Teeth dents and the hardwood floor

Those little light marks are from Aanika's front teeth!

Things have been pretty quiet around here this week. The Riverdancing has slowed down a bit (thankfully) but now she’s moved on to ‘Angelina Ballerina’ which is a bit more annoying. It’s a British-done cartoon about a mouse (Angelina) who loves ballet. At the end of the program, they actually teach you ballet moves and positions of the feet etc. Aanika is so cute with it though. When she wants to watch it, she either will hold up the remote for the DVD player or she brings it to you. All this is done while she’s nodding her head ‘yes’ and saying “Leena” along with some other stuff we have yet to figure out. Of course it’s all followed up by a dramatic “Mmpwease” which is ‘please’ to you and me. When she was learning to say please, it started out with her wanting more of something. Thus, we get ‘more, please’ as mmpwease. Really very cute when you see it all together.

Well, we’re moving into a new stage with Aanika lately…toddler mishaps. Usually it’s just a scraped knee, or a pinched finger but we’ve had two owies in two days. The first one was a tumble off of a chair because she’s finally discovered climbing – she ended up with just a little bump on her noggin. The second one was yesterday - see picture above. Look directly in the center and you’ll see two little marks. This is what I saw left behind on the floor as I picked Aanika up off of it! Luckily it wasn’t a full-force fall onto her teeth…she had already fallen and as she was trying to get up, she fell again so it was really only from a few inches off the floor that resulted in this. She was very lucky to say the least.

Grandpa Marx and Aunt Ria visit

Sorry for the delay in updates. We had some special visitors from Michigan last week! Bompa Marx and Aunt Maria came down to celebrate my birfweek* with me. We had a great time while they were here. Kevin took us to San Antonio the first weekend that they arrived (first missed update). The weather was perfect for our adventures. We went to the Alamo (very cool) and also spent our two days exploring the Riverwalk and still didn’t see all of it! It was very lush and green and absolutely beautiful.

The rest of the week we spent closer to home (within 1 hour’s drive). Saturday the 16th was going home day for them and it was also a recovery day for me from all the running around we did all week (second missed update). Aanika had a ball having new playmates for a whole week. The girl is absolutely crazy over her Bompa (see the picture above). After he left, she went into his bedroom a few times looking for him. She thought it was great when we called him and she was able to talk on the phone with him.


Definition of "Birfweek":
Part one: A birfweek is an extension of a birthday-day. It is up to the person celebrating to decide if the days preceeding or following the actual birthday are part of said birfweek. The birthday-day must fall within these dates.
Part two: The person celebrating their birfweek is allowed to purchase at least one birthday item of their choosing (within reason) and not have to explain the purchase.
Part three: Something has to be purchased for or done for/with, in regard to the person celebrating, on each day of the birfweek in recognition of said celebration. This is to be negotiated between the two parties. NOTE: This celebration is only to be practiced between spouses or significant others.

Treehouse breakfast

Boy, another week has come and gone – time flies when you’re having fun! Aanika and I finally found a new family doctor and were able to go and get her next round of vaccinations taken care of. It went pretty well – to get the tears stopped, we called Daddy on the cell phone and let her chat with him while I paid our bill. It’s so cute because she talks up a storm but we really have no idea what she’s saying. There’s usually a lot of hand motions and pointing, giggles and you can always pick up the “goodbye” and ”see ya later” when she’s finished. She’s currently 33½ inches tall and weighs 26 pounds, has at least 16 teeth and is in very good health.

This evening we’re heading back to the county fair for duck racing (that oughta be interesting) and a professional Rodeo! I’ve never been to one and am really quite excited about it. Kevin says that if I like watching it on TV (which I do), then I’m really going to like it in person. That’s pretty much going to be the fun of the day except that I’m making one of my “experimentation meals” that I’m famous for. Hey, don’t snicker and feel sorry for Kevin…more often than not they turn out great.

The picture today is Aanika and Daddy doing one of their new favorite things – hanging out on Saturday morning and snacking on breakfast cereal in the tree house. The Riverdance obsession continues. It’s the first thing she asks for in the morning! She grabs her apple juice, giggles a bit and waits for it to start. I’ve finally convinced her that she can actually sit and watch it because normally she’ll stand in front of it through the entire program…it’s 1½ hours long!