Tuesday, October 28, 2008

September in STL



I went to the awesome consignment sale again and got this adorable outfit for Anna that she wore to the RecPlex park one saturday with our friends Doug and Sonya. It was a pair of bootcut jeans and an Orange poncho/shawl. So fashionable! We had a great time and walked around, watched some PeeWee football, looked at the trees and the pond and even found a turtle!






The next monday, i decided to do a little "fall photoshoot" with Anna in the backyAdd Imageard. We got some pretty good pics by the marigolds in the front of the house ( i planted those when a friend told me it would put me into labor last June! ) Then by the ginormous mums justin planted a year ago when Anna and I first went to San Diego. Then we made our way to the backyard where Anna made beeline for the reservoir running into the storm drain ! So, the picture below shows what happened next... face first dive into mud! I had to take a picture!!!! She was so cute even though she was crying!
We also made homemade playdough! Fun! I knew Anna would try to eat it, so I figured, if i make it myself, i know it doesn't have lead paint or melamine or whatever china poisons children with... so she had fun with it and actually, still plays with it! I just store it in the fridge!

Anna now loves to read books and point out pictures as you say the names of things! Here she decided to read a book to her bear on the couch!



I got to participate in a focus group in September for "People who leaned conservative" It was pretty interesting! One girl had absolutely no idea what conservative meant and ended up convincing herself to vote for Obama in the end since He was the "popular choice" in her Bosnian neighborhood. It seemed like the younger voters didn't really care much about being informed on the issues, but cared what there friends were doing. Kind of disappointing. Heidi was in the focus group too and so her mother-in-law Deb watched Anna along with Avery and sent this picture to us via text message to show how much fun they were having!



1 comment:

Megan said...

she is getting SO HUGE!! that picture of her after falling is priceless. love it!!