tuesday

I came home from work on Tuesday to these photos John had taken. I love seeing these shots of their daily shenanigans.

first rain boots

neighbor Sean helping John knead dough

(and Annabelle making her own dough in the background)

christmas tree farm: from the holga

play house

We inherited a little slide and play house from neighbors on our street that moved. Annabelle now has quite the little play area in the backyard. She was very surprised (and happy!) to wake up from her nap to find them waiting for her.

first candy cane

discovery museum

John took Annie to the children's museum on a rainy day last week. He said that she was a sweetheart, handing out balls to other kids.

"good luck crane"

It seems like Annabelle is learning at least one new word a day. I've been meaning forever to write down her first words. Here they are as best I can remember, mostly in order.

book
ball
dog
bocce
shoe
hat
delish (for delicious, always preceded by 'Mmmmmmm')
oops
dance
nose
ouch
ear
toes
dough
bobo (for diaper, pee, or poo)
eye
boo
door
flower
kipper (yes, kipper the dog)
bubbles

Today she was working on "kiss" and "sticker".

Christmas Trees

Our friends and neighbors Brent and Erin invited us to go to a Christmas tree farm in the Santa Cruz mountains to get our tree this year. It was the first time we've gone to cut our own tree, and I think it's our prettiest tree to date!

And John got to demonstrate his sawing skills.