Anna's First Blog

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Uncle Josh and Auntie Christen

Uncle Josh finally got out of the Navy, so the first thing him and Auntie Christen (as free people) decided to do is visit meeeee. What a good decision! We all went to the Mexican place around the corner and had lunch. I got to eat taco chips and wear Uncle Josh's hat! Doesn't it look good on me? I liked it so much, I didn't even try to pull it off my head.

Here is a picture of Uncle Josh and Auntie Christen. Unfortunately they did not bring my boyfriend, Aidan :( They couldn't stay with us very long cause they had to drive to their new home in Austin, Texas. And that's veeery far away. I hope I can visit them some time. Auntie Christen is trying to get us to move to Austin too. She says it's just like California there: Lots of liberal hippies. I don't know what that means, but it made Daddy laugh.

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Pumpkin Cookies

I found this recipe in a parenting magazine (American Baby or Parents, I forgot) and have fallen in love with these cookies and so has Anna. I've shared the recipe a few times now, so I decided to let more people in on this. Make them, they're reeeaaally good, I promise!

You will need:
- 1 stick butter
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup pureed pumpkin
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 3 cups rolled oats

Heat oven to 350F. Beat together butter and sugars. Add pumpkin, eggs and vanilla. Beat. Mix in combined flours, baking soda and spices, then stir in oats. Drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool.

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Race for the Cure !

Saturday was the Race for the Cure. Mama and I met up with our group at 6:30 in the morning. I'm not used to being woken up. You know, it was DARK outside still. That's why Daddy didn't want to go. Mama didn't ask whether I wanted to go though, maybe I would have stayed in bed with Daddy. It turned out to be a lot of fun though. There was a lot going on on Daniel Island. It took us a long time to get there, there were soooo many people going. Mama and I did the 5 km in 1 hour 9 minutes 38 seconds. Maybe we should start training for the next Olympic games.

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Saturday, October 21, 2006

My New Pumpkin !

After the photoshoot, we all went and found us some pumpkins.

I just couldn't decide.

But then I found a good one.

It even had my name on it!

I took it home and it's now sitting in front of the door, waiting for Halloween. And so am I. Can't wait to finally wear my costume.

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Photoshoot after Clearing the Cornmaze

This is our group after we finished the cornmaze. I don't think we left anyone in there. So from left to right that's Mama and me, Miss Heather and Quinn, Miss Mary and Riley, Kyle (belongs to Miss Jodi), Miss Courtney and Carter, Miss Amber and Miles, Miss Helana and Logan, a scarecrow, Miss Jodi and Benjamin and Miss Karrah and Katy. Wow, that's a lot of people.

This is just us kids: Logan, Quinn, Riley, Katy, Miles, Carter and I.

The sun was way in my eyes, so I couldn't look into the camera, sorry.

All this time just sitting there made me curious what those weird looking orange things would taste like. Are those pumpkins, too?

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Cornmaze

Yesterday, my buddies and I ... oh... and our Mamas, we all went to a cornpatch. All I heard before we left the house was "petting zoo" and then when we got there those crazy adults decided to push our strollers through some cornmaze. Miles and I weren't so thrilled by that idea at first, as you can see. This one was taken before we went in.

Mama got a little scared I'd get sunburned, so she put a ton of sunscreen on me.. but none on herself. Guess who's sunburned now.... hehehe. We're still waiting for fall to really come here. It's waaay hot again in good old South Carolina.

I didn't know that corn would grow so high.

Carter's Mommy even climbed on top of this giant high chair... not to eat, but to have a better view and maybe to be funny. I couldn't quite tell, my parasol was in the way.

We finished the tasks we had to fulfill inside the maze and got to enter into a prize draw. Who knows, maybe a couple of weeks from now one of us will be riding a brand new bicycle :)

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Paula Deen

Paula Deen from the Food Network came to our Walmart yesterday to promote her new Egg & Muffin Toaster. I'm not sure how useful that thing would be, considering I'm not eating whole eggs yet, but it sure was great to see a local celebrity. And boy, I've never seen that many people at Walmart. Maybe one of these days we can go to her restaurant in Savannah. Daddy said, I should go up there and get my butt signed and then I'd never get washed again. But I kind of disagreed and Mama only took this picture of me with Paula Deen in the background. Can you see her?

PS: Mama says, we need to get a life.

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My First First-Birthday Present

Mama and Daddy already got me a birthday present! They say it was on sale, so they couldn't wait... neither could I. I'm already playing with it. Mama said, she'll box it back up before my Annapalooza though. We also went to Applebee's and I got a floating balloon! I can't decide what I like better, my new toy or that balloon.

This is me and Katie at the County Park, hanging out with our buddies. I like animal crackers.

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Friday, October 13, 2006

Race for the Cure

Anna and I have registered for the Charleston "Race for the Cure" - an annual fundraiser for breastcancer research and awareness. If you would like to sponsor us go here.

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New Carseat

Apparently, I was getting too heavy for my car seat, so now I have a BIG GIRL carseat. It's sooo comfy, I fell asleep in it right away...

... almost as comfy as when Daddy lets me lounge on him.

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Jacob's 1st birthday

My bud Jacob turned 1 last Sunday and Mama and I went to his party. There were a lot of other kids there and a weird looking cat. It was great fun, we played a lot with Jacob's new toys (I like dumptrucks!). Jacob had a cake aaaalll to himself.

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Swinging with Daddy

Daddy worked the night shift last week. I really like that cause he'll come home in the morning and then we'll go to the park and swing. I reeeaaally like to swing. I think I said that before. It's too bad though that Daddy and I can't hang out together in the afternoon. He says he has to sleep at some point. MY attitude to sleep still is "I can sleep when I'm dead"... but that's just me.

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Our Neighborhood

I really like it where we live. It's getting cooler around here now, so it's beautiful in the mornings when Mama and I go for our walks. It's nice and green and we have lots of trees... oh.. and I don't have to walk.

This is Harry, the goose. Mama wants to invite him to our Christmas dinner. She says he's pretty mean. Right after she had taken this picture, he chased us across the street.

We have to go through a little strip of forest to get to the swings. It's nice and shady in there.

And that's the park. Have I mentioned that I like swings?

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