Messy hair & PJ's make for great photos

Or maybe I'm just lazy. You decide :)

Look who found her thumb

Emma's visit, so relaxing

Sisters comparison - 2 months old

6 weeks old, bath at Mimi & GD's

Evening fuss

Sisters comparison = 1 month old

Week 4

Giving her sister her first bottle

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1, Home pics

Week 1, Hospital pics

Sweet Baby James

Annie's Aunt Al requested this, so Al, here it is. It's a 2 minute video, so it's long, but the end is funny :)

Sweet Baby James from Jessica on Vimeo.

Obama and McCain

Think we should give three year olds the vote? They're exceedingly easy to manipulate...

Obama or McCain from Jessica on Vimeo.

Annie and her future bud, Hayden

Annie loves holding her new friend, Sasha and Marni's Hayden:

Annie and Hayden from Jessica on Vimeo.

Sugar high

Let a 3 year old have some halloween candy a bit too late in the evening?

Sugar high from Jessica on Vimeo.

A few hidden moments

I love the way she plays and talks for her little characters:

Talking to herself from Jessica on Vimeo.

Missing videos

I have videos from June, July, August, September and October 2008, and I will try to post them over time. There are 50-60 of them, so it may take me a while. For now I'll jump ahead to November.

First cookies

The first time we ever made cookies together. Definitely not the last!

Making Cookies from Jessica on Vimeo.

Running in circles

We went over to the town road race and listened to some of the party tunes they had playing. I served as maypole to Annie's circles:

Running in circles from Jessica on Vimeo.

Hula hoop

Hula hoop from Jessica on Vimeo.

Stwollage

One of our favorite mispronunciations of the month.

stwollage from Jessica on Vimeo.

Best rolling bag

We took a late flight home from NC on Monday night, and I had to memorialize the first time Annie ever carried her own bag. Her "Cars" rolling bag is a new fave.
rolling bag from Jessica on Vimeo.

Car naps

Poor feverish Annie and Bodie took a nap in the car before we got to the park for a walk on Monday. They are too sweet.

Sleepy from Jessica on Vimeo.

Mall trip

Annie started to get sick on Day 3 of the trip, so we took it easy... a trip to the mall was in order. Got new flashy sneakers and some Hello Kitty pinwheels. Nice.

Hello Kitty store from Jessica on Vimeo.

Nose kisses

I love the way the girls are playing here. This is on our trip to the mall. Before we did the fabulous studio photoshoot at Sears (ha! love it!).
nose kisses from Jessica on Vimeo.

Monkey Joe's

Day 2 (I think? it's all blurring together) we had a blast at Monkey Joe's - which is this incredible bounce house place...

Ev, Mary and I had such fun bouncing with the girls (Christian stayed home with Bodie) - and I see on their website that they're opening one in Danvers soon... we are THERE.


monkey joes from Jessica on Vimeo.

Dance parties don't need music

Well we just got to NC to visit our friends Mary and Christian, and their cutie pies Hanne and Bodie. Annie immediately loved dancing around on their new deck with Hanne - and they didn't even need tunes.

dance party no music from Jessica on Vimeo.

Choreography

But the best part is Hanne leading the girls' choreography here:

choreography from Jessica on Vimeo.

The Bode-man and his watermelon

I don't have enough video of gorgeous 17 month old Bodie. Apologies for my annoying babytalk - he's just delicious, isn't he?
The Bode-man and his watermelon from Jessica on Vimeo.

The best barbie house ever

Annie couldn't believe her luck - a whole house of toys to play with? The best dollhouse ever? Mary's dollhouse from when she was little - custom built in the seventies to fit Barbies... just too perfect. But really, the best part of this video is Hanne gently explaining (towards the end of the video), that these are all her toys...

dollhouse from Jessica on Vimeo.

Naming conventions

Her thing these days is to give these fantastic made up names for her dolls. Usually they sound somehow Hawaiian, not sure why...

hawaiian polly pockets from Jessica on Vimeo.

Go Mommy Bloggers!

Pump your fist in the air and enjoy this post about blogging your children's lives from dooce.com. She says it right.

Watch my wole

Watch my wole from Jessica on Vimeo.

Dancing morphs into gymnastics

But that's cool...

gymnastics dancing from Jessica on Vimeo.

Jane Fonda look out (headband and all)

The best part is that she has this kind of energy and she's listening to Peter Gabriel.

jane fonda from Jessica on Vimeo.

Haulk the Herald...

This is kind of a weird, non-sequitur filled video, but really, that's life with a 2 1/2 year old, after all. I didn't edit out the beginning part on purpose so you can see how quickly our beloved can go from zero to pissed, for really really no reason... then the end is great because I love her pronunciation of this word.

Hauk the Herald Angels from Jessica on Vimeo.

Uncle Sash's piano lesson

Since Annie was about 5 months old and just able to sit up on her own, Sash has been giving her piano lessons. She love love loves it. I think the best part of this is her wiggling dancing along with the song.

Piano Lesson from Jessica on Vimeo.

Chickens at the Zoo?

Some might ask... hmm... why do they have chickens at the zoo? We don't ask, we just appreciate:

Zoo chickens from Jessica on Vimeo.

Boring chicken, cute kid

There's very little value to this video except for the fact that Annie is frickin CUTE in her hat. Sorry, but it's true.

Chicken eating from Jessica on Vimeo.

Bossy the Roaring Lion

When I was little my school sent home a note saying I had "strong leadership qualities". I think Annie might have gotten a teenie bit of my Bossy McBosserton gene.

Bossy the Lion from Jessica on Vimeo.

