Another Girl!

The whole Fosson family was gathered around Christmas morning in anticipation. We were super excited to open the envelope which enclosed the gender of our second baby. Everyone guessed it would be a boy except Brigham, Elizabeth, Shayla, & I did not guess.

I tore the envelope open and read, "Merry Christmas, it's a girl!"

Everyone cheered! Then tried to help us think of girl names all week. How fun that Anna is going to have a little sister to play with. We are excited for a new little girl in our family.

Soccer?

So Kent has always talked about Anna playing soccer when she is older. I guess she is already in training. The other day she was walking around the apt kicking a ball and chasing it. Who knows maybe she will like soccer.

The Toilet- A New Favorite Toy

We have our house pretty child proofed so we feel comfortable letting Anna wonder around the house playing on her own. I do like to have her within view for the most part because she is pretty mischievous and does find new things to get into. She likes to stay near me too, which helps, but every now and then she wonders out of the room I am in.

So yesterday Anna was wondering around the house playing on her own and the next thing I hear the toilet flushing, and I think "oh no", and then I hear it flush again. By the time I get into the bathroom Anna is standing there with arms elbow deep, splashing around in swirling toilet water.

Great, just great!!!

Well to my chagrin in happened again today. That bathroom door is now staying shut and the toilet lid staying down.

Ultrasound pics

We had our ultrasound today. Here are two ultrasound pics we got today of baby #2!

No, we don't know the gender yet. We had the ultrasound tech write it down and put it in a sealed envelope which we will open for Christmas. Yea.

Here is a 3D image. I don't really like these images because it looks like an alien. But doesn't it look like baby is making a funny face at us?
They said baby was measuring 17 weeks 4 days today.

These are a few of my favorite things

These are a few of my favorite things. Going to GG's house and playing with my cousin Crew.

Getting into the cupboards and pulling all of there contents onto the floor.
Popping through little holes to say hi.

Turning pages of notebooks.

Walking walking walking all over the place.

Making funny faces in the mirror sitting on my dad's head.

Thanksgiving and Anna's 1st steps

When I walked in the door, home from work Thanksgiving Day, I found THIS in my front room; a little turkey! I am glad this one was not cooked up for Thanksgiving dinner. :)

Although my Thanksgiving was not the typical as I spent it working at the children's hospital, I definitely was able to think of the many blessings I have, maybe even more so being with really sick children. I am especially grateful for my family, for our health, for our many opportunities and freedoms, and for the gospel of Jesus Christ in my life. There really is nothing more I could ask for.

On a side note our little Anna girl surprised us last night with her first steps. It was sure fun to see and we caught it on video. That little munchkin just wants to go and go. Here she is...

Kent's 28th

Instead of a cake for Kent's birthday I decided to surprise him with a home made apple pie. The only problem was I had never made a pie before in my life, through I have watched my mother make pies growing up. So I decided I would attempt, though my baking skills are sketchy. I had my mother on the phone with me throughout the process.

My biggist problem was it did not seem as if I had enough dough for the crust. I tried to roll it out really super thin to stretch it but still it barely covered the pie, so no beautiful pie crust edging, oh well.

This is a pic of my first apple pie baked for my dear husband. Yea. It tasted awfully good too!

Then for his birthday we headed up to hike one of the four peaks but sadly there was a road block and no way for us to reach it our long planed for hike. We will have to do it another time.

Instead we just walked around the mountains for awhile and enjoyed the beauty of the day and the lovely tarantulas, the size of our hands, we saw creeping along the road.
Lastly it is our little tradition to go out to eat on our birthdays. So I had Ken't choose a place to eat. He chose Happy Food. I thought, what is Happy Food? Very strange, who would even name a restaurant "Happy Food." Then it made since when he explained he had been wanting to try out this little hole in the wall Chinese food place for awhile. Yep, the food was very happy that the place was very hole in the wall. We'd go again.

Standing

She learning how to stand.

California

We spent the last week in October in California, as Kent got to present his research at a research conference in Anaheim. We spent the week at my (Dayna) parents house. They especially loved having their grandchild at their house for the first time. They set up a high chair for her and everything.

My dad fed her one day and we were very impressed on what an expert he was. She made less of a mess then she ever has with us. My mom was so good a rocking her to sleep. It was so nice to have them around to give me a break of constant baby care. I got to even take a few much needed naps.

