Princess A

My friend, Nicole, watched A & Z yesterday. I think that all the times that I've called A princess have gone to her head, she convinced Nicole & Emma to dress her up....

Trying out a new crown.

Hi Ho Hi Ho, to the dentist we go

Today was Z's first dentist appointment! Last week when I took the big kids he went with us and was VERY interested in what was going on - SO we made Z an appointment and it went very well. I was proud of my little two year old - he listened, did what he was asked and generally just behaved like a big kid! :) The only thing he was uncomfortable with was when Mr. Daniel (our hygienist) blew up a plastic glove, Z leaned back and said, "I don't want you to do that again!" Otherwise nothing scared him and he was happy the entire time. Enjoy this little slide show.

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Blog worthy

Tonight as Jason and I spent our "quiet time" watching the news and preparing for bed we heard a door open down the hall. We both stopped typing on our computers, looked at each other and then at our door. Here is what we witnessed; a wee little two year old carrying his beloved baby bear stumble into the door frame and say in his most innocent voice, "can I watch Blues Clues?" We couldn't help ourselves, we laughed out loud! I took him to the bathroom, assured him that I was getting ready to go to bed (it was indeed night time) and then I sang him the "Bible" song (Jesus Loves Me) and put him back to bed. Do I hear a collective, "Aww!"?

Busy Lady

I didn't realize what a busy lady I was until I stopped and put some pictures on my computer. When I did I realized that I had to share! So here is the play by play:

I have assisted in the hunt for the perfect binkie...

This little duck wasn't it!

I have helped this super hero,
known only as Z to find and successfully use the "big boy potty."


I have supported this walking, piano playing, savant.

I have aided and abetted these two in camouflaging themselves
... on the recliner?!


In addition to all of this I have provided entertainment of
untold excitement to this motley crew of hooligans.
Yep that is the dryer - who knew?!


Even Max had some fun stuff to watch!


Finally I have fed this little darling even though she insists on blowing raspberries.

So I guess I'm busier than I thought! :)

Tidbits

Here are some tidbits from my day.

First of all Z is doing well with the whole potty training thing... as long as I say one of the following things: "Do you need to go...?" "Is it time to...?" OR our favorite "Z it is time to..." - so I'm not entirely convinced that he's trained. I think that I AM trained! :) Oh well, it is going good and I'm so thrilled that a week ago he was doing all his stuff in a diaper and now he's doing most of his stuff in his potty (truly he's only had two accidents in the last two days).

Tonight we gave K a belated birthday present, she and I went to see Enchanted. We met Jason at the theater and he took the other three kids home while K and I stayed and had a girls night at the movies. We walked into the theater, bought our tickets and watched as the girl who sold us our tickets got on the walkie talkie and told them to start Enchanted in theater 2 - we were the ONLY ones in the theater! FUN! We got our popcorn, candy and drinks and then went to watch OUR movie. Here's my critique - this was a super fun movie but let me just say that my opinion might be skewed because I was with the sweetest, funniest and by all accounts the most terrific 8 year old girl in the whole wide world. We had a blast laughing out loud at the movie and then shushing each other. I hope that this evening was as memorable and fun for her as it was for me.

Finally, I got B a ride to swimming tonight so that I wouldn't be stressed about getting home after the movie. When I called to tell Jason, he asked in an awe-filled voice, "how do you plan all of this?" My smarty pants answer, "between bites of bon-bons!" :)


Here are a couple of pictures of that super, fantastic 8 year old I mentioned earlier opening her presents last night.

Bath time

I love this type of picture. As you can tell!
I have video of B... but he was the first!
Maybe after I get A's crawling up I will try to find B getting ready for bathtime!
So here's a trip down memory lane...

K & B 11/15/00

Z 12/14/06

A 1/21/07

Happy Birthday K

8 years ago today we were overjoyed to welcome a beautiful (although slightly blue) little girl to our family. We have spent the last 8 years being entertained and loved by this terrific girl, oh yea and she's not blue anymore.

Happy Birthday my sweet K, we love you SO much!