No more bottles

Well, I think I can safely say Kaitlyn in broken of her bottle habit. She will still ask for one every couple of days, but then I show her the empty cabinet and she's fine with it, she'll take a sippy cup. She did find one under her bed that had been there for awhile, but I told her to go throw it away and she took it to the kitchen sink. After looking at it, I threw it away!

Now, potty training time! She's been taking her diaper off and going and sitting on the potty. She's gone a few times, but I'm thinking of getting her Pull-Ups. Of course, I just bought a case of 175 diapers. I guess she can still use them at night time.

I'm not sure if it's the full moon or just siblings "loving" each other, but they have been fighting like cats and dogs lately. That mixed with both kids getting up in middle of the night, I've lost most of my patience. I'm trying to get it back, but it's really hard, especially since I'm sick too.

Kaitlyn's party

Kaitlyn had a WONDERFUL birthday party! Josh was so proud of her Minnie Mouse cake that he had to show it off as everyone came in. He wanted to eat the cut outs of Minnie Mouse and didn't want to share.

Kaitlyn got a lot of clothes and shoes!!!! She got an outfit that included a hat, so she had to wear that and then she put on a pair of shoes a size too big, but she HAD to wear them. Then she opened the present from her cousins and saw the Minnie Mouse sippy cup and that was it, the party could have ended. She grabbed that cup and had to have chocolate milk. She got a stuffed Minnie Mouse from her Aunt JenJen and she carried her around too. I would say it was a good birthday for her.

Her and Josh got to stay with Nana this past weekend while daddy and I went to a Sooners game with Justin and Grand dad. We had a great time, but I realize vacations without the kids won't be happening too much any more. I missed them like you wouldn't believe. We got Kaitlyn a cheerleaders dress and Josh a hooded jacket. They both loved their presents. We got Kaitlyn to say OU for the first time! It came out OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU. So sweet!!!!

On a different note, I went and picked the kids up from school yesterday and Miss Amber told me Kaitlyn went pee pee on the potty yesterday!!!!! This was a first for her and I'm so proud of her. We keep working with her at home and I know she'll pick it up quickly.

My little babes are growing up!!!!

Love you both!

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!

Yesterday Kaitlyn turned 2! What a day for my little girl. We started off the day by going to Wal-Mart and buying cupcakes to take to school. We got home and she wanted to eat one so bad. I ended up giving her cereal and told her we could have one that night after dinner.

Next she went to the doctor for her check up. She weighs 23 pounds and is 32.5 inches tall. This means she'll be about 5'5" when she becomes an adult. I guess my kids got the short gene. Darn!

The doctor fell in love with her. I had her hair up in piggy tails and her ladybug dress that Nana made for her. She was so adorable!!!

She made it through school and daddy picked her and brother up and came home. Daddy decided we needed to go out to eat to celebrate so we went to Chic-Filet. The kids ate a little and played then it was off for ice cream!

They each got a scoop and ate most of it and then it was off to Target to wear off some energy. We walked around looking at clothes, toys and bedding. Kaitlyn will be moving to the big girl bed next weekend! We're still trying to decide what theme her room should be.

It was a little after 8pm when we got home, but she wasn't ready for bed, so we let them watch the Backyardagins. After that it was bed time!

Josh sang Happy Birthday to his sister and helped open her presents. The cute thing was Kaitlyn was trying to sign along, but just couldn't get the words out. What a sweet heart!

I hope you had a wonderful day!

Mommy, Daddy, and Joshy all love you!

Potty training

It seems as though potty training is going well for Josh. He has been in his BVD's all day at school for a few weeks now. They said there was only 1 day last week where he had an accident at naptime, but he was wearing a pull up, so it wasn't a big deal. He likes to wear his pull up in the car and as soon as we get to school he wants to go to the "big kid" classroom and use the potty there and then put on his BVD's. I'm thinking of telling him that once these pull ups are done that there's no more and he has to wear BVD's all the time at the house. Let's see how that goes.

Kaitlyn is also very interested in potty training. I can hardly keep a diaper on her these days. I'll be walking through the house and see a diaper in the hallway. Then I must go track down a naked baby and try and get her to put it back on. If she's not in the living room I look in the bathroom. She's usually sitting on her little potty trying to be a big girl! She still hasn't gone on the potty, but I'm thinking as soon as she does, she'll be VERY easy to train.

