Happy Birth Week Anna!!!

In honor of Anna's birth week and because I like when Matthew and Kasey do this, I'm going to make a post every day for the next week. I know, it's crazy and very unexpected. I bet you're even thinking right now that there's no way I'll hold up my end of the deal. Well, I'm going to try really hard. So here it goes!

Our Summer Days

Here are some fun shots of some of our favorite things to do this summer...

So our neighborhood finally built the pool after 5 years. This is how we travel up there. Surprisingly, Anna doesn't ask to go too much. It's impossible for me to go by myself during the day so we have to wait for Matt to come home.When we want to swim during the day, we set up in the plastic pool on the deck. Here's where Megan hangs out.Here's where she hangs if we actually make it to the big pool.We spend many days at the zoo. Sometimes with friends, other times by ourselves. This particular day was spent with Becky and Charlotte before they left for Texas. Megan and Anna (yes, in their matching outfits) telling Charlotte not to leave us. When it's too hot, we just head down to the aquarium. This day was spent with Uncle Jonathan. The city of Independence has some great free family nights in the summer. Here's Anna getting ready to watch the Mad Cap Puppet Theater show a few weeks ago. She was actually pretty scared so we ended up sitting at the top of the hill you see behind her. It was really funny. Is that bad that we laughed while she cried?Of course we celebrated the Fourth of July in our red, white, and blue. This was the point in the night when Anna was happy. As soon at the "firetrucks" came, she was literally scared frozen. She would not move. She clung to Matt with her eyes open, frozen in the same position for about 25 minutes. Megan could care less and got to see a nice display.

What would summer be without the park. We spend MANY days on the swings and slides at various parks around Northern KY. It has been a little hobby of mine to seek out the best swingsets in the area. My definition of best: an enclosed area where Anna can't run too far away from me, a swingset that is pretty much closed in all the way around with not too many open areas for her to fall off, and somewhere with shade. All of these requirements are of course because Megan is either in the stroller or strapped to me. Here is Anna on a park "function" (not "date" because she's with a boy) with her friend Ethan.