The girls always wanted to ride in the big truck. I loved it, listening to music I like, and getting snacks for myself. It was almost like a vacation :)
Anna loves to help!
This is our backyard. Josh and Anna (she is earning a trampoline) have a lot of work to do.
This is our cute house. I love it, we have two big oak trees in the front and our first two car garage!
Anna wanted to open a present, but we were going to a Christmas Eve party, so I told her no. She stopped being upset just long enough to look up and say, "I'm being the Grinch." The good parents we are, we just laughed.
She got over it Christmas morning.
All I can say is that Piper is adorable!
Anyone notice my pregnancy glow! We found out the day after Christmas, that we are having a third little girl!
Christmas Eve. Our tree was the ugliest tree. Josh was gone, so a friend helped us get it. A few high lights: there is an orange extension cord running up the back; the top and bottom half of the tree blink (not the middle); ornaments continued to be moved higher; it needed water every 5 or 6 days (which tells me the thing was not very fresh). Here's to next year!
In december I turned 30!
We drove for an hour to go shopping. First stop REI. We got out and let the girls play on the bikes, and run around a little. While Josh checked out, Anna and Piper were playing in a display tent. While I watched them, I noticed something strange. I immediately pulled Anna out of the tent only to discover I was right. Neither Josh nor I put underwear on our two year old. After laughing for awhile, we talked to Anna about if Mommy or Daddy forget to put underwear on, brush your teeth or other daily things you need to tell us.
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.
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.
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.
2 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.
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.
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.
