Kissy Kissy

Okay, I admit it... I stole this from Lil's blog. I couldn't help myself. She got this great picture of Anna & Grady going in for a smooch. Ah. I love having a snuggly, kissy little girl!

Classy

The best part is that she seems to have no idea there's anything wrong.

Dancin' Machine

This week we had a visit from Lil and Grady. I think Anna was in love. She wanted to hold Grady's hand and kiss & hug him the whole time! Anyways, Lil took a bunch of pictures which will hopefully be on her blog soon, but I thought I'd upload this video of our two dancing machines in their jammies.

Uncle Dave

It's official. Uncle Dave gave Anna her favorite Christmas gift: sunglasses. She wears them everywhere now and when I ask her who gave them to her she enthusiastically says "Deeve!" I was relieved that Anna warmed right up to Dave at Christmas even after not seeing him for almost four months! We can't wait to visit him in California this spring.

Merry Christmas!

Most of you have probably received our Christmas card by now and have already seen this photo, but we got so many text messages about how funny it was that we thought we should post it on the blog too. We were lucky enough to have our camera on us when we happened upon Santa at a local nursery. Anna seemed excited about it while we were waiting in line, but as soon as we handed her off, she started crying the saddest cry. So cute. We left her on his lap just long enough to snap one photo and then comforted her with coookies! Prior to this Santa incident, I had tried in vain to get the perfect picture of Anna in her Christmas dress. I uploaded some of my best attempts below. I also uploaded some photos of our little family Christmas celebration from this morning... pancakes and presents!

SNOW!

The snow is coming down fast and furious right now! We buddled Anna up in her snowsuit for the first time. She walked around with her tongue hanging out trying to catch snowflakes while Josh picked a snowball fight with our neighbors.

College Bound

I'm assuming everyone knows what I'm talking about when I refer to the College Bound commercial where the kid is running around with a box on his head? Yeah, well, Anna pulled a College Bound move this morning. I found her walking around with training pants on her head, pulled down so far that her eyes were smushed and she could barely see. This may cause many of you to seriously question the veracity of my earlier "Anna, Girl Genius" post.

In other news, I'm battling through day 16 of lingering sickness and I've had just about enough. In my distress, I gave in a got us McDonald's for lunch today -- milkshake and all. Anna pretty much thought she died and went to heaven. What's super weird though, is that after polishing off her nuggets, fries & shake, she specificly requested peas and proceeded to eat seven huge spoonfuls. I wish I had more hankerings for peas. (Please disregard my nasaly, scratchy man voice in the background!)