A Birthday visit to the farm!

Happy Birthday, Anna! During Anna's actual birth moment (11:54 am) she was busy looking at the baby pigs at Frying Pan Farm Park, where Anna, Nana, and I went this morning. Anna had a great time at the farm! She saw horses, cows, turkeys, peacocks, chickens, a bunny, a cat, pigs, goats, and sheep (or "sheeps" as Anna calls them). She also got to go on a wagon ride, sit on a small tractor, and play on some playground equipment. Her favorite part was watching 2 litters of piglets, born on March 12th and April 7th.

greeted by a horse when we first arrived

a peahen (name for a female peacock, which I didn't know until we got a lesson from Nana)

dairy cows - skinnier than beef cows, as we learned on our wagon ride

piglets from the March 12th litter

Happy Birthday, Anna!

On Tuesday Anna will be 2 years old! We had a great time celebrating over the past few days: first with her friends at Clemyjontri Park on Friday, then with her family, yesterday.

Anna spent the morning before her friend party wanting to stand on a chair and look at "Elmo Cake"

ready to celebrate at the park!

at the party driving an airplane with Isabel

eating Elmo cake with Daddy

birthday dinner on Saturday (minus the photographer: Grandma)

then cupcakes!

yummmmy!

Happy Birthday, Anna! Thank you for another wonderful year! We love you so very much :)

Picnic in the Park

On Saturday night we had a picnic dinner at Burke Lake Park, where Anna got to ride the train, run around, go on the slides, and watch some sunset kite-flyers! It was a little chilly, but we had a good time :)

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Some things never change

Anna still loves her tubby! Her new favorite kind of tubby is an "Elmo Tubby." This is simply a bubble bath, but the type of bubble bath we have has a picture of Elmo on the front - hence it's an Elmo Tubby!

Anna & Mom make the press!

We're famous! At least to the handful of people reading the Vienna Connection. I was interviewed this week for an article about our playgroup.

Happy Easter!

Anna got her wings!

Nana sent Anna some wings for Easter. These aren't just any wings, they look like Abby's wings (from Sesame Street). Anna was thrilled to put them on and "fly" around the house:

Painting Rocks!

Anna has been enjoying painting with water colors over the past few weeks and tonight we asked her if she would like to paint some rocks. "Yes!" she exclaimed and kept herself busy painting for quite a while:

Playgroup this week:

No particular special occasion at playgroup this week, but we managed to get a good picture of everyone (minus the photographer) there:

At the end of this particular playgroup Anna had the idea of playing Ring-Around-the-Rosie. She often has this idea when around other kids and it is not always successful. (Like today at the park when she grabbed the hands of a 3 year old and 4 year old and tried to start playing. They just didn't know what she was doing, but they thought it was cute). It was successful at playgroup this week (probably because I helped interpret what she meant). If I can get them from my friend, I'll post some cute shots of that as well.