Our Puppy

We like to call Avery our puppy. She crawls all over the place and especially likes to follow Lexi around. She also loves having things in her mouth.

I took the picture above right after Avery's nap. When I found her in her crib she had her blanket in her mouth.

With a sock in her mouth. Actually, socks are one of her favorite things to put in her mouth.

Crawling towards me with a book in her mouth.

See what I mean, she is always crawling around with something in her mouth. That's our puppy for you.

Rewards

Last week we created a potty chart for Lexi. Each time she went in the potty she got a sticker. And this morning she got her 20th sticker, completing the chart.

So we took her to Target to pick out a princess toy. She was so excited!

She picked out a Cinderella toy, complete with carriage, mice, horses and the fairy godmother.

When we got to the cash register she gave the cashier her potty chart. The cashier seemed a little confused but Lexi didn't notice she just wanted to make sure that she got her toy.

Now that Lexi has a new carriage she will let her sister Avery play with the Little People carriage.

Adventures in Potty Training - Falling In

We've been potty training Lexi for two weeks now and she's doing great. We have had very few accidents and she is really good at telling us when she needs to go. She has been wanting to wear under ware for a long time but I just wasn't ready to potty train. So we told her after Christmas she could wear under ware. For the first week, we gave her a Jolly Rancher gummy treat every time she went potty, then we moved on to Tic Tacs. Now we have a sticker chart. Each time she goes potty she puts a sticker on the chart and after twenty stickers she gets to pick out a princess toy at Target. She talks about that princess toy every time she goes potty. Eventually we'll stop rewarding her but for now it's good encouragement.

We have been putting Pull Ups on Lexi when she sleeps but I want to start weaning her of that. We were originally putting Pull Ups on her when we went out but have stop, expect for church on Sundays (I don't want to deal with an accident at church). Last night, we were at church for our weekly youth activities (we're leaders) and Lexi kept wanting to go potty. She loves washing her hands and flushing. She wasn't actually doing anything, she just wanted to "try." Finally, on her 10th or so "try" I took Avery with me. I was trying to make sure Avery didn't touch anything while trying to help Lexi balance on the big toilet. I didn't do such a good job though. Lexi was moving too much and I wasn't helping enough and she fell in the toilet! Completely fell in. Like her legs and arms were sticking out but her body was in the toilet. She just had a very surprised look on her face and I just couldn't stop laughing. I pulled her out, took off her clothes, dried her off and put a coat on her naked body and we went home. And the good news is that I don't think she is going to be traumatized.

Making Up "Movie Monday"

Hello Wednesday. What happened to Monday? I am just now getting around to posting my weekly video. It's not Monday but you'll still love this video I took of Avery this afternoon.

Belles

Two and a half years ago this princess made her dramatic entrance into the world! I'll blog more about that later. Right now I just want to post some pictures for my parents. Lexi has been potty training for a week and and has been doing AMAZING! As a reward by parents bought Lexi this Belle dress. Lexi was SOOOO excited.

Notice the Belle dress up shoes and Belle Barbie. Yeah, Belle is her favorite.
But that seems fitting since she was my favorite
and Sean thought she was the prettiest of all the princesses.

The size "small" was WAY too long for Lexi. So I cut off the bottom and made a "Belle skirt."
So here are our two Belles.

And of course, Lexi has to wear the Belle skirt for a picture too.

Thanks for the dress Mom and Dad. Lexi LOVES it!

2 1/2 Years of Lexi

As Promised for Grandma and Nana (and Everyone else)

Avery has been up on her hands and knees for months but didn't start crawling until Christmas. Every day since then she has been crawling a little more. Monday, she crawled across the living room and down the hall and into the bathroom where I was getting ready for the day. When she got to me she pulled on my pants leg. Tuesday, she crawled down the hall and into Lexi's room. Then the girls played in the play kitchen together. It was so precious. And today, Avery kept crawling into the dinning trying to get Lexi's potty. She even made her way under the dinning room table.

For fun here is the video of Lexi the first time she crawled.

I decided to include this other video I took of Avery today because who doesn't love the sound of a baby babbling?

5 on 5

I'm starting a new tradition this year, 5 on 5. On the 5th day of every month, I'm going to post 5 pictures that I took that day. The pictures will most likely be of the girls but they could be of anything. Enjoy...

Avery is a crawling machine. I promise I will post a video soon.

Lexi Singing - More Movie Monday

Here is a video of Lexi singing, "I'm Like a Star Shinning Brightly."

Not bad considering I just taught it to her.

And here is a video of Lexi singing, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

I'm not sure what all the stuttering is about, but it's funny.

Don't Quit Your Day Job Sean - Movie Monday

This new found "talent" was inspired by some Cisco commerical.

In case you can't tell, Sean is "playing" two spoons.

Kind of an East Coast New Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve we went out to eat at Sadie's. A restaurant that I've been wanting to go to for a few weeks now. It's New Mexican style food, which basically means Mexican with the option of red or green Chiles. There was a live band playing, well really two guys. They came and sang to us at our table which was really fun. The lady at the table next to us wouldn't stop talking to us about our girls. She kept telling us who beautiful they are. We're used to this happening a lot :)

I ordered the small nacho appetizer for dinner. I wonder what the large looks like!

This is the after picture. I barely dented the food...
It was a great restaurant. And next time someone comes to visit us we're gonna take them there to get some good "New" Mexican food.

After dinner we went home and just let the kids play. They ended up going to bed just before 10pm Mountain Standard Time, which is nearly 12pm East Coast Time. So they almost had an East Coast New Years. We went to bed a little after 10. We kind of have a tradition in our family of going to bed before midnight.