Quick Update

So we started some serious potty training last Saturday and I am happy to report that Emma is pretty much potty trained. She had a couple of accidents Sunday morning, mostly because she wasn't telling us when she had to go. She has been wearing diapers overnight, but has woken up dry every morning but 1. The best thing is that she now hates to put a diaper on and would rather wear big girl undies! I have a few new pictures and I'm going to try and get them on the Picasa site tonight. My dad will be here tomorrow night so I probably won't have much time to blog or put pictures up for a few days. Oh, and not to forget the baby, but Isabella is now taking a few steps at a time by herself. It will probably be a few more weeks before she's running, but she is pretty mobile. She also likes to climb on the couch and crawl around now. There is a picture of her on the couch with the remotes and she did all of that herself.

September already?

Wow how the summer has flown by....I realized at work last night that school starts today. Thankfully I don't have any kids in school yet, but wow, summer is over. Since I started working it seems like time is going by faster. I have less time at home with Matt and the girls because I'm working almost all day every weekend. I'm trying to not let it bother me since we really need the money, but I feel like I'm missing my girls growing up. Emma will be 2 and a half next month and Isabella turns 1 in 2 short months.

A quick update on the girls...Emma is still working on potty training but is really more interested in playing and talking than the potty chair. She is very petite still...only weighing 26 pounds and only tall enough for 18 month size pants. Isabella on the other hand weighs 22 pounds and is only about 3-4 inches shorter than Emma. She is 9 and a half months right now and is almost walking! She can stand up by herself and will turn and kind of take a few steps, but isn't quite there yet. Emma is also mastering the alphabet and is starting to spell small words. She knows most of her colors and can count to 10. I guess she will just be my genius midget.

My dad will be here to visit in a few weeks so I hope to have all the pictures organized by then, but keep in mind my hours have doubled at work lately since people have gone back to school. So I will do what I can on my days off.

Nothing New

Realized I hadn't posted in a while, but that's because nothing has been going on. Well not nothing, but nothing exciting. Just work, naps, playing and sleeping. I'm still trying to get the pictures edited and moved to the desktop computer. I have been a little less than motivated to work on the computer since I can't start doing any of it until Emma is in bed and lately that has been almost 9pm. She has been driving me nuts lately as she seems to be in her peak of the terrible 2's! I have also been trying to work on some genealogy stuff in between pictures, so it's just taking longer than I want. Here's Isabella eating magnets off grandma's fridge.

Happy Birthday/ Dave Matthews

So my birthday was on Friday and I picked up a shift and went to work. I know, I know, but I need the money. Besides we had plans for this weekend anyway. Yes, Matt and I went out of town overnight without the girls!!! My mom came and stayed while we drove down to Noblesville (Indiana) and saw a Dave Matthews Band concert. The last concert we went to was in New York on our honeymoon. We used to go to at least 1 every summer, but haven't in the last couple of years because of babies. I must say it was an awesome concert. The band was in rare form....well different from what I've seen the previous 5 times. Dave actually put his guitar down for the last song and danced around the stage. Even Matt had never seen him do that before and he's seen twice as many concerts as I have. They also covered a Beatles song (Money, that's what I want). Needless to say it was a great concert, one of my favorites. It was also nice for us to spend some time together doing something we used to always do before kids. So thank you very much grandma and Ashley for coming and helping!!!!

Bunnies and sheep and pigs...oh my!

It's been a while since I posted, but I have a few good reasons: both girls have been sick for over a week now and matt and I are both getting it. I have also been working, so there. Last weekend Emma had another repeat of her waking up with a really high fever. We had plans for that sunday though...we had to pick grandma up from the airport so we were gone all day. When we finally got home her fever was 103.7. So we drugged her up and I took them both to the doc. the next day. They thought she had strep throat, but the test was negative. Isabella had double ear infections and she was really congested and snotty.

They were feeling better by thursday so we went to the Van Buren County Youth Fair. It's the fair I always went to when I was younger because my cousin's showed pigs there. Some friends of ours went with us and we had a good time. The friends that went with us are both pregnant and due in a few weeks and man was I glad I'm not pregnant!! When we got in the car to go home the temp. said 97!! Once we finally got going down the road it was 91! Add to that the humidity was about 90%, so I'm sure it actually felt like 100 and some degrees. Needless to say it was hotter than @%&*!

Here are a few pictures from the fair. We got to hold a chicken and pet some bunnies. We also saw sheep, pigs, cows and horses. I am still working on the picasa website and editing pictures. I will post when it's done.

Happy 4th of July!

We had a very busy few days and I am now finding time to post some pictures. Matt had Thursday and Friday off this week and of course I had to work those nights, but we still had fun. We went to Grand Haven on Thursday for a quick trip. We took our rings in to the jewelry store and walked downtown a little. Then we had a nice lunch at BW3's....mmm....chicken wings. We got home just in time for me to get ready for work. Friday we went to the parade in South Haven. We invited our friends Nick and Faith and their 2 little girls to come with us. Grandma was out of town, so we partied at her house. We also met Amanda and Jocelyn and sat with them at the parade. After the parade we grilled out at my mom's and then headed home for me to work.

Saturday we hung out at the house and pretty much did nothing. Well I did about 6 loads of laundry and some cleaning. Today we went cherry picking and then came home and had some very good grilled salmon with wild rice and peas. It was the perfect end to the weekend, well the food and the fact the girls were so tired they passed out and haven't made a peep.

Hope everyone had a great 4th. Here are some pictures:

The Binky Fairy!

So the binky fairy came to visit on Wednesday night. For those of you who don't know the concept. You gather up all your binkies (pacifiers) put them in a special bag and set them out for the binky fairy to come and get them. She takes them and gives them to all the babies in the world that need binkies. Then she leaves a special surprise in the bag for you in the morning.

Well this sounds like a super idea and your kid goes along with it until she gets into bed and asks for her binky. Then she throws a freaking tantrum when you tell her they are gone. Then after an hour or so of screaming and fighting she finally falls asleep only to wake up at 1:30am screaming for a binky!! It has been a couple of days now and she finally gets the concept that they are for babies and she doesn't ask for it, but she's still being a pain in the butt about going to bed. Although she has been more difficult to get to bed lately anyway. So hopefully by next week she stops waking up in the middle of the night and Matt and I can finally get some sleep again.

Oh, Emma got a travel aqua doodle, a princess crown with some matching jewelry and an elephant webkinz. Ella also got a hippo webkinz. She doesn't use binkies but there was 1 small sized binky left so we put it in too. We also have been collecting hippo's for Ella and elephant's for Emma and when the fairy saw both of them together at the store she just had to get them for the girls.