In the great childhood tradition, today Anna did her first thing with her eyes closed. She ate peas! With her eyes closed!

We shot this this morning right after Anna woke up. The lighting is super weird, but Anna does some cute stuff.

Here’s an album with a few pictures from the last month: September, 2013. (You can tell that Maria’s been taking all of the pictures lately.)

And also a video of finger painting on the back porch! Don’t mind the cicadas.

Here’s Anna playing the piano and Grandma and Grandpa’s house (or Lolo and (G)Crack, as she now calls them). I’ve got to say, she needs more practice.

Anna is still drawing a lot, and it’s helped her learn her colors very well. She and Maria were having a really good conversation while drawing, so I grabbed my camera. Unfortunately I missed the part where Anna explained that Elmo was wearing a orange bowl as a hat, but I did get her lecture on Snuffleupagus sneezing his meatball off of his plate.

Shoebox!

Anna and I were looking at some pictures on my phone and she almost fell asleep. I turned on the camera that faces the front of the phone and got these nice videos. In the first one you can sort of tell when she figures out that the video on the screen is live.

 

After we got home from all of our trips, it was time to play around the house! Anna cooked some fresh pies with Mommy.

 

And then we played this weird game where she pulled her toys into her house. (Which she had earlier upended.)

Anna learned lots of names during our visit to Iowa, including her Aunt Rae and Uncle Jon. She practiced by identifying whose water bottle was whose.

 

One of our new favorite songs is Wheels on the Bus. Anna is learning the words and the moves!

 

And here we are playing in a fountain on a very hot afternoon.