A Little Update

Last week the tempurature in our house dropped below 60, but I wasn't about to fire up that oil fueled boiler! I bundled Anna up and we pushed through. I snapped this cute photo of her all toasty in her sweater at breakfast.

In other news, we have less than 48 hours until the cast comes off and it can't happen soon enough. She's had trouble sleeping without her sucking thumb and I can only go so many days without regular naps! Plus, it'll be nice to start putting her in some of the nice fall clothes we bought (as opposed to over-sized hand-me-downs which is all that will fit around that cast!).

Hot Pink

Yesterday we went to the orthopedic doctor so Anna could get her real cast put on. Since she was mistaken for a boy four times in the lobby, I decided to go with hot pink. As the pictures show, she doesn't seem to mind the cast one bit!

Down Jones Looks Good to Anna

Apparently everyone should take investment advice from Anna. She doesn't look too concerned about her stocks or ouse value. Ah, to be 16 months old and worry free!

Still Finding a Way

Anna fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV this morning. Super cute. And, yes, she's found a way to suck her thumb around the injury.

On the DL

It was bound to happen sooner or later. The fearless one fell off a kitchen chair and fractured her wrist, so we spent our Saturday night in the emergency room instead of in front of the Penn State game. For those of you who are counting, that's two ER visits in one month for the Heebners. Sigh. Fortunately, Hasbro Children's Hospital is right nearby, so we took her there instead of to Rhode Island Hospital. She got in right behind a seven year old boy who had "foreign object in nose". Nice. Anyways, according to Josh, it was about 100 times nicer than RIH ER, so we were super thankful.

We're Starting Her Young...

yeah, it's been a while

So, word on the street is that everyone's worried because I haven't blogged in a while. Something tells me that's more about a desire to see photos and videos of the eternally chubby one rather than a genuine concern about, say, Josh and me. Regardless, we're back and Anna's as cute as ever so you're all in luck.

Anna spent her first week away from home back at the beginning of the month. We shipped her off to the grandparents in PA so that Josh and I could get some work done around the house. We got lots of painting and cleaning done. In fact, according to the dumpster rental company, we threw out 1.63 tons of crap, most of which was lovingly left for us by the previous owners. As it turns out, cleaning out our creepy basement landed Josh in the emergency room -- or at least we think that's what did it. He got a nasty bug-bite looking thing on his leg that turned out to be some awful infection that had spread to his blood stream by the time he finally went to the emergency room. They pumped him full of antibiotics (thanks again Mr. Alexander Fleming!) and apparently he's going to live. I'm seriously considering billing the previous owners the $267 we paid for the dumpster plus $100 for the ER co-pay. Thoughts?

Once we found out Josh was going to survive, we drove down to PA to collect Anna and headed to Ocean City, NJ with my parents and brother for a week of vacation. Anna had a great time. Here are some photos from the beach:

We had a few visitors while we were in Ocean City, including Melissa and Eowyn who came down for a day. It's amazing how much the girls have grown in a year:










After the week at the shore -- and sadly saying goodbye to Uncle Dave who officially lives in CA now -- Anna and I spent a week in PA with the Kulp grandparents while Josh headed to MD for work. Here's a cute video I took of Anna dancing in a little puddle (um, of hose water, that is) at my parent's house:

Playing in the garden:

Feeding the ducks with Granddad at Penn State Ogontz: