the very next day, we all packed up the car and drove to grenada mississippi to visit my dad's parents, memaw and pawpaw. they have a little dog named queenie, and the first words out of mary claire's mouth when we arrived were "the puppy's so cute!" then she proceeded to repeat that for the next thirty minutes or so, it was hilarious! while there, mary claire got to meet my dad's brothers and their families for the first time. she had a wonderful time playing with her cousins. my grandmother is such a great cook, so naturally we ate entirely too much the whole weekend. (i especially love her cornbread, macaroni-and-cheese, and fudge, all homemade of course!) mary claire has still been talking about memaw and pawpaw. she has some toys they gave her while there and every time she plays with them she says "thank you memaw, thank you pawpaw".
on sunday, we got in the car and drove back to athens tennessee. on the way home we stopped in huntsville to have lunch with dan's parents, brother, and uncle. it was great to get to see so much family in one week, especially since we won't be able to travel again for a while now that i am further along in the pregnancy.
while we were in mississippi, it had snowed quite a bit in athens so mary claire got to see it for the first time! for about the last hour in the car she kept pointing out the snow to pop-pop and getting really excited about it. of course, as soon as we got to the house we played in it for a while. afterward, we went inside and had some hot cocoa with marshmallows. we got to spend three more days hanging out with mams, pop-pop, and their dog merlin, which was just great! the entire week mary claire and pop-pop kept "fighting" over her yellow crayon, so now that we are home every time she is coloring with her yellow, or playing with any yellow toy for that matter, she says "pop-pop's yellow".
while away, we didn't do so great with the potty training, which i take full responsibility for. all the traveling just really put a kink in things because mary claire is very much afraid of public potties at the moment. on top of that we were just so busy doing this and that that it was difficult to make sure we took breaks to go to the potty. now that we are back home however, mary claire is doing better then ever. she is now wearing training pants instead of pull-ups. i have been putting her in either dresses, or t-shirts with no pants to minimize the wardrobe changes due to accidents. she also has a little watch called a 'potty watch' that plays a song every 30, 60, or 90 minutes to remind her it is time to go potty. she really seems to have taken well to it and almost gets excited about going to the potty.
i guess that is about it for now, i'll be posting about valentine's day soon i'm sure. to close here are some of mary claire's favorite new phrases... "this is serious", "mommy, can you talk me a minute", and my favorite "hmm, i got an idea"'.
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