11 months - photo!

As promised, here is Anna's photo (taken the next morning!). :-)

11 months old!!!

Anna is eleven months old today and we are in shock! The next month will be very busy (especially with the upcoming trip to Hawaii!) but we will try our best to keep everyone updated. Anna says up when she wants to be picked up, points to our Christmas tree and says "oo oo" for the train, and says "at" when she sees a cat (or dog or probably anything furry!). She continues to take a few steps here and there and is getting more daring and much more steady on her feet. She eats almost everything we eat and is getting the hang of a sippy cup. She is very active and is our silly girl. We once again got a middle of the night wake up call on this month-aversary

We were bad parents though, we didn't get her picture today! I know, we are in trouble! We will try and get one tomorrow but probably won't post for a few days because we will be traveling.

We wish everyone the best for 2009! May it be filled with joy and love!

Christmas dress

Christmas activities

We had a very nice Christmas and finally let Anna open her gift that she started on Christmas Eve. She is very slow at opening so we had to help her along.
Anna loved the rocking chair at Grandma and Grandpa Arnold's house. Lina was very cute with her pigtails, helping to rock Anna.
Anna loved going up in the air in her big fluffy dress!
Anna is opening a gift with some help from Mom.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Thankfully we didn't put Anna in this shirt when we went to see Santa (it says I heart Santa!).


We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas! Best wishes for 2009!

Grr face

I did quite catch it but Anna makes a great grr face. This photo does show off her four teeth though! :-)

Giggles

Anna had a very good day after a few rough days. We think she may have more top teeth coming in. Enjoy the giggles!

11 months - photo!

Anna's 11 month old photo as promised, taken the next morning! :-)

Happy Anniversary

We went out to dinner on for Mark and Linda's 35th wedding anniversary. Their actual anniversary is December 22nd.

Happy Anniversary!

Walk

Anna has started taking a few steps when you "hand her off". She has no fear and just goes for it. I am still working on getting a video of the laugh that she has now. :-)

Cruising

Anna has been cruising around on the edge of furniture a lot more the last week or so. I am working on getting a video clip of it because she can really get going. She also loves when we play peak a boo with her around corners and she has a great laugh.

She is getting over a cold now (I know, first the flu, then a bad cold). She has been a real trouper though and hopefully we will be done with the germs for a while!

Great Grandma's 80th

Some photos from late in the day:

Grandma getting emotional as we sing Happy Birthday and Bonne Fete. (Sorry, I don't know how to do accents in the blog).

Grandma and her boys blowing out the candles
Mike with Andrew on his shoulders to get a better view
Grandma with some of her grandchildren (and two of her great grandchildren!)
Grandpa, me, Anna and Great Grandma at the end of the day. I think Anna was DONE! :-) She hung in there though, cold and all.

Tree

We have our tree up and decorated. We also have a small train that goes around the tree towards the top. So far Anna has been very good at not playing with the tree but does seem to think it is rather interesting!

Poor Santa

Today we took Anna to see Santa Claus and she was fine until it was time for her to sit on Santa's lap. Needless to say she never got around to telling him what was on her wish list, she was too busy crying. Poor thing!

The flu...

We have been hit by the flu big time. Anna came down with it Monday late in the afternoon, I wasn't feeling well Tuesday and was hit by it full force on Wednesday morning, and Matt got hit with it overnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. I think he got the worst of it and still is running a fever. Can you say yuck?!

Welcome to the joys of parenthood!