YEEHAW FOR THE POTTY!!!

The whole potty training thing is over rated. I totally wasn't ready yet, but Kaia insists on going on the potty. So I guess that means she is ready. It's not that she doesn't go in the potty, but it is what she does after she goes. And we are still having a problem with the whole #2 thing.

I'll explain........

I was making lunch the other day and I thought the girls were being good. No one was crying, they were down in the living room playing with their toys. I should know by now, that when Kaia is involved, if it is quiet that means that something naughty is going on. So I came down to get them and they were both sitting there, laughing their heads off, and soaked. Their hair was dripping and their shirts were wet. Do you see where I'm going with this? I looked around the room trying to find a water bottle or something that they could have gotten wet with. Nothing. So I look in Kaia's potty. It's got a little bit of pee left. She had peed in her potty and was cupping it out with her hands and dumping it on Sienna's head. They both thought it was the funniest thing they had ever done. I said "Kaia!!! What did you put on your sisters head?" and she said "pee pee! ha ha ha!!!" I picked them up with the tips of my fingers and ran them straight to the bath tub. It was so disgusting. I have pictures of this, but they are on my other camera so I will have to post them later.

So at that point I decided, no more little potty. We are going to start using the big one. So she has done really well. Everytime she has to go pee, she comes and tells me and I go put her on the big toilet.

I guess she didn't think she had to do that when she was going poo. She came running into my room and said "Mommy, Bad!" and she pointed to the living room floor. This is what I found.....

Yes, that is poo on my floor. It's times like these that you are glad your daughter is contipated and has little rock hard poops.

RAIN RAIN GO AWAY!!!

We had a really bad storm at our house today, so I turned on the news to see what was going on. There was a tropical storm going through the middle of Alexandria with Tornado watches all the way through the parish. The weather man was showing the storm as it moved right toward the traffic circle in the middle of town. So I went and called Dusky. Where do you think he was? Driving around the traffic circle OVER AND OVER again. He said "There is this huge storm coming towards me so I just keep driving in circles!" Seriously???? He's a wierdo.

So the storm passes over him and he follows it out by the airport where he just happens to watch a tornado touch down and go right in front of him over the overpass. He was really excited. At least he has crazy storms to keep him happy here in Louisiana.

FYI....
Kaia is pretty much potty trained. Except at night. And Sienna is pulling herself up and walking along the couch and anything else she can get a hold of. Oh ya, and she still LOVES food.

Birthdays, Parties, and Thanksgiving....

I know that I stink at updating my blog lately but we've just been playing too hard!!! We've been going to every Red River Academy basketball game. Our teams are doing really well and Kaia loves to run around the gym and get attention from all of the kids. She is especially in love with Max Dugas. She walks around all day saying "I want Doogie!" So he has become our little babysitter.

Last week my wonderful friends (Robin, Naomi, Kate, Adriann, and Beth) suprised me and took me to dinner at Logan's Roadhouse for my birthday. By the time we left my stomach hurt so bad and I had the worst headache from laughing so hard. I seriously haven't laughed that hard in a long time. It was a blast!

On my real birthday we loaded the car up and drove to Georgia. My Grandma Barney, Tana, Tricia, Naomi, Tasha and my mom were all there for a girls weekend. And the boys were all there to tend the kids. We played a lot, went to dinner, went to Twilight, got massages and did a lot of shopping. Took the kids to the park. Kaia loves to throw rocks in the lake and get muddy. It was so fun to see everyone. I love my family so much.

And of course, the boys did a lot of hunting.


For Thanksgiving the Jones Family and Reimer Family came to our house. The food was sooooooo good. I'm still sick from eating too much.

Don't worry, those are just IBC Rootbeers. =)

Things I am Thankful For.........

My wonderful husband. He's the best husband and dad in the world. He keeps life very excited. Never a dull moment with that one.

My Beautiful kids.

Kaia is freakin' hilarious. She keeps sitting here telling me "Mommy, I love you infiniti!" She acts a lot like her dad and she makes my life EXTREMELY exciting.

Sienna is the sweetest little thing ever. She has always been such a good sleeper (not counting the first 2 weeks). She sleeps a good 8-10 hours every night before waking up to eat. Then she goes right back to sleep after her bottle. Also, she has always been a good eater. I never knew that getting your kids to eat could be so easy. In fact, she wants nothing to do with bottles anymore. That could be a problem, but she just loves real food too much.

My whole family.....Parents, brothers, sisters, in-laws, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. I feel so blessed to have been raised in such a wonderful family.

