Oh yeah

I also like this picture cause she looks so old sitting at a big kid lunch table in our cafeteria! Pretty soon she will be graduating from highschool! She has graduated to 2 word sentences. "See ya", "Hi Aebo", "Bye Aebo", "Help please", and "More please". She is also getting better every day with trying to repeat any word you give her. Some are hard to make out, but others are surprisingly good!

Christmas Mass

Today we had our Christmas Mass as this was our last day of school before Christmas break! After the mass, they bring out the "little knights" (our school daycare group) for them to sing a few songs. This year the song was "there was one, there were two, there were three little angles, ...." Even though Anya was too young to sing it, she still found a way to participate. She was standing right up front and center and held up one finger, then two fingers...it was so cute. The pictures are kind of fuzzy, but hopefully you can see her two little fingers up. I don't doubt that next year she will be the loudest microphone hogging singer.

BSM Christmas Party

My school had a Christmas party for all the little kids of faculty and staff in the building. They had all sorts of stations like face painting, ornament decorating, etc...BUT the only thing Anya wanted to do was play basketball with the boys. She just kept drifting back over to the basketball "court". So here are a few pictures of her approaching the basket and then her "slam dunk". My favorite is of her playing "keep away" with her boyfriend Charlie. There is also her first meeting with Santa. She was not thrilled even though he gave her a cute Christmas book.

More fun pictures

Anya has fun playing with her cousin Gabriel and they both LOVE reading with grandpa. The other pictures are just of Anya being cute. I was FINALLY able to get her hair up into a pony tail! It was so funny sticking up about 3 inches off the top of her head! Anya is really talking a lot now. She tries to repeat just about anything you tell her. The other day she said "teacher" and "duck" because they were pages of one of her favorite books "Brown Bear Brown Bear" . She is getting really good at her shape ball. she can turn the ball around until the right shape hole lines up with the shape she is holding and then she gets it in! I used to have to move the ball to the right spot, but now she does it on her own. She is just so much fun.

Picking out the Christmas Tree

Yesterday Anya and I went with Grandma and Grandpa Seppala, Auntie Kristin, and cousin Gabriel and Hannah to pick out the Christmas tree. Anya and Gabriel had a blast running through the trees. Anya also watched as grandpa cut the tree down. She made sure it was a good one.

November

Anya loves reading books and her new thing is to take her teddy bear and a good book and sit in her rocking chair. She loves getting in and out of things like her rocking chair and cradle that grandpa Roger made her. She has also discovered a fun place that's just the right size for a finger! Funny girl.

Oct/Nov

We have been going to big kid walks lately. No more stroller, she actually gets to walk down the street and watch the ducks at the pond. She is just so much fun right now