My dearest Annelisa,
Your 15th month was a month of celebrating the beginning of summer! You have conquered your fear of the grass and have crawled all over the yard! You've enjoyed swimming in your inflatable pool with an elephant slide! You've begun cruising at new lightening speeds!
Annelisa, you have discovered the pantry and the joy of picking out what you want to eat. At the end of May, you and Asher got into the pantry and had some fun dumping all the cheerios onto the floor...it was quite a mess, but you enjoyed yourself and Farley didn't mind helping clean up!
We celebrated Memorial Day at home with you in your precious patriotic smocked outfit from Grammy! You love looking out the windows at the backyard. Sometimes you get quite the show...like when Daddy mows the grass or when Farley is being silly!
On Memorial Day, you enjoyed your first McDonald's Happy Meal. Here you are with the perfect sized fries! You enjoyed your McNuggets, fries, and fruit! Thankfully, this is a once in while treat!
My favorite thing you've discovered this month is BOOKS! You have started to bring them to us when you want to read! You have definite favorites! When Grammy came to visit the first weekend of June, you got her to read to you too! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE reading you the same stories over and over! I LOVE watching you light up with recognition of the story and pictures! I LOVE that you LOVE reading! :)
Annelisa, I've started to bribe you with Dum Dum lollipops...so I can trim your nails! You hate it when I trim them, so I figured if you were enjoying a sweet lollipop it would be better for both of us! I think I was right! You loved the lollipop and I love your trimmed nails! Win, win!
Here you are in your first pair of Stride Rites! Unfortunately, they are still a little big for your sweet, tiny feet! You have a sincere fascination for shoes...all shoes...especially Daddy's shoes. It was fun to let you wear them for a bit and try them out!
On one of our weekly Target shopping trips, I bought you this big red ball! You LOVE it! Each time we go to Target now, you point at their giant red parking lot spheres and try to say "ball"! It's so fun to watch you discover new things!
Annelisa, you have loved your inflatable pool! These pictures are from the first day you played in it with Asher. You loved climbing up the slide, sliding down the slide, getting wet, splashing, and being outside in the warm sun! You have enjoyed your pool empty too! You've crawled into and out of it many times this month and even enjoyed the slide while dry!!
We went to see the giant sunflowers one Friday night, Daddy and I took turns taking pictures with you! God is so creative to make beautiful sunflowers as big as your daddy's hand! I wrote another blog entry about our time that night with more pictures!
This month we celebrated your Daddy's second Father's Day! You were so sweet with him after swimming that afternoon!
We also attended one of our church's third Thursdays play dates at the Fountains at Fairview! It was really fun Thursday because you got to meet Wyatt and play in the water! We have prayed for Wyatt since he was born and it was so fun to see you two together! He is such a sweet miracle and testament of the work God is doing all around us ALL the time. Just like God has been working in our family, in each of us, He also has been doing BIG things in the Davis family with our friend Wyatt! It was fun for you to get to see Wyatt's mommy again, too! We'll be going back for more splashing and fun soon!
We ended your 15th month with a 5K race! You didn't get to come with us, but you were along for almost all of mommy's training runs with Ms. Aly! You rode in the jogging stroller three times a week while she and I got ready for the Run or Dye! Here are pictures of Ms. Aly, Daddy, and Mommy before and after! I am really proud of us for doing the training! I think you had the easier part of each day's run! :) I'm so happy to have taken you along, you helped make me stronger!
Well, little lady, that pretty much sums up the activity of your 15th month! You keep learning, growing, and changing! It seems like you are doing something new every day! From saying new words or doing new things! We love you more and more! I am so blessed that God gave me you!
I love you, precious!
Mama
