Eating green beans

I generally don't think stuffing your mouth so full of green beans that you nearly vomit is the best eating technique.  But I hate to criticize a toddler eating vegetables, so I usually just sit by and hope for the best.  Tonight I got out the camera because it seemed a huge green bean vomit was inevitable, and who wants to miss getting a picture of that?  

Ha!  Did you think I was really going to post a vomit picture?  (Actually, I would have, she just managed to keep them all down).  Sorry to disappoint.

Cute things that Annie does

1. Says "Bless you, Annie" quietly to herself when she sneezes

2. Yells "three! three!" if we are doing something fun (like jumping, or flipping upside down) on the count of three.  Why wait through the one and the two, if we can just get to the fun?

3. Makes a clicking noise like "tsk, tsk" when she wants me to follow her, as if she were calling a cat.

4. Periodically stops in the middle of what we are doing, grabs my arm, and says "happy, mama!", which is her way of telling me she is happy.  I love this.  I am usually happy in the moment, too, but didn't stop to think about it.

I have no photos to go with this post, so I'll attach a few that I took at the Children's Museum this week.  My favorite is the one of her driving the ambulance - she kept taking her hands off the wheel to try to turn on the radio, and then was puzzled when her music didn't turn on.

Happy Easter

This.  This picture above sums up how the day really went.  Down below I have a bunch of photos of Annie looking cute finding her eggs and wearing her pretty Easter dress.  And parts of our day were nice - lots of time with her cousins, the first 10 minutes of church before she decided she needed to wiggle and yell, hunting for eggs in our jammies this morning.  But most of the day consisted of Annie being over-sugared and under-napped, which turns my sweet girl into a bit of a monster.  Next year I'm going to write to the Easter Bunny and ask him to bring stickers and toys instead of candy. 

My smiling Irish girl

I don't think I ever posted pics of Annie looking good in her green on St Patrick's day.  She would be happy if you noticed that she also dressed her dolly in green for the day.  We celebrated by going to "baby loves disco" in San Francisco, which involved going to a dance party at a real club in the city in the middle of the day.  She LOVED it.  There was a DJ and an elevated dance floor and flashing lights - she danced and danced and danced, until she was so tired that she laid down on the dance floor in the butt up napping position and closed her eyes.  My phone couldn't get pictures of the event - it was too dark and I had no flash, but our friends Mary and John have some on their camera, so I'll post them here someday if they pass them along.  

this is a picture of her heading out to the club

Sick

Poor Annie has been sick. She was feeling a little better today, but still not quite herself, so we hung out around the house instead of going to the park.  We don't really have a routine down for hanging out at home - usually when it is nice out we both want to be outside at the park, or out on the sidewalk kicking the ball around or pushing dolly in her stroller.  And if it rains, which is rare, we go to the children's museum in San Jose.  So with a whole day of mostly inside hanging out time today, I decided we should do some Easter cooking projects.  This was only partially motivated by the fact that Annie was recently given a toy rolling pin in a set of toys, and she had no idea what it was.  (she tried to use it as a hammer, and also a baseball bat.  so it's not like I"m ignoring ALL aspects of her education!)  Here are a few pictures from our day together.

still not feeling 100%

Helping mommy make bunny cake.  She was very excited to help and carefully held my arm as we measured, and used a spoon to stir while we ran the mixer.  This picture, though, was taken just after the cakes went in the oven - she kept saying "cake? cake?" and looked so excited!  I had to explain that we don't actually eat it until after it we bake it.

So we moved on to dying eggs. Can we make them all red??   

I think somewhere I have a super cute big/smock things she's supposed to wear for art projects.  I couldn't find it though, which is why she's wearing the old tshirt I wear when I color my hair.  

These eggs taste terrible!  Even the red ones!  Why can't we have cake now?

Independent play

Annie played by herself earlier this week for about 10 minutes or so.  I didn't want to jinx it by putting up a blog post, but then she did it again today, for even longer!  This may not seem like a big deal, but it is huge.  I'd like to say I used the time to do something productive, or even to just relax.  But honestly, I was so shocked, I just sat on the floor across the room and stared at her.  And snapped a few pictures...

Mom!  Why are you taking my picture while I'm trying to play?

Fun with cousins