Oh, the things that she says...

One of the reasons that I started this blog was to be a able to capture the cute things that Anna says before we forget them. Well, here are two more additions.

Last night, Anna and I were sitting at the dinner table (Will was in CH at the UNC game). I was talking to her about Thanksgiving and all the family that was coming in a few days. She asked in her sweet little angelic voice, "Mommy, what's Thanksgiving?". I explained that it was a day that we spend with all of our family and think about all the things that we are thankful to God for and we get to eat lots of yummy food. Then I started to list some of the things I was thankful for. As I was rattling off my list, she bursts out with, "...and Diet Coke! Mommy, we need to take the Diet Coke with us to Thanksgiving." As she was saying this, she was pointing to a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke on top of our fridge. Random!! Now, I know that her Nannie lets her have sips every now and then, but I never guessed that would be tops on her Thanksgiving list.:)

Today, I picked her up from school and we were on the way home after meeting Will at Panera for lunch. Her teacher, Miss Linda, had told me that they had read a book about farm animals and Anna was so good with all of the animal sounds. Well, we were on the highway and took our exit. I drove a little close to the edge and ran over the little rumble strip on the side of the road. Anna asked, "What was that, Mommy?". I told her and she followed with, "It looks like a cow!" (I'm pretty sure she meant "sounds like", but I knew what she was saying). I said, "It does kind of sound like a cow, doesn't it?". Then she said, "I think it's a Chik-fil-A cow!". Well, I guess it could be :o).

Date Night with Datty

OK, I know I'm behind. However, there are a couple of people (who will remain nameless) who have yet to upload pics from the Collins Girls Weekend--you know who you are!!:)

When we got back from the Girls Weekend last Sunday, it was my turn to host the Bunco girls at our home. We meet once a month and it was my month to host. So, I got to kick Will and Anna out of the house for several hours. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of Bunco, but Will managed to get a few on their "date". He decided to take Anna to play Putt-putt.

***For those of you who are unaware, our daughter has developed some British tendencies: she has stopped pronouncing Daddy as "Da-ee" (with no D's) and has switched to the UK version of "Datty". As long as she doesn't start calling me "Mummy", I'm OK with it. It's so cute!***

Anna got to pick which color balls she wanted...

Where did it go?

She liked the animals as much as the golf.

Fun with Datty!

Her swing is good...now we just need to work on that whole aiming thing!

Tutas and Teetees

OK, so this may be a little TMI for some of you, but hysterical for others. I forgot to include one of the highlights of the weekend with Anna and Oren!! To back track, I had fully anticipated this conversation to happen while we were in Dallas, because I knew Anna would be taking a bath with Clayton and Drew. She is usually very observant and had yet to be exposed to "male parts". I had even had a conversation with Will about what he wanted our nickname for that to be and had consulted with several other moms about what they called it. Clayton calls his a "teetee", so I decided that went well with our "tuta" and was fully prepared (so I thought). However, the entire weekend went by with lots of baths and diaper changes and nothing was ever mentioned.

Then, Oren came to visit. On the second night, they were in the bath tub and Oren started peepeeing in the water. Well, Anna immediately noticed and decided to take her little pointy finger and place it on Oren's "junk" and ask, "What's that, Mommy?" After giving Mom and Sarah the "Oh, @#%$" look, this is the conversation that transpired:

Me: "That's a teetee. Girls have tutas and boys have teetees."

Anna: "Anna has a teetee." (big grin here)

Me: "No, you are a girl, so you have a tuta. Only boys have teetees."

Anna: confused look ensued...

So, I thought it was over. Whew! Well, later that week after Anna had gotten out of the bathtub Will was talking to her while I was putting her diaper and PJs on...

Anna: "I have a teetee." (holding her hands over her crotch)

Will: "Noooooo, only boys have teetees. You are a girl, so you have a tuta."

Anna: "Anna has a tuta."

Will: "Right."

