Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Ani's snow adventure

beautiful, isn't it, who doesn't love snow?  Well, let me confess that after 6 days, trapped at our house, with a one-year old, I'm not such a big fan anymore.  You see, those lovely trees, provide tons of shade, which means, snow doesn't melt, ever.

And on the second day, there was playing in the snow.  Can you tell who is more excited?  As an aside, when we were offered a pink snow suit from our cousin, in the middle of August, I was not thrilled, "when does it snow enough in Georgia to even necessitate such an outfit?"  I'm now a believer, because what a wonderful idea - although, as you will notice, we lacked shoes...

"Yay snow, what a new and exciting experience," Ani exclaims in a wry voice.

"hmm, guys..."

"no really, come help, I'm sort of stuck"

"do you see the 'pouty face,' I'm really stuck, and cold"

"sadness, is reigning over here"

"no, wait, pick me up, save me from this frozen wasteland"

"I'll just become one with the snow"

"Is that daddy dancing over there, or am I hallucinating?"

"nope, that really was dad"


alright guys, this is your first lesson in Ani artwork:
look what I made fill in your name!  Isn't it beautiful!!!

and for those of you who still need more practice, that's Ani's first snow angel


where's waldo, and what is he doing?

yes, that's right, sledding down the little hill in our yard

it's like the winter olympics, well sort of

"Ummmm??  Guys there's a crazy person in the yard!"



Ani's Belated Birthday

So this is the begining of a very fattening tradition.  These are just a few of the many cakes that Ani received on her birthday and it didn't help that Publix had a deal for a Free First Birthday Cake.


Ani's first experience with strawberries, Chiemi was terrified that Ani would have an allergic reaction.
(yes, trying to delicately extract a candle from Ani's mouth after eating the icing)


She didn't


the free publix cake - and first birthday onesie

yum, Ani eating cake

and sharing the cake after licking off all of the icing

"So big!"

it wouldn't be Ani's birthday unless we had a snowstorm

left-over Christmas

So, let's start with an apology, that it's March and we are finally posting the rest of the holiday pictures.  Things have been hectic would be an understatement, some of which will become evident in the following images/posts.


yes, this is the quintessential baby picture...


 Ani with Mary - I have to confess that Ani at this age brings back memories of Mary, many many years ago, I feel like an old lady, or god forbid, a mother, reminiscing about babies growing up into little women.



 the Stedman family Christmas, aren't Grand-daddy and Ani cute together




 I'm not sure if the same could be said for Uncle Nathan and Ani


 Oh, and Great Grandma Gerry and her newest great grand-babies


 this was inevitable, wasn't it


so this is the first of the many unfortunate events that befell our household since the new year:


I know it looks like just a little tree, but when you see the fence and the neighbor's fence, it is quite tragic
yeah, it's like, "where's waldo," but different...

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas at Omi and GiGi's

poor Ani, we stopped feeding her, so she's forced to snack on the table

Santa brought her a table and chairs, and her favorite... books!

Aunt Susie and Mary added to the collection of baby furniture with a tent and tunnel

And Omi got her a baby doll, mmm, tastes yummy

for those of you without first-hand experience, Ani hates hats - and she is so kind that she promptly attempted to remove this poor baby's hat; much to her chagrin, it is permanently attached to this baby

so she smothered her in hugs to comfort the sad, hat-wearing baby

Christmas at Grand-daddys and Me-maws

PRESENTS!!!!!!!

AND PUPPIES!!!!!

 and Uncle Jake!!!!!

and Mema!!!!

and more presents!!!!


yes, that card is addressed to "Princess Ani, Miss Perfect"

Rachel teaching Ani how to make fishy faces, what else is family for?

12.22.10: Ani meets Santa again

Ani went to Phipps Plaza to meet with Santa

All dressed up, she was so excited to see the man that would bring her toys on Christmas

Then she realized that Santa is the scary man from the Christmas Tree farm
 and that was the end of that

Even with Mom holding her Ani wanted nothing to do
with the jolly fat man.

(the official photo)
oh, and the best part...  we ruined the photo for the little girl behind us who, consequently to Ani's reaction, was also terrified, and photographed with an open mouth howl for the camera, we do sincerely apologize