Lunch date

Annikka's preschool is only two blocks from my firm.  I often tell people how nice that is because it's easy for me to just bop on over and say hi to the girls.  Of course, I rarely do that.

Today, however, I left early for lunch and surprised Annikka in the middle of pre-lunch story time.  She was pretty excited.

We walked from the preschool to the downtown American Dream for some pizza (about six blocks).  On the walk down she couldn't stop chattering about how happy she was that I showed up.  It was great.

Annikka ate an "olives and cheese" slice, and I had pepperoni.

We sat at the kids tables so we could color on the tables and make some of the paper plate art you always see hanging up down there.  Here are our plates:

On the walk back to preschool Annikka told me that I should "try to get off of work and come over and get me to go eat pizza more."  She also told me that this was the funnest day of her life.  I asked her if it was more fun than Christmas, and she said: "well, no."

But we did have a lot of fun, and I really should do it more often.  What a great break in the day.

Bedtime change

From May/June2012

Annikka got a new twin bed this weekend, and she is so excited about it. Although she looks little in her bed, I know that it means she's getting bigger (sigh). But it sure makes snuggling with her a whole lot easier.

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Eila is also a fan of the new bed.

All smiles

How can you make a two-year-old's day?

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Ride the bus!

Eila's first haircut

Eila had her first haircut today, courtesy of mom.

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It was much harder than I remember it being with Annikka, probably because Eila is much more wiggly. She didn't complain though, she just sat and ate her little bag of M&Ms.

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We trimmed up the back and got her bangs out of her eyes. I'll have to work on getting a better picture of it, some time when she slows down a little.

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Eila: 2 years

From May/June2012

Eila had her 2 year doctor's appointment today.  It all went well - she's a happy, little, energetic 2 year old, who rarely stops talking/singing.  She is now 33 inches long (33 percentile) and 21 lbs, 9 oz (2 percentile).

From May/June2012

She's still behind on her vaccines because of chemo, so we'll go back in next month to get that taken care of (she has to be 6 months post-chemo).  But in the meantime, we'll be goofy.

Starting Pre-K

From May/June2012

Today Annikka moved to Pre-K. She was so excited about this change and has talked about it for days. She had sooooo much fun; when we were driving home tonight she said she wished we were driving back to school.

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Annikka is reunited with one of her favorite teachers, Miss Ati (she was Annikka's teacher for 15 months in YPS).

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Annikka didn't move alone today, Maddie moved with her - notice the similarities in their wardrobe choices, can you tell these girls spend a lot of time together? Their favorite thing in the new room is "housekeeping" because it's so much bigger and has more fancy dress-up clothes than in OPS.

If you give a mouse a cookie

From May/June2012

Annikka and I went to see the play "If you give a mouse a cookie" at the Oregon Children's Theater today. It was a cute little play, and so fun to hear Annikka laugh and laugh. I'm so glad we have opportunities like this within a reasonable distance to us - I would be so sad if I couldn't share my love of the theater with the girls.

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