Trying to Blow Bubbles......

Anneke  has been trying to blow bubbles.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it looks more like this:

Enjoy!

PS.  I just showed Anneke this video and she was laughing at it!

Food?

Well, since Anneke has been super interested in everything we've been eating and she's almost six months old we decided to take the plunge and move on to the next step:  cereal.  So far it's consisted of not a lot of intake and a lot of mess--but we'll get it figured out eventually!

This bib thing tastes yummy.... 

I like my chair from gammy and great-grandpa Postma! 

Here we go....I'm not really sure I like this stuff... 

Opa's 60th Birthday Weekend

We spent the past weekend celebrating Opa's 60th birthday.  We had a great time, with lots of great food, and loved visiting with family.  Anneke had a great time with her cousins, all of whom are very loving and were big helpers!  Always bringing her toys and talking/singing to her.  They were rewarded with lots of smiles and lots of loud shrieks!  This weekend was also the first time Anneke went swimming and to an art gallery.  So it was a busy and wonderful weekend!

Birthday Boy!

Anneke playing with Abby.  She liked Abby!

Sitting in a booster chair for the first time.  She was VERY interested in all the food and drinks at the table!

Swimming!  Anneke loved the pool!

A very cool flotation device--we're going to have to find one of these for the summer.

She loved splashing with her hands--we both had water all over our faces from her splashes!

Swimming with Daddy--the first few shots turned out blurry because she was kicking and splashing so much!

Oma and all her grand-girls in the pool.  The camera lens fogged up because it was so warm, so the pictures didn't turn out the greatest, but they're all there! 

Pooped out from all the swimming!  (On the drive home from the pool). 

Balloons are very fun!

On Monday afternoon the three of us went to the National Art Gallery in Ottawa.  Here Dave and Anneke are posing with a painting from the Group of Seven exhibit.  (We're weren't technically supposed to take pictures in here.....oops!) 

Anneke's thoughts: This is art work?! I'll be able to paint straight lines like this soon enough. Maybe I'll end up in an art gallery!

On the way home.....eating and drinking with Anneke on my lap has become quite the challenge.  She wants everything we have!  I nearly had chocolate milk all over me by the end of this one!

Our Little Monkey

Bears and Toes

I love my bear!  And I've also found my toes--very exciting!

Funny Face

For the last week or so Anneke has started sucking on her bottom lip.  It looks hilarious and cracks us up every time!  It's a little hard to get a good picture of it, though, because everytime she sees the camera she stops what she's doing and stares.  So this is the best we've got so far:

Busyness and Growing Up

February is over.  My goodness, how time flies!  Although I feel like I haven't really done anything this month, I feel like I've been super busy and not busy at the same time, really weird!  Being stuck in the house gets to me some days, although the days seem to go quickly it'll be nice when it warms up so we can go outside a bit more regularly.  I have been making it to coffee break thanks to my awesome friend, Janelle, which is a super nice break!  And this week we also went to story hour at the library--I think Anneke liked it, she just kept looking around and taking it all in!

Dave has been SUPER busy this month.  He had a 3-day class trip and report cards all within the same week, so Anneke and I spent some time at Grandma and Grandpa's!  But now that's all done and March Break is on the horizon.  He's still trying to get days with the public school board, which is proving to be quite challenging in terms of planning and then getting calls for the days he's planned for.....but we'll keep at it and hopefully have them all by the end of the year!  He is enjoying his teaching job, though, which is great!  It is fun to have your own class and to see the rewards and follow through with the kids every day.  And they all seem to like him (and me because I made them cupcakes for Valentine's day!  Men:  Dave didn't plan to do anything for them--or me for that matter!)

And Anneke is growing and learning new things like crazy!  She turned 5 months yesterday and it's amazing to see what they can do from one month to the next.  This month she's become more coordinated with grabbing the things she wants and getting them into her mouth.  She loves faces and grabbing onto people's faces--and when she does she'll talk and coo to you, it's so cute!  She absolutely loves the jolly jumper and the exersaucer!  It's a whole new world!  And yesterday she started rolling onto her tummy--she did it once yesterday and tons of times today!  It'll be great when she learns to reverse it so that I don't have to go rescue her when she gets sick of her stomach!  But I guess this means no more leaving her places she could roll off of!  We love her so much and can't believe how much she's changed since she was born--amazing!

Anyways, enjoy some pics from the last few days!

 We ordered some cute hats and booties from someone we went to RUC with--I'll have to post pictures of the other hat and booties, but they're so cute!

 Rolling over today!

 Sitting with daddy and "eating" her new Sophie Giraffe, which she loves!

 Faces.....