One of my favorite words she says

I think it'd be spelled "meshmallows":

Meshmallows from Jessica on Vimeo.

Aunt Lindsay's joke from 1982

She's heard this joke a few times, and she thinks it's the most hilarious thing ever... I think it's really 2 year old humor.

Cat joke from Jessica on Vimeo.

REO Speedwagon, toddler style

And in case you thought we'd end a batch of Annie singing videos without an epic 80's tune, don't you fret.

REO Speedwagon from Jessica on Vimeo.

Eden, by 10,000 Maniacs

I sing this to bed at her because it's one of my favorite songs ever, and I know all the words, so I can get all the way through it. Apparently some of the words have stuck :) Here's the actual song (scroll down the Amazon page and click Eden to listen to it)...

Eden from Jessica on Vimeo.

Bushel and a peck

The other I love you song I sing her at bedtime:

Bushel and a Peck from Jessica on Vimeo.

Skid-amarink-idinkie-doo

Not sure where this one came from or what it's called, but I know it from when I was little:

LoveYou from Jessica on Vimeo.

Twinkle twinkle little star

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the beginning of the musical portion of the blog posts. She's such a good singer, I wanted to get a bunch of songs recorded. And without further ado:

Twinkle from Jessica on Vimeo.

Poor little fifteen

Not sure what happened to fifteen. I'm just glad six and seven have joined the team.
Poor fifteen from Jessica on Vimeo.

Definitively 2 and a half

The beginning of this video depict the weirdness that is the terrible twos for us. She's 2 and a half now, so I'm trying to get her to say it for most of the video. This is kind of a long one, sorry.

Two and a half from Jessica on Vimeo.

Watching her, watching her...

Not really that interesting, but it shows you how much she loves watching herself on video. "I wanna watch an Annie video!" she'll say.

This is so meta from Jessica on Vimeo.

Gweat!

This is a re-enactment of an actual conversation she and her grandmother had a few minutes ago when Mum arrived to babysit. Early this morning she'd been pitiful, whiny, feverish, and eventually threw up a bit. I guess, as she promised it would, Curious George "make me feel better".

Gweat! from Jessica on Vimeo.

Madeleine's political beginnings

This is Annie's friend Madeleine. She and Annie are almost exactly the same age, and we've been getting together with their family since before the girls were born. We got together to play yesterday with them, and had a blast. The kids make us laugh so much.

Madeleine and her parents went to see Hillary Clinton speak recently, and ever since then she's been imitating the political speech style. She's not saying anything comprehensible here - it's really just the rhythm of what she's saying and doing with her mic. I love this!

Hillary's political speech style, a la Madeleine from Jessica on Vimeo.

The Glare

We have a book about dinosaurs eating their food, and it jokes about all the things that dinosaurs DON'T do as they eat their food... they don't throw it on the floor, they don't bubble their milk... they don't glare at their parents... so we tried to teach Annie what glaring was. She is extraordinarily good at it, and LOVES to do it.

glare from Jessica on Vimeo.

Toddler logic

Evan is doing his Annie impression in this... where she speaks in a monotone... but the conversation itself is so random and all over the place. Just typical 2 1/2 yr old talk.

toddler logic from Jessica on Vimeo.

Brussel Sprouts

She tried artichokes in Florida last week, and now when trying brussel sprouts tonight I think she thought they were just mini artichokes.

brussel sprouts from Jessica on Vimeo.

Hostipital

There's an extra syllable in this word... she's actually gotten better at it in this video than she used to be, but I love it this way.

hostipital from Jessica on Vimeo.

Rocky road ice cream

Annie and her Papa agree - Wocky Woad WOCKS!

rocky road from Jessica on Vimeo.

Here burdies!

I just love the way this sounds. Here burdie burdie burdie!!!

here birdies from Jessica on Vimeo.

Burseed

Feeding Grandma and Papa's ducks in Florida:

birseed from Jessica on Vimeo.

Fantastic flip flops

These flip flops are just so fabulous I had to get them on video.

flip flop from Jessica on Vimeo.

You only make this kind of mistake once.

An error in parental judgement, explained.

Error in parental judgement from Jessica on Vimeo.

Back in four days

"How to make mum feel guilty for going to California for four days" by Annie.

back in four days from Jessica on Vimeo.

Bad boot

Boot = book.
This is a long video, only for the committed. I like it because I feel like it shows her at this age - how she interacts... but there's really not that much interesting in it.

Bad boot from Jessica on Vimeo.

Healthy eater

What, you might ask, do we feed a 2 1/2 yr old Annie? She has some favorite foods, listed here. And we did capture my favorite phrase - where she says "no can" when she means "and I can"... I just love it.

Bench bies from Jessica on Vimeo.

Quotable

Recounting a conversation from earlier.
Water on Genifee from Jessica on Vimeo.

Cracking herself up

Here's the girl playing a little joke - making herself laugh as she jumps on our bed and catches sight of herself in the mirror at the top of her leap... and says buh-bye to herself each time. Hehe. Also love the morning hair.

Buh-bye from Jessica on Vimeo.

Athlete

She's really quite good at everything physical - catching a ball, for one (and this isn't even a good example of it... Ev likes it better when she brings her hands together right when the ball gets to her, but either way, I'm impressed).
Playing Catch from Jessica on Vimeo.

"Truth" telling... a complicated concept

Who dropped the Cheerios on the floor, Annie?
Who made the mess? from Jessica on Vimeo.

Playing her beloved dicar

Annie got this ukelele for her 2nd birthday, and she's loved playing it since the moment it entered the house. The best part is what she calls it.

Dicar = Guitar from Jessica on Vimeo.