pics from the week

Here are some pictures from our week starting with last Monday when we finished our action-packed weekend with a visit to Clemyjontri Park, which is a huge playground - like no other playground Matt & I have ever seen - about 15 minutes from our house.

posing for the camera before we left

riding an elephant

working the race car maze

Anna now pushes all her vehicles around - often with someone (or something) riding in it:

working the farm is hard work!

Taken this morning at breakfast:

walking might be kinda neat after all...

I can't believe it's been a month since I posted about Anna's first steps. Despite her ability to take steps, she really has not had much interest. However, today, she has taken 6-8 steps in a row multiple times on her own volition. (Instead of Mom or Dad coaxing her by standing a few steps away and giving encouragement). So who knows...maybe those sundresses will come in handy soon! (In case you haven't witnessed a crawler in a while, sundresses and crawling prove to be a bad combination!)

Memorial Day weekend

Knock on wood - this has been the first weekend in a few weekends that no one in our house has been sick - and I would say we certainly have taken advantage of it. On Friday (which Matt had off - yah!) we walked around the center of Vienna, visiting a historic caboose and a fountain, played miniture golf, and went out to a Mexican restuarant with Teagan's family, which was next to another fountain! Today we went to the our town's annual carnival, Viva Vienna.

posing for the camera before we headed out Friday

checking out the first fountain with Dad

an expert one-handed walker

Anna seemed to really like miniture golf - watching our shots closely for 16 holes. She seemed to catch on that the goal of the game was to put the ball in the hole. Here she is trying out her own skills on the 17th hole:

watch out Grandpa, here I come!

bear hug from Teagan!

After finishing her own meal Anna found her way to both Mom & Dad's plate!

checking out a tractor on the walk to the carnival

giddy-up!

beep, beep!

A new way to get wet!

Anna got her birthday present from her Nana: a water table! She spent over an hour playing non-stop when we first let her give it a try - splashing her trucks around, shoveling water everywhere, scooping water with a pail, and cruising around the outside of it.

Mother's Day weekend

On Saturday Anna pushed and pushed and pushed...

and pushed some more...

then collapsed:

Hopefully not related to overexertion, Anna had a bit of a fever on Sat. night and Sun. morning. She was feeling a little better by Sun. afternoon and was all better by Monday.

Happy Mother's Day, Mommy, I love you!

today is not a day for pants...

Good-bye pants! I'm throwing you overboard!

Ahh, you're still too close by. I can't stand the sight of you...

arrivederci!

if I could just kick you off the steps...

if my leg was longer, I would kick you further...

see ya!

pants-free and loving it!

What's that, I have to wear my pants if I want to go outside?

fine! but I'm not wearing pants tomorrow!

And down they came...

Just as those petals fell off our tree last year, the day we came home from the hospital, down they fell yesterday and today...to give us a pink wonderland!

With her favorite dog, Rambo.

(Yes, this picture took a lot of work by this Mom and Rambo's Mom)

I always knew I was a princess...and finally I have found my pink petal-covered throne.