Adventures with Anna (and her sidekick Jake)

The adventures with Anna continue everyday. Don't think that because I haven't posted any new adventures lately that there haven't been any. She is full of vivacious curiosity that teaches me patience every day. She loves Dear Genevieve from HGTV. This week I found colorful stripes on my lamp shade. She felt that it needed a little more color (if you have ideas of how to remove crayon and marker from a lamp shade send them my way). She often re-designs the living room and then asks " Is that so cute mom!"

Anna playing Dear Genevieve

 

I left my iron sitting on the dryer this week. When I began pressing Alan's white shirt I kept smelling a lemony cleaner smell. It took me a whole shirt to figure out that the smell was Murphy's Oil Soap. Anna had filled my iron with it. My lesson learned was to put the iron away! I am still wondering how she thought of it.

We had some new bookcases installed on Monday. Tuesday I thought I would start filling them. I was multi tasking adding books and talking on the phone with a basketball mom when I smelled baby powder. Anna and Jake had taken the baby poweder and sprinkled it over the end table, covered it with dish towels , squirted a whole medium bottle of hand sanitizer on top of the towels, sprinkled some more baby powder and placed the lamp back. When I realized the mess they looked at me and asked if their creation was beautiful.

Picture of Anna taken by Emily

Jake is getting potty trained, which is definitely taking longer than the girls did. He has a pair of Dash from Incredibles underwear. When he puts them on he runs as quick as he can around the house saying "I'm Dash"



Jake and Alan at Jakes birthday celebration



Our family went to the Carl Boch exhibit in Provo, UT. The paintings were absolutely exquisite. However we took Anna and Jake with us. We rented the ipads and quickly into the exhibit handed them to Anna and Jake to keep them occupied and quiet. By the end of the tour Anna had the ipad back ground changed and had figured out how to get to the games that were on it. Sorry to the person behind us who had to figure out what she had done!



Anna wondering what is on the other side of this


Anna and Jake loved St. Patricks day. We all wore green and ate our traditional Corned beef meal with green potatoes and vegetables.On March 18th Anna got up and asked " Do we all get to wear blue today?"

Anna struggles with the word "NO!!!" One evening I was making a smoothie for dinner. The blender was out, but not plugged in. I had frozen raspeberries ready to be pureed when I decided to add some blueberries. I looked Anna in the eyes and said don't touch the blender. In the time it took  for me to turn and open the freezer the blender was plugged in and turned on spewing red raspberries all over the kitchen. They were on the carpet, ceiling, walls, windows, floors and every other imaginable spot.

Truly, she just wonders how things work. And once a thought enters her mind she is bound and determined to try what she has thought up. The blessing in it all is that her middle name is JOY! How can you say Anna Joy and be mad at the same time.

Anna blowing a kiss