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anna's 1 year photos

I just got the full disc of Anna's 1 year photos from my photographer and she did a great job getting pics of the kids. We were supposed to go to a local park, but it started pouring shortly before she got here (and the sun came out just after she left....) so we were stuck doing them in the house.


Anna looking outside at the rain

laughing while daddy tickles Josh

reading a book with her big brother

Trying to "get" Josh

Playing with daddy's feet

acting silly

my sister was here visiting so she was helping to keep Josh entertained while we were attempting to get some pics

playing around with daddy

tutus and trucks

I pulled out Anna's tutu and added it to our play clothes and the kids took turns wearing it today (well, Josh wanted to wear it more than Anna did...)

chicka chicka boom boom

nana Cook always quotes Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. I've never read the story so when I saw it at a garage sale a few weeks ago, I had to pick it up. Josh and I have been reading it at breakfast and playing a game with it. We have a coconut tree, just like in the book, and everytime a letter climbs the tree, we find the letter and put it in the tree.

peek a boo!

Anna was playing peek a boo with my lens cover


where's Anna?

There she is!

Where's Anna?

watermelon rolling

Mike harvested his second watermelon from the garden this week. Anna thought it was a toy and had lots of fun rolling it back and forth to daddy.

And when daddy was done playing, she continued to roll it around the whole kitchen, lol!

laundry basket rides

Sometimes they are so cute when they play together :)

He's blowing her hair and she thinks it's hysterical!

recycled shirt

I made Anna a new shirt from an old shirt that belonged to nana Cook. I was able to save the Winnie the Pooh and the decorative stitching on the sleeves and use them on her shirt. I love it, it's really cute and it reminds me of Donna every time I see it :)

car show

Today Josh wanted to have a car show with his matchbox cars, just like the one we went to with papa L.  He lined up all the cars on the table, then used his tinker toys for the rope barrier to keep people away from the cars.

He even added the old fashioned choo choo train

Then he decided that some of the people had to be behind the ropes so they could stand by their cars and clean them

The cars then had to drive around on the roads so that everyone could look at them

"We're having a car show!!!"

And somehow, the robot became involved in the car show.....