Anna's thumb surgery

I put Anna in swim lessons this past summer. Randomly through her lessons I would give her thumbs up, she would do it back. As the lessons went on, I noticed that her thumbs didn't straighten all the way. I thought it was adorable and put no more effort into the matter.A couple months later, the responsible parent noticed her thumbs. I replied with, "I know, it is so cute." Josh looked at me funny and said, "I don't think they should look like that." So two months later we were off to surgery. Anna had trigger thumb, it is common and a quick surgery.
You may think she is scared, not the case. She refused to talk to anyone, including me or say anything because we made her take off her Ariel pajamas.
The next day she was as happy as could be. It might have been because she got to watch movies all day. She called her bandages her wrappers, and she wanted them off for the first two days.
Josh cut them off a week later. This was great for me, because I had to keep them dry and clean. Anna's second favorite thing to do is play with water.
The stitches are healing and she is doing great, she never had any pain, and never really complained about them at all.

Halloween and Pumpkin Patch

Anna was Ariel for halloween, I had gotten my money worth out of this costume before halloween.Piper was our cute little Candy Corn!
Anna loved trick or treating, she ran from house to house, oddly though she never asked to eat her candy. Piper got her candy and immediantly put it in her mouth.
The pumpkin patch we went to had a ton of things for the kids to do. They are in a train, there was bounce houses, swings, slides, little bike races, hay rides. We had a lot of fun.
We did not force her to pull the wagon, she insisted!

Piper tried so hard to pick up every pumpkin, it was really funny.

Anna finally found her perfect pumpkin. I asked her if she wanted to carve it, or get stickers and make a funny face. She told me "No mom, I want to draw with chalk." That worked for me, no mess and no money spent.

Lucky Piper! Lucky You!

My sister-in-law, Kari, made these really cute outfits for Piper. Piper thinks she is so cool when she wears them, it is really cute.Anna loves this skirt, anyone surprised?

See how cute I am!
Kari has opened an Esty shop to sell her super cute stuff. Note: the model is not for sale.

Here is her link http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6515064

Have fun shopping!!!

Happy birthday Piper!

Piper turned One! She was born Sept. 12th 8lbs 10 oz, 21 in long.
One month2 months
3 months
4 months, isn't she cute.
5 months. Anna is a great big sister.
6 months, she went through a phase where she always had her tongue out.
7 months, in later photos that day she had sand all over her mouth. I'll let you guess what she was doing.
These posted backwards, so go to the bottom and scroll up.

Happy Birthday Piper! Now she is 27lbs, 31.5 in long. Most of the time we call her Peanut, no reason it just stuck to her. She loves to climb, she can walk, she is always smiling and laughing,and she loves bellybuttons! We love out little Peanut!
11 months, almost walking!
10 months. Anna gave her the tupperware of muffins, and opened it for her.
9 months. Yes, Anna was trying to make her play twister.
8 months, moving day. This was how we kept her and Landon (Jessica and Jeremiah's little boy) contained.

Piper climbs!

Piper loves to climb!  Anna climbed a little,  but Piper is constantly climbing and she is quick.  She climbs in things...
thru things...under things....

Over things...
or attempts to climb over things... she has tried this move a couple times, but it always ends the same.
However she hasn't learned how to climb down.

Our new puppy

Josh kept saying that Roxy needed someone to play with.  Doesn't she look miserable, and the only cure was a friend.  So after a little convincing we decided to get another dog.Meet Charlie, she is named after Charlie Brown.  Anna wanted this name, or bucket.  We went with Charlie Brown.  She is a mastiff/shepard mix, she will be big!  I love the white on her face and her tail, you can't see in the picture but the tip of her tail is white also.
The girls love her.  Piper is always letting her out of her kennel.  Then she crawls in and gets her food.
And Anna won't put her down.
Poor dog, loved sooooooo much!

To the Beach

We drove the 1.5 hr. to the Beach.  We love the beach, for a short time we will have to drive far to enjoy it.  Piper loves the beach just as much as Anna.  I feel very accomplished when we come home and no one is sunburned!Dean was in North Carolina for some training,  so he meet us for the day.  You may think this is a sand castle, but don't be fooled, it is a scary castle.  
Anna would run to the water, then turn around to see if anyone was coming.  As long as Uncle Dean went she was happy.
Piper loves the  beach, I just wish she didn't like the taste of sand and seashells also.
Anna, Uncle Dean, and Uncle Dean who talks.  This is how Anna distinguishes who she is talking about.

Trip cross country

We're off to North Carolina!  Lucky us.For lunch we would go to a park and let everyone run around.  However, a lot of the time was spent telling Anna and Roxy to come back.  They really liked running around.
The ONLY shade in Texas.

Baby went everywhere with us, like most kids she got in trouble from time to time.  In this picture Baby is in time-out for pulling Anna's hair.
The highlight for Piper was sleeping, without Anna waking her up.
The trip went really well.  It was smooth sailing.  I did enjoy the same conversation with Anna every morning (7 mornings).

Mom: "Come on Anna, it's time to get dressed."

Anna: "No thank you, I'm fine."

Mom: "Anna you need to get dressed, so we can go."

Anna: "I like this house, I'll stay here with Baby"

Mom: "This is a hotel, we need to get to our new house"

Anna: "No thank you"

Mom: "Do you want to come with Mom, Dad and Piper .... your toys are going .... do you want to go with Roxy?"

Anna: "Oh, okay."