dad is babysitting

I am off to Fresno to my cousin's baby shower with my mom. Kevin gets to watch Mary all by himself for a whole day and a half. I will get to enjoy my cousins and some time away from the diapers and daily routine. I will miss my big girl for sure though. She is so much fun to be with these days. Her vocabulary has growen to a new word a day. She will repeat anything. So we really have to watch what we say.

SO, I better get packing. I have to pack for myself and have things ready for Mary for Kevin as well. Then I have to soak up as much Mary as I can before I go too.

Potty Time

Well, Mary is 19 months old now. We are going to start the process of potty training. The book says you can start as early as 18 months, so, I'm late. haha She sees what I do in the bathroom so she knows basically what goes on. I got her own potty today. I took her in to sit on it and she had to take Pinto, her bear, and her milk. Ok, whatever. She thinks it's cool. She keeps running to the bathroom to sit on it. Then she had to put Pinto on it by himself and then play with all the parts on it. I had to tell her it is not a toy and will be dirty. Then she wanted to pick it up and take it outside with her. Another explination I had to do. Oh the joys of growing up! If you have any advice PLEASE pass it along.

Finally nice weather

We finally have some nice days to play outside. Mary would live outside if she could. She's always much happier out there. I looked outside and saw how nice it was and said let's go outside. So, she runs over to the sliding door and says "side", which is her word for outside. Then she goes to the coat closet and says "jacket". She knows the routine to going outside. Then she went and got her shoes and sat on the carpet in front of the door and started to try to put them on. So we proceeded outside to have some fun. She discovered dirt and a stick and got all dirty. That's OK with me. It keeps her happy and let's me do things.

The new thing we did today was put on our own shoes, on the correct feet. Now, I don't know if she knows which foot is which, but they were on the right ones. She was able to slip her feet into the slip on shoes. It was pretty darn cute to watch her do it. I tried to help her but there was no way she was going to let me help her. Independance is comming!

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la la la la, la la la la Elmo's World

Mary LOVES Elmo. She does not call him by name but says 'la la la la' instead to say who it is. So, whenever she watches Sesame Street and it comes to Elmo's World time she has to get the elmo in the piture and watch him on TV. It is super cute.
SO, today it was time for Elmo's World on TV. I was in the garage doing laundry and she comes running down the hall doing her la la la thing. I hear her and she stops at the stairs. (At the bottom of the stairs we have a gate to keep her from going up) So she starts banging on the gate to go up. I come from the garage to see what she is doing. I hear Elmo in the background and I realize the last time we went upstairs she took her stuffed Elmo to watch Elmo on tv. I open the gate and she crawls up to get Elmo. We then return downstairs to watch Elmo with Elmo. Gotta love her.

Camping Fun

Well we had a great weekend camping to celebrate my birthday. The weather held out for us and didn't start raining until midnight on the last night. So, we had to pack in the rain, but that's ok. Bad weather makes it easier to go home. Mary liked playing in the dirt and being able to run around outside.
I decided it's not so bad being 30. Because anything we do is with people older then me, so I'm always going to be the young pup in the group. Bring on age, it's ALL good!

Off to another year

Well, this morning I woke up to being in a new age bracket of 30. Well, I won't officially be 30 until 10:14am. I'm not unhappy about it. I have all I want in life. I have a wonderful husband and a super baby and a family that couldn't love me more. What more could I ask for?!
I woke up to need to wake up Kevin to get ready for work. Then to a happy baby who gave me a birthday kiss. = ) Now off to my day. Today we are going camping for the weekend in Capenteria. This has become a new birthday tradition. I like it. Weather the past two years we have gotten lucky. I'm not so sure what we'll get this year, but that 's ok, we'll all be together. It will be us, my parents, our friend Linda from Mexico, and our friends Waldie and Leslie. We don't get to use our motorhome much, so this gives us an excuse to use it.
So, my plans for this year...........................1- Keep living life to the fullest and have fun. 2- Enjoy my family, immediate and extended. 3- Be pregnant one last time, at some point. 4- Try to organize my house a little better.
I think that's all I can put on myself for the moment. If I do other things that is a bonus. So, off to another year. Back to packing and cleaning the house so I can have a clean(er) house to come home to. Pray for good weather for us.

Cozy Time

It's been cold here at night. Some may not think it's cold, but it is to me. So we build a fire and have our 'cozy' time. Now Mary asks for her blankie and sits in her chair with her milk and is cozy. She says cozy too. It's really cute.