Happy Fourth of July!!

 Annalise had one of the best weeks of her little life.  Her Uncle Matt and Aunt Rachel came to visit along with her cousins.  She always had someone to take her outside, feed her popsicles, give her the watering can full of water, put on Sesame street or play a game with her.  

 She spent at least half of the week with her new best friend Matt.  She would run up to him smile and say, "want matt-shoulders."  After they left she would ask for him everyday and cry when I told her he went bye bye. 

We swam, played, crafted, went on walks, ate too much amazing food, and had a blast.  We spent a lot of the time at the park in the evenings.  The park is without a doubt Annalise's favorite place. She is super independent and I watch her most of the time while biting my lip in nervousness.  She has no doubt that she can do everything the big kids can do.

Nothing beats the look of joy on her face when she reaches the bottom of the slide.  She is such an active girl.  One of her favorite things to do id look at Maddie and then yell RUUUUNN!  She is so fast that I wonder how long Maddie will be ble to keep up. 

Some of Anna's favorite expressions:

"Ruuuuuun!"

"Corndog corn dog" (she sings this)

"yellow blue yellow blue PINK!" (sings this)

"gamma papa house pease"

"outside outside outside"

with puppy eyes and cute voce "need chocolate"

"1,2,4,5,6,9,ten!"

Some of Anna's favorite things:

The Park

Her Mama and Daddy

Her Maddie

Her Gramma and Papa

Chocolate

Popsicles

Playing in the Water

Trampolines

Animals

Outside

Her pacifier/blanky/puppup

Things that Anna hates:

The trashman

Being told No 

Having to come inside

The doorbell

First 20 minutes of Nursery

Having to sit still

Waking up from naps