Anna spending quality time with Piper

Anna goes for "rides" on Josh's back when he gets home from work. So one morning I hear Anna saying, "ride, ride, ride." Only Josh wasn't home. Anna is standing over Piper trying to go for a ride on her. So I explained to Anna that Piper can't give her a ride yet. So later that day...... I'm making lunch and Anna comes running in the kitchen with the "I didn't do anything look" I walk into the front room and see this, Piper giving Anna's baby (who is also named Piper) a ride! At least Anna learned that she can't go for a ride on Piper.

Anna loves her sister so much that she is constantly in her bassinet, so I had to move everything away from it so Anna couldn't climb in anymore.

Anna is reading Piper Parnting Magazine, I'm just hoping she is reading the article about being a well behaved toddler. We all have our dreams!!!

Anna has learned to share! I consider this a milestone in her develpoment, but we did have to work on not putting things in Piper's face.

Their favorite thing to do together is have belly time. Whenever we put Piper on her belly Anna rushes over to her. Anna also gets really mad if we pick Piper up and she isn't done having belly time. Josh and I just sit back and adore these moments!

Big Sister at Play

One of Anna's favorite places to go is the beach, reguardless of temperature. With all 6 teeth chatering she will play in the water until Daddy takes her to her towel and Mommy to warm up.
She has no fear, running over piles of slimmy seaweed or "weeweed" as she calls it to chase the waves and charge into the surf as far as she can go. When a big wave comes and knocks her down she pops right back up and say's "Brave!!" and charges off again.

Anna's sand fortress to protect her from the waves soon turned into a pool that she enjoyed far more than any fortress.
First children get all of the coolest new toys, Anna is no exception, but with all the toys the coolest thing in the house is a box that I got at Costco and a stolen baby from Grandma's house.
In an attempt to help Piper sleep, Anna and Kai played sweet melodies on the piano. It was a whole show, Anna played and danced while Kai sang.

Piper Lily races to the family

After 45 minitues of intense all natural labor (free of any pain relieving drugs much to the dismay of Adele) Piper Lili raced into the world at a whopping 8lbs 10oz and 21 inches long. Anna loves "her" new baby and loves to give her tons of hugs, kisses and the famous ananconda squeeze.
My three girls

Piper quickly picked up on dad's baby sitting style, dad sleeps, kids sleep, all is well.

So my sister let me know that the last thing I posted was "we are getting ready to sell our house." She said since we don't have a house anymore that I needed to update my blog. We've had a lot happen in the past 4 months. We sold our house, packed up and moved to San Diego! I couldn't find a picture of the front, but this was our living room and our backyard.
Josh and Anna really miss the yard :( We don't have a yard anymore, so we are without Roxy for a short time.
Josh graduated college!!! In a year he will be starting his masters program
Anna is trying to learn how to diaper her baby. We practice all the time. When she gets a new diaper, her baby does also.
For all who don't know, this will come in handy when she needs to diaper the new baby. We are expecting another little girl in September!!!

A short appolige to all who have emailed me. I promise I'm not ignoring any of you, things have just been crazy. I will get back to all of you and am so glad that I was contacted.

We are getting our house ready to put back on the market, thus many new things are out for Anna to find! Like a bar of soap! She managed to get it open for a taste test.
Lets hope she never talks back, after this picture she put it back on her mouth! What an adventerous little thing :)
Our garage is full of fun to be had. Anna climbed over all this stuff to get into her car. She got it for christmas and loves it, so every now and then I hid it from her otherwise I spend all day driving it around our huge house.

Happy Birthday Anna!!! That's all that was left of her cake. What a pig!
She opened some presents on the morning of her birthday! Her special day was also the only time Josh and Wyatt could re-do our bathroom. So she got two days of fun instead of one!
Anna invited family and some of her closest friends over for cake and ice cream. Next year we might do without the singing, unless Carrie Underwood shows up.
At first she didn't get what to do with the cake. With the help of cousins she figgered it out quickly!
More cake next year Mom. Thanks to everyone for your gifts!!! Happy Birthday Anna!!!

Anna has become a big helper! She lets me know when I need to replace the TP!
Helps unload the dishwasher!
Anna helps pick up around the house! She loves wearing Josh's camel pack. We have to hid it from her, if she sees it she insists on wearing it.
She helps save me time on laundry. Another thing she insists on wearing. Her bathrobe she got for her birthday. There have been nights she has gone to sleep in it.

At the end of her long day, she puts Dad to sleep. I just don't know what I would do without her.

Our first day home from California. When we left it was 80 degrees, we came home to snow. Anna didn't seem to care. As long as she gets to play she is happy.
Happy New Year! Our little nuddiest wouldn't let us get her dresses. Hopefully she doesn't dress like this for all New Year parties!

I don't recommed cooking naked, it can be dangerous!

Sea World!!! Once Anna realized she could touch the dolphins, nothing stopped her! Even the fact that her little fingers look like little fish.
She liked the star fish. She would try to get them out of the water herself. She grabed anything she thought was cool.
There were some star fish that were tramatized. Luckily they are sturdy little things!
Anna, Julia, and Micah being eaten by a shark!
Funny thing about this picture, the first one the guy took he cut out Lisa and Julia. He thought they were weird people trying to get into our picture.

Merry Christmas!!! Santa brought Anna this bear.
Then comes Grandma and Gramdpa! Anna had a great christmas. We had to ship her gifts home.
Julia and Micah helped Anna to get her presents open. It was fun for Anna to be with her cousins in california
Micah got drums! We all enjoyed many concerts, luckly it was free of charge. Otherwise we would be poor.

This is Anna's favorite gift. Her little car with a horn. She has said thank you to Aunt Lisa many times. Julia took Anna on rides all christmas day. And every day after. For her birthday she wants a radio installed. We had a great, warm christmas!

On Christmas Eve we went to Grandma and Grandpa Wilson's!

This is a California Santa!
So many parties, so little time to sleep. She put herself under the pillow so it would be extra dark and quiet. Now when we want her to sleep we just put a pillow over her head. Just kidding, we use a blanket.