Christmas, again...and again...and again

Owen had a great time making christmas cookies. the recipe I found made the dough to soft so we had a heck of a time getting them cut out. Also, I couldn't find any Christmas cookie cutters at Meijer so we had flamingos, octupus, dinosaurs and turtle cookies. Thanks to crafty GaGa we did manage to make an angel, and a few snowmen.


Decorating them was for sure the best part.



Madelines favorite part of Christmas is destroying my tree. Thank goodness for plastic ornaments.




Waiting, not so patiently, to open her gifts.

Owen got a ton of books, including a Tag reader, for Christmas. Here he is enjoying a good read.

PARTY!!!!!

Madi had an exciting 1st birthday. Gaga made the prettiest cake and Madi couldn't wait to dig in. She got lots of great presents and had a ball with her bubby, cousins and friends. She didn't nap all day long...to afraid she might miss some of the fun. However she did crash at 6:45 for the night.

Montage

If you click the link above it will take you to a montage I made for Madi's first birthday.

Christmas Picture Attempt #1

Pre-Halloween

I have been awaiting a knight so bold and brave.



The force is strong with this one.



Chewbacca or Tina Turner??

Who are these sweeties?

Just turn your monitor sideways :)

We have survived 10 months

Another Sneek Peek

A quick peek at our vacation

Powerless

OK, so many of you mommies know that try as we might there are some things that we are powerless over. Well, this past week I have been put to the test because we have literally been powerless (with out electricity) for 5 days. It has been quite a challenge, but fun at the same time. We have really gotten to know our neighbors better and the kiddos have played outside from sun up to sun down each day. Sorry no pics again, but it has been a crazy week. we are leaving in the morning for Cape Cod so I will have vacation pics when we return.

Obsessions

So, having recently posted that Owen has a mild obsession with Buzz Lightyear I thought I should be put myself out there and talk about a few of my own. There are many I am sure, but here are a list of the current ones.

1. Potty training (there should be a manual)
2. Poo problems (we have delt with them all)
3. Child development (once again, where is the owners manual)
4. Reading (for pleasure believe it or not)
5. Potty issues (who knew that reading Everyone Poops wouldn't solve all our problems)
6. Baby be blessed dolls (babybeblessed.blogspot.com or babybeblesseddolls.com)

To start with the last first these dolls and critters are the sweetest things...anyone need a Christmas present idea Madi would LOVE one of these. They have a free give away over the weekends and I have been hoping to win for weeks now.

OK, so as for the otheres, do you see a theme here? We are well into out potty adventure and some days I see no end in sight. I am sure that one day I will look back on all this and think "Boy that wasn't so bad" but right now I think I might send my kiddo to college in pull ups. (Owen, if you are reading this while in college then I hope you are not in pull ups and I hope you know I love you which is why I am obsessed :) So, if you feel like leaving me a comment about the secret to potty training please feel free to do so. Having spoken with my pediatrician about this numerous times I am convinced that they have a top secret file on how to potty train in 5 minutes and they are just waiting to give it to me until I am REALLY desperate. Just needed to get that out.

Sorry for the lack of pictures this time. I have no idea where the camera is. I am sure that if it were in the bathroom I would know.

Costumes

So, I was trying to be good today and clean out Owen's closet. You know, out with the old and in with the new. Well...some of the old was his Halloween costume from last year. After arguing with him for 10 minutes over wether or not it would fit he won and got to try it on. As you can see it still fits, and what is dress up time if little sister can't join in. Madi is wearing a garage sale original.

Aunt Sue

Madi in her life vest. She wore it like a champ. We took a little pontoon boat ride around the lake to check out the homes. It was a no wake lake so we really just motored around.

We loved the boat ride. He kept running from side to side checking things out.

El Capitan...El Capitan Jr..... and their crew.

Giant catfish that were living at the boat docks.

Breakfast time.

We headed down to TN to see Aunt Sue for the weekend and here is the proof of how much fun we had.

Baby Bath