It's My Potty and I'll Snooze if I Want to...

Over the last few weeks, Ashley has begun showing me that she is starting to be ready for potty-training. (whether I am ready is a whole other question... yikes!) Anyway, today at Wal-Mart, we decided to go ahead and get a training seat for the toilet so that she is not gripping for dear life and I don't have to worry about her falling in. We picked out a seat with all the Sesame Street characters on it and she was instantly in love with it. She carried it throughout the rest of the shopping trip and wouldn't even let me put it away when we got to the car. This is how she wound up when we got home from the store...

You can imagine that she was not too happy when I told her that it was not a toy and that it had to stay in the bathroom...
Oh, and she does NOT want to put the t-t in the potty... this should be an interesting next few months...
Joy.

Say Cheese!

I think I have created a monster... Ashley LOVES getting her picture taken. She will pose and say cheese whenever she sees the camera out. So the other day when I was uploading some pictures of the kids at school, she wouldn't rest until we had our own little photo shoot. I am glad she insisted though b/c they turned out really cute.

Here are some of the many that I took-

We'll go ahead and call these her 21 month pictures!

The Fast Five

Marc and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary last weekend (the 26th)! It is hard to believe that 5 years have flown by so quickly. It's even harder to think that it has been 9 years since Marc and I met. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun. :)

Marc was so sweet and surprised me with a whole weekend together. Ashley spent the weekend with Nana and Gran and we spent time doing things that only parents with small children could really appreciate. It was wonderful! We went to dinner at one of our favorite places on Friday called Campagnia (sp?) in the west Village. It is a pizza place but it is seriously so much more than just pizza. It is the best pizza I have ever had! Yum! Then we stopped by Lochran's Pub on the way home. Saturday we slept in late (Yea!!!) and went for a long run. It was a beautiful day so it was really wonderful to be able to spend that time together. We haven't been able to run together like that in a long time. Then, Marc gave me tickets for the Jimmy Buffet concert at our own Pizza Hut Park. It was a blast!!!! I'll put some pictures at the bottom.

All in all it was just a perfect weekend! Marc said that his goal was to take me all over the world without leaving the comforts of home. So we went to Italy, Ireland and the Islands for our anniversary- couldn't have asked for more!
Here's to many, many more years to come!!!