Baby #1 - Anna Clare

On to children....

Anna Clare...



was born in feb. of 2002. We finally had the baby we had dreamed of! We had been trying to get pregnant for two years and so her arrival was such a joyous and amazing moment. She is now 6, in her first year of school and I am wondering where the time went!

I would like to give a picture of each of our kiddos(from my point of view), for those of you who don't know them, but I also don't want to go overboard even though i know i will!

So Anna Clare... I couldn't of asked for a better first child, except for her very sensitive gag reflex, she was so fun and easy. That really describes her so well. She is fun and the easiest of the three. She is the most loveable and the most friendly. The thing i love the most about ac is that she loves with all her might... she is a hugger and really does have a unique way to make almost anyone feel very special. She remembers moments and events in her life that make me see how much she cherishes and values relationships and sweet times! I pray that this is a quality that will last forever!

My second favorite thing about ac is that she is an adventurer, not afraid to try anything. She trusts and believes that she can do it and will really give it her all, especially if she knows there is an audience. It is really cool to look back on her last 5 years and realize what she has accomplished and tried. As you can tell we are very proud of her!

I could go on with my favorites but now here are some of hers:

Animals: Horses, dogs, all creatures large and small!!!!

Music: some of her most favorite tunes of all times are: I can sing of your love forever, get off of my back (from spirit), Hush a bye, The Ice Cream song by Sarah Mc., somewhere over the rainbow, ain't no mountain high enough, and Rocky top!

swimming: she mastered all four strokes this year and I have to let it be known that she was third overall in the 6 and under division this winter!

arts: the girl will sit and draw people pictures all day long. All pictures will contain some type of animal!!!

Movies: Spirit, Flicka, Black Beauty... see a theme??

People: Nana and Lulu and both Papas, She loves all her cousins but Maddie is #1, Aunt Jennie, Sydney Grace, Taryn, Noah, Lauren, Maggie and James, and Angie. She of coarse loves all of you, even if she hasn't met you, she will love you instantly! But these are the many that we make pics for on a weekly bases (now you may be asking where those pics are... well, sorry unless they are unusually unique i normally don't send them).

Food: really almost anything and in abundance!!! Pasta, Sprite, Chicken nuggets, fruit snacks, oranges and bagels.

toys: little petshop, fisher price farm and doll house (not for dolls of coarse but the animal families), horse barn and the probably over 100 hundred horse figurines to go with it, stuffed animals, and dress up.

Most often talked about experiences: camping, boston trip, beach trip with hurricane, riding horses at angies, going of high dive at lulus, disney world, her old preschool in chapel hill, seeing the animals in australia, and spending the night with maddie.

Okay, I could go on but i will stop and maybe wait for some of your responses... let her know what you love about her or what your favorite times with her have been...

Nell

1997 of November, we found Nell on the curviest of roads in the middle of the mountains. We immediately took to her. Her spirit was so sweet and she was so obedient. She was the perfect dog for first time animal owners, Matt and Marianne. Even though we gave many close friends the oppurtunity to have Nell for their own, no one claimed her and so she became ours. Although, through the years many friends and family members took Nellie to be their own and took care of her and loved her as much as we did. She turned grey thru the years but she never lost her puppy spirit of pounding after balls, digging for roots, cleaning out streams of all their sticks. She had our kids hearts as she would allow them to pull, tug, cuddle, dress up, ect. They would build cages and pretend she was a wild panther, they would feed her treat after treat just to get her to do a fancy trick like stand up, but the most fun was laying in the floor and allowing nell to jump over us, seeing how high she would go. She really was the ideal dog and we would like to think that she lived a great life! She got to go on many adventures and met many folks along the way that spoiled her rotten! She probably ruined any other animals chances of surviving in the fleenor household but I am sure we will try again. Many of you knew and cared for nell and may not know that she passed away this Thanksgiving. We found it so interesting that we found her 10 years ago over thanksgiving weekend in Tennessee and she left us Thanksgiving weekend while we were in Tennessee. It was hard on all of us who were there. As I go through pictures I will probably post more of her and even some movies because she is in so many. We are missing her now and hopeful that one day we may find another animal that can take her place but we are waiting for now... we are having issues keeping our goldfish for now. Anyway, if you knew Nell and would like to share your favorite memory of her I think it would be neat for all of us but especially for her best friends : Anna Clare, Boone and even Eliza (who was terrified of Nell for a long time ). Heres to the "best dog in world", not just a quote from us but from many....