Sweet Yet Sour

Although I have no pictures of this phenomenon to post, the small girl is indeed walking.  Anna has been walking with us and taking little steps on her own, but she started walking by herself in earnest last week.  She was playing and then turned and just started walking on her own towards a ball that she had thrown.  Now she does this all the time, sometimes she crawls, because it’s faster and more stable, but most of the time when she needs to get somewhere, especially if she wants to carry something with her, she walks.  It’s still a little tippy when she does this, but she does love to just go for it and gets right back up if she falls.   So that’s my big news from here – I officially have a “toddler”.

I do have lots of pictures of other things Anna has been doing lately.

We went to the park last week and I caught this shot of Mike and Anna while they walked to the slide.

Mike and Anna

I guess it’s good that I didn’t catch him with his pants farther down…

Anna has been going through the drawer where her bibs are kept and every once in a while tries to put one on.  Too bad it’s backwards, but she’s got the right idea.

Backwards bib

Now that Anna knows that she needs shoes to go outside (which is her favorite thing to do), she likes to try to put shoes on to get that going.  This includes any shoes that are lying around:

Anna in Mike's shoes

Last week we had a day where Anna didn’t really nap – she was too excited about going to lunch with daddy.  So in the afternoon I took she and Cash for a walk hoping that she would sleep if I was quiet.  Bingo!

Conked out in the stroller

Anna has been wanting her own plate and since ours are breakable, I got her a new plastic plate at Target and gave it to her for lunch this week.  She thought it was cool until she was done eating and then she decided maybe it could be used as a hat:

Plate or hat?

Too bad it had mac and cheese on it when she decided to put it on her head:

Mac and cheesehead

This week it rained a fair amount which meant I needed to find someway to entertain Anna indoors.  She’s pretty bored of her toys, so I tried putting her on the floor in the kitchen with a bowl of warm soapy water and some water proof toys:

Bubble bowl

If you can’t tell, she’s totally soaked, because she did lots of this in the bowl:

Splashing

Looks like a good time, no?