Childhood Adventures: March 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

More Great Wolf Lodge...

Kids enjoyed listening to a bedtime story at the Great Wolf Lodge...

Daddy and Ryan watching some tv

Ryan and Anya enjoying their lollipops...

Anya refused to sit on the bear with Ryan so I did. She threw a fit and sat on the floor...

We had such a wonderful time!!!! The kids really enjoyed staying here. Anya LOVED the waterslides. The second she would slide down she would hop out of the pool and run up the stairs to go down again. No fear at all! In fact, I had a man come up to me and ask how old she was. When I told him she just turned two he was laughing and said he and his wife had been watching her and couldn't believe how fearless Anya was. Made me laugh because on the other spectrum was Ryan who was scared to death. It took him quite some time to gather the courage to go down the waterslides. However, once he did he couldn't get enough. Anya was so much a daredevil that she started going down on her belly! Ryan had no interest in trying this trick! : )

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Cheeseburger

Ryan enjoying one of his favorite foods!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Worm

It rained this morning. Later in the afternoon the sun came out so I took the kids outside to play. Ryan decided he wanted to ride his bike around the block. So Anya and I followed in her tricycle. Ryan came upon a worm crawling across the sidewalk. He got off his bike to examine the interesting worm. After some thought he got back on his bike and proceeded to drive it over the worm. We all went around the block again. Ryan stopped where the worm was. He wondered why it wasn't moving anymore. I told him because he ran it over with his bike and now the poor worm was dead. He insisted we take the dead worm to an animal doctor.

The next day we went outside and Ryan rode his bike to the place where the worm was. He wasked where it went. I told him I didn't know. Then he said he knew. He said the worm went to the worm doctor to get fixed.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Anya's 2 year well visit

Anya's well visit...

When the nurse took us into the examination room and asked me to get Anya undressed it wasn't pretty. Anya was sure she was going to get another shot in her bottom since I was taking off her pants. She screamed, "No! No shot on bum! No!"

She weighs 26 pounds 12 ounces (50th percentile) and is 35 inches tall (90th percentile). Not sure where her height is coming from but I can say for certain it isn't from me.

She got one shot in her leg. As you can guess this wasn't exactly fun for Anya. She cried big alligator tears and pushed the nurse's hand away.

Here are some highlights about Anya's development...
*speaks 3 word sentences
*knows the colors red, purple (her favorite), pink (another favorite), blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white
*recognizes the letters s, t, y, a, b, z
*is trying her best to count but gets mixed up for example, 1,3,3,3,4
*loves to jump especially off a bottom step or a stool
*can sing Elmo's World song and trying her best to sing Twinkle twinkle little star
*has been fully potty trained for some time

Some of her favorites...
*pizza (without the cheese), pasta, tomoatos, cucumbers, couscous, grapes
*Elmo!!!!
*That's Not My Kitten book
*Annie and June doll
*anything with cats or ladybugs
*her flower shoes
*her pink pants
*swimming
*copying her big brother, Ryan!!!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Anya's 2nd Birthday

Anya loved blowing out her birthday candles! She had a litttle trouble as you can see in the third picture. She was trying her hardest to blow those candles out! In the end she finally did it and was so very proud of herself!