Library friends

I apologize for getting behind on my blogging. These days just fly by and I barely realize another week has passed!

Especially since the weather in these parts has been cold and/or wet, we've been looking for indoor things to do. I've blogged about storytime at the library before, but Annabel has been enjoying it so much lately, it deserves another post.

On Tuesdays, we usually meet up with Annabel's friend, Kenley, and her mommy. Unfortunately, I didn't get any cute pictures of those two, but I will put it in my head to remember for next time.

Sometimes we hit the library again later in the week, and as long as her mommy's not working, Annabel's friend Haley meets up with us as well. And this past week, another friend, little B, came too. These 3 had great fun together and it was really cute to see.

These photos are going to be pretty blurry because the girls didn't stop long enough for me to get a good shot. Toddlers on the go!



That's B on the left and Haley on the right. They really loved holding hands, and all three of us mommies couldn't get our camera phones out fast enough.



Off they go!



Reading books together... Sort of.



Annabel and B have their "serious library" faces on.



I love how this chair looks ginormous in this picture. It's actually smaller than your typical loveseat. These girls love the library chairs. Wonder if I can get some for the house? Not that we have any room for MORE furniture!

Until tomorrow!
Cheers,
Cathy

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Go USA!

We've got Olympic fever in our household. It's been pretty dramatic, what with the death of the luger and the many injuries already. But there have been some incredibly inspiring moments too (Chinese pairs skaters who are the oldest competitors, but currently in the top spot)! I don't have any pictures of Annabel watching the Olympics with us or anything. I just wanted to say, "Congratulations, Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso!"



Cheers,

Fingers vs Tines

Fingers win!










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A taste of snow

A hundred toys in one

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love how imaginative kids can be, given the opportunity. As I mentioned in my last post, Annabel enjoys climbing into her ball pit bucket and just hang out. I guess she likes it so much, she's decided to try to find other things she can climb into.

Here she is, the other day, squeezing herself into the basket where we keep her wooden blocks.

Now here is where her imagination really took off tonight. I apologize in advance for the low quality of these photos. iPhones don't take the greatest pictures in low lighting settings. Anyhoo... First, we find Annabel here:This is a toy bin that fits under her table. She has removed all the toys and put herself in it. Ok, that was fun for a bit... now what else can she sit in?

Ah ha! The bin that her blocks came in! Hmmmm... can't really fit in there. So what else can I do with it?

"Hellooooooo! Is anybody there... there... there? Mommy, I hear an echoooo... echooo... echoo...!"

Choo choo! Annabel Express, comin' through!

"Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Danger!" (For you folks unfamiliar with Lost in Space, that's the robot talking.) While Annabel probably wasn't purposely pretending to be a robot, she was walking around with the bucket on her head kind of stiff, like a robot. LOL!

Giddyup, horsey! Annabel was scooching around the carpet and tile like she was riding a horsey. Or maybe like her fire truck. Either way, she found yet another way to play with this simple little box.

It was all I could do to keep up with the little munchkin tonight! Each day she amazes me with the new things she's doing and words she saying. Of course, she amazes me by just hugging me, so I guess I'm easy to please. I hope to stay that way.

Cheers,

Just chillin'

Isn't it funny how kids can be completely obsessed with a toy and play with it non-stop for days or weeks, and then just stop? And then months go by where they barely even acknowledge the toy, until all of sudden, it's back!

What? You mean that's only my kid that does that? Oh well... one more quality that makes her extra special then. (Yeah, I am such a mom!)

For Annabel, her latest "obsession" is with her personal ball pit. Awhile back, we bought a couple of those plastic party tubs from Costco. They're big tubs that you fill with ice and drinks for your outdoor parties. We filled one with her toys, and the other with those balls that you see in ball pits at your local Chuck E Cheese. When this was new, Annabel loved it! Played in it all the time...

Here she is, happy as a clam last August.

Then, for months on end, the ball tub sat untouched in the corner of the living room. Until...

The other night, Annabel decided to take a chillaxing lounge in the ball tub. I have more photos, which I'll save for another post. But I wanted to definitely share this one because I love her feet and the whole pose just makes me laugh. What a goof!

She's been lounging in her little personal ball pit pretty much every day since. We'll see how long it lasts!

And, since this post will technically go live on Sunday...

Happy Lunar New Year! It's the Year of the Tiger, which is the year that Chris and I were born in, so hopefully that means it'll be a good one.

Cheers,

Record snowfall!

So unless you've been living under a rock, you may have noticed that the country has been experiencing some crazy weather this winter. In our "neck of the woods," as Al Roker likes to say, we've been getting snow. Why is that crazy? Because we live in Texas, people. Texas! We usually get ice, not snow. And this winter, it has snowed at least 3 times already! And I mean good snow. Stick to the ground snow. Snowman-worthy snow.

Of course, the budding photographer in me had to record this crazy weather in the context of my sweet Annabel. So we went out in the front yard (because the risk of stepping in dog poo in the backyard is too high) and played around. And I took some photos. If you're my friend on Facebook, you've probably seen these, but if not, then here they are! Enjoy!

Annabel tests out the snow...

And promptly decides that she doesn't like it! There's no snow in her boots or anything as traumatic as her face makes it look. She just doesn't like the cold and wet. She was the same way about grass when she first experienced that, too. This girl is all drama, I tell ya!

See? Happily running around!

Posing for Mommy like a big girl.

I just love her attitude in this picture. She looks like a model doing a runway fashion show.

And we'll end today's post with this photo of my baby's beautiful, long eyelashes that she certainly didn't inherit from me. That's from her daddy. Thanks, Daddy!

Til next time!
Cheers,