Anna at 16.5 Months

I haven't had the chance to update in awhile. Anna is running everywhere now, she has gotten really hard to keep up with. She loves to color, throw blocks all over the living room, play in her sand box and much more. She is kissing a lot too lately. She will come up to you and say umm-maa, but she usually ends up kissing your knee. She blows kisses a lot as well. Eskimo kisses is her new thing but you better watch out because she twists her head quit violently any time you say Eskimo kisses, it is so cute but brutal.

We just got back from visiting Grandma and Grandpa Fields. We had fun, Anna especially loved the dogs but what's new. She got to play in the mall play area with other kids which always excites our little social butterfly. On our way home from Virginia we got pulled over so another $200.00 ticket for us...not fun . It was in West Virginia, we can't drive through West Virginia with out getting one. Andy thought he was going the speed but it changed with out him knowing.

A month ago Anna had an incident. She was playing with her dad, running around the house and then ended up running into and end table. She cut her gums really bad, she was bleeding a lot and her gum swelled up over her tooth. We couldn't tell if she knocked her tooth loose as well. I called the triage nurse at her pediatricians office and they of course said to take her to the E.R. as they always do. I told Andy and he got on the phone and said are they going to call a dentist in to fix it or something and she said the E.R. doc will fix the tooth and Andy said they wouldn't. So we didn't take her to the E.R. and the next morning the swelling was down and we could tell the tooth was not loose. I hate seeing my girl in pain, it is the worst feeling in the world. I am just so glad it healed up well and we made the right decision to not take her into the E.R.

We are excited to be going to New Orleans in a few weeks. Andy has an Anesthesiology Conference and we are going to New Orleans for a few days and meeting Grandma and Grandpa Van Brocklin, then we are going back to Pensacola with them for the rest of the week. It will be fun to see New Orleans, Pensacola, and the Van Brocklin family.