I love this picture of Julia and Mattie! Julia and I went to Rogers weekend before last. Julia adores Mattie and the feeling is mutual. She also adores Daniel, when we are gone.....lol. We had a blast playing outside in their backyard and having a sushi picnic! Also went to the Fayetteville Farmer's market (pretty neat!), a neighborhood garage sale, and saw the new museum that is being built in Bentonville. Another milestone on this trip was that Julia slept with Mattie in her room on her trundle. They laid in bed whispering when we put them down. I couldn't help but listen. I am pretty sure the conversation had something to do with cinnamon cereal being for breakfast!

The backyard activity of choice was to dig up worms and "feed" them sand. Here's Julia feeding them in the sandbox. I am so glad that Mattie led this activity because I am not much on anything slimy and poor Julia would just have to miss out on the awesome opportunity to hold a hand full of worms if I am in charge.

A friendly game of tetherball. Julia laughed for twenty minutes while playing this game. She thought is was hilarious that the ball would swing around and hit her in the head EVERY time she pushed it.

The first two days of Memorial Day weekend 2010 were spent potty training Julia. We started out Saturday morning saying goodbye to the diapers and setting the oven timer every 30 minutes to remind us to go sit on the potty. She insisted on wearing this black ballerina skirt (I have no idea why) over her new panties all day. First day went okay, second day was better, and we haven't had any accidents since! Wow, I anticipated it to be much worse. We did make use of a bag of marshmallows and some fruit snacks for incentives. I guess I will have to pay a therapist to tell me why I am just a little sad about this milestone.

She is just growing up so fast!

Trust me, I know that I will be in big trouble for posting this one some day, but I just couldn't help it. Memorial Day, John and I took Julia to the Memphis zoo where they had lots of water activities for the kids. Julia was soaking wet and loved being in the water sprinklers. Here she is when we were leaving the zoo sitting on her potty in the parking lot.

We also helped to celebrate sweet little Stella's third birthday. She had a water party with bubbles, water guns, sprinklers, and a blow up pool. Lots of sunscreen and laughs!

Here's Julia enjoying her cake and ice cream. This normally mild mannered child pushes everyone out of the way when they start cutting the cake. She has no patience for waiting in line.

Here is my little pirate after the library's first day of their summer reading program called, Make a Splash, READ. They read stories about pirates and then got to make this pirate hat. Julia wore it home and here is my little pirate saying, "Argh!" with her hooked finger.

We are looking forward to lots of fun activities at the library this summer.

And here are Julia and sweet littl Joanie Terhune. These two were having a very serious conversation in front of the hay bale. We love having the Adkisson/Terhune family over to visit. Julia is still talking about Dempsey and Joanie.....days after they left!

I just couldn't pass this one up. Aren't those little ringlets delicious?????