Anja is a funny kid

We didn't make her funny, she just came this way. We didn't start her fascination with her bellybutton:


... or with laundry:


We didn't make her an MSU fan (well, maybe we did that one):


We don't make her climb up chairs and onto windowsills...


We don't make her catapult herself into furniture:


Although she probably got this kind of laughing from Jay:

More beach, more climbing

Anja has been really vocal lately. She "talks" all day long, all the time. Not really any words that we can understand, though. She does say, "Dah!" for Daddy, and "Daw!" for dog, and "Tah!" for taggie. Of course she makes those sounds at other times too...

We've been on a few more trips recently. We visited two more beach locations at Point Reyes. Here is the trail on the way to Abbott's Lagoon:


Grassy dune hills near Abbott's Lagoon.


It was a fairly short walk to the beach near Abbott's Lagoon, maybe 45 minutes, but it was surprisingly empty.


Anja likes the beach, but she tries really hard to eat sand. Hopefully she outgrows that soon. Even if you keep her sandy hands out of her mouth, she can still dive face first into the sand with her mouth open. Also Jay says don't try to change a diaper on the beach.


She's probably looking at shorebirds here. She doesn't pay too much attention to the water but she loves watching birds.


Walking on sand is hard but she did a pretty good job.


We also went to McClure's Beach, also at Point Reyes, to check out some tide pools. Lots of really great anemone colonies:


A very rare photo of the three of us:


Jay and Anja tidepooling on the rocks.


And she still loves to climb into the orange chair.

Shoes, climbing and energy

Here are the shoes we picked for Anja last week. Cute. Despite evidence to the contrary, most baby shoe manufacturers still think stiff heavy shoes are the best for baby feet. These are pretty good though.


Anja really likes to climb now. She can get into chairs and apparently on top of boxes.




Every so often Anja switches into a "high energy" mode and runs around crazily for about 5 minutes. It reminds me of late night kitty fly-by's (if you have a cat, you know what I mean). She runs in circles and barrels into toys, falling down. And then she's done.



This weekend we went to the Point Reyes lighthouse. I've been once, but Jay had never been. And the actual lighthouse was closed when I was there. It was REALLY windy when we were there. Luckily it was about 60 degrees.





We did see a huge elephant seal swimming below us, but we didn't see any whales this time. We also saw common murres, surf scoters, and both brown and white pelicans. That reminds me, we saw a red fox on the trails behind our place on Friday!