Garage fun

"Hey mom, what's this thing?"

"Quinn, this is a cooler, it's SUPER fun, watch, the lid goes open & shut"

"Like this?"

"This is the BEST!"

Anna e-mailing

When we grow up

The other day on our drive home from the lake, we saw an ambulance go by and Anna asked the name of it, so I told her and what they're used for. Then she says, "When I grow up, I'm going to be a fire-girl"...."And Quinn's going to be a dump-truck-boy, you're going to be a farmer, Daddy is going to be a tree-cutter-boy and Sydney is going to be a doctor. When we all grow up Mom." 

Keeping busy

Summer Fun

Walk the Line with colored masking tape

Open Gym @ Gymnastics

Indoor Bean Bag Toss

Fort Fischer Aquarium

Chalk - line walking around the big circles & color hopping

Bike Trailer Bike Ride

Popular Grove Nature Walk

Power of Play

Homemade fingerprint name project

Emerald Isle Aquarium 

Christmas light play cave

Feed the ducks at Hugh McRae Park

Pipe cleaner strainer fun

Playground fun & picnic lunch

Lunch with Grandma

Splash Pad

Beach 

Children's Museum

Balloon Ping Pong

Banana Sushi

Movie Theater Movie (Anna & Mommy) 

Vacation Bible School 

Zoo 

Camp in the backyard

Movie Picnic in the living room - picnic dinner on blanket & watch movie together

Want to Remember

So, I've had all these little notes hanging around that I've been meaning to blog, or write in Anna's baby book and have yet to get to, so I'm going to list them here, that way I have them somewhere permanent and can laugh & giggle about them later on. 

Anna was baking with Mom one afternoon and she told her, "Hold on Grandma, I need to find the egg powder"

Anna had her sneakers on and wanted to get them off so she asked me, "Mom can you tie out my sneakers?" (untie) Same with gifts, "Mom, can you help me wrap out this? (unwrap)

Anna got money for her birthday and said, "I can bring this to church for Pastor Randy"

Way back when, when times out were happening often, we put Anna in time out at Mom & Dad's house for not apologizing, when it was time to come out, we asked her to apologize but she didn't so we said, "OK, back to time out then" as we were walking her back to the step she says, "Again?! I just did time out?!" 

When it was Quinn's birthday, Anna kept asking about hers. When a man at the blueberry patch asked her how old she was, Anna responded, "3, and my brother is going to be 1 this weekend" and the man said, "How old are you going to be on your birthday?" Anna says, "7, that's when I can drive, right mom?"

We were at the park last week and I needed to use the bathroom so I took both kids in with me and we used the handicap stall so all 3 of us could fit and let Quinn run around. Well that didn't make a difference. The minute I put Quinn down he crawls right under all the stalls and starts running around the bathroom yelling because he likes hearing his echo - and of course Anna follows. Good thing it was 8:30 and a rainy morning so no one was around. 

Anna had a great time using this on Pop

Rainy Day Fun with Jake

Just For Fun

3 Weeks before 

 2 Weeks before

Thursday: The day & night before

 Friday Night, 8:41pm 

Sunday Morning, Getting ready to go home 

Anna's First Birthday, 2 years and 3 months ago 

Sunday

I'm just taking Sydney for a walk mom 

I'm one!

We had a great day getting ready for Quinn's first birthday. This morning we had a birthday breakfast and then unfortunately miss Anna had to go to the doctors, turns out she had a nasty ear infection. Good news, with a hefty dose of medicine and a mighty long nap, she was ready to party by 4:00. We had great family and friends join us to celebrate Quinn's first year. Here's some pics,