Fun with my hat

Anora found this hat in her closet from last winter. Obviously it was too big last year but I think it will be just great this year. Too fricking adorable!

Sorry no pictures

I felt I needed to put up a new blog but I have no pictures as I can't get my new laptop to cooperate with my camera. I will figure it out soon though. Anyway wow how time is just flying by, she is such a big helper and has gotten almost all of her teeth. She has been on a teething spurt as of late and when she does they just come in one after another. I guess its good on one hand because it is over faster and not so drawn out. On the other hand it means she doesn't eat very much nor take very long naps all of which lead to a very cranky baby.

She helps with everything now, laundry, putting her toys away, cleaning up, sometimes she gets a little over zealous and does things that mommy and daddy don't want done.. like turn the fan towards the wall, something Grandma does at naptime. She sees you do something one time and she is ready to jump in and help. Like I was putting my clothes in the hamper and Anora started rounding up any piece of clothing she could find and putting it into the hamper. I tried to explain to her the diference between dirty clothes and clean clothes but I believe it went over her head as evidenced by the blank stare on her face.

I have much more to update but I really like to post pictures so I will try to get them uploaded soon.

'til then

Fathers Day Weekend 2010

Anora playing in the sprinklers

Time out to play with Duke and Daisy next door. I think that is Daisy sticking her head through.

Anora asked Papa to read her the fairy book, he ate it up.

Pose for a picture guys.

Fun with Grandma

I came home yesterday to find Grandma had dressed my Tink in this crazy outfit. It is a top that has a cute pair of capris to go with it but Miss Tink got her lunch all over them. So Grandma put her in a diaper cover that said "Princess" of course and her fuzzy muckluck boots. It was 95 degrees out yesterday. She was just so cute in her fur boots and bare legs I just left it. After all it was 75 degrees in the house which is where we were gonna be hangin out.

Family

We had a long overdue visit from Papa and Grandma Patty this weekend. Grandma Patty hadn't seen Anora since she was born. Her and Papa both graciously offered to stay in our room that night and take care of Anora. They saw that we were so exhausted from no sleep the previous night that there was no way we could have cared for her that first night. If they had not have stayed she would have had to have been put in the Nursery and been away from us the first night of her life. Thank you both so much for that you will never know how much that meant to me.

Anyway back to the visit. It really was nice to spend time with them. They live too far away to see them as much as we all would like but that just makes the times that we do all get together that much more special. Papa and Grandma Patty brought Anora her birthday gifts since they weren't able to make it in to town for her Birthday, they got snowed in. Anora loved the gifts from Papa and Grandma Patty. Thank you!

Sarah, Kielyn and Donovan came over to hang out with the fam. I miss them too. Donnie and Anora always have a good time together playing and Kielyn is so good with Anora they have some special bond. Poor Sarah, all she wants to do is scoop up Anora and hold her and love on her and Anora is such a poop she cries every time. I do belive Aunt Sarah got to hold her once or twice though.

Kielyn and Ray made the best batch of Chocolate Chip cookies while we all watched Avatar. That is a really good movie, long but good. I did laundry and hung around in my jammies all day. You can only do that with FAMILY.

We love you all and wish we could do it more often.

Mothers Day 2010

Happy Mothers Day to all you momma's out there.

I had a wonderful Mothers Day. Daddy and Anora spoiled me and let me take a 3 hour nap. It was amazing. I got a Kindle bookreader from Anora and Daddy. Don't get much time to read books any more but have been reading alot on my phone lately while Anora is watching Sesame Street. I love the Kindle I think it is going to be used very much. I love the idea of not having to store the books until I read them or after I read them. Good job Daddy and Anora. I love you both so very much. Thank you again for a wonderful weekend.

My Little Helper

Anora has begun the helper stage and I must say I am loving it. Everyday when I come home she picks my shoes up from wherever Mommy decides to take them off and puts them in my shoe pile. Anyone who knows me, knows I always have a shoe pile going underneath my coffe table. Well unfortunately my "Tinker" must have cuahgt onto my bad habit and has realized that this is where the shoes go. She has also begun wiping her own face after meals. If you give her a wet papertowel and say wipe your mouth she does just that. Then when she is done she proceeds directly to the trash can opens it, and drops it right in. Which brings up the fact that the trash can is a locking trash can which she has figured out how to work and because of which we turn it towards the wall so that she can't open it (quite so readily). So it is really funny to watch; she has to go over to the trash can, turn it around, unlock it and then finally open it to throw away the papertowel. The other day when I came home for lunch I had an empty soda bottle in my hand and she was looking and pointing and whining so I gave it to her thinking she wanted it to play with and she went right over and proceeded with her throw it away routine. It was a proud moment for me. I had not even asked her to throw it away. She amazes me and her Daddy every single day with how much she understands. I am not saying she is a baby genius or anything, it is just that when they aren't yet able to vocalize all that they understand and suddenly they show you that they are understanding what you are saying and you had no expectation of that it is one of those wow memnts; for me anyway.