The gospel....I'm so glad that my parents taught me the teachings of the gospel from the start. I didn't have to find it on my own, or change the way I lived half way through my life.

Our home, our job, our clothes, our food, our cars, our health.

I've been so blessed.

SERENITY NOW!!!

Just as I finished with that last post, this is what I found Kaia doing.............

FYI...If you don't know how sticky palm aid is-It's very sticky.

SERENITY NOW!!!!!!

MORE MESSES AND CUTE KIDS....

Well I called Lana the other day to wish her a happy birthday. I was seriously on the phone with her for like 3 minutes. And in the middle of that conversation Kaia got on the phone and talked to her. So in a matter of about 2 1/2 minutes Kaia managed to dump out all of the sand that goes under my candles on the floor and in her hair, wipe it across the piano bench and down her pants and then sit in it so it was all over her butt, then she dumped a whole bottle of ajax out in the tub, through the bathroom, and down the hall. Seriously!!! The pictures don't do it justice because you can't tell how much is on the carpet.

Then a little while later she came in from playing outside and she had mud all over her coat, face, hands and shoes. I said "Kaia what happened?" and she said "I fall down!"

I looked outside and there was a huge mud puddle that she had "fallen" into. Ya right! She totally jumped into it on purpose.

Kaia and dad eating a "pomedammit"Little Senny is crawling all over the place, picking stuff up off of the floor and choking on it. I guess I have to start keeping my floors SUPER clean again like I had to do with Kaia.

She also is in the process of getting her first tooth. She's totally miserable and onery. But it finally broke through yesterday.

What a little cutie pants!

SOOOO FUNNY!

I got this video off of Rennie's blog. It is freakin' hilarious. I seriously almost peed my pants. You have to watch it.

HAPPY HALLOWEINER!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The BEST Halloween costume ever. As I was pondering what to be for Halloween this year my memory brought me back to this time and place. Yes, we made these 3 Amigo outfits ourselves. Well, Everything except the sombreros which were gracefully donated by the Gouldings-straight from Mexico.

This year we started our Halloween festivities with a pumpkin carving contest. Which Dusky totally won. Mine is the plain, stupid looking one and the other three are Dusky's.

We attended the Ash football game and Kaia and Layla had a blast running around the bleachers.
Halloween day activies included.....

Me making a cake. This is the first time I tried to make a ball shaped cake (the pumpkin) Obviously I need a lot of practice because it had totally died by the time we got home that night.

We went to Maggies house for a little while. Kaia was Minnie Mouse and Sienna was a butterfly.

I loved the Rattatoille chef. He was so cute!

And of course, Buzz Lightyear.

We met the Cameron, Walker, Jones, Reimer, and Pete Families at the park and went Trick-or-Treating in that neighborhood. They really get into Halloween there. They all had their houses decorated and they were all dressed up. There were so many trick-or-treaters. It was crazy. One thing I do like about Louisiana is every Halloween people sit out on their front porches, dressed up in AWESOME costumes, and wait for the kids to come.

After Trick-or-treating we all came back to my house and partied the night away. It was fun. I love my Louisiana friends.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAIA...

I can't believe my daughter is TWO!

I love Kaia so much. It's sad how fast she has grown up. As I was putting her baby pictures on here I was thinking how fast time flies by. It seems like it was yesterday, but then I don't even remember her being a baby. She's such a little girl now.

She has been so fun. She came into this world with her own way of doing things. She's been a stubborn little girl since day 1, but she has also been the easiest child to raise. It's like she took Dusky and I by the hand and said "I know you guys don't have a clue what you are doing, so this is how you are supposed to do it."

Since she came along my life has been full of messes, kisses, "Big Hugs", and lots of laughing. She's the funniest little kid I know. We love her so much and we are so grateful that Heavenly Father let us have her.

October 29, 2006

First Birthday

PARTY TIME

We had a Birthday Party on Saturday. Lots of friends came and she had a blast!

Opening Presents....

She got a finding Nemo ball, a little Barbie make-up/blow dryer set, and everybody else gave her special markers that will only write on a certain kind of paper. I guess everyone has seen what my walls and couches look like. She seriously got like 4 different sets of markers and papers. It's awesome!

Her and Lawrence had a little collision. He came in crying, with a bloody nose and she didn't even blink. It was like she wasn't even aware that they had butted heads. She has a hard head like her dad. (Believe me, I know. She head butted me the other day and I still have a bruise above my eye). The next morning she woke up with a big goose egg and bruise on her forehead.

This morning I woke up and said "Happy Birthday Kaia. Now you're two!" and she smiled and said "Yep, No more one!"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAIA! WE LOVE YOU!