Potty training

Oh how excited I am to share this post with you!! As some of you know I AM a Nazi mom and it's my policy that I don't allow my kids to go to "school" aka MDO until they're potty trained. This started with Gracie because she was so close to "getting it" and kept asking to go to school like her friends that I finally told her that she couldn't go until she was wearing big girl panties. Well as you know once you start something like this it's only fair that you carry it out for all of your kids thus it also became the policy for Carleigh.

Carleigh loves taking Gracie to school and will often times ask when she gets to go as well as demand that she also take her backpack and lunchbox when we go to drop Gracie off. She is such a funny girl! I could tell she too was getting close to "getting it" so I had planned on during Spring Break to go into hunker down mode, turn EVERYTHING off, and have a potty training bootcamp. Well to my surprise Carleigh decided that she's ready for big girl panties THIS week!! We went all day yesterday in big girl panties with NO accidents (this included a trip to and from Lafayette) and so far today the same thing. I do have to remind her that she needs to go in there and she is wearing a diaper at night but I am so proud of my little girl.

She couldn't have picked a better time though because this morning I went and registered her for school!! (she got the last spot for the 3 day young 3s class). It was funny because when I came home and told her she was getting to go to school she thought I meant today. She went to the landing, got her shoes, put them on and said "I go to school!"..mind you she was also in her jammies! :) Sweet girl, not today but in a couple of months.

Soccer!!

This is Gracie's first experience with an organized sport (well as organized as 4 year olds will let it be) and she's doing well. The pictures are from her first practice and at first she was REALLY shy but once she learned everyones names and got warmed up she did great. We've had 3 games so far and although she hasn't scored a goal yet she's doing better about getting on the field and she's having a blast~ which is the most important thing!

Little man

So many times I have pictures of the girls on here I wanted to give my little guy a post all to himself. He is growing up so fast and is just so stinkin' C-U-T-E!!

Kids being kids!

This is what you do sometimes to get them to sleep in THEIR room!

Look they can all play nice together.

He was 8 months old in the picture and yes he's climbing up the gate!

I love this picture. He crawled under our stool, stood up, and couldn't figure out how to get out.

Rub a dub dub 3 kids in a tub. They love taking baths together and it makes it easier getting them all done at once. ** and please excuse the PEACH tile, it was cool in 1987!...can't wait to re-tile the bathrooms!!!!

Christmas

Holy cow I just realized I never put on here the fun things we did at Christmas. The girls are in AWANA on Wednesday nights at a church down the road. Every year they have a Christmas party at the local skating rink so the girls were able to skate for the first time. It was lots of fun for them and for mom and dad! :)

We also made a gingerbread house for the first time. Yes I'm a horrible mother that doesn't let my kids do anything. Honestly I just don't think about because it's not stuff that I did growing up. It was fun and a tradition I hope to continue.



And last but not least we baked and decorated out yearly Christmas cookies. This is something we always did growing up and it's tons of fun. The day we did the cookies I was watching my friend Laura's little boy so he joined in too!

Uppercase Living..the reveal!

This post has probably been in my head the longest. I know several months ago(ok so maybe almost a year) I told you about how I love UL and had ordered a couple of things. I've had them up now for several months but wanted to show you how great they turned out. The pictures were taken by my friend Miriam..she's great, you should call her!
The first picture is in the girls' bedroom and the other is in our den hanging over our couch.

Disclaimer

Yes I know that I'm REALLY behind on my blog. I'm going to do my best at catching it up today but that also means that it will NOT be in order. I have several posts floating in my head so as I remember them, that's how they will be posted. I hope to do better at getting them out more regularly now that my crazy season is over. :) I hope you enjoy!