Anna: "Anna doesn't have a teetee. Only boys have teetees."

Will: "That's right."

Anna: "Girls have tutas."

Will: "Yep."

Anna: "Does Mommy have a tuta?"

Will: the "what am I supposed to say to that?" look

Me: "Yes, Mommy has a tuta because I'm a girl just like Anna."

Anna: "Does Daddy have a tuta?"

Will: head in hands

Me: "No, Daddy's a boy, so he has a teetee. Daddy has a teetee and Oren has a teetee and Clayton has a teetee because they are all boys."

Anna: (looks at Will) "I want to see it!"

And conversation over, thank you. I quickly explained that we don't look at other people's teetees and tutas and we speedily transitioned to story time. She's barely two years old--did we really just have this conversation???

Trick or Treat 2009

Halloween night was dampened (literally) by the seemingly never-ending rain, but we managed to squeeze some good times out of it anyway. Right after Anna put on her precious Tinkerbell costume, it started pouring. So, we decided to ride over to Aunt Erin's and visit. When we got back it had stopped raining and was starting to get dark. Anna and I headed off to trick-or-treat while Will manned the fort at the house with Miller.

The first house we went to was across the street where our babysitter, Eileen, lives. While her mom was holding the door to reach for the candy bowl, Anna just paraded right inside. I was mortified! At least it was someone we knew and not a complete stranger.:) Then, it was like a light bulb went off inside her head and she remembered the end result of this trick-or-treating thing. Soon, she was saying, "Let's go to that house" and that one and that one and that one...

The funniest part of the whole night was when a group of older kids walked by and one of them said, "Look, there's Tinkerbell!" Anna whipped around to me and asked, "What did he say?" I explained to her that he knew that she was Tinkerbell because of her costume. For the next 5 minutes, she kept repeating, "He knows I'm Tinkerbell!" over and over. It was so cute!

The rain kept quite a few of our normal trick-or-treaters away, so we have A LOT of left over candy. Will is not too upset about it.....but just wait until that next dentist appointment, honey!

Halloween Par-tay!

Friday night, Will and I took Anna over to Nannie and Pop's house for a sleepover and headed to a Halloween party hosted by our friends, Paul and Sarah. They have a reputation for going all-out for Halloween costumes and parties, and this year was no exception. But we had a little something up our sleeves, too....

We had a great time with great friends and even learned a really fabulous game called Four On a Couch (kudos, Jenn). I highly recommend it, especially with a little drinky-drinky!! It was hysterical! Needless to say, I was not feeling well come Saturday morning, but it was well worth it.

This was Will's idea...but it was funny.

Jenn and Tyler as Jenn and Tonic

Sarah and Paul as Jon and Kate (complete with "the Kate hair")

The fantastic girls! That would be Cheer-i-O there in the middle:).

The First Ponytail

I don't know what it is, but I have been dying to put Anna's hair up into a ponytail. I guess it's just one of those being-a-girl, having-a-girl things. Every previous time that I have tried this, she has gotten fidgety and would not be still and I have given up (mainly because I realized she did not have enough hair to go up in one). Well, I tried again on Tuesday and IT WORKED!! My mom would call this a "palm hair" and not really a ponytail, but it doesn't matter to me. I got her hair to go up and both of us were so proud!

The Lesser Pumpkin Patch

OK, so the pumpkin patch in Dallas was tops, but we couldn't exactly put pumpkins in our suitcases to bring home! We had to go to one of the pumpkin patches around here and this year, Daddy got to come!

This is the third year Anna has gotten her picture taken beside this sign. She was more excited about the pumpkin, though!

Anna and Daddy, but someone would NOT look at the camera!

Anna in the tee-pee (she wanted Daddy to get in with her, but he decided against it).

Mommy and Anna in the hayride wagon (again, not looking at the camera).

We ended up with two beautiful pumpkins to bring home for carving. That will be a whole other story, I'm sure!:)