Hangin' Out

Announcement:

Anabelle is potty-trained!!!!!!!  Wahoo! I feel like I should throw a party.  We have been working on this off and on for the past year.  She would be very interested and want to go potty on the toilet for a few weeks, and then want nothing to do with it.  Then a month or two later, we would go through the same thing all over again.  It was coming to the point where I knew she could be trained, but she was still going in her diaper because she knew she could get away with it.  So one day, Mike and I decided to just put underwear on her and let her learn that way.  She did surprisingly well.  The first couple of days, she had a few accidents, at least one or two a day.  I can count only 2 pooping in her underwear incidents (thank goodness, that is nasty to clean up!).  It has been a few weeks now, and she only had one accident last week, and it was at the beginning of the week.  It's awesome!  She even does great in public.  She still wears pull-ups at night, but keeps them dry most nights.  I'm so happy that we've accomplished this before our new baby will be here :) That was my goal.  Good job Anabelle!  And if I may, good job Mommy! (And Daddy, too).

Now, on to the pictures.

Our little cutie, posing by the tree.

 Cheese!

 Ani likes to build "fires".  We gather sticks from our yard, break them into small pieces, and arrange them into fires.  She LOVES it.  At times, we have several small fires all over our front and back yards.  Sometimes, like in this picture, we even roast marshmallows over the fire.  Can you see the marshmallows on our sticks? :)

 I love her!

 She loves to wear Daddy's cover

 This photo is from when we went downtown a few weeks ago and walked all over, then let Ani cool down in the pineapple fountain at Waterfront Park.  She loved it, and we had a lot of fun.