Sweet Yet Sour

It’s time once again for a family update.  I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I like them because I can cram a lot of information about all of us in and then feel pretty satisfied with myself.

As usual, let’s start with the cutie:

Anna will be 16 months on Wednesday.  She’s buzzing around really well with this new walking thing and is scraping up her knees far less than she did a few weeks ago.  I’ve enrolled her in “Tumble Tots” classes at our rec center every Wednesday, which is just what she needs.  It’s basically a padded room where the kids can play, jump on a trampoline, even go on a balance beam.  She loves it and there are plenty of other kids in the class to play with, including three sets of girl twins. Although I did catch her trying to do a somersault like we do in class off of the ottoman the other day!

Anna talks a lot and understands us quite well, but she chooses not to obey a good portion of the time as well; typical toddler!  Favorite phrases include: “walk park” as in, “we’re walking to the park now mama!”, and “more cheese”.  Oh, and “No!” – that’s certainly my favorite as well!

A few weeks ago we took Anna to the small airport not too far away where there is a restaurant that looks out onto the runways.  She did this for all of lunch:

We went to a park nearby a few weekends ago for the neighborhood picnic.  Anna loves to go through the tunnels, but it’s even better when Daddy chases her:

Oh and can I just say, this outfit that Anna is wearing, was made by my mom for me when I was Anna’s age.  How cool is it that Anna looks good in the 1974 outfit?

Last week we went to a nearby farming museum where we got to see lots of farm animals.  Like these dirty, smelly sheep:

Granted, the museum was free (whohoo!) and Anna and her friend David had a good time:

That is, until David and Anna were sitting on a bench and David tried to kiss Anna.  She was a good girl and took off:

Gosh I hope she does that until she’s 21!

Yesterday I took Anna and Cash to the fenced in baseball field at the high school near us so Cash could get a run.  Instead, he just stood and Anna ran around:

After a while I just put the leash back on Cash.  Anna is learning the word “Come”, so she tried to get him to go with her, with little success:

Now that the deck is done I got out the baby pool and let Anna splash around in it for a while.  I didn’t put her in her swimming suit because Anna has no fat and gets cold easily, so I just let her go in the pool in what she was wearing.  She really loved playing in the pool, but in this picture she seems to be making a drink order to the pool boy: