Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Dear Uncle Jordan,

I do not like being compared to a Keebler Elf. Although I have yet to try any products made by elves, I'm sure once my teeth finish coming in I will enjoy them.

In the mean time, at least I'm not in my 20s and still sharing a bed with my brother (Sorry Uncle Jake, Uncle Jordan forced my hand). If you don't apologize ASAP, mom will be forced to upload and tag you in this photo on her facebook page.
Love your niece,
Annie



(photo removed... for now)
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Monday, January 19, 2009

I'm growing up!


Guess what everyone? My first tooth came through today! I'm growing so fast! Do you like the outfit my Grandma knit for me?
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Sunday night dinner


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After visiting family during the weekend, we had our friends the Kessels over for Sunday dinner. Mason and Annie are just beginning to play together. Mostly they play near each other, but soon enough they'll be fast friends!

Karen made a fantastic roast chicken, homemade cornbread and sausage stuffing, and a "Roma" salad. The salad is from our favorite restaurant in Detroit that we try to go to when we're visiting GP.

Dance off Pants off!



After having fun in cousin Liv's jumper, Annie got her own today! She loves to jump around and click her heels after each jump. Yes, she is wearing leg warmers... Annie likes to play with her feet and pants just seem too restricting!

Annie and Liv

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On Saturday we drove to upstate NY to see Annie's cousins - Jackson, Sam and Olivia, and Uncle Chris and Aunt Leslie. Maga and Papa were also there. Annie had lots of fun playing with her cousins and loved watching Liv crawl all over the floor. She even got up on all fours, but no crawling yet! Annie does manage to roll her way around a room.

These were the best photos I took from the weekend, you'll notice Jack and Sam are missing... again, working on taking pictures...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

24's back... sucked in.

It seems everyone I know watches 24. Well, Karen watches 24 and I sure see her alot. I stopped watching after the season Jack kicked his heroin habit in two hrs, Tony recovered from being stabbed in the neck in 3 hrs (now he's back from the dead, but whatever) and every year there was always a mole in CTU. Really? Every season? Who screens these people? But anyways, Wednesday night Karen and I watched the first two hrs... And I must say it was pretty good.

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be reading more about it when eventually another mole is discovered, someone else comes back from the dead, or Kim escapes being mauled from a polar bear in a skimpy t-shirt and bare feet. Oh wait, the polar bear was from Lost...



It's 5am - do you know where your children are?

Uh... yeah, I do. If your name is Annie Ferguson chances are pretty good you're sleeping in-between mom and dad with both arms outstretched getting all handsy with your little fingers grabbing and gripping at anything in their reach.

It seems everytime we think Annie takes a step forward in the sleeping-through-the-night department we hit a roadblock sending us a few steps back. Let me explain. For most of December Annie slept really well, going to bed around 7:30pm, and then waking up between 6:30 and 7am. That was awesome. Then on New Year's Eve the wheels came off, and since then she's been waking up more and more frequently. Sometimes she goes back to sleep, other times she ends up in bed with us. Lately, since she's hitting her first wake-up call at 5am-ish, she just joins us. Then she fusses for a while, then we give in and give her a bottle, then around 6-6:30-ish she'll fall back asleep. Just in time for the alarm to go off. Lather, rinse, repeat. This routine has been going on for about a week... Growth spurts, teething? No clue, but it seems every bout of not sleeping through the night gets blamed on one of those two explanations. Her size is normal for her age, and no teeth! By this rate you'd think we'd have a wooly mammoth on our hands.



*And yes, I know a wooly mammoth had long tusks- not teeth, but I think you get the gist. And I already used my walrus reference.








Sunday, January 11, 2009

There's a walrus in our bathtub.

Annie doing her best walrus impression during her bath.


Naptime wars

So, all weekend we've been trying to get Annie to nap in her crib. As you can see above, we haven't had much luck. Bananas loves to nap, but only if Mom or Dad is involved...

Annie will go to sleep if she's resting on one of us, but the minute we try and put her down in her crib, this is what we get. The Turtle Head.

Since it's Sunday, we'll give her a bye for the week.
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Snow today gone tomorrow!



Last night we got some snow. Before it started falling Karen was out grilling a big steak. And the next morning we awoke to about 6 inches of light and fluffy snow!
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Beginning to stand...



...not quite ready for those first steps... and not ready for Dad to let go!
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Christmas in Beantown



Again... not the best at taking photos for posterity. Two photos of Annie in her Christmas outfit, and Annie in her matching red and white hat knitted by Grandma Drummy!
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What? Is there something on my face?


After Annie's 6 month checkup we were instructed to start more solid foods. In addition to rice cereal, Annie has had: peas (and probably for the last time due to some clogged plumbing issues for the tyke), carrots (a big hit, see above), sweet potatoes, pears (we think her current favorite - at least it's ours), and... wait for it... bananas.

Christmas in Detroit




We were in Detroit-Rock City for Christmas, actually the weekend before Christmas. We had a great time seeing everyone! And apparently didn't take any photos of Annie in her Christmas dress... have to work on this.

But we did sing some carols --

Annie playing on the floor -- sans pants

Disregard inappropriate music in background... mental note - camera does record sound.


Playing on the floor - part 1 - with pants


Annie playing on the floor...
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In the beginning...

So, it's Saturday, Karen's out shopping and lunching. Annie is on the floor eating her toes and the cable is on the fritz. I think I'll start a blog.

Everyone else is doing it...

Instead of trying to make up for the past 6 months of not blogging, we'll just pick up at Christmas and call it even. But first here are two videos from today of Bananas playing.