Watch Out World!

Not only does Anna pull up to standing on her own (if you click on the picture below, you can see her two toothies), 

she also crawls on her own now!  Oy.  Time for gates.  

This week has been absolutely glorious!   We have been spending our afternoons outside.  Since it's a bit early for our pool to open, we have been filling our baby pool out front.  Our neighbors have a pool they fill as well so we get the kids together and they have a grand old time!  

In the meantime, Meredith is REALLY excited to go on the car trip to Michigan over the Memorial Day holiday.  I wonder if she will change her tune once she has been sitting in a car for seven hours???

 Grandma came up earlier in the week.

 These are the neighbor kids.

And, someone just refuses to crawl.  She could do it.  She just can't seem to figure it out.  She is starting to pull up on things and she can get into a sitting position on her own from being on her belly.  She just won't crawl.  

Mother's Day Weekend

Well, it's Mother's Day weekend.  What I really wanted was another charm for my bracelet with Anna's name and birthday and that's what I got:-)  I also got Meredith's charm re-engraved.  When we got this bracelet 4 years ago, we got the cheap engraving.  That was a mistake...we should have spent the money on the nicer engraving because over time, you could barely read it anymore.  

Tomorrow we are going to the St. Paul Farmer's Market to partake in the Mother's Day festivities that my mom is helping out with.  It should be fun.  I'm not sure if I"m going to bring my camera or not.


Earlier this week, I convinced Meredith to get her hair cut.  I LOVE it this way and it's so much easier. I was really getting tired of dealing with the tangles.

And, someone is starting to stand up in her crib.  I guess we're going to have to lower the mattress:-D

Making progress towards crawling

I think Anna could crawl if she wanted to...she just hasn't figured it out.  Check her out.  She's trying to stand up too.  

Meredith started crawling at 9.5 months.  As far as I'm concerned, Anna can take as long as she wants.  I'm not ready to baby proof and get out gates.  But I have a feeling it won't be too long.  

Teething

It's been a while since I've updated but I haven't really had too much to write about.  I celebrated my 36th birthday last week.  As my college friends and I say, I'm not in my upper 30's until I hit 39.  I had a great day and thanks to my wonderful husband and kids, I will be going to get a massage or whatever else I fancy sometime in the near future.

Anna is officially teething.  She got her first tooth (the middle right lower incisor) a few weeks ago and she just got the middle left lower incisor yesterday.  That puts her right on par with Meredith's teething pattern.  I guess we can expect her to get all four of her upper incisors right around her 1st birthday now.

Anna is currently on Omnicef for an ongoing sinus infection.  We brought her in last week because she was just so congested that she was gasping for breaths and making froggy noises in her throat and it had been going on for almost two months.  I was a little afraid to start on back up on antibiotics since she got colitis the last time she took antibiotics but we started her on probiotics a day before the antibiotics and we haven't had ANY diarrhea.  And her congestion eased up within days!

We took Anna in for her 9 month checkup this morning.  She looks great and weighed in at 19 lbs., 3 oz. and is 28.5".

Meredith has a busy month ahead as I have her signed up for a bunch of classes through community education and she also starts some zoo camps at the end of the month.  She already took one community ed class and was SO excited.  She is also very excited for our road trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan later this month.  She made a packing list and asks me multiple times every day how many more days she has to wait to go on the "car trip".

I haven't had the camera out too much since Easter but this is one of my most favorite photos ever.  You may have seen it on Facebook already.