"Ben I missed you!"

I had to run a quick errand this morning and since Ben has been so cranky, I took him with me. When we came home (about 30 min later) Maddie was so excited to see him she hugged him and said "Oh Ben! I missed you!" It was too cute and they hugged several times...enough for us to get a quick picture of it.

Too Funny Not to Post

This cracked me up! Christian won this hat for me at a fair a couple years back, and since I don't throw anything away.... I kept it and Ben found it. He was so funny running through the house with this hat and a basket containing his matchbox cars and 2 pretzels.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

We finally got some snow and more is coming. The kids are so excited. Maddie runs to the front window shrieking "its snowing!" and pulling the curtains back. I have since tied them so she can see her snow without those pesky things in her way! During the last snow we took the kids outside where Maddie immediately threw herself on the ground and started making snow angel ... saying Snow Angel! over and over. We took them around in sleds too. Ben was so funny. He did not like the snow to actually stick to him and kept asking me to brush it off. Oh he is so like Mommy! You can tell by the picture that he is not quite sure about the snow. In his defense, his gloves are shorter than Maddie's and the snow was touching his bare wrist. The pictures are a little dark because we did this after nap time. More to come soon!

Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas here at the Yeingst house. We spent Christmas Eve at Mom-mom and Pop-pop's house with Jim, Tarri and cousin Paityn. There were lots of presents and lots of fun. Ben and Maddie do not really grasp the concept of Santa, but they really enjoyed opening presents with Maddie asking "what is it?" during the process. She was so excited that she even unwrapped her Brother Christian's gifts too! Fortunately he was not here yet so Daddy was able to re wrap them. We did not have a lot of pictures from Christmas morning, but all photos can be found via the link on the right. Merry Christmas to all and to all a big EAGLES win!

Halloween - Finally!

Well the pics form Halloween did not turn out well. I think the kids messed with the camera and changed some settings so the flash would not work. So here are some pics from Paityn's Halloween parade and what little I have from Halloween itself. Christian was here for Halloween and dressed as a storm trooper from Star Wars. He insisted on carrying the twins' pumpkins and had a great time following Dad and the wagon of twins around the street. After Ben and Maddie were done, he and Dad went around and hit a few more streets while the three of us hung outside with Shane and Kyle. They had a lot of fun with their tricycles in the driveway and I had fun watching someone else (Shane and Kyle!!) run after them. We had a wonderful night and everyone fell asleep and slept hard!

Welcome to Potty Training -- NOT!

I thought some might find this as amusing as my mother did..... so for today's laugh...

i decided to start potty training today. We have been talking about the potty and sitting on the potty chair and the seat on mommy's potty, so this morning I decided to throw a pullup on them and start this process. This morning went well... no has done anything on the potty, but they seem excited about the process, but I figured I would get someone for the after-nap pee. I brought them down from naps, put them back in pullups and shirts and went to get the potties set up. No one seemed very interested so I started to clean my kitchen. About 5 minutes in they were laughing and running around and I thought I;d try the potty again when my son tried to climb into my lap and I left the wetness......the runs! I will leave it at a big mess and quick tub visit, then I saw my daughter and bingo! same thing. Now I think that I have traumatized my children. What could have caused this???? How badly did I botch this??? Then I started prepping for dinner and looked into the fridge and noticed the blueberries were missing. Hmmmmm... I have a whole pint left! Hmmmm nothing on the floor. Then I recalled our failed pullup incident. Apparently they decided to eat an entire pint of blueberries after lunch and before naps. Blueberries + pullups = BIG MESS + TUBBIES!

Maddie sunshine

The local fire company had Santa pay a visit to the neighborhood. And Maddie was so excited. Just watch our little ray of sunshine. See was so excited.