Roll-over

As I write this blog, Anna lays on the floor behind me talking up a storm to her toys and one of Emma's little dolls. She despises playing on her belly and only when she gets really fed up (that no one will turn her over) she rolls over. Now, she has been able to roll over since she was 4 months old, she is now 6 months old, so we just chalk it up to being lazy. Sometimes when we put her down she rolls over immediately, go figure? It reminds me of a story from our close friends the Holderby's. They adopted a dog from a greyhound rescue a few months back. Greyhounds are bred to race and that's about it, when they get too old they retire them. So, they get this dog and things were going well until bedtime. They started up the stairs and called him but he just stared at the stairs and whined like he had no idea what on earth stairs were? So under the rescues advice they were to teach him what stairs were and how to walk up and down them. He also had tremendous anxiety when they left him, so they gradually started leaving him for short periods of time (like 5 minutes at a time). On the second day of doing this they decided to video tape him to see what he actually did while they were gone (besides chew up their window sills, stairs, floor boards, etc. in a matter of minutes). When they came home they were astonished to see the dog leaping up the stairs and gallopping down the stairs like he was a pro? Needless to say they don't have the dog anymore. I use that as an illustration because #1 it's hillarious and I think it proves a point, when they want to do something they'll do it, just like kids!

We did get Anna's ears pierced a few weeks ago! She looks so cute, she has much more hair than Emma did, which was my excuse for getting Emma's done so early. Emma was always getting confused for a boy, even though I didn't dress her in boy colors or clothes that resembled boys clothing! Anna does look really cute and definately more like a girl now! She still has all that fuzz everywhere, but it's long enough for me now to put hairbows in! It's darker than Emma's too. Maybe she'll be our dark headed one, her eyes are still in the process of turning, but will be brown. Where's my blue-eyed baby? I don't know, we'll have to see!

Emma news. . .she has a double ear-infection? She's taking antibiotics as I speak. We had no clue that she was sick. She had been complaining of a headache for a few days. But the girl is just like her mommy and very clumsy:( She had a good number of blows to the head while she was complaing of these headaches (fell off a chair head first, fell against a brick wall at church, bumped heads with a few sunday school mates, etc.). She woke up from her nap on Monday afternoon and had a fever of 103.4, called the pediatrician and voila pretty bad ear infection in both ears! Who knew? She's feeling better now though, this is her first ear infection since she got her tonsils/adenoids out last January! Well, gotta run, I smell Anna. . .I'm pretty sure she has a stinky :(