Flu shot season

I have my flu shot done for the year.  Holly had hers yesterday afternoon, she naturally wasn't happy about it.  She perked right up when she received some Elmo stickers for being a good girl.  "I love stickers," she told us.  That's a common phrase for her now. "I love fill in the blank."  Another favorite word right now is "delicious".  Everything is delicious.  She makes sure to get her daddy's attention by tapping him on the arm and specifically tell him that the food he made was delicious.  Holly felt it was important to tell him that.  It's pretty cute.

Pictures from Nick and Gina's Wedding

 Holly and Daddy on the swing before the wedding got started.

She loved that swing.

Mommy and Holly waiting for the bride.

Daddy and Holly sitting quietly and cute.

Here comes the bride.

Nick and Gina with Heather officiating.

Holly got a little antsy and felt the need to color.

There's Anna to the side as Nick and Gina's flower girl.

Here's the Anderson family dressed in their wedding best.

Holiday holding a wedding program.  But she likes to call any folded in half piece of paper a "birthday card" because birthdays are fun.

Dancing with Daddy at the reception.

Hanging out with Mommy after eating some chocolate.

Nick and Gina's Wedding

So this was the first Bumbershoot I've missed since I've lived in Seattle.  It was just a terrible lineup and thus not worth the time, money or effort.  So instead we took a trip to Portland for a friend's wedding.  Holly made the trip wonderfully.  She even made progress swimming at the hotel, she was kicking her legs pretty good.  We took her to a park and played there for a while.  Then we all got dressed up and went to the wedding at a private lake which was beautifully gardened-up with all sorts of flowers.  They had a couple swings there that Holly just couldn't get enough of.  Holly kind of chatted loudly during the ceremony but no one seemed to notice...she just wanted to color on the paper airplanes they passed out to throw in celebration when the groom kissed the bride.  Holly did like the throwing of the airplanes part.  They had bunches of taper candles for decor for the reception area, so Holly kept pointing to them and talked about birthday cakes.  There was a big row of them on the bride and groom's table so Holly practiced her counting with those ones.  They had chocolates on the tables and Holly says, "I love chocolate!"  She also loves to 'draw' with chocolate on the white table cloths.

5th Wedding Anniversay...and of course...teething

Last Friday, David and I had our 5th Wedding Anniversay.  Holiday stayed at Grandma Claudia's overnight while we had a lovely dinner out and stayed at a local hotel.  Poor Holly is teething again so she did wake up in the middle of the night upset.  But we got her sleep times straightened out by the next day.  On Monday she put herself down for a nap at daycare earlier than normal.  Now she seems like she's feeling a little better, but is not the most excited about brushing teeth right now.  She did learn the game "race" this week.  Holly was racing Daddy in the back yard.  She'd get into her starting stance and say, "Ready...set...GO!!!"  And then run for it.  I did put a new link to our friend Toni's blog for her sewing enterprises, please enjoy.

Latest Pictures

Holly coloring Daddy's shoebox.

That's a size 13 in case you're wondering.

One hot weekend.

Daddy and Holly in the wading pool.

Picnicing at Zootunes.

Holly really liked lunches...everything was Holly-sized.

Mommy eating her dinner.

Blankie-girl strikes again.

Mommy and Holiday.

Dancing with Daddy.

And loving it.

Holiday loves apples.

You should see the videos posted of the dancing at Zootunes.  It's absolutely hilarious.  You can hear me laughing the entire time in one of them.  This weekend David had his wallet out and Holiday took out his credit card and "swiped" it on his notebook computer.  She also drew a picture of a sun and is practicing writing right now.  I think her favorite number is 6 and favorite letter is C.  I have no idea why...maybe she likes that episode of Sesame Street.

Holiday at Zootunes

We had another nice weekend, getting some yardwork done and some relax time in. Last night we went to see the GoGo's at Zootunes and had a great time.  Holiday ate her dinner and was happy that she had a little folding chair like Mommy and Daddy too.  She got up and danced without any prompting at all from us, she's a natural rocker.  For a big part of the concert she kept putting a wet wipe across my knee, over and over again.  I was okay with that since I could still sit and watch the show...and my left knee was very clean.  So that's a WIN-WIN.  :)  Later on she danced with Daddy...with twirls and spins and everything.  She knows when to stop and clap and usually that's when she says, "I love it!"  We're going to another Zootunes on Wednesday, the weather is supposed to be nice, so hopefully Holiday will enjoy that one too.  She's been putting together a lot more complete sentences lately, it's like she's figured out how to do 5 new things over the weekend. 

Calmness in the Anderson house

We had a nice and relatively quiet weekend last weekend.  David did a little golf, we saw the Blue Angels fly over our house, Holiday had a dip in our wading pool.  Sometimes it's good to give yourself some time off from doing anything.  I am feeling the need now to clean and purge the unnecessary stuff from our house and doing more yardwork to at least clean out the weeds and junk.  Holly's growing so fast that the house feels smaller by the day so I need to make more room.  Last week Holly grabbed David's debit card at the grocery store and tried to swipe it herself at the register.  She's already figuring out how it all works.  Holly's doing good at colors and is enjoying learning sign language from the goodnight show.