An Annalise Themed Post

In thinking about the last week or two, I started thinking about Annalise and all the interesting things she is doing. 

She's started a bug collection:

The zebra longwing butterfly was a lucky find.  We saw a bunch flitting around a bush and found a dead one on the sidewalk nearby.  You can hardly take a photograph of a live one - they just don't stay still very long!  To pin it, we had to hydrate it - we put it in a plastic box with a hot washcloth and let it steam for a while.  To position the wings, we gently pressed them down with pieces of skewer and taped it down.  Her bug collection is not going to last a long time (wrong kind of pins), but for now it's pretty cool!

She helped sew a pullover bib for Irene:

Honestly, this was my idea and she didn't think it would be fun, but after we had it finished she was pretty pleased with the result.  We are going to make more.

She has worked hard on her cursive:

Cursive is the only subject that she finds difficult and for a long time tried to resist learning it!  I knew she was starting to get it when she gave me the note above - because she used cursive by her own choice.

She draws a lot:

Where Natalie fills the paper with so many figures you can hardly tell one from the next, Annalise usually has one labeled drawing in the center of the paper.  She likes colored pencils.

And she lost both her front teeth:

The new teeth are coming it very quickly, so she won't be like this for long.