Anna

I am sitting here struggling to come up with a title of today's blog. I overuse "Update" and feel like I am always apologizing or making excuses for how poorly I do at keeping up with my blog. I know I'm going to look back some day and be disappointed that I did not do a better job of updating what the children were up to.

With Anna being our third child, I'm emailing friends and family less about what she is doing, so I won't have emails to reference when I finally get around to doing her baby book. Hopefully, Anna won't mind that the entry related to her first time crawling will be something like "somewhere around eight or nine months." :-)

I can officially say that Anna is walking. On the day we left Peachtree City (April 5 for baby book purposes), Anna took several steps in a row (previously she had just been doing one at a time). She's been walking ever since. She has gotten up to about seven or eight steps in a row. The problem is that when she gets close to the spot where she wants to be, she just dives the rest of the way. That is pretty terrifying considering that most parts of our house are hardwood or tile. Anna is sort of an outdoors girl. She loves to be outside but hates the feeling of standing or sitting in the grass. If she has shoes on, she'll walk around the yard holding my hand, but she gets really upset if I try to sit her on her bottom on the grass. She absolutely loves being on the trampoline but can only play on it with Aidan. Austin just can't contain himself when she's on there. He thinks it's far too much fun to try to knock her over. Anna says hi, bye, Dada, and Mama very consistently. (As I type this, Aidan has just gotten up for the day, and Anna is furiously waving at him saying, "Hi. Hi.")