Fun at the park

Yesterday Casey and I took the girls to the park and met up with our neighbors.  The kids had alot of fun and the weather was perfect.  Lily is still a little unsure of the whole park thing, she's more of a home body.  She did finally warm up to the swings and we did that forever.  Alan (our neighbor) brought some bread for the kids to feed the ducks and turtles and they thought that was pretty fun.  Lily wasn't too sure of the ducks.  She liked them from a distance but then they started swarming her and she freaked out.  All in all it was a good day for the park.  When we got home I had the wise idea of blowing up the pool for all the kids and we barely got the thing blown up and the clouds rolled in.  The water was freezing but the girls were troopers and swam even though their lips were blue.  No more than 1 minute after our other neighbors left it down poured and was pretty much like that for the rest of the day.  Atleast we got some time outside before the storm.

Feeding the ducks

I swear Emilee and Lily are my children even though they look just like Casey.

Boo Lily

Lily taking a break from swinging to text.

Happy girl

Em helping Lily up the stairs.  She's such a good big sister.

Pull-up update

Well last night went really well.  Em only had one accident, which she was really upset about.  We put her to bed and she got up once before we went to bed to go potty then I tried to get her to go again before we went to bed, but she didn't need to.  So around 1:20 she came in crying saying she had an accident.  We changed the sheets and pj's and put her back to bed.  Around 4:30 I got her up and took her potty again just to avoid another accident.  And she woke up dry this morning.  I'm so proud of her and she's really proud of herself.  Casey and I told her that if she keeps waking up dry we'll take just her out to the fireplace.  That's was she calls the Japanese steakhouse we have here.  She loves it and is constantly asking to go eat there.  So I'll keep ya updated on her progress.  YEAH Emilee!!!

Life without pull-ups

Well tonight I decided to stop using pull-ups on Emilee.  I think pull-ups are a complete waste of money while trying to potty train, but night-time was different.  When Em potty trained during the day we went the cold turkey route and just started using panties.  It worked really well.  For some reason I just didn't want to deal with the whole night-time issue.  Until now...  She's way to old to be in a pull up, even if it is at night.  So we'll see how she does, it might be a long night.  But I have a feeling it'll only take a few nights and we'll be pull up free.  Keep your fingers crossed that I don't have to change the sheets too many times tonight.

And just because I think they're too cute.  Here's pictures of my babies.

New week New class

Well I started back to school again today.  It was a nice week off, although it really wasn't long enough.  I decided to tough it out and take a mini-mester to get my Psychology out of the way.  So far I really like it.  My teacher is different.  She's very blunt, but in a good way.  I wish more teachers were strict about attendance and cell phones like she is.  Today was talked about childhood development and about they way you raise your kids.  I felt pretty good leaving there today.  I don't think I've screwed my kids up too bad, there are a few things I think I could work on but all in all I fit right in.  And I know it's just my teacher's opinion on this stuff but I still felt good.  

Well I better get back to reading.  My homework was to read 4 chapters, and believe me they're not short.  I'm beginning to wonder what I got myself into.  Wish me luck.

Major meltdown

Ok when I say major I mean MAJOR.  

Emilee has been trying not to take naps lately, some days it works other days (like yesterday) it didn't work.  Most of the time she'll atleast go in and lay down for about an hour and other days you'll have to go in and wake her up because if it was up to her she'd probably sleep the afternoon away.  Emilee has always been my really good napper.  So I'm sad to see napping with her come to an end.  

But yesterday she NEEDED a nap.  She laid down probably about 30 minutes when she got up I let her lay down with me while I finished watching one of my shows.  She seemed ok.  We had to take Casey his clothes for his 2nd job at Outback (isn't he great!) and she fell asleep in the car.  My case in point that she still needs a nap everyday.  We went down to our neighbors for dinner and she acted great, it wasn't until we got home that the Evil Em came out.  I mistakenly fed the fish without asking her if she wanted to help and boy was that the wrong thing to do.  She then started screaming crying at me so I told her it was time for bed and turned her tv show off.  This marks the next big melt down.  She then goes screaming through the house for Granny, I guess to tell on me.  I put her pull-up on and told her Granny was outside but she couldn't go out there until she stopped crying.  She stopped and we found Granny outside.  I told her to tell Gran goodnight and she started screaming no at me.  To make matters worse our neighbors were outside, I can only imagine what they were thinking.   I brought her inside popped her on her mouth and told her that that's not how we talk to people and it was definitely time for bed.  Still screaming she climbed in bed, I told her I loved her even though she was being ugly and left.  

I was very shocked last night because Emilee never acts like that.  Sure we have fits every now and then but NOTHING like that.  This morning she got up and I went in the living room to tell her good morning and she looked at me and said "Mommy I'm really sorry for being so ugly to you lasterday (this is how she says yesterday)."  My heart melted.  I was not expecting that at all.  I was so proud of her for not only remembering but actually saying it.   I took her to get donuts this morning before preschool and so far today she's been great.  We'll see how she is tonight.

Through the fits and the whining the crying and the clinging, I love my girls and it's hard to remember my life before them.

Potty training

I think we are really close to potting training with Lily.  Lately we've been finding her in the bathroom trying to put her potty seat up on the potty.  By time we get in there she's already wet her diaper but we put her up there anyways.  This morning she came and got us twice to go sit on the potty.  She comes and finds you and then pulls you in there with her.  She hasn't actually gone for me yet, I think maybe she has for Granny but hey it's a start. It's actually really cute.  And she looks so cute sitting up there because she's so little.  I think we'll probably start working with her that way she'll be out of diapers faster.  Now if we could just get Emilee out of Pull-ups at night we'd be almost diaper free!!!!

And just because it wouldn't be a fun post without a picture.  Here is Lily with her first cute ponytail.  Poor baby still doesn't have hardly enough hair for one, but we did it.

Lots of stuff

Here are the pictures from our backyard.  It's still not finished but it's definitely a start.

Before

After

Em found dirt and she was very proud of it.

These others are pictures I've taken of the girls the past few months.

Playing dressup

Look at that belly

This is how Em wanted to pose for the camera

No words

Playing in the sand box