"First" haircut

So I am calling this Anna's first haircut. I'm hoping this will help grow out and even up her short hair cut she was given in Russia. She really enjoyed the cut. I had Dylan go first in case she was scared at all, but no worries. She couldn't wait for her turn and did great. She has really fine, wispy hair. I was debating about growning out her bangs, but for now I think I'll wait on that. We're just growing out her sides that were really really short. I never get tired of hearing how much she looks likes me. I never get that with Dylan!

Of course I couldn't pass up posting some pajama cuteness.

Anna is doing great lately in her speech and just in the last few weeks and been putting 2 and 3 words together more and more. One of her new words that is driving me crazy but is completely adorable is "WHY?" Every time I tell her to stop doing something she says WHY? over and over.....like don't bang that on that cabinets? Why? because it will hurt them WHY? Don't scratch your brother WHY? because it gives him owies WHY? and on and on. I love because she is using the word appropriately but BOY does it get old! Any time she accidentally kicks or hits you with anything she stops and kisses the boo boo and says Sorry. Its just cute as can be! She'll even do it if I hit myself on something. I worked really hard on soothing and kissing owies and now I love that she does it in return!

So now at 2 1/2 yrs old the doctors finally said she's "on the charts" at about the 0-3%, weighing in at just 24 lbs....BUT that was with shoes and jeans on. I've never gotten her to weigh that much at home, more like only 23 lbs, but it was still nice to hear that she was on the charts.

Disneyland

We had so much fun today. She just loves Disneyland and is a trooper about waiting in line even. By FAR her favorite was Winnie the Pooh and the Pooh characters. She could have snuggled and hugged and kissed on them forever. It was so sweet. We went thru the character line twice and went on the Pooh ride 3 times. I even took her on Pirates of the Carribean and she liked that too....wasn't scared at all. Its great going during the week when the lines are all so short. It was kinda weird going without Dylan while he is in school. He's been my Disneyland buddy for 4 years now but he got the chance to go during the slow times and so I guess its only fair.

I noticed we need to work on boundaries a bit. She is so curious about everything and will touch the people in line around us, rub their leg, their watch, poke at their shirt, touch their phone, whatever. She's pretty good about stopping when I tell her to, but often she starts in before I can catch her.

This weekend we will be going camping for the first time with her, just for one night. She really loves sleeping in her crib, and is not good about falling sleep just laying with me so this could be interesting.

Little things we've been up to

We finally made our first trip to Disneyland and Anna loved it! I wasn't sure if she'd be scared of the darker rides, but she just loved it all. We've went twice and both times were pretty crowded due to Christmas break, so Thursday while Dylan is in school, just Anna and I are going to head down by ourselves. It is just so fun experiencing it all again with her and seeing it all thru her eyes for the first time. Its one of the things I've dreamed about and its as wonderful as I'd hoped.

Her speach continues to improves in leaps and bounds and she's eating like a champ......but no, she's still tiny tiny and not gaining much weight if any. Her eyes look fabulous. There is still touches of red around her irises even about 5 weeks later but that continues to go away. The tissue did slowly disappear that I was worried about but it took awhile.

This weekend my hubby actually surprised me with a little romantic getaway to dinner with friends and a hotel at the beach so my mom stayed the night with the kids. I was a bit nervous but it went really well and I enjoyed the break I'll admit. I even treated myself to a mani/pedi before we left so I've really been feeling human again lately :o) Now lets see if I can start doing some exercise again on some sort of regular basis.....probably won't get that far!