why people take toddlers to a professional for pictures

 What we were going for............

What we got........................

It was a frustrating afternoon.........

Anna wanted to eat the stick.

Valentines Photo Shoot

stealing candy from a kid

Anna got some chocolate from nursery at church.

I thought she would go crazy so I made her eat her lima beans first.

She ate 1/2 of a chocolate and went back to her lima beans.

Good Girl Anna!

But she did love every bite of chocolate she had!

Rich and I ended up eating the rest.......

thanks anna!

Easy as stealing chocolate from anna.

now stealing her BINKY....thats another monster..........

Anna answers NO to all questions.

mary beth

richard doesn't like the name opal so for now its mary beth.  we'll see if it sticks.  Anyways we had a checkup for marybeth today.  I took my sidekick along.  Usually I leave her with a friend, but I wanted to see how she would be...........

She wanted to be on the exam table with me, so she sat right next to me with her head on my belly while the dr. measured and felt the baby (finally head down - has been breach every other visit).  When they put the heart monitor on anna's eye's brightened and her head perked up.  She was excited to hear her little sister!

I can't wait for her to meet her in person.  It will probably be rough at first, but I know she'll love the baby.

JJ

Anna has a little friend that she gets along famously with.  They are just crazy little girls when they are together, running around screeching and giggling.  Anyways, Trina (JJ's mommy) is nice to watch anna for us all the time and so I try to help her out when she'll let me (:  We got to have JJ over tonight and I let the girls play in the mud - here's the pics to prove it.

 Learning to share - we need all the practice we can get.  I'm not sure she can learn that from rich and I, we fight over who gets the last cookie still.  I'm not sure why he has a complex about that - I know I have a complex about that because if I didn't fight for it as a kid my big sister would always take the last cookie.

 

Don't mind our boring talk in the background.  

 JJ was very serious about the mud.  She kept calling me Anna Momma.  This face to me says "serious business here Anna Momma, can't stop to smile"

Anna was having a jolly 'ole time.  She rolls in the mud all the time while I work in the yard.  She was so happy to have a friend there to join in on the fun!

i love to see the temple

and we went there last thursday afternoon.  problem is i didn't bring a camera and kaelie is holding the ones she took hostage.  hopefully we get them soon because she's sent me a teaser and apparently there is one cuter than this!~

she knows her ABC....or just P, S, V and Z

she can fill in the blanks!  very impressive anna!

Hello there!

such a cute picture minus the major snot slime!

such a big girl in the bob! Reading a book as usual.
 

Still loves to eat!