Kaitlyn has totally turned into a mommy's girl. She wants me all the time! This is pretty good since up until now it's always been Daddy!!! But Daddy's starting to feel sad because his little girl doesn't want him all the time. :o(

The cutest thing the kids are doing is Josh is trying to teach Kaitlyn words. His last attempt was this past weekend and he was trying to teach her the colors! She'll call everything Yellow. Well, Josh will say, "That's not yellow, that's (insert color here)." She had a brown marker the other day and was saying "yellow". Josh says "No baby, that's not yellow that's brown. Say brown baby. Brown. Say it, say brown." Then he looks at me and says, "Mommy, baby doesn't say brown". It's very cute!

Last weekend we had "Movie Night" on Friday. We ordered pizza and then got the kids changed into their pj's and got out the blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals and spread it all out in the living room. We watched about 3 movies before Josh finally fell asleep. Kaitlyn stayed up until 830pm. We finally had to take her to bed because she started pushing Josh. He was laughing when she did it, but I didn't want them to get all riled up. Jason took her to her room and he said she passed out in his arms! Josh stayed awake until 10pm and then we let him sleep in the living room. I had wanted to move him, but Jason convinced me to let him stay where he was. This was great until 5am when he woke up and wanted to stay up. All in all, it was a fun night, but not something we're going to do every weekend. Maybe every few months we'll do it.

Kaitlyn's birthday's coming up soon. Her and I went shopping for some party supplies. I'm having second thoughts on the cake, only because the picture I have is made with fondant. I'm thinking of just using icing. I probably won't decide until the last minute what I'll do. I love the picture of the cake and hope it turns out all great. I'll post pictures when it's all done.

The Dog Days of Summer

Summer is here and it's HOT! The "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" has lost most of it's appeal, but the swimming pool has not. We try to let the kids play in the pool as much as they want to, but some days it's just too hot, even in the water.

Justin and Abby came up last week for a visit. Josh and Kaitlyn got to play with Abby on Wednesday night. They had such a good time I called Judy on Thursday and asked if we could come back over and she went to pick up the kids. We had a great visit and I know the kids had a good time.

Kaitlyn is starting to talk more. She's very independant, which is good for the most part. She prefers a "big girl" cup to a sippy cup, but she still insists on a bottle at nap time and bed time. I'm thinking of telling her when she turns 2 that she has to throw the bottles away when she's done and when they're gone, they're gone.

I started planning her birthday. We're going with a Minnie Mouse theme! I found a great cake online that I want to try and make for her. I showed the picture to Josh and he said "Mickey Mouse". I showed Kaitlyn and asked her if she liked it and she said, "Yes"!

We've been really working on the potty training with Josh lately. He likes wearing his BVD's and Kaitlyn's been wanting to wear some over her diaper, so I went out and bought her some girl panties to wear. She gets a kick out of wearing them. I'm hoping one day soon she'll catch on to the whole potty training thing and be done with diapers.

Memorial Day weekend

Last weekend was Memorial Day weekend. It wasn't supposed to rain. Doesn't God know that it's just cruel and evil to make it rain on a 3 day weekend when you have young children? We were planning on a weekend where the kids were going to spend a lot of time outdoors. They got about 1.5 hours outside. That means, 70.5 hours inside!

Saturday was okay. It started with a birthday party at a nearby park. It was HOT! We spent about an hour at the party and then Josh started to get cranky and it was almost nap time, so we headed out. While the kids were sleeping, in rolled the rain. We were supposed to head out to a Crawfish boil, but everyone didn't wake up until 5pm and I didn't have the host's phone number, so I couldn't call to see if they were having it and if we should still come over.

Sunday brought more rain. Jason decided to take Josh to see Shrek 4. This was in the evening after a long day of the two kids playing/fighting/playing/napping/fighting/playing, you get the picture. Jason packed up the diaper bag with a sippy cup of juice and M&M's and they headed out. Well, Kaitlyn got all upset that they were leaving and not taking her, so her and I headed to Wal-Mart. We bought some Pull-Ups for Josh, socks for Kaitlyn and then Kaitlyn got her own potty chair! She's been taking her clothes off and wanting to sit on the potty chair that we already have, but if Josh is using it as a step stool for the BIG potty, then she can't use it, so it was just easier to buy her one of her own. We got it home and she played with it for about 30 minutes until it was bedtime. Josh and Jason got home and Jason was so proud of Josh, he sat through the whole movie!!! He said he started to get antsy the last 5 minutes and wanted to go home, but as soon as he stood up, he started watching the movie again and then sat down.

