Memorial Day 2009

Hey Everybody - we just recently had a visit from Nana and had some friends over for Memorial Day. This is Anna's first serious modeling pose (except for the sauce on her nose). She's starting to ham it up when the camera comes out instead of shying away.

That picture reminded me of another photo of Seasson we had when she was younger but just a few years older than Anna. I definitely see some similarities here.

Nana got Anna a water/sand table with some chunky plastic animals. It's perfect because Anna is completely OCD about washing her hands in the sink and now she can just play with the water table outside and feed the urge. Of course she's found the benefit of mixing water and sand together - lovely.

She also got a bubble mower because the neighborhood kids frequently tell us to mow our lawn. Anna loves it when the bubbles come out. Now I'm trying to figure out how to rig the bubbles onto the real lawnmower and put her to work.

Our friends Chris, his wife Weiman, and their daughter Audrey came over for a Memorial Day pork-BBQ blowout. Ribs and pulled pork....in your face swine flu! I feel like the swine flu rumors scared down the price of pork, so we've still got a freezer full of hams, sausages, etc. Nothing washes down BBQ better than a nice cold can of Pabst Blue Ribbon? Chris swears that PBR is a trendy college beer again, so we put it to the test.

Audrey and Anna were born within a week, so they're real close in age and should theoretically get along, right? We'll come back to that later. All I cared about is that Audrey loved the ribs and hummus. Anna seems to have lost her taste buds and has already settled on a diet of hot dogs and chicken nuggets. However, she does eat much more exotic foods at daycare - that's
another story.Everybody was cool during dinner.

Still cool playing with bubbles.

But then they became very interested in the same toys for awhile and got into a couple of disagreements. Kids will be kids I guess.