Don't you just love a good friend?!

Anna's been blessed with a few of them...

A Captivating 6 months...

Here's links to the past 6 months of photog shoots with our lil' love bug.
Thanks to Kellie Trenkle our amazing photographer, we have oodles of shots to last us a lifetime! A shout out on her...if you need one fantubulous photographer, please let me know, I'll send you her way (Captivating Photography & Design Co.)!

One month with Anna...


Two months with Anna...


Three months with Anna...


Four months with Anna...


Five months with Anna...


Six months with Anna...

A big week!

Oh yes indeed it was...
Anna had her 1st babysitting venture outside of grammy & gramps time with Auntie Em and Audrey Kate. Along with this came her first friendship drama. She is really into pulling Audrey's hair and Audrey's not so much into it. So one had a melt-down and the other quickly followed. Melissa and I were wishing we had caught it on tape, as we laughed and they melted over each other's pain. It was a movie picture in the making for sure.
Anna had her 1st week in the church nursery and had a blast, even had a wrestling match (or got wrestled down) with another little princess as I arrived at the end. So hillarious to see her developing her social and play skills!
I chopped off the strangly strung out hippie do, 8.5" total off. I feel so light and free. A much needed new mama do.
We signed the docs, we're official landowners of our new property for our next homebuilding project, wahoo!
And best of all, Anna started saying "mom-mm", not mama, but mom-mm. She says it for me and food. Does that make us equal? Does it get any better than that, mamas out there?!

And a few shots from the week...
Anna's feelings when Duke was out of the March Madness tourney. A girl after her daddy's heart.

Anna trying on her own John Deere boots from Will's Uncle Mack. They're like 10 sizes too big, but since we can't fit our cankles in boots our size, we thought we'd see if too-big-ones fit. Nope. Cankles still too big.

Anna and her first technology experience with daddy. An i-pody afternoon on the swing. Beautiful moments indeed.

Anna and daddy going to their first baseball game together! He said that everytime the crowd cheered she looked around, wondering what she did that they were all so excited about. We must sound like a crowd cheering for her at home, so she's used to it I guess.

She is one loved girl.

Ouch...

Was reading a blog I follow today and got a big ouch as I was reading the most recent post on "Smother Love"...
http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2009/03/31/smother-love/#more-728
Haven't had to deal with any major letting-go's yet, but have already wondered about a few of them, how I'll ever deal when I get there. Interesting time, as this gave me much to chew on about it all.
Any thoughts?!

Half a Year Old!

Thanks to her daddy love, here's Anna's first debut performance...

The Daily Joys...

What we've been up to lately...forget the daily grind,

we've been experiencing some serious daily joy!!

Did we all think this day would come? mmm maybe.

But nevertheless here we sit, right in the middle of it...

Organizing socks. (a girl after her mama's heart)
Bathing the beauty with our fave-o-rite toys, can you tell which one it is?!
Smiling for miles. Many many smiles big and small, wide and tall.
Snuggling & traveling with mama.
Munching everything in sight. Or teething on everything in sight is more like it.
Attempting to sit up on her own. A little side push-up we like to call it. We're not quite there yet, but ALLLmost!
Making crazy screeches, hollers and pterodactyl noises.
Sitting up big and strong.
Eating lots and practically jumping out of the high chair when it doesn't enter the mouth quite fast enough.
Watching Horton and snuggling with Grammy.
Studying the Bible with mama (or Bible study interrupting is how it really goes).
Losing all the dark luscious curls, down to the baby mini mullet nubs.
Reading the Bible (or eating it mostly).
Playing with daddy, her favorite playmate. He gets lots of big belly laughs, especially when eating her feet.

Discovering our toes, hers and ours.
Turning half-a-year old! We had half-a-party!
Loving our moments.
Enduring affection, ha!
Being a family.
Feeding ourselves.
Drinking formula in a big girl cup (or measuring cup, ha!)
Obsessing about tags. We need NO other toys in life, just tags.
Pretending to be a bunny.
Enjoying rice treats.

More where those came from soon...

Ok, sorry...

I'm youtube challenged. I didn't want my video to have to go public, but I guess it has to, to be on here. So Kia, how in tarnation do I just upload videos directly to Blogger like you do on yours? Lesson please...
And by the way, I made it accessible now to all those who tried it before and it didn't work, sorrrryyyyyyyyy. I think I'm on the up and up now with youtube savyness!
Please attempt the link below in the post below for the Anna vid again...

New Tricks!

Uhhh, this is NOT one of the times this trick worked. Ha! You can see she makes an attempt and then I totally get slighted for gramps walking out of the room. Oh well, maybe next time...

Happy day of loving to you!

Anna got to spend the day of love with her daddy dearest on Saturday,

while her mama threw a baby shower for her dear friends Jill and Grace.

She got to stop in for a visit though, to see two of her buddies.

The big girls were very intrigued by fresh-out Grace....