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Anna’s Latest Activities – In Pictures

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Anna | 2 Comments

Our little 1 year old has been pretty busy lately and I’ve been trying to take pictures of it all. Unfortunately, Anna moves pretty fast these days so it’s hard to catch her and get a photo.

As part of Anna’s new fattening diet we’ve been giving her peanut butter.  So far, she’s not a huge fan and it generally turns out to be a mess, as shown here:

Most meals are messy though, so this is not new.  Sometimes Mike makes it home during Anna’s dinner and then he gets to clean her up afterwards.  For some reason he thought it would be amusing to do this to Anna recently (and let me take a picture of it):

Anna is at a stage where she is mimicking a lot of our behavior.  Two Sundays ago she decided she wanted to read the Sunday paper just like daddy:

Then she tried looking all serious with the paper, but failed miserablely since it was upside down:

Eventually Anna gave up and just did what she normally does with her food. She rubbed it on her head:

I have found another food that Anna simply adores, yet another not fattening food (I can’t get her to eat french fries!).  Watermelon is her new favorite and even though it’s messy it’s obvious that Anna loves the stuff:

Speaking of meal messes, I had to get a picture the other day of when Anna played with some cream cheese and then rubbed her eyes because she was tired:

When my mom was here a few weeks ago she could not resist getting a cup from Walgreen’s that says “Anna” on it.  Anna is not really at the cup stage but I tried it anyway and sometimes she was successful:

And sometimes she wasn’t:

Last Friday Anna and I ventured out to the zoo with our neighbors.  It was a lovely day for the zoo, except that almost all of the other parents in the metro area thought so too, so I parked 1/2 mile away.  The zoo is not that exciting for Anna at this point and she spent most of the trip looking like this:

We did see some cool things, including the Lorikeets, which you can get right up close to:

It’s just too bad that Anna can’t really see most things at the zoo.  Once our neighbor Hana held Anna and tried to get her to check out some gibbons:

As you can see, Anna was not looking at the gibbons and was probably looking at the crowds of people at the zoo.  I left soon after this and because it was hot I drove home with the windows down.  I turned around on the highway to see Anna, arms straight up in the air, her hands waving in the wind singing along to the radio.  I think that was the best part of her day!

This weekend Mike took Anna with him to get the mail and apparently Anna preferred to travel like this:

Once Mike got her upright I got a great picture of the two of them though:

After months of Anna only knowing how to take things out (out of drawers, boxes, etc.) she has finally starting putting things “in”.  I’m not sure that I’ll be able to get her to clean up her room anytime soon, but it is a milestone.  Yesterday I got a picture of her putting some chips back into a bowl at lunch:

Problem is, she nows thinks that everything should go “in”.  We’ll have to work on the details of what goes “in” later:

And finally, yesterday I tried to show Anna how my camera works and how to take pictures with my camera.  I tried taking pictures of different things and then showing her the results on the camera screen.  She’s not ready to use it yet, but I did get a good picture of her while I was holding her during the lesson:

Yep, she’s still cute!