Baby's growing up...

It's been awhile so now is a good time to do a new update. Our little family just got back from a road trip to Alberta. We left on the 11th heading out to Medicine Hat to visit with Arianna's Great Grandparents. We had a great time, and I may have possibly put on a "few" pounds. Being with Grandparents you will NEVER starve. We woke up to Breakfast & Coffee and then DESSERT. Snacks, Lunch (with DESSERT) snacks, and then Dinner (WITH DESSERT) Now I'm not complaining because everything was amazing, but it was a lot of food. We kept busy the whole trip, there was always something going on. We made another trip to Empress & Oyen, a 2 hour drive on flat prairie roads - what a view. :):) While in Oyen we were able to see Arianna's Great,Great,Great Aunt and Uncle, 92 year old Dyck, and 86 year old Vi. They loved Arianna and watching everything she did. We then headed to Ari's other Great, Great, Great Aunt - Marie in Empress. We had a great time there, had baked cookies and tea. Arianna, Michael, Gloria and myself ventured out while the Grandparents stayed and chatted. We made our way to a cute little store called Empressive. It was cute full of odd little things. We took a few photo's as Empress is a tiny and neat town. It reminds me of some place you'd see on little house on the prairie. It's a town of maybe 100 people, and old neat buildings, not some place you'd picture growing up. But it was adorable...
We went for walks, to the mall, to Michael's Aunt and Uncle's house for Thanksgiving dinner; Cousin's place to watch Survivor.
on the next Friday we headed out to Calgary to visit my brother and family. We had a great time there, Gloria and Michael enjoyed listening to my Uncle Mikey place at his place for the Jam, and myself and Arianna drove out to Turner Valley to visit with my Auntie Mary.
All in all we had a great trip, and I was SO proud of Arianna. Her sleep schedule changed night by night, and I think she maybe have cried 5 times the whole trip. And not even cries, just wimpers in the car to get out.
It was a loooooong drive, especially for me - the nervous passenger. Luckily for us we were sparerd from any snow, only a light dusting on the side of the road through the Rockies. I was pretty happy about that. And considering the day after we got home the Coquihalla and Rockies were COVERED in snow. Phew.
Anyways, that's pretty much it, Arianna is cutting her bottom 2nd year molar so there has been a LOT of drooling, rosy cheeks. ALSO, a few new things. NO. her absolute favourite word. You don't take anything from her, or you will get a risen finger flailing up in the air saying no,no, no. It's too cute and hard to be stern when she's doing that. She's speaking a lot more now as well, she loves saying All GONE, Gramma,Eat, Cookie,Please (sounds like BEES) those are the most popular. She is up now so I can't type more, oh ya UPIE. Reminded me because she is in her crib saying upie mommy. :)
To add, we now have Arianna fully poopy potty trained. This isn't because we were trying but because of all her history it was easier for her, and now before anytime she has to poop she will come to either Michael or myself (even in the middle of the night) and say poopy and will (for the most part) not poop anywhere but the potty; unless she's in too much pain.