All about Annaliese - 2009

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12/25/2009 - Is loving her new scooter and fur real puppy named Ruffles. Cutie pie.

12/12/2009 - Has been really into tongue twisters this week.

12/01/2009 - This girl loves her cousins. Had a blast playing with Byron's kids for thanksgiving. She and Caden have a very similar sense of humor!

09/30/2009 - Last week I found this in her own writing: "The Lord mad avretheing spashl. He love us vare mush. He mad avrething is for us so we kod have everething we wont. You no God loves you with ol his hort and wil olwas be with you."

09/11/2009 - Today Annaliese went in for her 5 year check up. (A little late but better than never.) She was soooo brave when she had to get FIVE shots! Her reward choice for her bravery was a chocolate bar...Good choice! =) Her height is 41 1/2 lbs. (50%) and weight is 46 1/4 inches (75-90%). There you have it! All is well.

09/10/2009 - We've been trying to help her practice reading...seeing as she is really really ready and is trying to teach herself.

09/10/2009 - Today I received a handmade card that read "Deer Mommy I HAD SO MUSH FUN AT SKOOL TOODA HAW WOD YOU FEL IF I WUS WITH YOU (heart) ANNALiese" Melt me!

09/10/2009 - Started Kindergarten, Loving her teacher.

09/10/2009 - My little dreamer loves to tell stories. Her sisters love to listen...so do I.

09/10/2009 - Loves to draw....still! She can't get enough!

09/10/2009 - Loves playing with her sisters. She is often the leader and tells her sisters what they need to do and of course they play right along. She also still loves to pretend she is an animal...recently SKUNK is a favorite...P.U. Kitten is also a favorite.

07/31/2009 - Miss Fidget! Has such a hard time going to sleep at night. I often have to lay next to her and remind her to keep still so that she can fall asleep! Silly girl.

07/31/2009 - Loves to play with babies. She is so captivated and interested.

07/31/2009 - Loves to make cards for people. She'll find the envelopes and want to mail them off right away. I can hardly keep up.

07/31/2009 - Has figured out how to use the breaks on her bike. Yay! She loves to ride it!

07/31/2009 - Has figured out how to count to 100.

07/29/2009 - Leader of all sorts of play around here. Yesterday she was the leader of the "Fly whacker attackers! Get ready to explore!" Game. She was cracking me up!

06/06/2009 - Last night we went to some friends' house for dinner. They live in a high rise. Annaliese said that she wishes she lived in a department. =) Also today we had the window open in the back room and she climbed out to play on the "valcony."

05/21/2009 - So tenderhearted this one. Kermit has been out of town all week. She cried when he left but kept a stiff upper lip all week. She fought those tears every night with success. When Kermit came home tonight she ran to his arms and let it all go. she was SOOO happy to see her dad. Yes, we do cry when we are happy.

05/19/2009 - "Mom, there's an ant in the house!" "Don't squish him, I want to keep him for my pet." =)

05/15/2009 - Um, she is reading. No kidding. She is amazing.

05/15/2009 - The Doodle Pad is still by far her best toy ever.

05/11/2009 - Today she decided it would be great to have a pet ant.

05/11/2009 - Love the stories she tells and pictures she draws. She has produced volumes!

05/11/2009 - Likes to talk over the fence with the neighbor boy Jake.

05/01/2009 - Loves cutting out shapes and coloring them into pictures. Tells stories with the picutes. LOVES it!

05/01/2009 - Good singer and dancer. "Avrie, Addie.....Mom & Daddy....even Annaliese too!" Very catchy. Kermit caught it on video. Classic!

04/16/2009 - This is true for all the girls but especially Annaliese...She LOVES the movie "Milo and Otis" - just LOVES it! They sing the song and play Milo and Otis all day. Kermit even made them a little play set using their little tiny animal toys. He made them a dock and a wooden box that Milo can drift down the river in. =)

04/15/2009 - Is doing so great in school. She just loves it. She loves her teacher and loves her friends. She is so over being shy.

03/23/2004 - She is doing so great with her spelling. She makes signs and posts them all over the house. She loves to read the phonics books that she got from Grandma!

03/21/2009 - Has been sick! Poor little thing has been up all night with a fever!

03/20/2009 - Earlier this week I took the girls to the little park. There we met almost 4 year old Owen. He was all boy and was showing off big time for my girls...you know like crashing the cars, pretending to fall to get them to laugh, etc. Well on our way home from the park I hear "Mom, what do you think will happen to Owen and to Annaliese? Do you think that we will grow up and fall in love? Get married? Who knows what's going to happen!" Later that night she told Kermit about Owen. Kermit told her that she was young to be thinking about getting married. She needs to have lots of boy friends before she decides who she will marry. She says "I already have lots of boy friends at school. None of them like to hug me. I wonder if Owen would like to hug me. Who knows what will happen." =)

03/19/2009 - (Actually 3/20) Last night Kermit and I had a date night. Our baby sitter reports to us that Annaliese was crying before bed which is very unusual. (Later in the night she was up w/ a fever...explains the crying.) Michele told us she was trying so hard not to laugh as Annaliese cried and told her that she really loves, no likes Owen so much. (Avrie pops her head out of bed to explain that they met him at the park.) Maybe they will get married. Just then she stoped crying and said, "who knows what will happen." Just like that stopped crying, "who knows." A funny story and preview into the years ahead when we have 3 teenage girls in the house.

02/25/2009- Annaliese has decided she can only eat brown food...ya know like chocolate milk, brownies and cookies. I like that.

02/24/2009 - Today I took Annaliese into Marshalls with me. I was trying on all sorts of weird stuff. I just cracked up when Annaliese told me very seriously that I looked posh! Thanks Annaliese! I bought the posh skirt on clearance for $7.

02/17/2009 - Had a wonderful birthday! This girl loves her new talking telescope! Learning to read and doing great!

02/08/2009 - We are busy planning her OUTER SPACE birthday extravaganza. She is thrilled with the theme!

02/06/2009 - Annaliese told me that she wishes she were a firefly....because she could stay out all night and sleep all day. We are definitely related!

02/02/2009 - Likes to make name cards for the family for dinner time. She knows how to spell everyone's name.

01/19/2009 - This girl is so helpful! She's entering the stage where she likes to make sandwiches all by herself. She also recently discovered she can work the DVD player so she likes to be in charge of movie time.

01/14/2009 - Is at school for the first time this year...she is finally feelilng better...FINALLY! She was nervous to go but then received a really warm welcome from all her friends and waved to me good-bye. Sweet, sweet girl.

01/12/2009 - Has been such a good little helper! She loves to help her sisters with things like feeding them snacks. She also likes to help me around hte kitchen.

01/12/2009 - Has been SICK! Before Christmas she had pneumonia. She was healthy for Christmas (just a lingering cough) then for New years sick again! I finally took her to the Dr....double ear infection! Poor kid. Being sick is miserable.