Yes, more photos

I feel like nearly every post I write is just a little recap of our weekends with a ton of photos. Oh well. This one won't even be that great, since I was managing Annie by myself while Ben biked the MS150 and didn't bring my nice camera anywhere. Yet another shout out to my iPhone 4- that camera on there really is pretty good! (outdoors at least) Lately, I keep thinking about last summer at this time, and how different Annie was then - it is mind blowing how much these kids can change in a year at this age! Last year, I was totally freaked out to watch Annie on my own for the first time. I should have been more freaked out this year - this child can be exhausting!! Last year her big accomplishment was learning to roll over from back to belly - but then she stopped. So yeah. Taking a shower becomes a little harder to manage now! Kudos to all you stay at home moms that do this every day. It's not HARD necessarily, but by naptime and bedtime, I was pretty much spent.

Just one video - I've taught Annie how to "cheers" - she's a big fan.

Neighbor Nate just sent me a few really cute photos from last weekend - I LOVE them. Annie loves Nate with all of her heart, so he's always good to get some great facial expressions from her.

This is pretty much my favorite photo ever

Playing together! Happily!

Clapping along with the music

As I've done the last 2 MS150 weekends, we spent Saturday with Rebekah and Adelaide. Met up for breakfast at Zumbro Cafe with them, as well as Abby and Mindy - lots of Tiny Diner Placemats on that table :)

Sharing - but only as long as food was also in her mouth. She had a half banana before we left, then a bunch of graham crackers, cheerios, an entire pancake, berries, and some of Adelaide's banana. I truly do not know where she puts it all sometimes.

We then walked down to Wild Rumpus bookstore, which was super cute, but probably a little old for the girls now. I think it'll be really fun when Annie's around 4 and up! Tons of random animals all over the place, and lots of fun things for kiddos to play with.

From there, we walked (at first, in the wrong direction - oops! My fault) to a playground near Lake Harriet. It was definitely a beautiful day, and the girls had a great time.

She tried to climb one of these - only got to the first rung :)

Annie was all tired out, but somehow her 15 minute nap in the car made her think she was done with naps for the day. She rolled around in her crib for an hour, then I tried to have her nap with me for 35 minutes. No dice. She was very cuddly and nice, but not sleeping. I put her back in the crib and she finally fell asleep around 3. Whatever. Since neither Rebekah or I had plans that evening, we decided to meet up again and went to Punch Pizza for dinner, and then to the playground featured in my last post!

Annie kept leaning back in her chair, so Adelaide would imitate her. She also kept trying to give Adelaide her pizza, who would then say, "no thank you, I have mine" - so cute :)

On Sunday morning, we headed over to Allison's house, because MJ had been asking for Mia and Annie all day. In true toddler form, once we got there, they all mostly ignored each other :)

I always put on a Sesame Street clip on youtube while I cut Annie's nails (usually Feist which I find hilarious) and Annie sits there, slack jawed, for the entire length of the video. She is usually breathing really heavy too. Glad she really doesn't watch that much tv, because that's not so attractive :)

On Sunday, I was really sad to not be able to go to the finish line at the MS150 as I've done the last 2 years. My family was having a gathering, since we didn't all get together at Christmas due to my sister's wedding. It was really fun to see everyone! I have many cousins, and lots of them have kids, so there were kids there ranging from 2 weeks old up to.... 12 years old maybe is the oldest? Annie had a blast playing with everyone. Thankfully she napped on the way there (my aunt and uncle's house is over an hour away) so I didn't need to deal with her napping there.

This is what Annie does when I tell her to lounge

Annie enjoyed playing with this extremely large vintage baby doll that my aunt and all of my cousins and I played with as well - it was seriously almost as big as her

Watching the big kids

With Grandpa

With Ella, the closest in age (21 months) to Annie

This is what I missed - sad!

Annie was a bit weirded out to see her Dad after we got home from the party - she had just woken up. She quickly warmed up to him though, thankfully.

I will close this post with a few random photos I took of the neighbor girls on Monday - they are just so funny right now! Always grabbing toys from each other, and seriously whenever they see food? (Especially Annie) They are VULTURES! It's sad, and at the same time, hilarious.