Fun Moments with Annabeth from the last 3 weeks

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks. This one is Annabeth in her snowsuit, getting ready to go outside. She loves playing in the snow, making snow angels, building snowmen, and just running around and "marching" in the snow.

This picture is from the day after Christmas, when we celebrated with Earl and Cam. Annabeth is showing her "tiger blanket." It is a tiger that can be a stuffed animal or pillow when stuffed with the blanket, or a blanket when it is unzipped and unstuffed.

Annabeth's Grammy Helen and Grandpa Phil gave her this feather boa for Christmas. Here she is making it into a "mustache." Pat calls her boa a "frilly fru fru" and the name has stuck. :)

Now for some stories...

Annabeth has caught onto the concept of something being her "favorite." Lately, everything has been her "favorite", if she likes it, like one of her shows on T.V., or "not her favorite," if she doesn't, like certain vegetables at dinner. Although, I have to say that I'm proud of her. The last 3 weeks, she has been eating all of her salad for dinner.

Annabeth has an active imagination, and it's fun to see her use it. The other day she took a whole bunch of her food out of her kitchen, brought it to me, and said, "I have ingredients for making apple pie!" Her ingredients were interesting.. a chicken leg, cheese, a lemon, etc., but I was impressed by her attempt to make her own recipe. :)

Annabeth is not very shy, and I think she will continue to enjoy people as she grows. She will often call across the grocery store to someone - no matter that she doesn't know their name, she calls them "boy" or "girl" or "Hey, man!" and then continues to make conversation.

I love Annabeth's hugs, and she's giving a lot of them on her own lately. Annabeth came and gave me some hugs the other night, then said, "You're welcome for the hugs!"

When Annabeth is done with watching a show, she turns it off (whether the show is over or not). She came to me after turning the T.V. off one time, and said, "The hands brothers turned off the T.V.!" Yesterday, it was, "The finger brothers turned off the T.V."

Last week we were going out, and I was wearing the yellow Chico Hot Springs hat that I got in Chico Hot Springs, MT when my brother Jon and his wife Sara got married. I also had a gray and white jacket on. Annabeth said, "Where's your Michigan (as in Michigan Wolverines) jacket? (which is actually my San Francisco jacket in Michigan colors - maize and blue)" I asked her, "Why, what is wrong with this one?" She said, "It doesn't match your hat!" Funny that my 2 1/2 year old daughter has more fashion sense than I do. :)

Last weekend, we went to the Jungling's house - some friends from our church. Annabeth goes over there about once a week, and usually has a lot of fun and doesn't have a problem staying there when Grandma and I go to one of the local elementary schools to help with an After School Bible Club. This time, when I was staying and planning to help work on a partially built building of theirs that got destroyed in a windstorm we had in Edgewood, she was really clingy. She cried really hard when I tried to leave, and then after I left, it took my friend Kelly and her mom Sara a while to get her distracted. Kelly was holding her, and Sara asked if Annabeth wanted to go to her. Annabeth nodded her head, and said, very seriously, "I want you to take me to my Mommy!" After deciding that in my pregnant state I couldn't help a lot, and coming back inside, she was fine, and was able to play, as long as she knew I was there. When I left to talk to Pat for a minute, though, she came out of the room where she was playing and said to Kelly and Sara, "She got away from me!"

Tipping the scales

I was weighing myself on the scale the other day and Annabeth asked if she could get on, too. So I let her get on the scale, and I asked her what it said. She said, "Two years old."

Merry Christmas Family and Friends!

Hi Family and Friends! We wish we could be with you this Christmas - we miss you. Annabeth and her Daddy were singing Christmas songs this morning, and instead of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," Annabeth was singing "We Miss You a Merry Christmas," which was very appropriate, especially when she was singing it over the phone to our family in Texas.

Annabeth and her cousins

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving of Annabeth and her cousins Jonny and Kendall. We had a nice time with Uncle Earl, Auntie Cam, Jonnie, Kendall, and Auntie Cam's brother and his wife on Thanksgiving. I figured I'd better get my Thanksgiving pictures posted before Christmas. :)

Our little dancer..

