Wonderful Experience

So I woke up in a bad mood and had a bad morning and didn't want to do anything... especially going to the care center for the elderly in our stake and teaching a lesson I really hadn't prepared as much as I should have. I wanted to stay home and cuddle Anne and pity myself. I didn't and that is good. I decided to teach a lesson on Elder Bednar's talk about Tender Mercy go here to read it... worth the time I promise. I used my own stories and experiences but the bones of his talk got me through. So I wasn't happy and I didn't want to go... got up earlier than normal and showered and dressed up did my hair..... I got there and as I was walking in there was a beautiful peacock by the front door! Seriously. That made me smile. Going in it looks almost like you are entering a Chinese restaurant because there are huge bulbous fish tanks built into the wall. That made me smile too. Then the ladies assigned from the stake to be in the relief society presidency stopped and talked to me. Some of them had connections to Missouri and they were so nice. That also made me smile. Someone I knew and could talk to showed up so I didn't feel so alone. That made me smile. Pretty soon I wasn't so upset and I was noticing all the happy little things going on around me. All the ladies had their nails painted nice. One lady called everyone dear and was so nice... she was singing the words from "Put your shoulder to the wheel" to the wrong song but all in tune. The Relief Society president greeted every lady and made sure to make contact say their name and make them smile. She was really an inspiration. I shared my lesson and it went really well and reminded me of all the blessings I have had this last year and how much my Father in Heaven loves me. I also learned that serving others helps me to forget myself and feel my Savior's love. So that is my feel good story.... also Anne has rolled over twice on her own!!!

Anne begins her real food journey!

So today is Sunday and Sunday is a special day. We wash our face and eat our food so we don't have to do it until Monday! Okay that isn't how the song goes... but Andrew was home and Anne was awake so we decided to experiment with rice cereal! The box tells you to make it super runny so I'm not surprised she liked it. It tasted just like milk. We add formula to her milk to help her gain weight and that formula has rice starch in it to help her not throw it up... so really this was nothing new except it came on a spoon and she sat in a chair. It was fun anyway. We love this girl. However her newly developed fear of all strangers and even some family is kinda obnoxious... we shall have to nip that in the bud or we will run out of babysitters who think she is cute enough to watch for very long... Sorry Jared and Tiffany. Anyway we got the cereal mania on film so enjoy.

Also some pictures

General life updates are as follows:

Andrew finishes this semester officially on Wednesday! He will work on campus until the summer painting job starts. I'm working on sewing a brown wrap around shirt with Sandra.  Andrew and I took a Family and Friends CPR class together and it was kinda fun. We got to play with fake babies and give each other the Heimlich. Anne's Neurologist (one of two) feels Anne is doing wonderfully and doesn't think her Dandy Walker will slow her down in any way. In his words she isn't a true Dandy Walker. Great news! I will probably forever be paranoid and worry about her huge head. She hates hates hates rolling over and will get off her stomach as soon as possible. Sitting is sometimes interesting but she has a hard time realizing her head isn't supposed to be where she puts all her weight to balance her... that is what bums are for. She loves to stand and will stand all the daylong if you let her.

New Sounds!

So Anne started making this new sound the other day and it is driving me CRAZY!  It is this strange gagging screaming death sound that makes her cough and gag sometimes but she just keeps doing it!  Just take a listen for yourself... my child is strange.  Enjoy.