Anna Piano - Day 605

There aren't too many pictures of Daddy, so I thought I would include this one. I was joking today with Grandpa Charlie that there will be no photo record of her Dad. In this photo I am trying to teach her how to really bang the piano keys.

The Texas Grandparents have been in town this week, so attention overload is in full gear. Today we walked around the mall here in DC. Anna loved chasing ducks, chattering away, watching kites, and pointing out every airplane that flew by.

When we got back she had incorporated cherry blossoms into her Anna life and repeatedly had her toy train going to "see the cherry blossoms."

Tomorrow, she will go to the doctor. During previous doctors visits she has screamed up an unholy storm the entire time. Even one time when I went to get my flu shot, she started hyper-ventilating and melted down crying, so I can't imagine how this is going to go well. We will just have to see. I have been trying to read her books that include visits to the doctor just to prep her.

The weather has gotten really nice out here, so Anna is constantly going to the park. She has also recently learned how to go down the slide like a 'big girl,' which means she goes down on her butt and not her stomach. She really loves this new and exciting way of sliding. The cute thing about it is that whenever we say that she went down like a 'big girl' Anna then quotes from her potty training book and blurts out, "Now I can wear big kid pants." Well, I am not sure going down the slide equals potty trained, but she understands that she is doing something special in our book.

We have also finally gotten Anna to drink milk -- sort of. The way we do it is to put a squirt of Nestle chocolate in some milk and call it Anna coffee. She thinks she is having coffee with the rest of us. How big girl is that?

That is it for now. Ok...I will add one more picture. This is one with Great Grandma Lillian at her birthday. The piano in the first picture was on the other side of the room.