I know this blog has a LOT about Anna, but I realized I have only been posting what we have done, no updates. So to keep a record for myself I thought I would jot a few things down. There are SO many funny things I want to remember about this time. I think this is the FUNNEST age yet! Anna makes me laugh or smile ALL DAY LONG! (no exaggerating). She is getting so big and learning so much each day.So of my favorites as of late:
* LOVES the gingerbread man story. It is her bedtime story every night. (Well until Saturday, when she asked for the "bear story that JoJo told her")
* Learning to sleep in her Dora bed. She wakes up and exclaims... I slept in my Dora bed all night! Then sometimes she will say (in her funny "asking" voice) now I get to eat some candy. Because ONE time I bribed her to take a nap that way.
* She sings ALL DAY long! We joke that she is an Alto, because on some songs she screeches at the high notes... I LOVE it! She will sing anything from "My Bonnie" to "Jesus wants me for a Sun- Beep!" or "I'm trying to be like Jesus" to "It's a Jolly Holiday with Mary or Spoon full of Sugar" to Princess songs. Sometimes she makes up her own renditions and laughs at herself.
* She recently learned the joy of chocolate milk
* Uses her stools to be big girl and turn on lights, go to the bathroom by herself, or dance on. (she set them up the other day facing my curio cabinet with a mirror and asked me to come dance with her... it was a joy!)
* She mimics her cousins, saying Sydney and Cait did this, or Logan said that.
* She is an observer and keys into other's emotions. Yesterday she was in the middle of a memory game with Daddy, I was cooking in the kitchen and dropped a piece of apple, as I said, oops she ran in, saying "what happened" then when I explained she said, "that's okay."
* She has learned about farts and will be sitting there and say, "it's stinky in here" so people better watch out around her. I have taught her to say excuse me and she will say it on occasion. Dave was helping her go to sleep the other night and in her half drunken state she said, "excuse me" as she "tooted."
* The other night Dave's blackberry vibrated from a message he received, it was on a table against the wall that is adjoined to her room. We thought she was asleep and she said, "excuse you mommy!" We laughed SO HARD!
* She can have an attitude sometimes...This morning I woke up to her saying, "COME!!" and when I half asleep replied, "what?" She said, "COME HERE NOW!" At the park she was very determined to tell Daddy something and finished the sentence I cannot remember with ...."FOREVER!" Which I guess was suppose to really set the record straight! (: She also told me the other day from the other room, "Listen!" when I didn't she came into my room and said, "you better listen or I am not going to do it ANYMORE!"
*After pushing away from the table with her feet and making the chair topple over we talked about the proper way to learn the table. The next day, without a reminder she said, "may I be excused from the table"
*She has a brilliant memory. We were listening to the Children's Songbook songs and "Follow the Prophet" came on, she said, we sang this at Hannah's baptism! Mind you this was back in May and we haven't listened to the song since.
* She loves to help me cook and will push a chair over, climb up, and pull out "the measuring."
* She will refer to my tummy as "Your baby"
* Still cannot pronounce L's instead she says a "w" and if you say the word the way she does she will correct you and get mad that you are saying it wrong. She thinks she is saying it. I hope she corrects it over time, but right now it is cute. Example: "I wub to see the temple."
* VERY into Dora and Princesses. She will play all day with the princesses and help them get dressed to go "dance with the prince."
* Loves to use her fingers for explain numbers, especially to tell others that she is two!
* Will answer any question with a quick, "I know" (though she means I don't know) then she will respond with the correct answer
* Slides- She used to be afraid of them, she really likes to be in control. Recently she has learned how to climb up them (without socks or shoes of course) and that has mad her more daring. Yesterday she chose to go down the biggest slide at the park, it is probably 15 feet high and windy, but she would only go down on her stomach with her hands squeaking the WHOLE way down. It was an achievement... a funny one at that!
* She loves to play with "babies" and is very unique in her naming, "Big baby, brown baby and little baby!" She refers to Grandma's babies as "orange baby (hair), yellow baby, and little baby."
* Refers to any time in the past as "Yesterday"
* "When I was a Baby.." is her new way of explaining things.
* Loves Nursery and really listens. After church we asked her what she learned and she said, "about Heavenly Father, Jesus Smith, then corrected herself, Joseph smith and Jesus."
* She has one volume
* Loves Meat like ribs, steak, and marinated chicken
* Picks out her own cereal every morning, which includes two or three (this morning) choices.
* I wanna watch Dora the exborer"
* Is very detailed in her story telling and remembers TONS of details
* Loves to read and asks details about all the people in the story.
I had a different, but great birthday this year... I had one appointment. Anna and I went to Library Story time and sadly returned Mary Poppins and went and got Wendy's. Then I got to go to the DENTIST... if you knew me, you would know much I LOVED that! Thanks again honey for scheduling it. :) Then the Piano Tuner came and sadly we learned that this baby...
Isn't tunable. I appreciate Dave's thoughtfulness in getting me a Piano. He searched and searched with many scenarios in mind. However it seems it is not meant to be right now and we will be getting rid of it. I am okay with it though. After some packing and Anna's Nap, we had a tea party with Dora and her friends. I spent most of the rest of the day packing. 