Lately, Annabeth's favorite way to play is to run around the house. When she was younger, she liked sitting and playing with her dollhouse, or coloring, or more sedentary activities, but lately she has been on the move. One of her favorite things to do is to "da nce" around her grandma's room to upbeat Spanish music. Her dancing mostly consists of running around and around in circles, sometimes holding a stuffed animal dance partner.

Tonight when I put her to bed, she wanted to dance, so I turned on some Spanish music for her in her room for a few minutes. She asked me, "Mommy, is this marching music?" I told her, "It's dancing music!" Then she asked, "Mommy, is it shaking your bottom music?" Oh boy, I don't know where she got that one from. I'll have to ask her grandma. :)

Some other funny moments from the last few days..

Last week before I went to the grocery store, I asked Maria if there was anything I could get her from the store that week. As I added a couple of items to my list, Annabeth said, "Grandma, do you want cottage cheese?" Annabeth loves sharing cottage cheese with her Grandma. When I brought it home, she danced around, saying "Yay! Cottage Cheese!" I'm glad she can get so excited over something that's pretty good for her at the same time. :)

After dinner the other night, she asked if she could play in her Grandma's room. When I said yes, she said, "Yay!" A short pause, then, "Now I'm going to sing a pause about it!" She then danced around in a circle, and sang, to the tune of "She'll be coming round the mountain." "Play, play, play, play, play..."

While we were cleaning up from dinner that same night, Annabeth asked me for some crackers. I asked her if she wanted Saltine crackers, but that's not what she wanted.. she asked for the round crackers. While I was getting down the Ritz crackers to give her a couple, she asked me, "Do you know what I'm asking you for?"

Update on Baby Moore #2

On Tuesday I had a pregnancy checkup and heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time! It was so exciting - I teared up, because it was so good to hear the baby and know things were going well. So, in honor of this special moment, here are some pictures that I haven't posted yet, along with a little story.

Around the middle of October, I was cooking dinner one night, and I peeled this clove of garlic, a "mama" garlic with her little baby attached. I showed it to Pat, and said, I wonder if this is a sign that we are expecting? Pat said we should take some pictures just in case. We had been wanting to have another baby, and just in the last month or so had been trying to get pregnant. When we took this picture, it turns out that I was about a week pregnant, but we wouldn't know it for another couple of weeks.

Here is the pregnancy test we took a couple of weeks later. Two lines meant we were pregnant. :)

Some funny things lately...

Here are some funny moments from Annabeth recently. Sorry I haven't been good about posting lately, but I've been very tired the last few weeks during the first trimester of our pregnancy. Annabeth is really excited about having a new baby brother or sister. She likes watching Dora, and one of her Dora programs is called "Big Sister Dora." In the program, Dora's mom has a boy and a girl. Lately, after watching Dora, when I've been asking Annabeth if she wants a brother or a sister, she says, "A brother AND a sister!"

Last week we went out for dinner and were coming home. It was after dark. Annabeth was trying to reach the little roll down shade at her window and couldn't quite get it. She started crying and said, "I NEED my shade! The sun is in my eyes!"

A couple weeks back, Annabeth watched part of a Sesame Street episode that had a song about it being ok to be sad, and it's ok to cry. After seeing it, when I talk to her about whining, she says, "I'm not whining, I'm crying!" She figures whining isn't ok, but she shouldn't get in trouble for crying.

Annabeth loves singing, and has been enjoying Christmas music this time of the year. This year she really wants to listen to a 3 song Christmas CD that she got with some Christmas books from her Uncle Jon and Aunt Sara on her first Christmas. Her favorite song is Jingle Bells, and she goes around the house singing it all the time.

One of Annabeth's new words the last couple of weeks is "forgot," which she says, "gu-got" She has reminded me several times when I "gu-got" something. It's so cute how she says it.