Anderson Family: July 2012

I am running a week late on this! I am so sorry! Life has been a bit busy! You have been one busy little bug…you continue to develop right along. You sure make your momma proud with your great fine motor skills! You are walking along furniture and trying to climb up everything! If we had a ladder, I am sure you would know how to use it! Winking smile Your sleeping continues to be hit or miss. Times you will sleep through the night, others you may wake up once, and yet other times you are up multiple times a night. I am really longing for the day you figure this sleep thing out- you sleep through the night! You still continue to be a great eater…and we are hoping that this continues! You eat pretty much everything…I have not found anything that you don’t like yet. And daycare continues to comment on how you “eat everything and tons of it!” You have been crawling up stairs for a while now and daycare reports that you even went down the stairs (only 3 stairs)! But you have yet to do this at home! And speaking of home, we moved! We left our house of 5 years, and moved out into the country! It’s a bit of a change for us…but you have so much more room to learn and grow! You seem to enjoy the new house, except for the floors! You get a little frustrated when you have clothes on…as you slide all over…so we tend to keep you naked a lot! We now live 3 miles from a trailhead, which we just LOVE!!! You love to go on hikes and you “talk” most of the time when we are on the trails!

You are usually a very happy baby and are constantly smiling and squealing at most everything! You have really picked up on babbling and at times we think you are actually saying “dada” purposefully…but it’s a little hard to tell. I also think that you are signing “dog” purposefully, but this is also too hard to tell! I continue to work on you to say “mama” with no success! I am looking forward to the day you say it! You are now giving kisses…which means you open your mouth up wide and stick your tongue out and get me all slobbery! But, boy do I LOVE THEM!!! I cheat a little when putting you to bed, and instead of laying you down when you are sleepy, I cuddle you for a while, because you are such a wild woman, you don’t let me cuddle you anymore! So I have to steal it where I can! I do have to say that I think the funniest thing you do is try to drink water out of the faucet when your bath water is pouring! I am trying to catch it on video!

You had your first adventure to the farm for the 4th of July! We traveled at night, so you would sleep, and it worked out perfect for us (both ways!)! We had an Anderson family reunion as the whole gang was there (Gma & Gpa, Chris, Mellissa, Brooks, Noah, Drew Troy, Kim and Thorsten). It was organized chaos most of the time, and I think we were able to get you ALL down for a nap at the same time ONCE! But it sure was a BLAST!

We made it back from North Dakota, just in time to move and this coming weekend brings a Reinhardt family reunion!