1000....

Have you noticed that we, as society in general, don't really count things by the days. I mean who really wants to say she is 488,775 days old and then increase that number each day. It is easier to say 37 years and doesn't look so old.

But every so often, you need to look at the days and remember each also represents a memory or a possible first in a long list of milestones (first word, first step, first sentence, first night of full sleep...).

So, I stopped and made a calculation - today makes 1000 days as a family. No, there are no big celebration plans - just the acknowledgment that we have been a family for 1000 days. Because typically when asked, I will say almost three years (October 30 will be three years).

I also have to say, that I was prompted to make the calculation by reading another family's blog - in which they adopted about a week before me.

Prince of the Castle and water sliding...

I walked into the living room (aka toy room) and found that Mushu had declared himself Prince of the Castle. I have no idea how he got up there - and probably don't want to know how. He did have fun batting at Anna's head whenever she entered and exited the castle.


Anna's daycare has a summer tradition of renting a water slide and the kids spend all day sliding down. Since I was off at 3:30 this afternoon, I was able to get to daycare earlier than normal and get some good photos of Anna and the other kiddos sliding and playing. Here are action photos of Anna enjoying herself. On the left, she is taking a solo run. And on the right, she has talked Kenzie into joining her for a run. The younger girls love Kenzie.




Right photo : back row - Kenzie, Riley, Anna; front row - Davis and Claire. Left photo: Drew, Anna, Claire and Riley.

From the mind of a three year old...

Last night we had dinner with Debbie and Dustin, who is Anna's best friend. Anna was fascinated by Debbie's wedding picture up on the refrigerator and Debbie told her about getting married to her husband, Rob, and her pretty dress, the church, etc. Well, that conversation stuck in Anna's brain (like everything else she sees and hears).
As we were drifting off to sleep Anna tells me that she is going to marry Dustin and wear a princess dress and shoes to church (because that would be so fun). Then after marrying Dustin they would hold hands and be best buddies. It was so incredibly cute.

Then she wanted to know who I was going to marry. She said I would marry Papa and I explained that Papa was already married to Mama. That stumped her, so she went back to talking about marrying Dustin.

Here are photos of Anna with her future bridegroom.

Happy Fourth of July

No time for text...just pictures...