Doctor's visit

Anna had her 6 month appointment this morning. She is now 18 pounds, which is the 90th percentile for weight and 27 1/2 inches, which is the 97th percentile for height! What a big girl!!

It's a BIG day!!

It's a BIG day for the Glassman Family. Both Mom & Anna hit major milestones today! Mom is 30 and Anna got her first tooth! I've decided that like Anna, I'm not growing older, I'm just growing up to be a big girl too :)

It's beautiful in Virginia today - 70 degrees & sunny. Here are pictures from my birthday picnic at Nottoway Park:

Anna was entertained by tearing apart the cracker box

First time on a slide!

First time in a swing!

A foray into fruits

In the past week Anna has sampled pears, applesauce, and peaches. And the winner is...pears, which is possibly her favorite food so far. Although it is closely rivaled by green beans.

Trying to crawl is hard work!

Here's a little video to go along with my narrative about attempted crawling:

And I know someone is going to say, "Please say you gave her the toy after you finished shooting the film." And my answer is, I did, but apparently during the shooting of this film Anna's goal shifted from a pursuit of the toy to a pursuit of the camera. When I gave her the toy she paid no attention to it and shifted her focus onto moving toward the camera. (You'll notice she does an excellent job looking at the camera in the film. She's not doing that for the benefit of the audiance, she's just zeroing in on her next target :)

Jammin' in the Jumpster

On Sunday Anna took a ride in her jumpster for the first time:

The desire to move

I guess before you force yourself to use every muscle in your body in a new and difficult way, you've got to have an end goal in mind. While Anna is not crawling yet, she certainly has the desire to move. (I say "yet," although Matt & I had a debate yesterday as to how we will define the "First Crawl." We want to get the sticker on the correct day on her calendar :) At first, I actually wanted to call yesterday the first crawl because she made forward progress. She does this by getting up on her knees and flopping forward. Sometimes this results in going backwards, which is incredibly frustrating to her as she is measuring her progress towards whatever toy, or magazine*, she is trying to reach. But Matt convinced me that we should define crawling not by the forward progress but by actually moving a knee and hand forward. So when you see, "First Crawl" on the blog, you'll know what we mean.) Mostly, she sees something she wants a few inches out of reach and works like crazy to get there. Although it is pretty funny when she notices something that she wants across the room and this is what will motivate her to flop onto her belly from a sitting position and start trying to move. You can't say she doesn't set high standards for herself :)

*Until a few weeks ago Anna was generally content playing with her toys. She still likes her toys, but as of late she is much more interested in anything that is not hers - remote control, papers, pens, cell phone, flashlight, adult food, etc. The other day I left her sitting on the floor while I went upstairs to get something and when I came back down I found her rummaging through her diaper bag - which I can't imagine how she got because I really don't think I left it that close to her!

Happiness is a stuffed frog :)