Only if you have some time

This one's long. But if you're a die hard Annie fan, or really a fan of any two year old who's just plain hilarious when he/she plays alone, this is worth a watch. It's a true representation of the way she plays, for long periods of time... the tapping as she walks the little people all around, the a-little-too-loud voice when she calls out "Ready everyone?"...

LONG video of little people from Jessica on Vimeo.

Up and Down the Boulevard

You have to know Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" to truly appreciate Annie's singing skill here... This CRACKS me up...

Don't Stop Believin from Jessica on Vimeo.

Lilies of the Valley deck my garden walk

She's a musical genius. This is Annie singing a song I sing to her a lot as she goes to sleep (Ev sings Journey, which we'll show you next). It's an old folk song, called "White Coral Bells", and if you don't know it, this is the link to a real version of it so you can hear what it's supposed to sound like:


And here's Annie's rendition:

White Coral Bells from Jessica on Vimeo.

Artisitic Skeels

We know, every parent thinks their child is amazing, but Annie can draw the best person's face:


Artisitic Skeels from Jessica on Vimeo.

Santa's Visit, according to Annie

Ho ho ho from Jessica on Vimeo.

Christmas dancing, complete with faot

Yes! The return of the video blog! After an almost 11 month hiatus, Annie's video blog is up and running again. Thanks to Ev for the video camera xmas gift. Woo hoo!

So here's one of my top faves from xmas. Annie showing us her dance moves, and a bonus at the end where she shows off her pronunciation of one of my favorites of her words.

Dancing Faot high res from Jessica on Vimeo.

Sesame Street 2/6/07

OK, so I know she's not supposed to stand so close to the TV (well, according to the AAP, she's not supposed to be watching ANY tv until she's two, but that's beside the point)... but you've got to see how amazing this child is. I'm not sure if you can hear the audio well enough, but it's a little girl on Sesame Street singing "Put your arms in the air... reach the ground... etc." and she does it. Love it. This is the first time she heard the song - she was actually listening/mimicing the girl on the screen. Really cool. At one point it even said to turn around in a circle, and she did it (although I missed that on the video). Smartie pants.

Peekaboo 2/6/07

Still a winner of a game. Peekaboo rocks.

Singing and reading 1/25/07

As I sat with my laptop in the living room (hence the beginning shot of the video), I heard Anna start getting into her reading and singing. Here you see her reading her favorite reading material - the pamphlets that come along with the Disney DVDs.

Kitty is funny 1/24/07

Anna was sitting on the floor getting a real kick out of the fact that the cat was having a tough time getting through her kitty door (a few too many kitty treats?), so I had to record the giggles. This is really just the tail end of the hilarity, so it's not that fantastic a video. (This green thing is a bummer - sorry about it... no idea what it is or why it's happening. I'm gonna stop talking about it, though. Maybe rename the blog "Anna's green Video blog"?

Blow some bubbles 1/21/07

Pardon the dark video - our bathroom is lacking light. (Also the weird green-ness- this is new. Not sure what that is.) So this is Anna completely NOT blowing bubbles when I ask her to. Sometimes she'll actually do it when I ask - and when this happens, especially in swim class, I just about burst with pride.

Buh-bye 1/11/07

Slowly but surely we're adding new words to the repertoire -

Buh-bye is sometimes acually used at the right time. Sometimes.

Who's that? Gran? Grandad? AL?

Just this week she's started loving looking at pictures of people she knows. It's very fun. As is the caps lock key.

Disobedient, but a great kisser 1/4/07

She had just been saying "buh-bye" before I brought out the camera, and of course then all she'd say is hello. But we capture a smooch on film here - a spontaneous one, and I melt every time I watch that part.

First day on a new bike 1/4/07

This is moments after getting her first tricycle - she loves it. It doesn't have pedals, she just puts her feet up on the front part and gets pushed, and she thinks it's about the coolest thing around. When I ask if she wants to do it again, I get a great "da" every time.

8th grade boy dancing 12/29/06

It takes a while to get to it, but eventually she does show off her (to quote her aunt lindsay) "8th grade boy" dance moves.

Thomas the Tank Engine (well, Percy that is)

Anna got this cool Percy train from her Papa Jan and Granma Shirley for Christmas. She's enamored with it and loves making it go herself.

Daddy's shoes this time 12/20/06

Really nothing is more fun than wearing grown up's shoes. She's gotten to the point where it's actually quite easy for her to walk in them.

No Grunts 12/19/06

Anna saw me open a bottle of nailpolish, and so she kept handing it to me, asking me to open it again. I didn't want her playing with it, so I pretended it was too tight to open (I grunted and pretended I couldn't open it). So before I got the video camera out, she was hilariously attempting to open it herself, grunting (faking it) with the effort. I got laughing so hard I wanted to immortalize it. Of course she stopped doing it when I filmed her, but her expressions were so funny in this one I had to post it.

Pigtail 12/17/06

This is definitely where the term "pigtail" came from. Anna's first hairdo captured on film. Girls rock.