My Growing Family
It seems a good time to announce more widely that at some point in February our family will grow once more with a new girl. Negotiations are currently underway on the name for the new baby, and the situation is grim. Family insiders report that if an agreement is not reached soon we may face a strike. Last time name negotiations broke down garbage was not taken out for a week!
Anna’s vocabulary has been growing by leaps and bounds, more than is reasonable to document. She learns and repeats words all day long, although most frustrating is the ever-popular “no.” She has been exercising this one pretty regularly much to our chagrin.
We are currently fighting a respiratory illness for what seems like the fourth week. Last time Anna’s doctors put her on amoxicillin for 10 days which helped slightly. A few days after the prescription ran out the symptoms started getting worse so now we’re on a stronger antibiotic for 14 days. Anna isn’t particularly suffering, except at night when she has trouble getting a good night’s sleep.
Leigha recently took Anna to Cox Farms, pictures, some of which you’ll find among the 30 newly uploaded pictures in the gallery. Pretty soon we’ll start shopping for Anna’s halloween costume, although I’m not sure if I’m at liberty to divulge the exact nature of this year’s selection. I can definitively confirm that my recurring UPS delivery man (Pablo) with package (Anna) suggestion continues to be ridiculed unnecessarily.
We have been video taping Anna probably about once a month, maybe once every other month. I haven’t been processing the tapes which is why you haven’t been seeing the results. This weekend we’ll probably have another brief taping session to get her latest antics on tape.
Anna is growing both bolder in private and more shy in public. She is doing more dancing when she hears music, especially doing the choreography along with her favorite video (Laurie Berkner). In public she has started gravitating towards our legs when she is feeling shy, although she tends to relax after a few short minutes of being around the new person and no longer being showered with attention.
Sorry for the long overdue update. Check out the pictures!
