Absent

Oh, how I dislike being absent from my blog. I feel like Ive missed recording so much. Anyways the reason for my absence is as follows:

1) My mom is in town. She is leaving tomorrow after a 2 week visit. I love having her with us. Time is filled with shopping, Starbucks, yummy restaurants, long talks and this time around - reading. Yes, Kaleigh and I have introduced her to Twilight. But thats all Ill say about that ;)

2) this reason is perhaps the most consuming. We have had our house completely turned upside down. We had to move all our furniture out because we got all new flooring and then had the whole inside of our house painted. This meant we stayed with my mom at my sisters for about a week and a half. So having my two kids sleep in the room with me meant we were getting up at 5:30am which is about 2 hours sooner than normal. Nap times were sketchy and with all the extra busyness of life I have barely been able to keep up. Of course Neil and GG and Papa have helped tremendously.

But I am so thankful to have spent lots of time with my Mom and to have my house so fresh and so clean-clean! Pictures to come soon.

Legos

Justus has really been interested in Legos for the past month or so. After he got a set that he can build a truck with, he was hooked. He loved playing with it. Then I remembered I had my old Lego set. Of course being a girl, I had a barn. Nothing cool like a truck or something guyish like that, but Justus still loves playing with it. So I let him play with it during quiet time.

Here is one of his own creations:

Swim lessons

The kids have been doing amazing in swim lessons.

Haven has lessons with Coach Andrea. They work on diving for rings and putting her head underwater. And recently, Andrea has been trying to teach Haven how to get out of the pool from the side and then jump in.

Justus has lessons with Coach Paul. They work on diving for rings, swimming across the pool, jumping into the deep end and swimming to the side.

They love it!!

Justus' Artwork

Im really impressed with Justus skills these days. He is so talented and imaginative. Here are some pictures he drew this morning while I was cleaning up the house.

Notice the number 4 on this car. 4 is his favorite number right now....hmmmm....I wonder why!

I love this house and garage (with car) he drew. Notice the chimney is complete with smoke.

Day 2 and Day 3 Recap

Day 2 - I am just so impressed with Haven. On this day, we still kept close to home and I gave her lots of juice. She did a good job putting her poops in the toilet. You could tell she wasnt quite sure at first, but she kept at it and was so proud of herself at the end. She only had a small pee accident when I put her in a time out and then again at the end of lunch. Overall, Im so impressed and think she is doing amazing.

Day 3 - I had some errands to run so I didnt give her any juice, just her water as normal. She didnt have any accidents and we went to Costco, Savemart and the flooring store, oh and swim lessons. This girl is doing GREAT!!

Day 1 - Potty Training recap

Yesterday I decided to potty train Haven. Why? You might ask. Well, the short of it is, it just had to happen. And I bit the bullet and decided to try. The sooner I start the sooner its over, right???

She did really well. I started by telling her the day before and we went to go pick out big girl panties. She was very adamant about wanting Minnie Mouse ones - not Princess, like I supposed, but Minnie. So we got the Minnie ones and a little seat to fit inside our toilet. Our toilets are awfully high off the ground so I thought this best.

She took right to it. When I got her up we went and sat on the potty. Nothing happened but we gotta start the habit. Then I fed her juice like crazy so she would have to pee a lot. We went every 30 min or so and she was fabulous.
The only accidents she had was poop and she told me right after it happened. And then at lunch she started to pee but then held it til we got to the toilet. Im so impressed!

Amazing Dad

Not only is my husband an incredible husband, he is an amazing Dad. Here are some pics of him doing things with the kids this past weekend without my prompting or help.