Week 9 - Long Distance Nanner

This past (long) weekend, Aimee gave me a pass and let me go to a wedding in Louisiana sans-wife and baby.  I met some of the Tulane guys in New Orleans and then we all drove 3 hours to The Farm in Bordelonville, LA where Patrick and Kate were married.  It was a great weekend but I missed my Nanner.

hangin with pops while mom is out

Luckily for Aimee, (and in the long run - me) Greg, Lisa, and Aimee's mom came in to Chicago for the weekend to stay with her.  They brought Gracie and Rosie too.  (Aimee said she wanted to write this Nanner post with pictures of the girls but she's too late! - next week).

I caught up with Aimee and Anna from our hotel in Marksville, LA (the closest hotel to Bordelonville and still 40 mins away) and talked to my little girl on FaceTime over our iPhones.  Thank you Steve.

Did you get tickets??

Week 8 - Nannerchaun

The Nanner presented a challenge this week - how to enjoy St. Paddy's Day while caring for an infant. Solution! - take the infant to the bar with you.
Anna was really good - we went on a long walk in the morning on Saturday while Aimee was at work and then she slept in the carrier strapped to me while we were at (pretty loud) Village Tap.  Then on Sunday, we met up with a couple from our baby class who lives in the neighborhood and went for a 2 hour walk with our kids (we used to scoff at those people who walked their babies in groups down the sidewalk - now we are those people).  Anna slept or looked around contently from her pouch the whole time.  Our little leprechaun let us enjoy the 80 degree weather outside both days this weekend, she was great.

"To me it look like a leprechaun to me.
All you got to do is look up in the tree.
Who else see the leprechaun say yeah!"

Happy St. Patrick's Day, indeed

She's our little leprechaun-ewok.

For old-time's sake.  Here's the leprechaun news story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8&noredirect=1 

Week 7 - Field Trip

The Nanner of the Week photo here is significant because it introduces the 31 year old giraffe rattle that I had when I was a baby.  When she is old enough, I want to take the same photo of Anna that was taken of me (mom, help - how old was I?) on my blanket on the floor with that giraffe sitting there with me.

Did the giraffe have a name? (mom, help).

And I went overboard with the extra photos this week.  Anna and I took a field trip with Uncle Paul.  Aimee and her friend Rachel were out to dinner on Saturday night and Paul and I were sitting around the house babysitting (and talking economics).  One thing let to another and Paul and I ended up at the corner liquor store with me carrying Anna wrapped up in the Magic Blanket.  I had Paul take a photo of us in front of the scotch and whiskey shelf and the owner thought it was so cute, she asked me to post it to the store's Facebook page - which I did.

Look at her eyes - "Daddy, what are we doing here?"...or "Daddy, why are you wearing that silly hat?"

Then we got so upside down drinking scotch, I decided to add another photo.

Aimee and Rachel came back that night and everyone still had all of their fingers and toes.

Week 6 - Princess Anna's Room

Little Anna Banana wants to be like princesses Lillian and Sydney.  She's off to a good start.

Look at the pretty dress that Grandma bought for her!  Now all she needs is her castle and white horse.




Also this week - I was only a month and a half late - I finished Anna's room.  Free carpet from the Milliken rep at work, $5 made it myself light fixture, and vinyl decals from Etsy.  The light fixture, if you can see it, is a Chinese lantern with circular cutouts from book pages scalloped over top.  Hopefully Anna will be enlightened (indoctrinated?) by these glowing words floating above her head.  And we think she'll like the pink flowers too...

Week 5 - The Lost Week

I think we had a rough week for this one.  This was taken a week and a half after week 4 - a rush job - and Anna looks none too happy.  Looks like she was propped up there by her father in a shoddy attempt to document her life week by week.  

Love the duck pajamas though. 

And then maybe the greatest Nanner photo to date.  It got a lot of aww's and ohh's from the girls at the office and lots of comments on Facebook too.  

Week 4 - One Month Smile

She's so advanced.


This is one of her first smiles that we caught on camera.  But Aimee swears that Anna had been smiling for weeks before this.  We were lucky enough to catch this one while she was sitting on Grandma's Magic Blanket.

We found a big poop in her diaper after this so maybe it wasn't a smile afterall...

And this one will be on the cover of Vogue next month.

Week 2-3 - Pitchers and Catchers Report

This post has to cover weeks 2 & 3.  Although this is officially week 3 I think.  The first couple photos I took were with the Canon SLR so they were kind of a pain in the A to upload (lazy me).  So recently I've been taking them on my iPhone and uploading them.  Much easier.


I took this picture days before pitchers and catchers were scheduled to report to spring training.  Can't you tell Anna is excited?  She promptly threw up all over it - not that I blame her.  I made this onesie for her.  I found an orange onsie and sewed on the O's patch - this patch typically goes on the players' uniform sleeve. 

Look at those legs!

Week 1 - Fresh Nanner

I decided I wanted to take weekly pictures of Anna - weekly, all in the same position so I could flip through them and watch her grow.  So far I've been able to do that and in addition, I've been trying to collect one or two cute weekly photos I can share with the family and a few people at work who ask for them.  Thus evolved Nanner of the Week.

Anna Elizabeth -> Anna Banana -> Banana -> Nanner -> Nanner of the Week

The first, unofficial Nanner of the Week was her birth photo, along with this one sitting in the corner of the couch - she's just one week old.  I'll try to post both the weekly couch photo and the one or two cute "share shots" on a weekly basis.

She kind of looks like E.T. in this one.  Look at those dangly arms.  Aimee said, "I think this is a picture only a mother could love."