Anna's newest antics...

We're working on the walking thing- she likes to walk holding onto one hand now, and is taking more and more steps unassisted. Her teacher says she will walk when no one is watching, and as soon as she notices someone looking at her, she drops down to start crawling. I'm not all too eager for her to start running, so her progress is just fine for me!

Anna can now tell you (by pointing) where her nose, eye, ear, mouth, teeth, hair, and belly button are. She will give hugs and blow kisses as well (but somehow stops at the kissing her hand part). She's cutting 4 teeth all at once...the two bottom incisors (I think that's what they're called) and two top molars. So now she has even teeth! 6 on top and 6 on bottom! She loves the book, "Pat the Bunny" and can do all the activities in it, like play peek-a-boo, put her finger through the ring, etc. She also likes to sniff the flowers, so now when she sees any flower, she sniffs as if to smell it. Pretty cute. We're working on taking down her morning nap, because at school she seems to not want to take her morning nap and then takes a great afternoon one. Plus when she moves up to the toddler room, they only take 1 afternoon nap. My issue with this 1 nap thing is this- when do I take a shower now?? Her morning naps were my "get ready" time. Does this mean I have to get up before she does and get ready? Ack!! I don't feel comfortable letting her roam the house while I'm in the shower- she has gotten stuck in the dog door a couple of times and I'm just waiting for her to climb into the litter box....plus I'm not sure her room is 100% baby proof. Right now she's taking a cat nap- my plan is to get her up at 1 hour. Which means I need to get ready...Pictures to come once I free up some memory on the camera!!

I finally was able to capture some video of Anna making her signs. Unfortunately the video cut off and doesn't cover her signing "eat", "fish", "shoes", "swing", "more", "please" and "potty". She loves using a fork to eat now, so if she's lost interest in something, all you have to do is put it on the fork and she'll eat it! Her faves lately are mandarin oranges, chicken nuggets, raisins, and peas.




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Anna's not a big walker yet. She'd much rather crawl around and know she won't fall! Yesterday John and I took her golfing, and she enjoyed playing in the golf cart and crawling around on the greens. Once we ran out of snacks, though, it was much harder to keep her entertained!! Overall, with only one 30-second crying episode, she did really well and we'll probably go back again- next time with more snacks and her golf club!

She's walking!

Anna took her first steps at home today!! John and I were busy talking, and the next thing we know, she's walking towards us!! What a big girl! Video to follow....once we catch her walking!

HAPPY EASTER!!

This past weekend was spent at Bald Head with the cousins...now all 1 year olds!! It was interesting getting all the babies together again, comparing notes, and seeing them interact. Kudos to my brother, Kevin, who played single dad this weekend while Meighan was working in Scotland. You are a wonderful dad, Kev, and Sean is so lucky to have you as his daddy.

The babies a year ago

And now

It was hard to get a great picture of all three critters...Braxton had just woken up from a nap...he was much happier with some food...

The kids had fun at the playground. Anna was a little less than thrilled to be out in the cold wind, but the boys didn't care. Sean LOVED the slide, and Braxton too. They all took turns going down the "big" one!

Aunt Lorie was a trooper to take all 3 babies in the tub with her! We couldn't get the doors on the tub off, so somebody had to go in!! Thanks, Lorie, for bathing the triplets!! Next year we'll have at least one more to throw in there!

It didn't quite feel like Easter with the weather being so chilly, but it was a lot of fun spending time with family. We had a long weekend to relax at the beach and even had time to get back home to watch the end of the Masters!! Anna got to wear her golfing outfit.