Potty Training and Other Updates

I just realized why I haven't written a blog in forever. Every time I start to write a blog about something Anna has done, or something that's "new" with Anna, I find myself searching through my old posts for similar stories from when Adele was her age. Then, when I can't find the stories I want, I go rummaging through iPhoto in search of the pictures I'm thinking of...which always takes forever, because I have a lot of pictures in there! In the process of finding the one picture that I was originally looking for, I always end up with about ten more pictures that are of Adele doing something two years ago that Anna did this week...you know how it goes.

So...in lieu of a blog about Anna's potty training (Going great!), and stories from our trip to LaPorte last weekend (also great-plus, we had Cousin James tag along), here are a few "sets" of pictures that show just how big our Anna is getting...and just how HUGE Adele must be, since I still think of her as the size she is in these pictures!

So...here are the pictures I was looking for:







Because these are the ones I took last weekend:



No, there's no picture of Anna with Chuck E. Cheese, but then again, I haven't finished my blog from Florida, so you don't yet know that Anna is terrified of "characters" now, do you?

Oh, and the big one? Here she is riding the same ride, two and a half years later (the "younger" pictures were taken when she was about 18 months old):





But here's my dilemma, see, while I was starting to write this post (which originally went into more detail about the potty training), I thought of this blog post from a few years ago. And, the reason I thought of that post was because this is what my Anna did the other day:

(I can't show any more because she was completely naked....Like Adele, she prefers to run around naked whenever possible!)

In case you didn't click on the link to my previous post, here are the pictures I was reminded of as soon as Anna got herself into that pot...


Yes, that's exactly the same pot, and no, I had absolutely nothing to do with the girls standing in the pots. They did that all on their own. It doesn't matter that Adele has a play kitchen in her room, or that they both got new kitchen "playthings" for Christmas...they want the real deal!

And, of course, pictures of the "Big sister" mimicking her "baby sister" (as Adele loves to call Anna):



So, here it is, over an hour later, and I haven't really told you about our trip to LaPorte, or Anna's bladder of steel (she stayed dry on the way to and from LaPorte-with only two bathroom breaks each way), or her potty training successes (no accidents at all for Aunt Laura!)...but, I did get some new pictures up...kind of, at least.