Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Anja's Got Quite the Vocab!


Anja wakes Papa on Saturday morning to read one of her Elmo books.

Anja's vocabulary has expanded quite a bit in the last month . . . she picks out words and isn't afraid to repeat, repeat, repeat. Today she surprised us with "heavy" while lifting vegetable broth cartons back onto the shelf. Yesterday she surprised us with "Bucky!" as she pointed to Bucky, the University of Wisconsin's mascot. (Imprinting, imprinting, imprinting! Now, if only she'd say "Cobber!") A few weeks ago it was "shadow" while pointing to her own. She's saying numbers, letters, makes the best animal sounds (she does a mean cock-a, as in cock-a-doodle-doo), and associates like crazy. She's just plain fun.

Here's a smattering of photos from the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!


She's been interested in putting on her own socks and shoes on lately.


Our little rock star reads with her shades on too!

She's into wearing hats around the house . . . this one from Krista, our favorite dentist living in the DC area!

Anja attempts playing the harmonica . . . after a few tries she got a couple of notes!


Could we have a budding musician in our midst?! She looks like a pro! Here she is with two of her Godparents, Erin in Ben who are expecting any day now! (And with Eva, their Weimaraner, who Anja loved!)

1 comment:

Peter said...

Good thing you've updated, I was close to sending a snarky email. The little on looks more like Momma each day, with Dad's hair. Can't wait to see you three again, when are you coming to Madison for a training weekend? Are you doing Grandma's (want to room together again, I'm racing the full)?

She's learned the word 'Bucky' already? Excellent (with a Mr. Berns voice). Next I'll teach her the complexities of men's BB coach Bo Ryan's swing offense. It's never to early to learn how to post up in the low block.

(...this should have really been done in the form of an email, but I'm on a roll.) Did Erik to the Bierki this year? It sounded like they had perfect conditions.