Just Wiggle

Aria and Kylie Dancing

Riding cushions

Landon Sandwich

Sometimes you just have to let loose in the winter and wrestle, dance, and get all your wiggling out. 

Happy Valentines

Marcus is never big on Valentines Day.  So I figured that was okay, but I like doing something fun for the kids to let them know that we love them.  I made them some fun candy sundaes.  Then that evening we used the new dishes and made homemade hot fudge sundaes, just like I grew up eating.

Tannen's 3

Present Time

Books

Presents are so much fun

Tools

Tannen needed to drill open the rest of his presents

Diego backpack from Grandma and Grandpa

One happy boy!

Aria had to check out the spinney toy

Tannen's monster sized chocolate cake.

Tannen had a fun third birthday.  If I remember right it was pretty low key.  He got some fun presents: books, tools, spin toy, and Diego backpack.  We like opening presents and then just letting the kids hang out and playing with them.  We invited family over to come, but they ended up not being able to come, but I already made a monster sized cake.  So the kids ate as much as they could and then I delivered the rest of it.  Tannen really didn't eat much of his cake.  We have video of him drilling into it, and licking, or wiping off the frosting on the chair.  It was really fun to watch.  Happy birthday my sweet, busy, hugs and kisses little guy.  We love you.

Date Night

Kylie and Marcus

Wendi and Landon

In February we had a dads and daughters date night, and then a moms and sons date night.  We got to learn some square dancing and have a cookie.  It was a great time.  Landon was really crazy, but we had fun dancing at the school.

The Little Things

I took my two littles out on a walk today.  I pushed them in the stroller, and I just strolled along.  On our walk we discovered, heard, or saw horses, crickets, birds - lots of them, and saw a robin with a worm in it's mouth, frogs, bees, butterflies, water, bugs, fields, flowers, and contentment.  I loved our walk and for an hour we just slowing down to notice the little things.  It was very therapeutic for me.

Potty Training

Week One down for potty training Tannen. And what an eventful week it has been. I really don't like potty training, but I really don't know who does. We started on the third. I had quite a time trying to convince him that we were all done with diapers. But finally he was put into the underwear and was fine with it. The first day was about half the time getting it on the toilet and half the time missing. It has stayed about the same the whole week. But now he really knows when he needs to go. We have yet been able to get him to do a #2 on the pot. Usually I try and take him every hour, and he is able to squeeze out something to make me satisfied.

But today was almost comical. He just peed his pants and after he does that I take him into the bathroom to see if he needs to go anymore. Well I sat him on the toilet (his preferred way of going) and told him he needed to pee on the toilet. So he gave me a small tinkle. Then he gave me three more tinkles (really they need to be called tinkles because they were so small). Then he decided to stand up and turned around and lifted the toilet seat, and said something about daddy. I decided to start count how many times he would pee. I reached 10 and was amazed at how many times he could pee/tinkle. Especially since he just peed his pants. Then we hit 20 times he would tinkle in the toilet and was astounded that he carried that much pee in him, and kept asking him if he had anymore pee in him. We finally hit 28 times and he had decided he was all peed out!! 28 times can you believe it?? He washed his hands and I told him to get some new underwear. He told me that he peed on the floor in his room. And then when I was chasing him down to get said underwear on he said he peed on the floor in the front room. (Yes he really did tinkle a little on the floor.) I finally got his underwear on and he said he peed again in his underwear. I could see a small damp spot on it. And in the time it as taken me to type this he went on our deck and peed there as well.

If you're counting that would be 32 times!! I'm afraid we just aren't going to run out of pee anytime soon.