Little Miss Anna-Pants
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t-shirt from Amy Tangerine
Little miss Anna-pants.
I'm so excited to experience the Christmas season with Anna this year. She's saying "Santa" and "tree" and definitely checking out all the changes in decor happening around here.
She loves removing everything from my wallet.
She also loves to run into the laundry room and pull out the swimming towels. She brings one to me yelling "Swimming! Swimming!" When we take her to the pool her favorite thing is jumping in from the side and going all the way under the water.
Baby dolls and the care of those dolls are big on her list of things she likes to play with right now. Feeding them, changing their "diapers," taking them shopping ("bye-bye" she says as she pushes them in her toy grocery cart).
She runs from one end of the porch to the other and back again. Enjoys it most when Simon or other little friends are doing it too.
She is growing so fast. Almost every pair of pants I put on her are way, way too short (but of course they still fit around the waist) so we're in the middle of a clothing purge of all things that too small.
Everything is also about the "potty" right now. Dolls on the potty. Anna on the potty. She loves getting a little happy face sticker when she uses the potty.
Simon's sweatshirts and his bathrobe (seen in the image above) are a couple of her current favorite things.
She is a tyrant with a pencil, crayon, or pen. I love this. Simon has never had much of an interest in coloring - it's fun to have a kid that wants to color and draw and scribble (even if she currently wants to color on anything and everything).
"Mine" and "no" are two words that we hear loud and clear.
A few weeks ago she mastered the word "paci" (what we call her pacifier) - it doesn't come out quite like you're reading it, but she knows what she's saying. We got in the car after running some errands one day and she kept saying the same thing over and over and I couldn't figure out what it was. She was steadily getting more worked up, I'm looking around trying to see what she's pointing to when it hits me that she might be saying paci (something that's often up in the front seat, saved for necessary occasions). I said "paci" and she in a very exasperated, very clear voice she says, "yeeeesssssss."
We just love her. She's been such a wonderful addition to our family.
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Thanks for sharing these cute things about Anna! So fun as a fellow mom. :)
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I so love when you finally get a word they are saying, when my Grace learned how to ask for pudding and I finally got it I had her say it to my husband when he got home so he would know that was what she was asking for. I just love being able to watch them learn new words and use them properly. Such a big change from 2 to 3. Grace totally is all 3 word sentences now and I love it. So looking forward to when we can communicate completely with words. Each week she is completely adding to her vocubulary and it is so wonderful. Still can't believe she will be 3 soon, it is going so fast!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you so much for letting us into your life. It is wonderful to see you children growing up.
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the note about her infatuation with removing things from your wallet makes me giggle.
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Oh, that little Anna! She is such a sweetie! Love how one of her favorite things is Simon's robe :)
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wide ribbon and other cute ephemera stretch those pants a little. Just stitch it right to the bottom...makes them look so bohemian! :)
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ADORABLE. My kids are older of course -- but I still love it that my daughter LOVES to wear her brothers sweatshirts & old winter jackets for playing in the snow.
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Oh my! I saw these photos and thought, "She is SO not a baby anymore! She's a little girl now!" So precious. I've so loved watching her grow up and experience these things. :-)
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my little grand-daughter is talking and needs a translator much like Anna. And she can say yes just like that. Love it. Thanks for sharing sweet Anna with us.
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aah~! my li'l kayli-bub loves to do that too!! she'll pull my wallet from the diaper bag and sit there taking everything out. it's happened way too often that i'll go shopping and find my cards missing ... or even my entire wallet.
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Thanks for sharing. Love the pic of her in the robe. They do grow up too fast. My son is 15 and I don't know where the years went. If I had my blog when he was little, that would probably be all I posted about. Enjoy your kids when they are young. The teenage years have a little to be desired, even when you have a good one like me, they definitely have their moments.
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Anna's are the best.
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Amen!
I'll have to 2nd that!
Ali - love that you call her Anna-pants. My Anna is 15 and I still call her Anna-Bear:) And...she still answers to it!
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Enjoying my almost three grandson (the youngest) right now and it is good to hear you "document" what they love. Oh, how quick they grow up.
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Have you all read Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems? If not--get thee to a book store! It will be read over and over, I promise. It perfectly captures a poor toddler's frustration as she tries to communicate to her dad that her beloved bunny was left at the laundromat. ( I beleive it won a Caldecott honor too)
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She's adorable! You have such a wonderful little family. Happy Holidays!
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Love the pics of Anna and her relationship with Simon.
I have 2 boys...never thought we'd really ever get pregnant again, but I am expecting! And, if we ever had a girl, I always planned that her name would be Anna. (my mom's and my middle name is DeAnn and mil is Diann). We are praying for an end to complications with this pregnancy, and we'll find out the gender soon!
Your Anna is a precious one :) Thanks for sharing.
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Check out the golden book Little Mommy on Amazon. My daughter loves her babies and loves that book!
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So so true! Our Addie Grace is only a few months older than Anna -it is such a relief to hear someone else say favorite words include mine, no no, and paci! We just upgraded from pi to paci! We though we were so something when it came out like an actual word! Keep sharing sweet stories!
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What a cutie patootie she is and I just love, Love, LOVE the photo of her in Simons bathrobe! Thanks for sharing your beautiful children with us! It is especially wonderful for me because I don't have any so I get to live through you guys who do! Hugs from Conroe, TX!
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