A few new pictures

I know I've been horrible about updating this year ... here are a few pictures from a recent trip to the children's museum by our place. Jess, Anna's wearing the skirt you gave her for Christmas and a pair of the tights too ... she picked out all the parts of her outfit, so forgive me that they don't match 100%. Jimmy and I can't decide who she resembles more, the Leitsch or the Herdeman side ...

A quick post for Jimmy's annoying sister

This is for my sister who keeps annoying me for pictures:

Snowball Fight!

A classic with some new faces. We needed two more people for this one, so I asked Anna, "Who else should we put in the video?" She said, "Aunt Melissa and Uncle Jed." Looks like the rest of you should come up with some big gifts this Christmas.

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A Leitsch Family Christmas

Check out how the Leitsch's put up a Christmas tree:

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"That's Enough, Daddy!"

Anna was in rare form tonight. She's usually pretty animated, but tonight she was particularly silly at dinner. Jimmy was being funny cooling his food down, and out of the blue, Anna said, "That's enough, Daddy!" She got a kick out of herself, as you'll see from the video. She then proceeded to crack up as she watched the video about twenty times after that. We sure enjoy our budding comedian!

Fall

We enjoyed a beautiful fall day last Saturday, spending most of the early afternoon with Eric, Melody, and their kids at Young's Jersey dairy in Yellow Springs. Anna and Cate got to feed goats, see cows, pick their own pumpkins, and eat the biggest ice cream cones I've ever seen. It was a great day!

The next three pictures are from this afternoon --- I got to leave work uncharacteristically early and was able to spend an hour exploring a new park by our place. The playground was packed, so Anna and I had fun "climbing trees" and playing in the crunchy leaves. I love this first picture ... it totally captures how Rapunzel is a constant companion. (P.S. I know she's wearing the same outfit ... trust me, I washed it Sunday!)

"Climbing" trees:

This one loaded out of order --- but here is Anna with our pumpkins!

Finally, here's a cute video from our time at the park this afternoon. It's one of the many rather random conversations Anna and I had today. One woman at the park asked me, "Does she always have this much to say?" "Yes," I answered. "Always."

Princess Chef

Thought it would make a few people's Fridays happier to see some new Anna pictures. Two of her recent loves are princess dress-ups and helping me cook - these pictures pretty much tell the story.

It is not uncommon to have a princess join me for breakfast of toast and bananas (and the princess typically insists on using my knife to spread her own toppings).

I love my cookie-baking helper - here she was very excited about holding an egg:

Enjoying the fruits (or cookies) of her labor at our "movie party":

Ummm ...

Again, ummm ...

Random but worth adding - Anna got to meet Spiderman at the Buddy Walk we did to benefit the Down Syndrome Association.

This is a pretty typical evening - Anna helping me make dinner. Notice the naked Ariel doll next to the bowl:

I love this kid - on our way to school with blanket, "the girls," and her cd lyric book (oh! and her Reds shirt from Uncle Evan) ... that's the way Anna rolls!

More princess ... gotta love the shoes!

Helping me make some scrambled eggs - her favorite. It really is fun to have a little helper in the kitchen - Anna is so eager to learn, and the kitchen is a great place to teach!

Have a great weekend!