them on his feet. If I ask for her shoes or my shes she can differentiate whose are whose.

Other things/directions she knows:

• Put the ____ in the pool. 
• Go in the pool. 
• Sit down (and go down safely) - when shes attempts to walk down steps -scary!
• Water the plant. 
• Gentle (we needed to teach this one since she began picking unripe tomatoes off the plant and lovely flower petals)
• Yes, you can smell the flower (She comes up to me and puckers up her lips like she wants a kiss, but really is asking to smell the flower/plant. So then I say, "Yes, you can smell the flower" and she proceeds to walk over, squat down and smell. 
• Take that out of your mouth please

Last night at dinner  Anna was using a fork and she usually tries to stab the food to get it on, but last night she used it as a scoop, like a spoon, to get the food on and was successful, super cute. She got a whole forkful of pasta and peas and was quite proud of herself. She's learned a lot at daycare, it's cute to watch her at home do new things.

Tonight at book time she picked out her first book and we read it. When I said "The End" she asked for "b-b-b-b" which means more books. So she got down and picked out another. When the second was done, she again said, "b-b-b-b" but also put up her pointer as she said it. I said, "Yes, Anna, 1 more book tonight". CUTE! When Greg got home I told him about the 1 more action she did and he said that when he reads at night he uses 1, 2 or 3 fingers as he read and counts down how many left, so I guess she picked that up from him quite quickly.

Love

Pure Obsession

Tuesday Night

Talking

Mmm....a chicken leg

Phone Conversation

Happenings

So you all know this face? Well it has 2 meanings and it's hard to tell what she wants. The first is, a kiss, and the second is to smell flowers. Of course Greg and I always think it's for a kiss so we go in to kiss Anna and she shakes her head no, (so sad!) so then we figure she must see a flower or plant somewhere that she wants to smell.  

Surfing with Daddy

Anna's favorite small space, seeing what coupons to use this week.

On another note, when I picked her up from school on Friday she was squeezed in a really tight space sucking  on her toe. Anyone know what's up with small spots & kids? 

Anna had a sleepover at Gram & Pops this weekend so Greg and I could go to a concert. Anna had a great time mixing up some blueberry cake with Gram. 

Fun with a Strainer

BOO! (Our new game that we play, you might know it as 'Peek-A-Boo')

 Yogurt here....

 Yogurt there....

 Yogurt, yogurt, EVERYWHERE! 

First Time....

We went to Moe's today after the beach and we did it! We bought Anna her first Kids Meal! It's so hard to pick apart a burrito or taco that we eat, so we got her the "Mini Masterpiece", a cheese quesadilla, drink and cookie. She about about 75% of the quesadilla and we just filled her cup with water. After she ate dinner we split the cookie into thirds and all shared it. So stinkin' cute! I doubt we'll be buying kid meals at every place, just the places that are hard to share adult meals and of course when we come unprepared with food from home. 

Yikes

Sorry for the delay folks. It's the end of the school year and we're scrambling to get finished. I'm all ready to sit down and load some pics and stories about Anna but my camera is once again MIA. Possibly left in the classroom from graduation today. Oh well. There has been lots and lots going on with miss priss lately, lets see what I can remember.

• New signs: Thank you, hands off, yum, up, bed time,
• Signs Mastered: Please, more, all done, bath, come Sydney, 
• She imitates anything you do. She found a tube of craft glue sitting around and it looks like our sunscreen bottle so she started to pretend to put sunscreen on her arm and then rub it in. On her play kitchen she mixes and stirs just like when Mama's cooking dinner. 
• Anna loves magnetic letters on Grandma's fridge, so I snagged a few from school today. She's finally getting the hang of how to turn it around so the magnet sticks to the fridge. Though tonight she was super proud to fit them in her mouth. We'll have to work on that.
• She has also been really into toilet paper lately. And not pulling it all off the roll, but tearing tiny tiny pieces off and feeding them to Sydney like it's a treat or something. 
• As for eating stuff, Anna eats sand. Handfuls. Doesn't mind if her cookie, cup, anything falls in the sand, she'll still eat it. Ick! 
• Gram and Pop have a regular size umbrella stroller (something we need to get since the joggers just too big sometimes) and that is all she wants to go in as soon as we arrive at their house. Last weekend we went out the front door to let Sydney potty and Anna took off down the front sidewalk, into the driveway, around the corner and into the garage in no time flat. When I finally found her she was right at the stroller going "uh uh uh" to go for a walk. She is just SO content and happy when she is being pushed in that stroller. I think she probably could be pushed for hours. Super relaxed and just enjoying staring at the outdoors. It's a fight to get out as you can imagine. 
• Anna can follow simple directions: "Give that plate to grandma please"  "Pick up your cup" 

Pics to come as soon as I get my hands on the camera.