My good friend Michelle wrote a blog 25 things about Nini (her daughter) so I wanted to use that idea. Thanks Michelle!.
A tribute to Mary Scarlet our little two year old.
30 things about Mary Scarlet
1. Mary was born 15 minutes after we arrived at the hospital - super fast!
2. She loves her sister Eliza's room so much she would spend the whole day in there if we would let her. I think it's the endless drawers of stuff she loves so much to explore them!
3. Mary drank from a bottle every night, until just a few weeks ago
4. Her first favorite toy was Thomas the Tank engine
5. When asked how old she is Mary will reply 'I'n twoooooooo', and 'I'n MeMe'
6. When she gets too tired she is impossible to get to bed, but if you put her down before the tiredness is apparent she is a cinch to get down.
7. Runs to the door whenever Daddy comes home, yelling 'Daddy, My Daddy'!!
8. Loves to go Bye Bye
9. She thinks it is a requirement when we go to Target to get popcorn and a drink before we shop!
10. She squeals so loud when she is excited that you think your ear drums are going to explode!
11. Loves to swing endlessly on the swing, Loves even more to go really high
12. Loves to ride bikes, until today this meant to walk a razor scooter around outfitted with a helmet. She definitely thought she was all that. Today she got a real bike for her Bday
13. Hates sand on her feet or any other part of her body except her hands. But then only likes it on her hands if it magically falls off when she is done.
14. Loves to run everywhere, Runs so fast you think she is going to crash
15. Loves to have a water bottle on hand at all times but would rather drink pop
16. Has watched Happy Feet so many times we all have it practically memorized and none of us have ever watched it all the way through in one sitting! (except Eliza)
17. Asks for a choo choo every night on her way to bed, which could mean the movie or an actual train
18. Absolutely loves to brush her teeth, calls the toothpaste 'paste'
19. Loves to wear flip flops, mostly adults and Eliza's but will settle for hers if that is all she can find. Recently got crocks and they are a close second!
20. Asks for Emmy, Annie and Ava all the time (friends)
21. Always wants to payee (play)
22. Loves play with her babies especially to feed them
23. calls grandma and grandpa 'Papa'
24. Loves fruit especially apples
25. Loves to peek in on mom, dad or Eliza when they are showering or bathing, and nearly
every time will strip down and join them.
26. Can open the front door and will and does....that little escape artist!
27. If you ask for a kiss she will tell you no and then snicker. She thinks this is especially funny if she can turn to someone else and give them a kiss instead!!
28. Will mimick Eliza singing Hannah Montana, too cute!
29. Everyday she pushes her shopping cart all around the house while talking on her cell phone!
30. Loves snuggles first thing in the morning
At first I thought this list was going to be hard to write. It ended up being quite easy. I could have easily done more but her are 30 reasons Mary Scarlet is Mary Scarlet and we do so love that she is part of our family!
Happy Birthday my Precious little child!
Honestly I think this is my favorite Holiday!! It is hot and sunny (well sometime here in Wa). It means summer is really here and you gotta love AMERICA'S BIRTHDAY. And everything the LAND OF THE FREE stands for! Freedom of religion, speech, right to bear arms......etc and the super cute cloths, fun firework, tasty BBQ's, wet water, bouncing bounce houses and lots of friends....for the last 4 years I have planned and hosted a big block party but this year my gracious friend 
You can see the back of Eliza...I really like this picture even though you can't see her face! She loves the pool...this is where she and Jayden (michelle's daughter) spent most of the day!
I am strangely attracted to this picture...maybe because I am not often photograph unknowingly?
This is a pic of Mary in her 'cracker swimsuit' as she calls it. This is actually a few days later but she is just so cute!
She is so funny, she was petrified of the fireworks! She didn't even like the sparklers. A few days before the 4th Ryan was trying to get her 'conditioned' for the big day but this is her watching the sparklers. 
After the first one she would say as the sparkler burned down and crackled 'no green, no green'. We had the sparklers that start out orange then crackle in the middle and change to green. 
Eliza would tell her 'mary it is goin to turn green, here it comes' and mary would just keep saying 'no no green no green!!'
We decided to go to the Old Salmon River Trail. It is in just west of Zig Zag, Oregon on the way up Mt. Hood. We had a great time showing Eliza all the different vegitation, fungus'determining the age of fallen trees, why the trees fall and decay, and sharing stories of when Ryan and I were kids on hikes with our families. 
It was really fun!! And Mary just kept saying wa wa. I 'ant wa wa. She wanted to go to the river that we were hiking along. 
I carried her on my back about 3/4's of the way in and then she decided she wanted to walk and walked about 1/2 the total hike of maybe 1.5 miles.
Mary showing us her snack :0
Eliza and Mary riding a fallen log
And how Mary didn't, someday she will! 
You can see in the picture that she has a double row of teeth. Now, knowing me and seeing as how I am a dental hygienist you would think that this would totally bother me. But it actually didn't. You see I haven't embraced the next stage of Eliza's dentition the mixed stage. You know big yellow awkward looking adult teeth mixed with the bright white baby teeth. I think this stage is...well awkward!! I am not a fan at all!! Weird, don't I work with kids!? ;) Anyway you get the picture not a fan of the mixed dentition. So I felt like as long as we could hang onto the baby the better. Vain, I know! But Dad (Ryan) on the other hand could hardly stand that this tooth was taking forever to get loose and then to see that the permanent one was coming in behind was just about too much to handle. He tried several times over the past couple of months to get that sucker out of her mouth. These sessions usually ended with tears sometime from Eliza and sometimes from Dad ;0 not really just thought is sounded good and makes the story better;) he he Well, Late very very late on this particular Saturday night Ry decides that it is time for this tooth to come out. Mary and I are in bed, Eliza is down getting her midnight snack (literally). And I hear her start to cry. It starts soft then becomes full on wailing! I let it go for about a minute and then go downstairs. I see Ryan trying to get his hand in Eliza's mouth. She is doing just about everything she can to keep him out. She kept saying that he already tried to get it out and it didn't work. I was totally irritated. I said 'are you kidding me' it is midnight and you're trying to take her tooth out?' Dads defense was that he was afraid that she would swallow it. I walked over to Eliza, asked to see her tooth, and plucked it right out. She started to squirm but it was over. I said now everyone go to bed!! Eliza was shocked that it was out and kept saying 'is it out? Mom is it out?' She just started laughing when I handed the tooth to her. They we asked if the tooth fairy comes when you loose a tooth this late. Ryan decided that she does. We asked Eliza what she thought the Tooth Fairy was going to leave and she said that she would 'only leave $2 because I was a wimp...if I wasn't a wimp I could have gotten $10!' I wonder where she got her #'s didn't we just get change for our teeth :) 
This year they performed Jill and the Magic Beans. A spin off of Jack and the bean stalk. Eliza's class were the chicks, they got to dance with the Hen that lays golden eggs. I put a video clip of the dance Eliza was in you can't really see her but she is toward the far right of your screen in the back row.
Tatum and Mary.
Mary's friend Ava