Potty, Pullups, and Panties

SKylee has been doing so good, going in her little potty. So we decided to get her some pullups and some underware. Funny story about the underware. She had found Teigan's padded training underware and his plastic covers and she wanted them on. So picture this. Skylee in size 3T (Big and Saggin) blue boy underware with not only one but two of the plastic covers on top of the underware. It was pretty funny!
Anyways today I put the pullups on her and she was so Excited! She was running around in cirlces pointing at her ner "Big Girl Underware"

I was so excited that they were Pink! and not Blue!

Valentines Party

Teigan had his Valentines Party today at Preschool. He was so excited to show me all of his Valentines he had gotten from his friends. Here he is already munchin on the candy!

My Deep Cleaning King

I don't know what got into my Husband last night, but I sure do love him. I was cleaning up dinner and trying to get the kids ready for bed, when I found Nate in the laundry room with EVERYTHING pulled out of the closet. He told me to shut the door and "Let me do my Thing". He was sick of my messy, no room, laundry room. See, usually have a shoe rack and a drying rack for the clothes on the other wall, so that gave us little room to walk from the garge into the house. Anyways, so after I put the kids to bed, I peeked in, And . . . he had the washer and dryer pulled all the way out and he was cleaning the walls and the floors and pretty much anything he could scrub. All I got to say is I LOVE MY HUSBAND! He definetly is my Deep Cleaning King! :)

I Wheel-ee Like You!

Teigan and I made these Cute Truck Valentines . . . for his Valentine's Party at Preschool. Putting on the wheels was his favorite. He had many different ideas on how he wanted to put them on. He even tried making a Boat on a Trailer!
These were the two that worked Best.

Race Car

Monster Truck. Teigan's favorite.

Diaper Dilemma

Ok I hate to admit this, but Yes my four year old is still wearing diapers to bed. I know! And he has been potty trained for 2 years! Ever since he was 2 he has been wearing underware. But at bedtime it's a anaother story. He can not control his bladder! I don't know what I can do to help him. We've tried underware, we've tried those plastic covers, we've tried No drinking after dinner. I don't know. Alot of the people I have talked to say that Boys are harder and that he will get control of his bladder but it will jsut take time. We'll its been two whole years! And I am sick of sogey diapers in the morning! I don't know what to do. Any advice?

Memory Boxes

These are my Favorite! I just had to share.

These took me alot longer than the Recipe ones below, but definelty worth it!

Inside it has Month dividers and blank 4x6 cards.

I made one for each of my kids. Basically it keeps their memories recorded for that whole year. So I put the date, a title, and their name on the top and I write whatever so they can have record of that year.SOme things to write about are: Milestones, Special Occasions, An Event, Sickness, Just Journaling. These are the things that I write on the bottom of the card. (just to keep things organized and easy to find)

I Love these Cute Little Boxes. I have mine right by my bed so I can remember to reflect on the day and write down anything interesting. I also have put little notes or invitations or trinkets they have recieved or made in their box.

Teigan loves his little box. He knows that its his special box and we put special things in it. :)

Recipe Boxes

I turned one of those little black empty boxes into this:I needed to organize and do something with my recipes, so this is what I did.
I painted the outside and modgepod my paper on.
I used my CRICUT (which I LOVE!) to cut out Recipes for the lid.

And I used the plastic dividers and sticky tabs to separate the different recipes. I love it! Thought you might love it too!

Letter B

This week: Letter B

We made a Bee out of a paper plate. Teigan really enjoyed that. He got to paint the paper plate yellow and he painted the stripes "Black" a B word. He also glued the eyes and drew the mouth. And then we traced his feet on Wax paper for the Wings. It turned out pretty cute.

I also taught him the "Baby Bumblebee" song. Skylee liked this part more than Teigan did. but by the end Teigan was singing it with me and Skylee was saying a few words too, but mostly just doing the actions.

I have found it really hard to keep this fun and entertaining for Teigan. I literally have to drag him away, from whatever he is doing, to come spend time with me. I'm not going to let this stop us, but it is challenging some days. Onward we go. If you do have any ideas on how to keep things fun and exciting, please let me know.

