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This is what I found driving around in my back yard the other day...

Do you see problems in my future?

11 Months Already!

I cannot believe this sweet pumpkin face is almost a year old. She is such a joy. 11 months have flown by, and she has really changed this month! We love you so much sweet Ana Blair!

At 11 months, here's the skinny:

• You have given up on your bottle, except for nighttime.
• You love milk, and especially water from a straw--ESPECIALLY if its water from Sonic, but who doesn't??
• You continue to be a very good sleeper and love your bed, but you are an early bird!
• You talk, talk, talk...some words: Mama, Daddy (pronounced Daddies), Nana, Bye Bye, Hi, Thanks and Drum Roll Please....Big Sister
• You clap and wave
• You can stand alone and have taken a step
• You have learned about the bow that you were born with in your hair and think its hilarious to take it out and put it in Mommy's hair.
• You love Chanel sunglasses, again--who doesn't??
• You love to laugh, lucky for us there is a 4 year old living in this house who loves to make people laugh!
• You are starting to love your blanket, or anything soft in your bed
• You absolutely love Mollie and love giving her bone to her. And whenever you are on the floor, Mollie runs across the house to find her bone and brings it to you so you can "give it to her"

Time has definitely flown with this sweet girl

First Day of School-Take 2!!

Thursday was Olivia's first day of preschool for the year. She had started telling me about two weeks ago out of the clear blue that she was ready for school to start back. What did this good Mama not tell her?? That she was certainly not the only one ready for school to start!!

Anyway, Thursday morning we headed off to school and she had a great day. She loved her new teacher, Ms. Nancy and she knew her other teacher Ms. Jenn from last year. Things have changed so much, there were no tears this year (okay, so the only tears were from me last year), and she just walked right in, grabbed her name off the board and washed her hands like an old pro! She's such a big girl!

Michael will kill me when he sees this picture...he kept telling me that I looked like a freak in pictures that morning. Hello?? Its called wet hair and no lipstick
Ana Blair was excited to see Sister off to school
I'm pretty sure she crawled straight to her room and starting rifling through her drawers!

And for those of you who remember my dress dilemma last year, aren't you excited to see the smocked school dress and bow made it for the first day this year??

Checking out herself, she was Pretty Pleased

And this is the super safe picture I took of her while we were driving down the road on the way home from school. Do you think she enjoyed her day??

Swimming Lessons, Part 2

Olivia has spent the last 8 days in her second session of swimming lessons with Ms. Mildred. After 8 days, the only thing I am thinking is, "Hallelujah!!" I am so glad that it is over! She did so good, but 8 days is a big commitment, for both of us! She wasn't super thrilled about me leaving her this time since last session was Mom and Me, but she warmed up after a while. She wanted me to take a picture of Ms. Mildred to send to Pabbie...(even though Pabbie was with us one day when we dropped her off!)

Nana came to Show and Tell on the last day!

Swimming on her back, all by herself!

Swimming across the deep end

Diving board, she would jump off and swim all the way to the other end of the pool

Slide

Olivia was glad when it was over and told Ms. Mildred she would see her next summer--not next week or tomorrow! She has decided that she wants to get her ears pierced as a reward for doing so well. I told her she had to talk to her Daddy about that one, so the jury is still out on that one. We're going back to the beach in September, so I told her we can't do it until we get back (Dr. Fogle said so--you'd be amazed as to how many situations that gets me out of!). Personally, I think her daddy is going to cave, but we'll see!

Ana Blair Goes to The Little Gym!

This may not seem like a very noteworthy occasion to most, but to me, it really was. It was so strange getting ready to go to the Little Gym with Ana Blair when last time I was there was with Olivia. We met the Dunavant's because of the Little Gym and I can only hope that Ana Blair makes some special friends there as well. It was hilarious to me to see the differences in the two (Olivia and Ana Blair). Ana Blair loved the equipment and would just cackle when she found something new to do. Olivia was a little more apprehensive. Ana Blair was completely oblivious to the fact that other kids were there and Olivia was completely enthralled by other children.

Too funny--to me, at least!

Big-Nastics

Olivia has always called her gymnastics class "Big-Nastics." Before she could say it correctly she called it that, and now that she can, she still calls it that. She has been in gymnastics with most of these girls since we started going to Premier and has some pretty cute friendships with some of them. But, this is the first time we've ever taken a group shot of everyone.

9 Month Pictures...A Little Late

Somehow between beach and moving, Ana Blair's 9 month picture session slipped to the bottom of my to do list...BUT! we finally made it there. There is again a sneak peak on the blog, and again, if anyone loves me, you will leave a comment because you know I can't get enough of those free portrait magnets!
www.memoriesportraits.com
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Scroll down until you see Sweet Pea and comment, comment, comment!
The rest of the pics will be available to see on Thursday and I'll post the link and password then.
ThankS!