Anna Grace 11 months

I am a little behind. We have been spending all our sunny days at the pool. Anna Grace weighs 22 pounds and eats everything in sight! I started her on whole milk last week. She wouldn't eat her formula anymore. (I wasn't going to buy it if she wasn't going to eat it) She also wont eat baby food. She loves watermelon and cucumbers!
We are working on walking. She has stood up by herself a couple of times.

Playhouses!

You can have this one for $25,000!

This one is a reasonable $10,000

This one didn't have a price.

I promised Mary Reilly a playhouse when she was fully potty trained...She is now. No diapers unless we are sleeping. I was looking around to see what was out there. Apparently you can buy a playhouse for the same amount as a real house! I think it's going to be a little tikes plastic one. With all the moving around we do a wood playhouse wont last.

2 little girls sitting on a step

The shirt/dress I was talking about on Mary Reilly. (Sorry for the undie flash) Right after the second picture Anna Grace fell off the stairs and has a big boo boo on her head :( I just can't do 2 things at once!

Scooter girl

Lilly Warehouse sale

After waking up at 2:30am, driving for 2 hours, standing in line for 2 hours, I finally go in! It was well worth it. I will do it again in a heart beat. I met 2 women (going before they have to work) and a guy from Oklahoma. He was here on business and his wife send him with a list of things to buy. I do have to say Lilly has friendly fans. I even met the designers. I was going to take a picture of him but my camera phone has a flash and I didn't want him to know I was taking a picture of him. He was a tall man who was wearing a pink blazer with lime green pants and a pink and green tie.
When I got to the convention center there were lines. All of them were divided up into 100's. These people had numbers. People got the number the night before. I couldn't do that so I was in the non number line. There was 600 people in front of my line. Behind us there were about 300 people. That's just that morning. The sale is 3 days long.
I got a dress, a polo shirt, a scarf, a dog color ($10) matching bathing suits for the girls, and a dress/shirt for Mary Reilly ($10). The dress is a size 5. It's a tunic. I was going to buy more but the dressing room line was very very long. Most people here undressing in the corner. I saw ALOT of undies! I did not do this. The most brave thing I did was go in the corner and try stuff on over my clothes.
There is another sale this November and I will at that one too!

Dutch Wonderland

Dutch Wonderland is located in Lancaster PA. It is an amusement park geared for little children. I went with my neighbor down the street and her little girl. Mary Reilly has never been on a ride or gone to an amusement park. She didn't go on the first ride. She said she was scared. I went with her on the second ride and made her go and she liked it. We will be going back.

Baltimore Aquarium

Invasion of the Jelly fish!

Mary Reilly and Addison watching the dolphins

Alligator!

This was a pool of stingrays and sea turtles. The kids were more interested in this than anything else.
We met our good friends Amanda, Addison and little Aubrey (2 months old) at the Baltimore Aquarium yesterday. Amanda is married to Toby who was in the same class at OBC (6 years ago) They were at Fort Hood until they moved to Alaska. They moved back stateside a couple of months ago.
I say the kids did great. Mary Reilly only ran away once. The only problem with the Aquarium is they don't allow STROLLERS! I had to carry Anna Grace who weighs 22 pounds and all my stuff. We had a good time.

Mary Reilly is now diaper free. I only put a diaper on her at night. Getting her to use the public potty is a challenge but she is doing better. We had one accident yesterday at the Aquarium. Even if she would have told me there wasn't a potty around. If she does really well she gets "pink toes" her toenails painted :) (a very very light almost clear pink)

Mary Reilly big girl bed

Broken Crib

Mary Reilly saying "cheese"

Let me first say that I am sorry I haven't blogged in quite some time. I took a little blog vacay. Last week around 1am Ladson and I heard a big boom then followed by crying. I ran into Mary Reilly's room. She had broken her crib (If you recall, the movers broke her crib but MR was still able to sleep in it.) She broke it all the way this time.
Now we are in a "big girl" bed. She loves it. I haven't had any issues of her getting up during the night. Just in case I put a baby gate outside her door. (I do that because I don't want her to wake up and fall down the stairs)
More to come....Off to the Baltimore Aquarium today :)