Favorite time.

I LOVE getting Sam up from a sleep. You pick him up and him gives you the best hug you have ever had. He stretches both arms out around you as far as he can and just clings around your shoulder and arm. He holds on so tight and snuggels his head right into your shoulder. Sometime I just stand by his crib so can enjoy it for awhile longer.


p.s. Lizzy didn't have an accident all weekend when we weren't home, but had 2 on monday when we were. Apparently she only likes to pee in public washrooms.

Nov 13th

Do you realize that I started potty training on November 13th. 3 months later I have had it. I have begged, cried, threathened, bribed, celebrated, forced, raced, read to, waited, cleaned, reminded, chided and left alone. Today Lizzy is in a diaper. I had been threatening it all week and finally did it today. She giggled with joy. I am so tired of cleaning urine out of my couch. The couch that I saved for for over a year. If I wanted it to smell like pee I would buy a cat. I am about to give but people keep telling me that if I do it will only be harder. What can be worse than thinking it was a good day if I only had to wash and dry my couch once a day. Now she just sits there. then she gets up and says "mommy a pee a couch". ARGHHH I Hate potty training. I will pay, yes pay for someone to do it for me. I thought girls were suppose to be easy to potty train, I dread Sam. My Mom says I have to excpect some accidents. I think I am past that. I will ask here every five minutes, take her to the potty even. She won't go and then five minutes later..... dun dun dun. Never fails.

The House

We are building this house, in this community. I don't want to say which lot because I am afraid of strangers. We changed the kitchen dramaticly. It is more like a giant L shape than an island. I wanter more counter space. We have an AMAZING backyard. Our posession date which we found out yesterday is May 13th. They said they could move it all the way up to the end of April but I chose mid may so I had a couple of weeks to get moved so it wouldn't be so panicked. We aren't due until September so I have plenty of time to get settled. Trevor has BIG plans for the basement. Lets say lifesize hockey players. And if he has it his way it will be fully developed within a month. LIzzy and Sam will have to share a room until the baby is big enough to share. but I don't think they will mind. It should be interesting though.

Can I just say I HATE POTTY TRAINING!! I can't even count the accidents anymore, at least one a day. I threaten to put her back in diapers when she wets herself and she cries now when I do because I did it one day. She just gets to distracted. Ughhh. will this NEVER end?

Potty Confusion

Elizabeth has the most amazing potty skills... when she is buck naked. She will go to the potty when she has to go without any reminders or coaxing from me, I even have to fight her to go empty the little potty pot.(ewww) However, whenever she has any for of clothing on, be it a diaper, pull up, panties, pants etc. she always wets herself. ughhhh. I am at a loss for how to get her to understand that just because she isn't naked doesn't mean she shouldn't use the potty.

I'm only panicking a little

Lizzy is of the age where nap time doesn't always happen. The days she is crabby I lay her down but if she is happy enough I let her stay up. Today is the second time this week she has fallen asleep in the living room while watching cartoons. (I am trying to get things cleaned up before I start dinner.) Of course since we are potty training she hasn't had a diaper on.


a couple days ago. I woke her up to put a diaper on, she was choked, didn't go back to sleep and was grouchy for the rest of the day.

This afternoon I wasn't paying attention when she dozed off. SHE IS ON MY COUCH!!!! The question is am I willing to risk her peeing on my couch to avoid her wrath, or do I try to put a diaper on, or slip a plastic bag under her butt? AHHHHHH!!

Please oh please don't pee. She is pretty cute though.

Goals and Ramblings

So I made a goal lately to make dinner more often. So I have working at it. We had fried rice last night and Hawaiian haystacks tonight. They were really good, one of my favorites. I have gotten pretty good at keeping up with the house and the mess. If I keep right on top of it then I can manage, if I slack off then it is all over. My next goal is to get dressed everyday, yes I am still in my pjs. Sam has had a low grade fever all day so we didn't go to church because I work in nursery and didn't want to infect the kids.

So my cousin Rachel went to South America by herself. She will be there by herselffor 3 months. I cry when I read her blog and her facebook. I worry about her being down there. Desperate people do desperate things and she is a pretty little white girl. Of course she has the rage and I can just imagine the look on some guys face when she let him have it full force. She is in my prayers.

We have been Potty Trainging. Three days in, she wears a diaper for naps and to bed and has been naked the rest of the time. No accidents yet though. She goes really good, and I don't even have to remind her, she just goes. Of course this is after how many failed attempts of me giving up and buying more diapers. Lets hope it holds.

Have you ever had those days when it is an hour till bedtime and your not sure if your kids or you for that matter will make it. But there i somthing irresistable about them just wanting to be cuddled and held. (As I post taking turns holding my kids).