Family Fun Day

Yesterday's snow day was one of the nicest days we've spent together ever! Kurt's office was closed, (in fact the road to his office was closed off), and with the power flickering on and off, he couldn't work from home either. The result was that we played in the house together all day, running around with Anna, making comfort food lunches, drinking hot chocolate and relaxing. I worked on Anna's scrapbook and started my first (of many, I'm sure) crocheted winter hats. Anna was thrilled with it all, too. She kept visiting the windows to remind us that, "Look! Look! It's a-snowing!".

A perfect snow day for everyone!

Blizzard- View from the Front Door

 

Just chillin'

 

Pictures

Juli's Sunglasses.

Wearing Kurt's shoes.

Juli and Anna, enjoying a peanut butter bagel.

Free-climbing at the zoo. The ant is her favorite, she'll play on that for days.

Gremlins took my computer

That could be my excuse for not writing in so long... but...

Mostly I just haven't gotten around to it. But I'm here now! Hi!

This month seems like it's been a whirlwind, though I'm not sure why. Anna seems to be starting to even out a little, and her good days are about even with her screaming-demon-posession days, so that's been a relief. She's mostly just so cute that I try to forgive her when here head spins around several times during breakfast.

My dear friend Juli, the best college roomate EVER, was visiting this past weekend from Minnesota and we had a lovely time. Juli's a Southern Living at HOME representative, so we threw a SLAH party while she was here so she could meet my other, local, friends. It went great, and I wish she could have stayed longer!

Anna, unfortunately, decided that the pressure of a house guest was too much for her and spent much of Juli's visit trying to make me look like the world's worst mom, but we managed to get through it. By the end of her trip, Anna had calmed down and was very affectionate and sweet. One of her favorite games right now is, "What does ** say?", followed by a phrase that she associates with that person or thing. So, now we have, "What does Juli say?" added to our collection of associated phrases. By the way, what does Juli say? She says, "Yay! Hooray!"

This week, Kurt's going to have his first big time alone with Anna, since I am heading out for a few days vacation with my girlfriends. We are only going to be gone for about 2 and a half days, but it's my first time leaving Anna with Kurt for so long. I'm lucky, though, he's a stand-up dad and will have absolutely no problems. I think they plan to take a day trip up to Breckenridge, so he's definitely not worried, either. Heck, I would be nervous to take her so far for the day by myself! However, she is such a daddy's girl, I'm sure they'll both have a wonderful time and not miss me at all.

That's all the rambling update I can conjure right now! I'll try to be more concise in my next post. In the meantime... pictures!

Silliness

Terrible Two's aside, Anna's got some serious silliness in her right now. One of her new favorite things is to run in circles while giggling madly, screaming, "Running! Running! So silly!". She'll go forever, circling the coffee table and running back and forth in front of the TV, where she can see her reflection as she passes by.

I've also discovered that she has inherited her father's gene for cleanliness. We recently gave her the feather duster as a distraction and she went to mad, dusting everything in sight. Now, when I need a few minutes to get the dishes done or whatever, I just hand her the duster and she sets off, dusting the couches, the floors, the chairs, the trash, the toys, the walls and the carpet. I'm going to see if I can find her a little toy broom, too, then she can really start earning her keep!

On the baby front, all is well. I'm healthy and round and just about 6 months along. This little Schwartz is very active and spends a lot of time kicking and squirming around. The only big difference I've noticed in this pregnancy is that I'm getting awful migraines about once a month. Not fun, but certainly something I'm able to handle, with the help of lovely doctor-prescribed pain pills. *grin*

Here's a few pictures... In the first, she's clapping and dancing while Kurt plays a hoe-down for her on the guitar, and in the second, she's looking at pictures of her cousin, Ryan, on the computer. There are hardly any good pictures of Anna and I together, so Kurt promised to start picking up the camera. If I get any better ones of us, I'll post 'em. :-)