Plans Don't Always Work Out

My plan was to teach Teigan two songs about letter A and make an Apple Man. He didn't want to do that. All he wanted to do was play the playstation. Go figure. Well we ate Dinosaur chicken nuggets today and instead we had a great conversation about Dinosaurs. I also found two storybooks that we had about dinosaurs and read them. The one is "Oh say can you say Di-no-saur?" by Bonnie Worth. Its a book from Cat in the Hat's Learning Library. It sounds out the different dinosaur names for you and tells a little about each one. It's a pretty good book. So even though my plans didn't work out as planned. Which I'm learning is OK. We still got to spend our time, without pulling teeth :)

I found these two songs which I thought were pretty cute, so here they are:

Do You Know the Apple Man?

(tune of: the muffin man)

Do you know the apple man,

the apple man,

the apple man?

Do you know the apple man

who likes to sing with me?

Oh, he loves the letter A,

the letter A,

the letter A,

Oh, he loves the letter A

and likes to sing with me.

Letter A Song

(tune of: John, Jacob, Jingleheimer Schmidt)

Aunt Angie's Alligator-pie

It has some apples, too

For words that start with A

The people shout, Hurray!

Words like Aunt Angie's Alligator-pie

A A A A A A A

Wii Wii Wii

Yah! We got a Wii! Nate wanted to get one for christmas, but instead we got our little miniture schnauzer, Dixie. Which we Love :) I told him we could get the Wii later, (which I was thinking like next Christmas). Obviously he wasn't. Cuz he brought one home today. We invited some friends over last night for our so called "FHE" and played it. It sure was fun. Teigan loves the bowling game. We might never have to go to a bowling alley again :) I can't wait to get the Wii Fit!

MOMME TIME

Learning Letter A

We painted an Apple for A and used it as a stamp. We also ate some apples for a snack and learned about them.

Skylee is learning to Say and Recognize her shapes.

I have made a goal this year to be a better mom.

Each day I am going to spend at least an hour with each of my kids seperatly so they get their own time with me. We are going to call it "MOMME TIME". Each day will be different. We will have Learning, Crafts, Activities, Cooking and what ever else comes our way.

If you have any Suggestions or Tips for me, feel free. I would love to have some Input and Feedback. All I know is I need to spend more time with my kids, whether it be one on one time, or something. Sometimes I feel like I'm failing as a mother and I need to do better. So please Leave a Comment, even if I don't know you, I would love to hear what you have to say.

The Simplest Things

Who knew the Simplest Things could be so Great?

Pouring water into one cup, and then into another. Wow! That could entertain kids for hours and it doesn't even cost anything! And then just adding ICE to the mix, adds another level of excitement to it. Skylee did this for I don't know how long but she loved it.

And then earlier this morning, she pulled out all her swimsuits and wanted to put all of them one. We only got two on at a time and then it was to bunchy. She entertained herself for quite awhile, putting them on and then off. Playing with her own clothes, who knew it could be so much Fun?

Battle For the Bed

New for Skylee? or the Dog?

I recently bought this little doggie bed for Dixie, but somehow someone else thinks its hers. Since Skylee is bigger than the dog, she definetly has taken over! She will push Dixie out of the way or just lay on her for that matter, until Dixie moves. Skylee lays on Dixie's bed every day right before nap time. She probably would take a Nap there if I let her! Its more her Size and Softer, Why Not?

Where, oh Where?

Skylee has an anwser . . . if you ask her Where something is. I ask her where her mimi is? Where are your shoes? Where is your jacket? and everytime, her answer is "Pickup". She thinks everything is in the Pickup. I don't know?

Snow Time

I am Not a Big Fan of the Snow. Getting all bundled up and looking like a big snowman yourself and then to top it off your get to FREEZE your butt off. It's just not my Cup of Tea. SO . . . my kids have not had the chance to play in it . . . yet. That is until Today. We ALL got bundled up and headed for our big backyard. We built a snowman and had a Chillin time :) Teigan could not wait to build it, and then try and knock it down. Skylee didn't want anything to do with the snow. She just wanted to swing in her swing and play in the sandbox. Definetly a Summer Girl!