Tonight Anna was drawing and she drew these wonderful little creatures. (She dubbed them two bears and a spider.) These are her first drawings where she really intentionally made eyes, a nose, a mouth, etc. It was very fun to watch.
When she was done drawing, Maria signed “Anna” on a drawing for her. Then Anna said “I’ll help you write your name, Mom!” And nonchalantly wrote her first word.
The whole summer has slipped by without us posting anything to the site. We’ve been busy! Here are a few pictures from my phone.
I just realized we never posted these nice pictures from when Anna’s Aunt Carrie and uncle Eric. Here’s an album from that week, plus a few other random ones.
Here are two videos of Anna singing. First, in the Rathskeller, a dining hall in the UW-Madison Union (it was empty, I swear).
We’ve tried to encourage Anna to draw letters before, but she’s never figured it out. This morning she was playing with some letter magenets with Maria, and she declared that she wanted to draw some i’s. Without any instruction, she got out her markers and drew these three wonderful i’s.
I asked her about it as she ate a banana this morning, and she explained how to draw an i.
I’ve got a few random things to share here. First, a couple of shots with Grandma Lolo and Grandpa Dan from Pier day 2014.
And here’s a video of Anna making up a song in the car.
Lots of changes happening this spring! We put up a new album featuring a final visit to Grandma Kathleen and Grandpa Steve’s house in Iowa City, a morning visit from Soren (while his mommy, Claire, was off giving birth to the beautiful Sylvie), and a visit to the Madison “Kid Zee-min” otherwise known as the Children’s Museum, where Anna tires herself out frequently.
Click on the picture to see the full album!
Last weekend we visited Iowa and took lots of pictures. Unfortunately these are all from my phone, but there are some good ones in there. Google also automatically made some animated gifs from the pictures, which is pretty neat.
Tonight Anna treated us to a read-aloud of “Breakout at the Bug Lab,” in which she remembered an almost frightening number of the lines from the book. (Yes, there is a line that mentions how the bugs eat animal poop.)