Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Luck 'o the Irish to ya'

I caught them mid-play on our backyard swing set.

An is swinging on her "big girl" swing.........I can vividly remember doing this myself as a child.

Austin making tracks in the sand box ........... finding and burying treasure :)

My favorite time of year!! This is from a cherry tree in our front yard.

Charlie and his girlfriend, Goldie, the next door neighbor........fyi........Charlie is the one in the back of the picture.

Damn it

So Eric's parents picked the kids up from school today, and while riding home Ansley said "damn it" and so of course Austin in turn said "damn it" too....so Grandma says "Austin, where did you hear that, you do not say that, who do you hear say that?!?" To which Austin replied "Ansley"


I still smile when I hear that little voice in my head; I also am dreading my life with teenagers :)

Two words

I have two words for you blog readers of the world....................POTTY TRAINED!!!!!!!!!

Need I say more?

Hanging out

Happy Birthday Uncle Scott!!!

Eric had class tonight, an Accounting midterm at that, so we were hanging out being silly!!

Austin looks cross eyed and Ansley has no eyes.....just like her Mom apparently :)


Charlie is confused as to whether or not he is to eat the camera or just look at it

We decided to color in the kitchen; Austin is practicing writing his name (and so is Ansley in her own world)

I think Eric took this last night after bedtime while I was at work ... this is a "post-bath-my daddy is letting me stay up too late" picture.

So I met with Austin's pre-K teacher today to discuss his readiness for Kindergarten in August. She seems to think that academically he will be fine but she, like me, is concerned about his maturity level and being ready for the discipline needed for Kindergarten. To make a long story short, after a long talk with the assessment specialist at his Elementary School, we will get him assessed in May to determine his readiness for Kindergarten. Our inclination is to get him started "on time" in August, but we do not want to push him into school if he is not yet ready. So we will just wait and see what we hear in May. Stay tuned....film at 11

Progress

So she pooped in the potty!!! Yeah!! But then, a few short hours later, at the doctor's office regarding the fever & persistent cough, she pooped in her diaper :( I was very sad!! But still very excited that she pooped once in the potty, it's a start!! She was diagnosed with a virus and told to stay home for a few days, so we will keep with the potty training. Again, I have decided not to show documentation of these events.


So tonight at dinner the conversation goes like this:
Austin: Mom, there is a great king in town who does great things!
Mom: Oh?
AC1: Yeah, his name is Martin Luther King
Mom: Oh, yes, I know him.
AC1: Yes, he does great things, he changes the world!
Mom: Do you know how he did that?
AC1: Yes, he got people to stop fighting.
Mom: Who is fighting? Do you know why they are fighting?
AC1: No.
Mom: Oh, okay, where did you learn about Dr. King?
AC1: At school!
Mom: Great, did you learn anything else about Dr. King?
AC1: No, that was it.

We continued talking about other things at school and he showed me how to write "cat" ... who says kids don't learn anything at school?

Perseverance

Today, there is a battle of wills going on in our house. You see on Saturday night, Eric's parents kept both kids, so we had time to go shopping and take care of errands, etc. So we had time in the diaper aisle at Target to compare prices, look for bargains, etc. ... to that end, I decided I was done!! I was DONE wasting $20 on 124 diapers!! DONE I tell you!! DONE!!

So today, I stayed home with Ansley and have been stuck in the kitchen with her since 8am and while she has tt'ed in the potty numerous times, she refuses to poop!! So ... as I sit here and look at her sleeping on the floor of the kitchen without a diaper on because I know the minute I put one on her she will poop in it ... I think to myself, how did I ever think one stubborn girl was going to ever teach another stubborn girl how to use the big girl potty!!!

I will be victorious!! Or will at least not put a diaper on her again!!

Snow mountain!!

This is a video of Austin going down the snow mountain our neighbor created .... of note, school was cancelled again today, and with Monday being a holiday for MLK day .... we will have been out of school for 10 days!!! We really did like the snow initially, but now, we are tired of it!!