I am loving the little things Anna does and says these days. She has SUCH an imagination, that along with her enthusiasm makes for some funny moments. Here are some of my favorite moments I have been collecting and want to remember.
As we drove up to Artic Circle for dinner she exclaimed.. “I am going to LOVE this place!”
Watching TV shows, like Dora, she talks to Dora and follows along with what Dora asks her to do. After “helping” Dora get across the number bridge she said, “that was fun!”
When Dave comes home at night she will yell “Daddy’s home” and run to the garage. Then inside the garage she screams, with her high pitched scream, “DADDY!!!” It is so cute.
She hums along with any new song she doesn’t know. Then after about two times of listening she knows a lot of the words.
She knows the words to a country song and randomly sings it all the time, “Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight…”
On Sunday she asked how far Heaven was. After Dave responded, we don’t know she said, “ It’s probably 30 minutes away.”
Woke up the other morning, “ I was ‘out hot’ so I took my shirt off, then I got ‘out cold’ again so I put it on, the I got ‘out hot,’ I was ‘out hot’ TWO times!!”
She can be mid- thought in the car and see something and get distracted, “A train” or “bingo” (her new game she learned from her Curtis cousins, she will say bingo for yellow cars), or her new favorite thing, living in Layton, “JET!”
She came up to us at the dinner table at my parents house with a mad face. “Look at my shirt and skirt they are ALL red!” We were expecting a tattle tale, then she said, “ it’s from the red berries!” Then Daddy cleaned it off and she went around naked (in her underwear) the rest of the afternoon as she waited for them to dry. She didn’t mind one bit!
After driving past a construction zone, “that is crazy! Craziness, that is SO CRAZY! Mommy, What does Crazy mean?”
We had a long conversation about the porta-potty out by the homes being built. She thought is was so cool. I told her it was so they had a potty while they were working. She said, “I bet that is where Grandpa goes potty when he is at work!” (not quite. (: ) Now whenever we drive by it she will exclaim, “There’s the construction potty” Right now as I type she is watching Dora and just turned to me and said, “I am so happy, guess what happened to the toys. They flew up in the sky and went back to their owners!” Oh she (Dora) sure loves her teddy bear!” “That was my favorite part too,” when Dora got her teddy bear back.
“It’s like 30 pounds long!”
Tonight at Dinner we were having French bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I dipped my bread and showed Anna. She said, “I like oil! I like to put my hands in oil.” Random.
She was playing with her nativity set and I came downstairs. “Mom, the camel’s mother (the donkey) died and went to Heaven, this is heaven (the top stair).” Me: “Oh sad how did she die?” Anna said sweetly, “she had a bad heart.” ( This is sweet and almost made me cry because she is referring to Grandma Karen who died when Dave was 14 years old when her heart failed)
She will remind me to “Shhhhh” because “Maddie is sleeping,” then 2 seconds later yell something or start singing loud.
When I asked her if she wanted to go to Primary instead of Nursery her response was, “NURSERY! Primary was too long”
Refers to the Burton cabin as “The little cabin” and the cabin at Snyder mill the “big cabin” and Snowbird condo as “ the big cabin up the mountains when I went with Kjersti and great grandma.”
How far is Michigan? Why do we have to take a plane to get there?
“How long is California? (meaning how far) When can we go to California?”
Pulled a shirt out of Maddie’s closet today, “it’s so darling!”
Hard kisses
I wrote these down in April…
“Please and tojunkl ment” I think she was trying to say Ladies and Gentlemen. She would say this over and over.
“Is Grandma Karen in Heaven? Do we take a plane to get to Heaven? Is Heaven far far away? Where is it? What City is it in?”
I tried to tell her that I didn't believe her when she said she needed to go pee while she was in time out because of past experiences when it was an excuse to get out of time out. . I said, "I thought you were crying wolf!" To which she replied, "there aren't any wolves in my room!"
“What’s that Sneakyness doing?”
While blowing then popping bubbles she said, “delete, delete, delete”
July 31st-
“That’s RUDE!”
In the car we had a very awkward and hilarious conversation. She asked me something and all I (and Dave) heard was “….. What is it?” I responded, “What are you talking about” She said, “what IS it?” Me: “I don’t know what you are talking about.” Anna: “Why?… That is silly. Daddy do you know?”
August 1st- Why are they lost? (the lost Boys on Peter Pan). I said, Maybe because they want to live there. She said, “there is a huge home, There are TWENTY lost boys!”
“I don’t Wike (like) Pirates, They’re MEAN!”
“Let’s get out of this room, it smells awful!”
She asked when her birthday was so I told her in sequence r of events, Daddy’s birthday, Halloween, Maddie’s birthday, Christmas, Then her birthday. “Whoa that is SO Soon!” What is after my birthday? I said Valentines. “OH! I woave (love) that day! It is SOOO Fun!” I laughed and asked why? “Because we get to send people all sorts of nummy treats!” (While eating dried Mangos) “I bet Syd and Cait would WOAVE these Mangos!”
Favorite activities… Scissors and puzzles
One Day she surprised me with a clean (and VERY organized) playroom!
