Our Little Monkey

Annabelle just LOVES to climb! At home, she climbs on her exersaucer, on the couch cushions (I put them on the floor), on her toys and on US! The other day, she almost climbed out of her exersaucer. While we've had all this beautiful weather, I've been taking her to the park as much as possible so she can climb to her heart's content. This weekend we were lucky enough to get one more beautiful day and Kris and I were BOTH able to see how much fun she has at the park. Her favorite thing this time was to climb through a hole in a rock wall. She did it over and over...trying to chase the leaves that were blowing around on the ground.

Happy Valentine's Day

oooo....Annabelle wishes everyone a very Happy Valentine's Day.

She's a Scientist!

Ask a Question: Do toys make noise when skaken?
Background Research: I shake the balls from my cement mixer and they make noise.
Hypothesis: All toys make noise when shaken.
Test Your Hypothesis: Take toys out of bin one by one and shake.
Analyze Data and Draw a Conclusion: Lots of toys made some sort of noise when shaken, but not all of them.
Communicate Your Results: I like to shake things!!!



PS - Yes, I know her onesie is inside-out, but she hates having things pulled over her head so much, I decided to leave it that way :)

Finally...a little bit of chunk

She's still quite small, but you can see just a little chunk :)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody! This morning, Annabelle bid farewell to the year of the tiger and welcomed the year of the rabbit :)

I'm going to take a cue from my friend Kate and take this chance to introduce Annabelle's Chinese name. As a little background, we'll start with Kris' name. The first character in his name is Ying (obviously, the family name). Because Kris is part of the 36th generation of Ying's the last character of his name (pronounced yan) means carrying far. His brother, cousin and he all have the same character in their names. The middle character (pronounced sing) means voice.




So, now on to Annabelle's name. The first character, again, is Ying. the second character was chosen by Kris' uncle because his son had the first daughter in the 37th generation of Ying's. It is pronounced kie and means fair. The last character was chosen by Kris' mom. It is pronounced fown and means phoenix. She chose this name because she has always really like this character. Here's Annabelle's Chinese name in her grandma's beautiful handwriting...