Playing in the snow!

After 6 days of feeling sick, Anna finally woke up this morning, ran into our room, and said, "Let's make waffles!" We're so happy that our sweet little Anna is feeling better and is back to her usual playful self.

We had a special treat this afternoon as the weather warmed up to 45 degrees and the sun came out. We all headed outside to enjoy some fun in the snow.

Anna and I built the snowman below. I did a lot of the work, but Anna thought to add the scarf and picked out the rocks for the eyes and mouth.

Lately, Anna has not been a big fan of getting her picture taken, but she was excited to pose for this picture with her snowman. It's so nice to have a picture of her where she is smiling and looking (well, at least trying to look) at the camera.

3rd tooth!

Tonight when I noticed Abby was eating more of her hand than her carrots, I checked for any new teeth and felt a little point. I think it is her right eye tooth - or maybe just the tooth to the right of her top bunny teeth. It also felt like there were one or two other bumps so maybe there will be another soon!

I just looked at older blog posts to see when Anna got her 3rd tooth. Just like Abby, Anna got an upper side tooth third. I found the post where I first wrote about it and it turns out Anna was about the same age as Abby is now. So although many things are very different about Abby compared to baby Anna, they seem to have the exact same pattern for getting teeth.

Pretend Play

Anna has been sick this week, which has resulted in a few trips to the doctor. Consequently, she's been playing doctor a lot at home. She likes Abby to play with her:

So maybe Abby doesn't really know that she's pretending to be a doctor, but she did do something really cute yesterday that I think was her first "pretending." She had this little piece of cloth (it's a doll blanket in a dollhouse so it' really small) and she kept rubbing it on the dollhouse then rubbing it on my face. Then she did her face a few times. Every time I said, "Oh, thanks for wiping my face," she would get a big smile. I'm not sure what she was pretending to do. I'll have to ask her next year to think back and explain it to me :)

Playing dress up and pretending to be a...

Well, I'm not exactly sure, but it sure is cute!

And finally, pretending to do laundry or actually helping? :

Holiday photos continued

Grandma sent me a bunch of great pictures from the holidays so I thought I would share:

dancing to Daddy's piano music

more music - this time from Abigail!

Anna & Santa!

Merry Christmas!

Anna learned how to flop down the stairs on this trip - wee!

Daddy & Abby :)

Mommy & Abby :)

Abby the Chef

Abby has been busy pulling up on everything - the couch, coffee table, toys, and steps. Here she is preparing a delicacy in Anna (and now Abby's) play kitchen:



Another cute picture. (Taken after she prepared another delicious dish in her own mini kitchen!)

Did you have a nice Christmas?

Last week while Anna, Abby, and I were out for a walk with Anna's new tricycle we saw a cat. I pointed it out to Anna. She hopped off her tricycle, walked up to the cat and asked, "Did you have a nice Christmas?" The cat scampered off and Anna ran after it yelling, "Did you have a nice Christmas?" After a few minutes Anna came back. I asked her if the cat had a nice Christmas and she said, "I kept asking, but he didn't answer me."

Waving

About a week ago we were at the grocery store and on our way out one of the people working at the store waved to Abby and said good-bye. Then I heard her say, "Oh, your waving back!" Really? I looked down and she was right, Abby was waving back. Before this there have been a couple instances where Abby's arm moves in a way that you might think it was waving, but I would say this was her first official wave. Since then she's been busy waving to everyone - visitors when they leave, strangers at the store, and all of us here at home. I just took her upstairs for her nap and said, "wave good-night to Anna"...and she did!