New House

So here are a few pics of our new living room... it's really the only room that we have completely set up right now besides Carsen's room but he's in bed right now so I will do pics later.

The Big Miss

So this morning I showed Carsen that he could get up on the potty all by himself. He usually waits for me and sits there till I take him down. So I got out the stool and he got all undressed and then got up and down about 50 times. I was thinking this was great because now he could just go by himself and I wouldn't have to run down the hallway to help him out. I was WRONG. He decided later this afternoon that he would try to go by himself so he went in did his thing and came back out to me. The he ran in again and back out and said "Mama, come see the water". Not the words that I wanted to hear. So I went in and apparently he either missed big time or just stood in the stool and peed all over the floor. Either way it was gross, the floor was completely soaked and there were little dirty footprints in it. FUN! So now I think I'll stick to running down the hallway so I don't have to clean up the mess.

Hey at least he's going on the potty again.

Update on the kids

Well my Hannah Banana is soon to be 18 months and just now has 10 teeth. She's growing like a weed though. She is also quite the little princess. As soon as you take the camera out she gets a big grin on her face and she knows how to make these cute little faces to get what she wants. She is talking so much now. She tries to say everything. Most of it most people wouldn't understand but I know what she means. Her favorite word is of course "no" with a close runner up being "Mama". She loves it when she sees Matt come into a room. She gets so happy saying "Hi, Daddy" although she says it "da-ing". It's so cute. She also LOVES to cause trouble and climb on anything and she screams at the top of her lungs if Carsen goes near a toy she is playing with. She loves to do everything Carsen is doing too.. she follows him around all day. She'll even lay on the floor and play trains with him.

Carsen is going to be 3 in just a few weeks. It's so sad to see him getting so much older. I just want to keep him little forever. He is sooo funny at this age and he has me laughing so hard sometimes. He has the best facial expressions I've ever seen and also some pretty great dance moves. Anyone who has seen it knows what I'm talking about. He is also my lovable little one who loves to give great hugs and Eskimo kisses. The other day we were in the car and he said something funny and I said " I love you buddy" and he said back " I love you Mama". That just about made my heart melt!

My kids drive me crazy and make me want to pull all my hair out and scream at the top of my lungs but I would never take away a single second of my time with them. They are crazy and funny and full of energy and I love that.

Mother & Daughter

A pic of me on the left and Hannah on the right

We're Moving!!!

Good Bye old Apartment!!

**This was the first picture we took of Carsen once we moved into the apartment we are in now.**

We will soon be moving out of this wonderful apartment on August 2nd. I will miss it here mostly because I have all the memories of the kids here. Carsen was 3 months old when we moved here so this is all he has known. We definitely need this move though. I was desperate for 3 bedrooms so the kids didn't have to share a room anymore. Hannah still isn't the best sleeper at night so it will be nice that she can't wake Carsen up! We will be moving into the downstairs apartment of Matt's parents. It's right in town and plenty of places to walk and plenty of parks for the kids to play at. I'm very excited about not having thousands of bugs swarming me when I go outside now. I think it's going to be a great move for us! Now I need to start packing. Ugh!!! That is the part of it I hate the most. I love unpacking but packing is just annoying! Even more now that I have 4 little hands that like to take something out of a box as soon as I put it in.

Seriously... GROSS!

So today started out like any other normal day. The usual stuff like laundry, cleaning Carsen's room and today I was changing sheets on the beds. I was in the bedroom putting the new sheets on our bed when Hannah came in and I noticed she needed a new diaper. Well I brought her to the living room to change her and Carsen said "oh Mama, big poopy" so I said yes Hannah had a yucky diaper. Then he said "no Mama, big poopy" and pointed.

Where did he point.... AT THE TV!

Yes, he too had a lovely poopy diaper and decided that since I was in the other room he would smear it all over the tv. Oh and since he was wearing a diaper that means he is still refusing the go on the potty. Ahhh.. such a wonderful day! I think I need a vacation away from the kids and all that is poopy and gross!

Hannah my little daredevil can climb on anything. The only problem is once she climbs up on something she sits there and whines "Mama, doowwwnnnn" until I come over and take her down. She's too afraid to get down once she's up. She definitely knows how to work her cuteness already!

Did I mention that I need a vacation (without kids)?

Potty Training...take 2

Yeah so you know how I said that the potty training was going great and he seemed to be catching on. Well all of that just went down the drain today... actually NO, it went all over my living room floor! He was doing so well then today he just decided that not only was he going to pee all over the floor but he wouldn't even give me the slightest hint that he was about to do it. Usually it would be a "Mama, gotta pee on the potty" and he would have had an accident. Today... noooooo.... he decided that he would just stand there and let it flow. Ugh! I'm not sure if he was just rebelling against me because I wouldn't let him watch the Polar Express (again) or if it was because I yelled at him for killing a frog.




So just wondering if someone wants to borrow Carsen for a while and potty train him for me??!!

Potty Training...

So this seems to be all I talk about lately but I guess it's because it takes up all of my time. Carsen seems to be doing pretty well with the whole potty training thing. He's been wearing undies most of the time except for nap time and bed time and of course there's the whole pooping issue (we don't need to get into that). Most days he does good and tells me when he has to go and then there are some days that he pees all over the floor and I have no idea why. That just frustrates me! I'm looking forward to being able to go somewhere and keeping him in undies with no accidents and for him to tell me EVERY TIME he has to go.

Vacation

So this is a little late... but better late than never, right? Our vacation was great. It was so nice to get out of the house for a week and do whatever we wanted to do. We went to Pennsylvania and mostly did stuff in Philadelphia. We went to Adventure Aquarium, Sesame Place, The Philadelphia Zoo and The Please Touch Museum. The kids loved all of them, especially the Zoo. They are both into animals so they loved to see all the different ones they've never seen before. I of course loved Sesame Place. I love all amusement parks!!!

Our days were filled with things to do and our nights were very long. Since we were in one room we had to try and get to kids to bed. We tried letting them cry, rocking them, letting them stay up till they passed out, car rides, EVERYTHING. They just didn't want to go to bed. I think it was a combo of all the things listed above that got them to sleep and by that point Matt and I were exhausted too. We didn't want vacation to end but we were happy to get home too. The 7 hour car ride home was very long since Hannah screamed for the last 2 hours of the ride. Fun, huh?? We finished our vacation off with a trip to The Flume. Carsen walked the whole way and loved seeing all the water and we let Hannah walk part of the way which she loves so she can try and run away from us!

Tissues anyone?

Oh Carsen, my dear, sweet little Carsen!

I thought it was just one of those bad days. The ones where Carsen screams at Hannah because she is screaming, the ones where he takes all her toys and moves them across the room and when she gets close to them he moves them again, the ones where he pushes Hannah and yells at her. Yes, all very normal around here. One of THOSE days! Things got a little more interesting today. I was doing my laundry and went to get Hannah out of the bedroom. When I came out Carsen was standing next to the washer and I asked him what he was doing. He didn't say much and just walked into the living room. I didn't really think anything of it since he didn't start freaking out when I came into the room like he had done something wrong. WELL when the load was done I went to take the clothes out and realized that my oh so innocent little boy had thrown a little pack of tissues in with the wash. YIKES! Can I just say disaster. It looked like it snowed in here after I got done shaking out all of the clothes. ONE OF THOSE DAY!!! The ones where I put my kids to bed at 6pm to try and get my sanity back!!