Friday Quick Takes (59)

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Huge news for Anthony this week!  He took his first steps!  Just like with crawling, he started doing it in the pool (strange kid!).  We put him just deep enough in the zero depth pool that he couldn't sit or crawl.  He walked between us a bunch of times, taking up to 6 steps at a time.  The next day, he did it again, on dry land this time.  He's done it a few times since then.   We now know he CAN take steps.  He chooses not to most of the time, but it's not a matter of ability at this point, it's a matter of will.  He's a super fast crawler and he's not ready to give up that speed just yet.  His PT will be very excited with his progress this week!  He'll be 17 months next week, so he's no longer considered behind!

 

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We enrolled Anna in a 2 year old dance class for the semester.  The teacher is a mom from our parish and her own daughter will also be in the class.  She's super excited about it and LOVES the leotard that we are borrowing form a friend.  We're hoping it helps to wear our little energy child out a little bit!

 

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Our local sweet corn festival was last week.  Both kids LOVE corn (of course, I failed to get any pictures of Anthony).  Anna devoured her ear and has asked every day since "Go to corn festibal again today?"

 

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Although most of my pictures are of Anna this time, Anthony has been making his personality known around here!  He is talking up a storm.  He says tons of words (his PT is constantly amazed at what he says to her).  He tries to keep up with Anna verbally.  He counts to three, skips four, and says five and six also.  He is a people lover and is friendly to EVERYONE!  The ladies at daily Mass just love him and he says no less than 30 "hi"s each and every time we go. He bats his pretty eye lashes and can captivate any audience that way.  He loves to socialize and when given the choice between kids or adults, he talks to the adults every time.  It's so amazing to see him grow up.  And equally as amazing to see how vastly different my kids are.  They give me lots of laughs and lots of gray hairs...

 

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I'm loving all of the fresh produce from this mild summer!  We've gotten things from friends, visited the farmer's market a few times, and we have our own eggplant (or maybe 2 now!) growing in the backyard.  I'm still holding out for my red pepper plant too, it's looking like I may have some buds!

Anna kept eating the fresh green beans raw and saying they "taste like celery!"  She's such a helper in the kitchen.  She always wants to help with everything.

 

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Another picture of my helper.  Anna wants to do it all.  Here she's feeding her brother frozen yogurt and he's not complaining one little bit!  He adores his big sister and wants to do everything she does.  He's been calling her "sissy" a lot lately and it is super sweet to hear.

 

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We had a little family fun night last week and used all kinds of free coupons for our evening out!

We ate out, a rare occasion around here!  Anthony was incredibly enthralled with the "entertainment", the busiest road in town during rush hour.  And he didn't complain about the dinner of noodles either!  He was in little boy heaven!

We then went to one of Anna's favorite places, the Frozen Yogurt shop.  She's a fan of any yogurt that has "cake" in the name or picture.  She said it was "elicious!"

 

Then we went to our local baseball team game.  They're the Cornbelters (see a theme around here?).  Anthony loved watching the game and was talking with daddy about "balls and cars".

The Zoo Lady (face painting) was there and Anna actually wanted to do it.  Usually she gives us a vehement "NO!"  But she decided a green flower would be a nice treat.  She LOVED it and it was a very nice (and free!) treat for her.

Our little baseball fan!

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