Visit from Mischa

Mish was in town around the middle of July and we got to spend time with her a couple of different days. It was wonderful to have my friend back on US soil after being deployed in Iraq for 6 months! Here's a few pics from when she was here. 

Being silly

More silliness

Really intent on what she was saying

Strike a pose!

The silliness continues

Loves her cow!

Kisses!!

Say What?

I have NO idea what AnnaBeth is saying here but it must be important since she keeps repeating it. And when I played the video back to her, she was talking back to the video, saying the same thing and getting even more excited than she does in the video.

Smarty Pants

Yesterday I stopped at a consignment store in search of an umbrella stroller. I found just what I was looking for and got it for only $18! I don't think this particular model is sold anymore but I'm pretty sure it was probably around $50 or $60 new. I found another steal while I was there too...a jumbo stuffed Tigger for only $5!! AnnaBeth saw him, said "ooooh!" and I just couldn't resist. Especially for the price :)

Aren't they just SO cute together? Today I got some video of AnnaBeth pointing out a bunch of things in one of her books as well as her demonstrating some animal sounds and saying a few things.

So excited!!

So AnnaBeth just LOVES her Tia YaYa (Laura) and these quick videos prove it! In other news, she's added baseball and apple to her vocabulary. She attempted "lobster" today and it came out as "lala" so good enough I suppose :) And last week, she was "reading" her Curious George book and while doing so, pointed to a girl and said "guh" (or maybe it was "gil")...either way, she totally amazed me! The other day, while reading the same book, I asked her to show me the girl in the red dress and the mommy in the blue dress and SHE DID! I'm so proud of my smart girl!

4th of July

For the holiday weekend, AnnaBeth and I did a lot of hanging around the house playing, reading and napping. We did make it over to my parents to go swimming and my dad grilled a whole bunch of yummy food. Kent was feverishly welding muffler/exhaust systems for Porsche Boxster Spec race cars all of last weekend and wasn't able to join us :( We decided to skip fireworks this year as AnnaBeth would have just wanted to run around and we didn't feel like running after her in the heat with a bunch of people around. Maybe next year though. Enjoy the slideshow!

Quick Scrap

I finally figured out what to do for our Dads for Father's Day...I created a scrap page that I'll print out and frame. I cheated and made the same one (it's 11pm and I'm tired!). I did something similar for our Moms for Mother's Day but I actually made theirs :)

Daredevil or dancer?

AnnaBeth enjoys practicing her advanced balancing skills. She will stand in her rocking chair (holding on to the arms but still having to balance herself so she doesn't fall) and likes to stand on her little red ride on car or her quad.

I played with this one in photoshop :)

And here she is practicing her fitness orb bouncing skills :)