Annea

Annea is two! (Now a bit older than that, I'm way behind in posting). She potty trained in two days right at two, and has been doing great in that department ever since-- sometimes dry at night, too.

She is funny! She loves to sing LOUDLY. "Holy God" (Trisagion Hymn), "Let it Go" (Frozen), "The Wheels on the Bus", "That Girl is on Fire" (Alicia Keys!) are some of her favorites. She belts it out, louder is better. She talks like crazy, in her own little cadence. We have all picked up on Annea-speak, gems such as: "I lak et" (I like it), "I heuh it" (I hear it), "Look. MY nails." (Look at my fingernails. Which weeks ago had nail polish on them.) She is very sweet and funny, and loves our adoration and attention--which the big girls are so happy to give.

We just finished a session of swim lessons, the Mommy-and-me class, which she loved. She eagerly wore her "wim su" everywhere. Funnily enough, Annea hates to be wet. She now knows to tell us not to get her all wet when we wash her hands or face, and if a drop of water gets onto her, she wants to change her clothes. We had to convince her while playing in our backyard little pool, that she didn't have to change swim suits every time one got wet. She is enthusiastic about kicking and will blow bubbles, but her favorite part of swimming lessons were wearing the swimsuit and the songs.

Her second birthday was super fun, her last big party, perhaps, for a while? The Lewis family's last big one for a while, I think. We decided to downsize the effort and scope of birthdays to make them a bit more manageable and less stressful. We found ourselves feeding the same people pizza over and over, in April-May- June, and decided to switch things up and pare down. So in closing our era of over-the-top seeming birthdays, we had one final fiesta. And Snow White showed up! Melissa, Laurel's faithful friend had a few glasses of wine and borrowed her cousin's costume and was the belle of the ball. So fun! It made a fun theme.

The Party:

Swimming Lessons. (Here Annea's listening to the safety talk before her lesson. I can't take pictures because I'm in the water with her. She's cute in her suit!)

Yay for Undies!!

Fun in our little pool.

Peek-a-boo!

Fun with friends from church.