Growing teeth

While Eliana is losing teeth at five years old, Anastasia is growing teeth at five months old. Eliana's first two teeth to grow where the middle bottom two, and the first two teeth to loose where the same ones. Now Anastasia's bottom teeth are coming up. Goodbye sweet gummy smile phase. Onto cheeky tooth phase.

Loosing teeth

Eliana lost her first tooth a couple of weeks ago. Then her second bottom tooth out came out this week. Five years old! Understandably, losing the first one was a little traumatic for our beautiful eldest. She accidentally swallowed it. I can now guess why the tooth fairy was invented. The promise of money can certainly ease the trauma of having your tooth come out! Eliana was very careful when her second tooth became loose. She carefully ate each bite of pasta until that tooth was in her hands :)

Photo shoot

Why is it a mother will take one hundred and three photos of her baby in one sitting, and not be able to delete any of them? Every expression is precious.

love her crazy tsunami hair!

Crazy hair

Anastasia wins the award for most amount of feeds in her first week of life (read, every hour!) and the most amount of hair. She even achieved pig tails at 4 months old. Boy do we love it!

Introducing Anastasia

Welcome to the blog my little darling. You have been a bundle of joy from the moment we met you. You are a mix of all of your siblings, happy, funny, rascally, passionate, wild, sweet.

We are so glad God gave us you, my baby.

Heading Progression

It's time to update the heading. It's taken me a while because we liken our internet pace to pulling teeth (though I'm thankful for internet in the bush of Africa :). I've also been hesitant to change it because I so love the last heading and was sad to see it go. But the beauty of a blog is that I can save and share memories. So, below you will see how the kid's blog has been titled over the years. Now to upload the new one with our little star, Anastasia!

By the way, here is a link to the site that taught me how to use Picassa collage to do a blog heading for free. It's a clear, detailed tutorial with pictures.