Monkey Island

Last Thursday we went to Monkey Island with Neisha, McKell, Kennidee, and KC. Monkey Island is a great big building with nothing but inflatable toys inside. It is a great place to take the kids in the winter and let them burn off some of that energy! I think that Neisha and I are rewarded with a nap from the kids, after we take them there. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of the girls that I stole from Neisha's blog. (Thanks Neisha!)

At one point I even jumped in the bouncy house with Ady. She thought it was great! It was a fun exhausting day!

Family Fun Day

Today was Family Fun Day. Brian took the day off and our first stop was the dentist. Annika had her first visit to the dentist. She did really well. I think that it was a really good thing that her aunt Heidi was the hygienist cleaning her teeth. She was so good with Annika and sat down with her and let her see all of the tools and how they worked. It was great! Heidi did such a good job!

Annika keeps telling me that Heidi tickled her teeth.
Annika sat in the chair and had her legs up in the air for most of the cleaning. It was just funny. The great news after the check-up was Annika has no cavities. :)


After Annika's teeth were all clean we went into the toy room, and played while Brian got his teeth cleaned. Heidi turned on Princess and the Frog, and the girls loved sitting in their bean bag chairs.

After Brian was done, we went out to lunch with Heidi, and Karen. We went to Thai Basil. I don't know why but we have been on a big Thai kick lately. mmmm it is so good.


After lunch we headed to the aquarium. We went last spring, and we showed up on a day of spring break, and the place was packed. Today it was so nice. There weren't very many people there, and Annika could move from tank to tank and look at all of the different fish. She was so brave and she touched the sting ray, and the sea star, and an urchin thing. She is just getting so big. Ady loved all of the fish, she sat and kicked her legs and smiled the whole time. We put Annika and Ady by one of the big fish tanks and Annika bent down to help Ady see. I love their sister love!

After the aquarium we headed to Cold stone. Annika picked cotton candy ice cream with white chocolate chips. They handed her, her ice cream, and she walked off and found a table and started enjoying! She is so independent! We sat and enjoyed some ice cream and then headed home.


When we got home Annika decided to draw all of the animals that we saw at the aquarium. This was one of the spiders that we saw. What a great drawing.

I loved our family fun day, and hope we can have another one soon!

Repeat

We were just upstairs and Annika wanted me to get a game down off the closet shelf for her. All of the games that are up there are not really games that she can play. I said to her lets go down stairs and we will play blocks or candy land. She looks at me and uses her serious voice. (she uses it when she is trying to parent) and she said "Repeat after me" I want to play with that game up there that you used to play when I was a baby. I think she was trying to say listen to me. But it made me laugh that she said repeat after me. So then I asked her if she knew what that meant. she said no, and then preceded to tell me why she needed the game. In the end she got a game and I am still laughing...."REPEAT AFTER ME!"

8 Months

Ady is now 8 months old! Really.... where did the time go? It is just crazy to me.
*She is mobile. Crawling all over
*She picks up cheerios and puffs, and eats them.
*She has started eating more food. Her favorite so far, is Apples & Cinnamon with Oatmeal.
*She signs milk
*She wants to be playing with whatever Annika is playing with.
*She wants to be right by other people.
*Lately Annika will crawl underneath Ady's chair and Ady watches Annika go from side to side and just laughs every time Annika peaks out on the other side.
*She pulls herself up to stand next to anything she can. The other day she was standing up holding on to my legs, while I was sitting on the ground, and she let go of my legs and stood up for a couple seconds.
*She doesn't like falling over even if she does land right on her bum.
*She is such a cute kid and I am so glad she is mine!

Sunbeams

I just have to post this because it is crazy to me. But Annika is now in Sunbeams. I no longer have a baby in Nursery, she is a big girl and goes to sunbeams. She has done such a good job being reverent in Primary, and has transitioned really well. It is just so weird that I have a kid that goes to Primary.
This last week I did Sharing time, and I was really afraid that she would want to come stand by me or something while I was trying to teach. But she stayed in her seat and participated really well in the lesson. I just hope she is good for her teachers when we aren't around. But she is growing up so fast!

New Year

On New Years Eve we went to Brian's parents house and enjoyed the wonderful fondue night. It is a wonderful tradition, and what better meal to kick off the new year of eating healthy than making yourself sick on fried food. Mmmmm.... it was so good. I had seen some sparklers in walmart when I was there, and thought Annika would love them. So at 9:30 we went outside and played with the sparklers and said Happy New Year. It was lots of fun. Gavin was holding his between his toes. It was lots of fun! Not to long after we went out and did sparklers Annika fell asleep on the couch. It was great! Happy New Year!