All Dressed Up

Annalee has really enjoyed dressing up lately. Here she is all dressed up in her daddy's shorts. She did this all by herself. One night we were cleaning up after dinner and she went into our bedroom and brought Chuck's shorts back out. Next thing we knew she was all dressed up like this! If you look closely she put the drawstring around her neck to keep them from falling off. She was twirling around and around like it was a dress! And she was giggling too- she knew she had done something funny!

Here Annalee is all dressed up for Hawaiian Day! At Davidson-where I work in the summer- we have our annual camp luau. It's on a Friday and we always go over there on Fridays. So, I got her all ready for it. This is here standing by the car all ready for the luau! She loved dressing up- I know the look on her face doesn't show it-but she really did like it! She's holding her princesses-Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. There aren't many places that the princesses don't go with us lately. Well, here is my little girl all dressed up! I wonder what she'll do next!

"I Did It!"

"I did it!" That's what Annalee said on Monday after she pee peed in the potty for the first time! Here is her first picture after she did it! How cute is she? She was and still is so proud of herself! I'm so proud of her too! She really has shown no interest in the potty at all. But on Sunday night she wanted to sit on the big toilet. Well, silly me totally forgot that the potty chair we got came with an attachment to fit on the toilet seat! : ) So, there I was Sunday night holding her up on the potty. Later on that night (the light bulb went off ) and I remembered that we had this attachment and I put it on. Well, on Monday Annalee was very interested in what it was. So, before her nap she wanted to sit on it. I let her and the next thing I knew she was doing it!!! I cheered and cheered for her! Since then, she hasn't done again- but that's okay! She has sat there a few times, but nothing happened. Her favorite thing to do, though, is to wipe! I don't know why, but she loves to tear the paper off and wipe. (which she is doing in the picture!) I am just so proud of her. She is growing up so fast. I cried a little on Monday just thinking about it all. She'll be 18 months old on July 4- what a big girl!

New York City

Last weekend Chuck and I went to New York City! We went with a group from church to go see the Yankees play in Yankee Stadium. For those of you that don't know, the Yankees are building a new stadium and this is their last year to play in the old stadium. Chuck really wanted to go and I (of course) was a little hesitant because we would be leaving Annalee for 3 nights. But we did it anyways. Annalee was fine. And we had a great time! (Thanks to all who watched her over the weekend. We really appreciated it!)

Friday morning we got to take a tour of Yankee Stadium. We got to go in the press box, dugout and got to go to Monument Park. This was Chuck's favorite part of the whole trip. That afternoon we took a bus tour of the city. It was a beautiful day (at times a little chilly) but it was a great day for this.

We stopped at Ground Zero. Talk about moving. This place was incredible. To actually be standing where all of that happened was- well, there are no words to describe it, but it really makes you think. That night we went to see the Yankees play the Royals. Fun!!!

Well, I want to put up so many more pictures, but I have little one wanting to go to bed. So, to end quickly- Saturday was filled with lots of walking (and it was much hotter than Friday!). We got out at all the places we wanted to see and all the shops we wanted to go into. We also walked through Central Park. We were so tired after the long day! All in all, New York is very different from here in Tennessee. Everyone seems to be in a hurry and everything is really BIG! It was so fun to go visit there though. I'm glad we went. So, to end here is an ode to some people we met on the streets of New York!

Time to Swim

Due to some minor problems we are all still awaiting the opening of Mama and Pop's pool- especially Annalee.So to fill the time and to cool her off from the hot weather until it's ready, they got her a Kiddie Pool to play in at their house. She loves it! (As you can see!)

She didn't know what to think of it at first, but as soon as I got in with her, she went to town! Sorry, there are no pics of me in the Kiddie Pool. : ) But it was fun! At one time we were both on our bellies kicking our feet as fast as we could. We were laughing so hard! It was a fun afternoon. The big pool is supposed to be ready by the weekend. I have a feeling she's going to have no problem jumping right in!

Ist Trip to the ZOO

Annalee had her 1st trip to the Nashville Zoo a couple of weekends ago. She had so much fun! Days before our trip you would ask her where she was going on Saturday and she would say, "ZOO!" She was so excited about this place and really had no idea what was there! It was really cute! Here she is looking at the giraffes and elephants with Chuck. But her favorite animals were the meerkats. She was so excited to see them. I think because they came right up to the glass and she was face to face with them. Plus they are so little and fast! Of course we didn't get any pictures of that because Chuck and I were having so much fun watching her!As you can see, she wasn't really into the petting part of it all. She had more fun running around in the open area with the goats than she did petting them. We had a great day with her and can't wait to go back! Oh- and here is the sweetest picture of all on the ride home! She was pooped! (So were we!)