Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Anna’s time in the Sun
I don’t know if it’s empirically true, but I think I tend to write more about Pierce in this Blog than Anna. Its not that she’s less interesting, its just that its harder to describe what she’s doing without sounding like a totally smitten Dad.
Anna’s really blossoming into an even more wonderful kid. On Sunday morning, very early, Pierce had a nightmare. On waking, he lay in his bed he moaned, “Mom,.. mom.. mom…”. Anna popped awake, went into his room and comforted him. “Don’t worry Pierce, you’ll be alright. I’ll go get Mom”. She then dashed into our room –“Mom, Pierce needs you. Follow me!”. She then proceeded to escort Nora to Pierce’s room.
Last Friday afternoon we went back to the portrait studio to have some pictures of the entire Hundelt side of the family taken. Nora’s folks, as well as her brother’s family joined us. We pretty much filled the entire portrait studio. Anna was NOT enthusiastic about the idea of taking more pictures (we had family pics taken last week). I think she mostly did not want to be in “picture clothes”. Despite her protests, once the camera was pointed at the group I think her smile was the biggest. Not only did she enthusiastically sit through our large group shot, she also did smaller sittings with the grandparents and with her brother and cousins.
The ultimate compliment came as we were checking out of the portrait studio. Nora picked up the previous week’s pictures and the attendant, on seeing the portraits of Anna, asked if we’d sign a release so that they could blow up one of the pictures to hang on the studio’s wall as a display. Of course we said yes (it was good for a $5.00 discount). It will be interesting to see if they actually use her picture.
-Eric (Dad)
Anna’s really blossoming into an even more wonderful kid. On Sunday morning, very early, Pierce had a nightmare. On waking, he lay in his bed he moaned, “Mom,.. mom.. mom…”. Anna popped awake, went into his room and comforted him. “Don’t worry Pierce, you’ll be alright. I’ll go get Mom”. She then dashed into our room –“Mom, Pierce needs you. Follow me!”. She then proceeded to escort Nora to Pierce’s room.
Last Friday afternoon we went back to the portrait studio to have some pictures of the entire Hundelt side of the family taken. Nora’s folks, as well as her brother’s family joined us. We pretty much filled the entire portrait studio. Anna was NOT enthusiastic about the idea of taking more pictures (we had family pics taken last week). I think she mostly did not want to be in “picture clothes”. Despite her protests, once the camera was pointed at the group I think her smile was the biggest. Not only did she enthusiastically sit through our large group shot, she also did smaller sittings with the grandparents and with her brother and cousins.
The ultimate compliment came as we were checking out of the portrait studio. Nora picked up the previous week’s pictures and the attendant, on seeing the portraits of Anna, asked if we’d sign a release so that they could blow up one of the pictures to hang on the studio’s wall as a display. Of course we said yes (it was good for a $5.00 discount). It will be interesting to see if they actually use her picture.
-Eric (Dad)
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