February 20th, 2010
Anna hasn’t napped for a two years now. She just started to take showers on her own (instead of baths with her sister). She still can’t tie her own shoelaces, but that is my fault for not teaching her yet. She rides her bike like a daredevil. She hosts a restaurant called “Anna’s place” on our side yard and it includes a tip jar for fake tips. She told me last night that she wants “to be an artist just like Picasso” and that she was “copying one of his painting in school yesterday”. Can you tell I’m feeling really nostalgic that my baby girl is growing up?
But when I told her that some people get to watch over animals FOR A LIVING, she absolutely grinned. There’s nothing she wants more than to overrun our house with animals. Hamsters, cats, birds, fish, dogs, bunnies, chinchillas, horses, squirrels, toads, and kangaroos have all been requests at one time or another. Finally, at long last, our cats have let her into their personal space. Chief lets her carry him around like a doll. And she loves him for it.

February 10th, 2010
Shhh, the blog’s been alseep for a good long while. I gratefully took a lot of time during the off season to cleanup my office, computer, papers, and several other nooks and crannies. Especially great was spending some extra time with my family. I’m sitting on some cool sessions that need to be blogged soon…but first we will ease back into blogging with a video of Holly.
All Holly asked for at Christmas was a mini-video camera (like my flip). There was no way we were going to get her an expensive camera, so Jason scanned the black friday ads in search of a cheap alternative. We scored a deal with a $25 video camera that operates on a single AA battery with an internal small hard drive. PERFECT.
I’m pretty sure Holly was inspired to ask for this gift based on the show iCarly. If you don’t know iCarly it is because you don’t have kids between the ages of 4 and 12 and you’ve been watching cool shows like Dexter and Weeds. (Lucky!) Anyways, the show is about a girl named Carly who makes a web-tv show about all things kid. Without any delay…here’s Holly’s version.
By the way, Holly made this all by herself in secret. We heard her talking to herself in the corner of the living room while we were all busy doing other things. When asked, she shared her video with us and said I could “webcast” it for her here. YEAH! (and she’s talking about “passing out lollipops at school” in case you can’t understand that part of the video)