One week of Potty-training

We tried this before, but not having the time to really work with Cash at 15 months...that first round of potty training didn't last too long. Now at 23 months, Cash is one week into wearing underwear and is doing amazingly well!!! I feel like he's playing a joke on me, like it's going toooo well. Hahahaha!

Day one (last Monday) had 6 accidents, day two had 2.5 accidents (half, because he started peeing in his undies but finished on the potty with a poo bonus), and day three had one teeny mushy turd accident...and then he had a pullup on at a friends house and started to poop in it but finished on the potty on day 4. No accidents since!!! YAY CASHY!! Let's hope this continues. He's pooping like a champ too on the potty (Mabs had soo many problems with the pooping part). He's not telling us he has to go potty (not consistently), but he holds it til we make him go potty.

I even took him on a small errand today in his undies, all week we've used the diaper as our crutch on excursions out. Please let this be the real deal!

I think this was the day I decided we were gonna potty train the next Monday...he found Mabelle's Buzz Lightyear undies and wanted to wear both of them!!

Day one of potty training...
Still day one...6 accidents later, I was ready to give up. All I could think was "we don't have enough undies for him to have this many accidents every day"...good thing, he only had one day like that ;)

Our Amazing Christmas!

We are so fortunate to be able to give our children such a wonderful Christmas, and even more blessed to have a wonderful family who wants and enjoys doing the same. We are thankful to have each other, and can't wait to spend time our fabulous family. The kids had such a great day, from waking up to see Santa had paid them a visit to spending all day with Daddy (before he headed off to work)...what a great, fun-filled day playing with new toys (assembling new toys, thanks Daddy!!), even ended with new bath toys and new books to read at bedtime. Thank you everyone who helped make our day special..we love and appreciate it all more than we could ever say!!! Enjoy our day, told thru a slideshow...click on it to see the pics on your own time!

Christmas Eve with friends!

We shared a fabulous Christmas Eve dinner with our friends, Pat, Jime and James. Great food, even better company and the kids had a blast...such a fun evening. The slideshow shows are sweet kiddos having a blast :)

Christmas Party!!

Our great friends hosted the Chirstmas party again this year and it was awesome!! Stocking decorating, a visit from Santa, cookie decorating and a secret Santa gift exchange...soooo fun!!

December Catch-up :)

Fell behind with all our December craziness and here are a few pics that slipped thru the cracks ;)

Trying out a no-bake kids cooking deal...was really cool, but tasted kind of funky. LOL!

Mabelle's letter to Santa (her first she did all on her own--although I did the cutting, she did the gluing)...she told me what she wanted to write and I just helped her spell out everything. Pretty stinking cute!!!
MSU rocks my socks.

Daddy napping and Cashy resting on his napping Daddy :)

Her first glimpse of gifts under the tree...she would sit forever, reading nametags, hugging the presents and just looking at them. Soooo sweet!

Opening her gift from Rylee...I think she likes it!!!
Cash had no expression as he opened his gift, but then instantly removed his new sleeping bag...laid down and told us night-night. He loves it :)

Both enjoying their gifts from Rylee...so sweet!! Thanks, Rylee!!!!

Dance Mini Recital

We had a little recital today...at a local outdoor mall (Town Square :)), she did great and loved dancing! She really knew her dance, but with the other little girls standing or doing the wrong moves...she got distracted and would stare at them. But overall, she had such a great time and did such a fantastic job!! It was her favorite Christmas song, so that was very helpful!

Getting ready for the recital...

Cheesing :)

This is what I got when I told her to pose...LOVE IT!

Beginning her performance!

Second performanc...

the end

Daddy telling her how well she did!

Playing by the big tree!

Mabelle's Christmas Program

Her program at school was a short and sweet presentation of Mortimer the Mouse, her class sang One Small Child...she was sooooo excited to get on the stage and sing for us. You can see from the video (somewhat shaky from laughing and manning the digital camera as well as the flip video...next time, I'll bring the tripod :)), how well she did!!

Christmas Recital in Still pics :)

Cash waiting while eating a cookie (thanks, Flea) for the recital to begin! And now a 'pop-pop'....we came prepared :)

Colin was excited to see his pretty sis perform!

Just getting out there...

And the performance begins...

We were so proud, she did such a great job and had a fantastic time performing on stage :)

The Polar Express

We rode the Polar Express last week and had a blast...if you can hear in the video, I think I say excited about 8000 times! It was such a fun time. It was just like the book and movie...served hot cocoa (no dancing waiters tho) & cookies, we read the book, went thru a magic time warp tunnel that got us to the North Pole, where Santa boarded the train....and then the kids met Santa! He gave all the children a special bell (the first gifts of Christmas), and they all believed! We sang Christmas carols on the ride back..it was truly a special trip. Enjoy the video and slideshow of pics. (I had to alter the look of the blog to get the videos and slideshows to fully show up without cutting off the right side of them...not sure how long I'll keep it like this, but for now it works perfectly :))

Thanksiving in KC

We made the trip to Elise's new house to celebrate Thanksgiving with everyone and had such a great time!! Here's 100 pics to prove it..I'll let them and the captions do the talking, believe me, it was so hard to wittle the slideshow down to ONLY 100 pics. LOL!!