Monday was another rainy day. This time it was raining when we all got up, so that wasn't fun. Jason and Josh went to the comic book store mid morning while Kaitlyn took a nap. Jason bought Josh his first comic book(s). He bought him 3 and Josh was so proud of them when he got home. Kaitlyn woke up shortly after they got home and her and I went to Hobby Lobby to buy some material so I can make her a dress. She fell in love with the material when I showed it to her and she kept saying "Mine"! Then she would snuggle with it and say "Night night". After we paid for it we went to the grocery store to buy some hamburger meat to grill. The rain had stopped and Jason was able to grill. After dinner I took the kids out for a stroll around the block. Shortly after that it was bath time and bed time for Kaitlyn. Josh watched a movie after that and was off to bed.

It wasn't the worst weekend, but it wasn't the best. We made due with what we had and made the best of it.

The month of May

May is coming to a close and it's been pretty nice. Kaitlyn was seen by the new pediatrician and she had an ear infection and I thought it came back, so Jason took her back to see the doctor, but he thinks it was just teeth bothering her because her ears looked good. Josh stayed healthy all month!!!! We were all hit with allergies, but nothing a little benedryl couldn't help.

The big thing that we did this month was go to the Hangout Music festival. We stayed with some friends at a condo on the beach who have a 3 year old too. Friday the kids didn't take a nap, so it was interesting during the day with trying to get the car packed and over to the condo and then unpack. We made it to the concert around 330pm and the kids had so much fun! They played in the sand and ran around. We decided that we needed to bring the sand toys for the next day to give them something else to do. We got back to the condo around 10pm, got baths and then they both passed out. Josh and Jason went swimming the next morning and Kaitlyn got her feet wet, but she wasn't a fan of the pool. Kaitlyn and I went back up to the condo so she could nap and I laid down with her. Jason brought Josh up later and I guess they started to eat lunch and then Josh said he wanted to go take a nap. Jason took him upstairs and I guess he crawled into bed and went right to sleep. (This was a first!) We got to the festival around 330pm on Saturday and stayed until 930pm and got the kids back for baths. We woke up to rain the next morning and we decided to pack up and head back home. Around 6pm the sun came out and Jason found out they opened the festival back up and he really wanted to see some bands, so he headed back out. Thank goodness for the beach, because if it wasn't for the sand, I don't think it would have been a successful weekend.

We're trying really hard to break Josh of his whining habit. We're making progress, so that's very nice. He'll start to whine and then Jason will say, "What did we talk about? If you want something you have to ask and not cry about it." He'll cry for a second or two longer and then he'll ask for it and then we'll give it to him. We're also teaching him to say, "May I please be excused" when he's done with dinner. It comes out as "Please queses (spelling?) from the (mumble)". He's working on it though. We're also trying to stop him from being a bully and taking toys from other kids. We didn't realize he was doing this until we went to the Hangout music festival. We make sure if he takes a toy, we give it back to the kid and make him wait until that person is done before he gets it. This is a hard habit to break, but we'll get it down soon.

Kaitlyn's vocabulary is booming. She's been telling us what animals say, it's not 100% clear, but she's getting the sounds down (and the motion for a monkey). She's so proud of herself when she makes the sounds because she smiles and giggles when she make the sounds. Her newest word is "yellow". Her and daddy read books every night and he called me into her room last week and he said, "Kaitlyn, what color is this?" and she bellows out "Yellow"! It brought a tear to my eye. She's growing up so fast. She's also getting a little attitude on her. Well, I should say, it's becoming more prominent. She's getting her "No"s down and she'll cross her arms and give you a look. You don't mess around when she gives you that look! She still loves her oatmeal!!! You best not run out or else you're running to the store to buy her more.

Josh has been really interacting with Kaitlyn more this month. He's talking to her like a real person. They'll be in their car seats and Kaitlyn will say something and Josh will lean forward, look at her and say, "that's not Boomer, that's a doggie" (if she's looking at a dog, because every dog is Boomer). The other day Josh drank some of my chocolate milk and then he wanted some of his own. He told me "Mommy, I LOVE chocolate milk". He had some when he went to bed and then in the morning I made him some. Well, when Kaitlyn got up, she was walking down the hallway and Josh comes running over to her with his chocolate milk and and said "Baby, do you want some chocolate milk? Chocolate milk is tasty. Do you want some?" Then he looks at me and says "Baby wants some chocolate milk". Kaitlyn could have cared less about the chocolate milk, but I made her some and she drank it. Josh then asked her "Do you like chocolate milk"? It was the funniest sight to see him talking to her like that. It'll be more interesting once she starts talking back and they have an actual conversation.

That basically wraps up the month of May. We're heading to a birthday party and a Crawfish Boil tomorrow. Other than that, Memorial Day weekend should be quiet. Well, as quiet as it can get with a 3 year old and a 1 year old!