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.

Happy Birthday Paityn!

Today was Paityn;s 4th birthday. We all went over to Tarri and Jim's for the party. They had a Dora pinata and everything! It was lots of fun and there were tons of presents. Happy 4th Birthday Paityn!!!!!

Lots of pics can be viewed using the link on the right.

Halloween -- delayed posting

We had a little camera drama with Halloween. It decided not to work properly and not one single picture came out. As such, we will be waiting for big brother Christian to come next week and try again. More to come .....

Township Fall Festival

In our new township, they held a Fall Festival today. There were pony rides, moon bounces, face painting and an area to make scarecrows. One of our favorite neighbors, Shane, was working with the scarecrows! All three kids took solo pony rides -- and the white one was a horse... a big one! Christian and Daddy had a great time with Shane making the scarecrows while Ben tried to help and Maddie wanted to play in the little stream that Mommy had not allowed her to see prior to today. Cousin Paityn and Aunt Tarri were there -- of course! And we all had fun eating popcorn and dancing to the kiddie band that was there too. It was such fun!

Our Little Carnivores!

The kids have been avoiding all meats as of late. They will only eat hot dogs, and not much of that. So Chris and I made these lousy steaks the other night and gave the kids a few chunks on their plates, which, of course, they ignored. Well when we proceeded to start to eat our steaks, they suddenly seemed concerned that we had something they did not. They had it on their plates, but it was all cut up. Maddie started this mess by pulling my plate over to her and then snatching the steak right off it. I was not upset since I had not intention of eating that particular piece of perfectly prepared shoe leather, so I let her have her fun. Turns out the kids like cheap steak!

Sidewalk Chalk

After naptime we all went outside to play with sidewalk chalk in the driveway. We drew lines on the driveway and the kids actually stayed in the designated area! Very very exciting!! More pics on the photos link to the right.