Nothing new there! Her percentiles have pretty much stayed the same every check-up. The big excitement is that since she’s a whopping 22 lbs, we’ve finally turned her car seat around so she faces forward. Everyone can stop making fun of us now (for that anyway :-).

She was too excited to nap, which happens about three or four times a week anyway these days, so we rescued her from her crib and brought her downstairs to play with the new kitchen that Grandma and Grandpa sent. That’s been a big hit! “Auntie” Marie and “Uncle” Ben came over for dinner and cake and present opening. She was spoiled with a huge pile of presents and had great fun opening all of them and trying out her new bike.

It was so much fun to see her excited about her birthday. She’s been singing “Happy Anna” for the past few days. We had some leftover cake this evening and she requested a candle so she could blow it out again.

I was going to post a few videos, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do it without first uploading them to facebook. I don’t really want all of them on there, so hopefully I’ll figure it out and update this in the next few days.

Anna’s two year check up is on Monday, so stay tuned for updated stats!

For the past few weeks, she’s been more interested in the potty, but mostly just sitting down with all her clothes on while we go potty. A few times, she’s wanted to strip down and try it so we let her but nothing ever happened. Then yesterday, she sat down and peed, and she looked down in shock, like “what the heck is going on?!?” So of course we jumped up and down and cheered and gushed all over her. Later in the evening we were at our good friends’ house and their 3 year old daughter went potty so of course Anna wanted to have a turn next. She sat down and really tried… to which I said, “it’s okay if you can’t go- don’t hurt yourself :-)” And then to everyone’s surprise, out came a poopy! Craziness.

This has translated to sliding her ducks down the slope of her tub at bath time and cheering them on. And just today, she pretended her highchair was a playground and sent her little grapes down the slide too.

As for photos, that’s another unfortunate story. Anna had a week-long stomach flu last week, which was horrendous and miserable for her and us. Poor baby! She managed to throw up on our brand new laptop that we’d had less than a month. And of course it had been a week or two already since I’d last uploaded pictures. The only computer we have now is Steve’s little netbook with nowhere near enough room to store the ridiculous amount of photos I take every day. They are currently building up on my camera so I expect to have about 5,000 to upload by the time we get around to buying a new computer. Which will hopefully be sometime soon.

Stay tuned!

Here are Miss Anna’s Stats:
Weight: 20 lbs. 1.25 oz. (finally broke 20 lbs!) / 3rd%
Height: 31.25″ / 40th%
Head Circumference: 17.75″ / 15th%

So here she is saying her name for pretty much the first time!