Countdown to Anna's 5th Birthday! Year 5

Anna is FIVE! Happy Birthday, baby girl!

Anna's first horseback lesson. November 2010.

Halloween 2010! Super Girl!

Anna and Jon on the first day of school. August 2010.

At my birthday party bowling in June.

Anna at her gymnastics. She tried it this summer and loved it.

Anna at summer camp preschool.

May 2010. On her way to her first ballet recital.

Can you see the attitude? Dave was trying to put her tights on.

Silly girl!

May 2010. Anna at her ballet pictures.

Anna and Jonathan at Dave's birthday party. March 2010
Superhero battle!

February 2010. Jonathan and Anna.

February 2010. Anna had a bad cold and needed her nebulizer. Dave played Candyland with her to make the time go by faster. She is a lucky girl to have such a sweet daddy.

January 2010. 4 years old at the park.

At Nona's. January 2010.

Countdown to Anna's 5th Birthday! Year 4

Anna is 4! At Sea World, December 2009.

Christmas Eve 2009. Mixing up our magic oats to sprinkle in the yard.

Christmas 2009. Anna is 4! She is playing with one of her Christmas presents.

Jonathan with his scrapbook. December 2009.

December of 2009. Over Christmas vacation, the kids made their own scrapbooks. They really worked hard and made one from start to finish.

She wrote her name! All by herself! And the nice thing about the name Anna is that you don't even have to know that she wrote it completely backwards! December 2009

December 2009.

December 2009.

November. Using the Shark at Nona's in the playroom.

This was one of her favorite outfits! November 2009.

I wonder if these people realized they were being graced with the presence of an actual princess?

Halloween 2009.

Boating with daddy in Nona's pool.

At Jonathan's Pre-K Graduation!

May 2009. Uncle Cory sent us an ant farm in the mail. It was A LOT of fun!

Anna and Jon at the ice cream shop. February 2009.

And this is pretty much how she was at this age...ACTION shot! She never stopped moving!

January 2009. Anna's broken front tooth before we got her "princess crowns" that summer.

Countdown to Anna's 5th Birthday! Year 3

Anna's 3rd birthday! She got a big girl bike.

Anna and me with her birthday cake. It was supposed to be Dora, but she wouldn't stand up (because of her big fat head) so we subbed some My Little Pony instead.

Halloween 2008. Anna in the pumpkin patch.

Fourth of July 2008. In Kentucky.

Anna's famous pink eye infection gone wild... We wound up in the ER. Fall of 2008.

Anna on the Metro. We were in DC for Cory and Erin's wedding. May 2008.

Easter 2008. She kept opening the eggs to see what was in them, until she figured out that she could shake them and hear if they had anything inside.

A little pre-Easter egg hunt fishing.

Easter 2008 Anna was 2 years, 3 months. We got this dress for her with a matching baby doll dress. I did rotate this picture before uploading it... or at least I thought I did?