Wild Animal Park

We took Annabelle to the animal park for the first time this past Saturday, we went with my parents, my sis Lauren, her hubby Brandon and their son Logan. We all caravaned down there and while still in town, we were in the back and my parents in the front and sis in the middle, we came to a stop sign and my parents turned, well Annabelle saw my mom's car and yelled "Maga Maga! (that's what she calls my mom) That's Maga's car! Faster Daddy! Go faster!" And for the rest of the drive she let us know every time she saw her Maga's car.

Annabelle driving the boats, well pretending too.

My mom stomping her foot at a goose about ready to attack Logan

Logan pretending to drive the boats

Annabelle with piggy ears

Annabelle's uncle Brandon and Daddy with piggy ears

Watching a little bunny

Wise little bunny hiding from two 2 year olds

The very stinky flamingos

Annabelle getting food from her Poppy to give to the ducks and fish

Logan talking about the fish and ducks

Annabelle feeding the ducks (I think this was Annabelle's and Logan's favorite part of the day)

Admiring the ducks

On the African Safari

Oh The Silly Things She Says

I was going to get rid of this blog since I started a family blog http://www.lifewiththehiggins.blogspot.com/ but I decided to keep it to record all the silly things Annabelle does and says (some stuff will probably make it to the other blog as well).





So Annabelle has been very in to playing doctor/hospital (hopital as she calls it) the last 4 or 5 months and we have all, even the baby, found ourselves under the care of Dr. Annabelle lately. Well earlier today she came up to me with the babies link rings on her arm and said "look mommy these are my bracelets cause I go to hopital cause I have baby in my tummy".

I think she was slightly traumatized by my 5 day stay in the hospital when Krisalynn was born. It's been almost 4 months and she still talks about it at least once a week.


Also the other day she put two pieces of light weight cardboard strips that her hair bands came on in each nose hole and went "aachoo! I sneeze mommy!" I have a picture of it, look for it on the other blog early next week.

My Girls

I was playing around with my camera the other day and took a bunch of pictures, this one is my favorite. Annabelle is such a good big sissy, she is very helpful and always wants to hold Krisalynn and give her kisses.Krisalynn is growing so fast, she is smiling all the time, though I have yet to get a picture of it, and is really close to laughing. She loves her big sissy very much, she is always watching her and smiling at her.



Annabelle too is growing up fast. Her vocabulary and understanding continue to amaze me daily. She is so creative and she keeps John and I on our toes.

I love this face, it's typical Annabelle, our lil firecracker.

Annabelle loves to hold her sissy. Recently she has been trying to pick her up so now we have to watch her carefully and try to convince her it's not a good idea.

Annabelle loves to play make up and uses anything to do so. The top one is her washable dry erase markers and the bottom one is chocolate.

The chocolate unibrow

Annabelle's Party

Here are some pictures from Annabelle's birthday party. It was a Cinderella party so we got her an outfit for her birthday that she could ware to her party.


Opening presents. Thanks everyone for the wonderful gifts! Annabelle loves them!

My little Cinderella

Some of the decorations

Sneaking a taste of her cake

Blue tongue and fingers after eating cake

Annabelle and Gemma waiting for their cake.

Singing Happy Birthday

The Cinderella cake I made special for my little princess

Crazy Annabelle

We took Annabelle out to dinner for her birthday last night. We went to Red Robin where she got to meet Red Robin (or someone dressed up like him) and give him a high five, and where she got a free dinner and sundae. They also sang to her, she acted a little shy at first but really loved the attention.


With a recent trip to the doctor, Annabelle has been playing hospital, or as she calls it- hopital, a lot lately.

She listens to her heart and her tummy

and then wipes off her tummy.

I'm pretty sure she got that from coming to my doctor appointments when I was preggo and watching the doc listen to the baby's heartbeat. Very observant.

Annabelle has been very in to putting make up on lately and that is just what she did while drawing with the new art stuff her Grammy and Papa got her for her birthday.

Even though she did a beautiful job, thank goodness for washable markers!

The Last Month

So I'm really bad about updating the blog so there are a lot of random pictures in this post. I am also going to do another post right after this one. These pictures are from the last month. Annabelle helping Daddy do the dishes

Krisalynn absolutely hated her first couple baths. She likes them now, she kicks and splashes, but she still isn't to fond of getting out and dressed.

Annabelle loves her little sissy, in fact sometimes too much. She likes to lay next to her sometimes on her. She does sometimes get a bit to excited and the clenched jaw and squeezing come out, but she is very good and loving to her baby most of the time.

And yet another nose picking picture

My little sunshine, she is so happy most of the time and a very good and easy baby. Her little tongue is out a lot, just like her aunties was when she was a baby.

Krisalynn's boo boo face.

She's got it down just like her big sister

Cute little smile

Sitting like a big girl

One Sunday afternoon I was exhausted so I took the baby in my room to take a nap and when we woke up this is what I found. Too cute!

Ice Cream Face!

Annabelle loves her sweets

This is a picture of Krisalynn at 5 weeks inching forward. She actually moved herself forward!

I wonder if she is going to be an early crawler

The naked bandit!

Daddy let her run nakey for a few minutes after bath

This is another picture of Krisalynn moving forward

The face of a bare tushy moving on (or sticking to) a plastic chair.