Manners

Manners are so important to Collin and me. Once Annabelle started talking, we always encouraged her to say please and thank you. And now she's a bit older, we encourage her to say yes ma'am/sir and no ma'am/sir.

Last night we had a fun evening with Kelly, Laurice, and Weston. We had dinner at the mall, played for a bit, and did a little shopping.
Annabelle had a Chick Fil A kids meal and if you return the toy you can get an ice cream. I asked Annabelle if she would like to have some ice cream and she shook her head yes. I gave her the book and we walked back to Chick Fil A.
Annabelle headed the girl the book, and the girl asked "Do you want some ice cream?" and Annabelle replied with "Yes Ma'am!"...It was a proud momma moment! All these times she WAS listening to me! I told her that was very polite and I was so proud of her for using manners!
The girl brought back her ice cream and handed it to Annabelle and said "Here you go sweetie!" and Annabelle replied "Thank you!"...double proud momma moment!

Back at the table, Annabelle "shared" her ice cream with her cousin. And by sharing, I mean she would scoop a little bit out of the bowl, feed it to him, and lick the remaining ice cream off the spoon...then feed herself 2 bigger bites.

We working on sharing...

Hike with Hope

I don't blog about our weeks, because we really don't do anything during the week. We come home, cook dinner, eat dinner, clean up dinner, bath time and bed time for Anna, then Collin and I collapse on the couch...maybe we do some laundry if we're feeling productive. Not very interesting.

But last night, we headed to Chick Fil A in Carrollton to eat for Hike With Hope. Our friend Chris, Annabelle's favorite person in the world, is part of this movement. They made a portion of what Chick Fil A sold last night, and we couldn't pass up supporting them! We had the best time! Most of our old smallgroup was there, and Anna's friends, Tayler and Livi, and Cousin (Weston...they're going to call each other Cousin). Annabelle was pumped! She ran around that place like a crazy woman! And every chance she got she would run to Chris and Carson :)

She passed out within seconds of leaving Chick Fil A, and was so tired when we got home, she didn't even wake up to put her jammies on :)