Anna did make a bit of a mess with her toys in the house but, oh well. The first day we were there we made a bunch of Halloween cookies for my mom’s pack meeting that night. She is the cut scout leader and it was fun watching her lead the crazy cheers as the boys received their awards.

One day I went with Kent to Anaheim and after his conference we headed down to the Newport Beach Temple to do a session there. It is such a beautiful temple and nice to get away just the two of us.

My parents and I got to work on family history for several hours on day also and get a lot of things organized.

 

 

 

 

Anna loved playing in the grass out side and going on walks with my dad. It was so nice to be back home.

 

On the way home we stopped in Blyth at a park to get Anna’s wiggles out and let her climb a tree.

Halloween

We were in California at my parents house for Halloween this year. Which was a lot of fun.

As Anna did not have a costume, my mom found her a pumpkin costume she could wear to the ward Trunk-or-Treat party. Anna sure made an awfully cute pumpkin.

The rest of us dressed up a bit too, expect for my dad, he said he did not believe in the great pumpkin anymore. My mom was really cute, painted her hair and her face all fun.

Kent and my mom brought Anna up on the stage when it was time to show off the little kids costumes. My mom especially loved sitting up there with her little pumpkin on her lap.

Sunday afternoon we decided to carve our pumpkin. I began drawing a scary face on the pumpkin when my dad came over and looked at it. He said, "Dayna, because it is Sunday, you shouldn’t make a scary Jack-O-lantern.” So I had to make it a happy face. Anna really liked helping me scoop the goop out of the pumpkin.

Moon Walk

Here is Anna's version of the moon walk. Enjoy...

Barks Canyon in The Superstitions

      

We went hiking last night in Barks Canyon of the Superstition Mountains. We were trying to find the gold mine of the lost Dutch man and ended up finding a huge black tarantula, the size of my hand, instead.

This was a hurrah, summer is over so lets get outside, hike. There really are a lot of cool rock formations in the Superstitions and lots of prickly plants.

Happenings

There was a huge storm that blew threw AZ the other day so we went out to splash in the puddles at the park and look at the overflowing ponds.

I got domestic and bottled peaches and pears with grandma and Trisha. Yep building the food storage.

Anna is getting into everything and pulling books off the shelf while I am going crazy chasing her down. Time for another child proofing the house party.

Anna turns the light off on us whenever we try to change her diaper; thanks Anna. I guess that’s what we get for putting her changing table under a light switch. Whenever she takes a bath she can’t seem to grab hold of the water; that dang water!

Oh no, She Thinks she is a Climbing Monkey!

Yep, we are in BIG trouble. We have a climbing monkey on our hands!!! I really don't know who taught her this but I don't like it one bit. She climbs up on the couch, on the chairs, the railings of her crib, up on the sliding mirror closet doors, into her car seat... and she is not very stable. She has fallen and hit her head about 10 times today alone.

And then when she gets up and standing she gets this little rascal grin, as if to say, "look at me I am up again."

So lucky me, I am chasing her around the apartment all day, good thing it is small, and catching her or making sure she is not going to bang her head on anything sharp or hard. I have given up keeping her off the side of the couch. By now I have decided that when she falls backwards and hits her head on the carpet, tough luck to her, she won't die.

So to add to her newly acquired climbing sport, today she learned to shuffle that little body alongside the couch to get to the other side and around the corner. Oh great. I really just want to take a nap.

Some more great coming homes to...

A while back I mentioned how right before I walk in the door from work, Kent often dresses up Anna or putts her in some great, funny poses, then he hides. So when I open the door after a long day at the hospital, I see Anna just sitting there in living room in some ridiculous or cute pose and I can't help but laugh. Anna usually looks up and smiles or laughs too as if to say, "look at me mom, do you like it?!" Here are a few that are a must see...

The grooving guitar playing cowgirl pose.

The laying out, trying not to burn my beautiful leg rolls, beach bum pose.
The get into my mama's dress, and laugh about it, little Daynita pose.
The "I am a perfect angel" pose.
The cook'n up something yummy in my apron pose.

6 Months

Our little baby is 6 months old!!! Growing up way too fast! So here are here stats...

Weight 16 lbs 3 oz - 50% percentile

Height 26 inches tall - 50% percentile

She is eating with a spoon

Wearing big girl shorts
And drinking out of her sippy cup. Yea! She also has 2 teeth, and her favorite thing to do is climb over her dad when he is lying on the floor.