It's Potty-training time

Well, since we're stuck in the house for 4 days with this Arctic Blast...it's a great time to potty-train. It wasn't really my idea - Hannah just decided and started doing it herself a couple of days ago. She's so proud to wear her little panties and we've only had a few accidents in the last couple of days and we had our first #2 victory today! I'm sure you all want to know all of these details! These are her cute little Hannah panties (that are actually a diaper cover) but they have transitioned to panties. She's so proud and I am so happy to have a little relief in the diaper area!

Welcoming Baby Maddie

It's a little late...but better late than never. My niece, Madison, was born in November. This is my brother (Mike) and sister-in-law's (Crystal) baby. She is just a precious bundle of joy! The picture above is Maddie with Myka (her older sister).
All of the kids loved getting to meet and hold Maddie for the first time. Jonah is more experienced with this sort of thing and he kept wanting to come back for more.

Caleb loved getting to hold Maddie too. He had shorter bursts of interest, but you can see the pure bliss on his face getting to hold her.

Now Hannah was in love! I think she thought baby Maddie was her little baby doll. Baby "mannie" was all she talked about for a couple of weeks. Every baby doll was named Maddie. She even laid in my lap and acted like Maddie.

Fun Times!

Slowly, but surely, I'm playing catch-up on some of the fun pictures of the last 5 months. We're actually snowed in right now - with a wind chill of 5 below zero so I have some time to download. Caleb put on Hannah's dress-up clothes and Tangle hair and he was pretending to be a fairy. That kid just keeps me rolling :)
We had 2 sets of costumes to wear this fall. This is the set we wore to Lightfest. Tinkerbell, Darth Vader and Indiana Jones. Jonah has his serious Darth Vader look.

This was another set of costumes we wore to a Harvest Party at my friend Brooke's house. Dallas Cowboy, Lion and Darth Vader again!

Nerd Day at school...I know, I know...I didn't have to go to far to dress up like a nerd. We had a blast that day. I even had a fanny pack and my National Honor Society sweater on (actual sweater I received in high school). Don't you love Jonah's bow-tie?? Hannah wore her hair all day long at school-pretty impressive! I think Caleb just thought he was going to go swimming at school. Fun Day.

For our Harvest Party at school, Jonah dressed up like the much-needed FCA Maintenance Man, complete with plunger and big belly.