October's on the way out...already

This is a picture of Anna taken March 26. A few weeks after she turned 2. I just found it and I've loved it and I can't remember if I posted it yet. I love it because she's such a big girl. It was the first time she pushed a little cart around the grocery store by herslef. She doesn't even usually go with me if I can help it. I just hate grocery shopping as it is and don't want to worry about a potential toddler meltdown. Anyway, look how little she looks, just back in March!

Here's the picture I took of Nicole and Bono at JSC a few weeks ago. The look on her face is priceless!!

Anna's helping Paul today with putting out Halloween decorations...

Ballunar Festivval. Anna's first time getting her face painted. I thought she'd hate it but she surprised me! And totally lost her cool when I had to wipe it off before bedtime.

KC (Kitty Cat), our latest edition.

I am currently uploading all the pictures we took this summer to Anna's Flickr site (see side bar and click to enter). There are so many, this will probably take all night. Also, I didn't feel like weeding through them all to get rid of the crappy ones, including the ones with less flattering shots of my big butt... ;) So if you dig through all those pictures, you've earned the right to see the less flattering shots.

Last night we met up with Ommom at JSC for the annual Ballunar Festival. Paul couldn't join us because he was working a high school football game, bummer! But the weather was GREAT and Anna had a blast. At one point she asked to go to the potty. Knowing these were the porta-potties I told her she should just go in her diaper... She said NO and so we went to the porta-potty. She took one look in there shook her head, said she was going to fall in, and said she'd just pee-pee in her diaper. HA! I am sure the darkness and lack of cleanliness also had something to do with it...

She's been much better about the potty. In fact she's back to asking to go several times a day so hopefully we're back on track.

Today she's been a ROTTEN terror. We even skipped out on the Little Gym because of a major tantrum she threw in the car. She's been fighting the car seat AGAIN. It comes in phases. I made her sit in Time Out for about 30 minutes after that tantrum, all during the time she'd have otherwise been in the Little Gym. She cried in the beginning and then removed her socks and shoes and half her shirt and waited. How she could be perfectly happy for 2 days each way for Colorado this summer but barely survive a 3 mile ride is beyond me. This is pure CRAP. She's 2 years, 7 months old and she's too old for this crap. It grades my nerves and she always ends up in Time Out as soon as we get home. UGH! Doesn't she know it's more fun to be out doing things???

BOOGER!!