Random stuff

I was able to get my camera to download some pics from the apple orchard and from Hannah baking. She has been so into baking lately! We have made cupcakes & cookies galore! Needless to say, I have had to go to the gym a lot to work off all of the extra goodies that are around my house. She loves it though and I can't tell her no! Enjoy the pics!

I love this picture (even though Hannah refused to take off her sunglasses!).

Parker & Jay on the Apple Express

Hannah & I on the Apple Express

Hannah and I making cupcakes.

It's been a while

Not much has been happening in our lives lately, just normal every day stuff.

Parker is walking like a champ now. His little legs look too short to support his body, I can't help but laugh at him. He and Hannah are interacting and playing together all the time now. I love watching them play.

Hannah is still doing well in dance. She is participating the whole time now! Last week they started practicing for the dance they will do for us the last day of class. Her teacher suggested that the parents not watch so it's a surprise. We have had issues with her being sassy and time outs just don't work anymore. Our new punishment has been to take her tv out of her room. Last night was not fun and she ended up being put to bed at 7:30. I can only imagine what her teen years are going to be like! I tell my parents this stuff and they just laugh at me. But on a positive note, potty training is going great. She still only wants to pee on the potty but now she says she's too big to use the potty seat and just wants to sit on the toilet. That works for me!

We went to Lewis' Farm Market on Saturday. Jay checked their website and found out they were doing a big thing with a bunch of activities for the kids from noon until 4 that day. Luckily I was able to get out of work early so we headed up there around 1. That place was huge and so busy! They have a petting area with goats, bunnies, llamas etc... Hannah wanted to feed them but she didn't want to let them eat out of her hand, she wanted to throw it at them! A $10 wristband allowed Hannah to do any activity until 4 and she did all of it. They have a pillow bounce (basically a big trampoline). I did take Parker out on that, he enjoyed it. They have the "Apple Express" that takes you on a ride through the apple orchard. I believe the property is about 700 acres. We were able to pick our own pumpkins too. We got 2 very large pumpkins for $7!! We took a ton of pictures and I have tried at least 10 times to download them and it keeps freezing up on me. Hopefully I will get it figured out soon. It was a really great day though. The weather was perfect and we all had fun. At one point I told Jay that I was so happy I could have cried! I love doing stuff like that with my family.

Well, we have a busy Monday to get ready for so I'm off!

Big day

Yesterday was a great day for us. Parker is finally starting to take steps on his own!! Hannah and I had a blast making him walk back and forth between us. He is probably taking about 7-10 steps on his own before he gets too excited and falls down. We made him do it all night long, his little legs are probably sore today. I have been waiting for him to start walking for quite some time. Everyone says it means more work but I don't think it does. I think it makes things easier. I won't have to carry him all over and it will make playing outside much easier. I love it!

The other big thing yesterday was Hannah actually participated in dance!!! I was really proud of her. At first she was shy but the teacher took her hand and got her out there and she was fine for the rest of the class. It was so cute to watch. The girls had a lot of energy though, they didn't want to listen to the teacher much... they wanted to run around most of the time. It was fun to watch though.

Every day I know more and more that I made the right decision by staying home. I am very happy and enjoying every second with my kids. Even when they are being naughty and testing my patience I wouldn't change a thing!

They grow up too fast!

Sorry this is my third post tonight! I promise it's my last. I'm digging this picture thing. I just had to put some pics of the new "big kid" things for my kids.

First up, Hannah...

This is her dance outfit. She looks so darn cute.

These are the stars she gets to put on the back of the bathroom door when she goes potty. She has a lot more now, I think she's up to 17.

I tried to get a picture of her in her big girl panties but of course she ran away from me.

Now for Mr. P. He got a big boy hair cut. This is probably his 5th hair cut but this is for sure the shortest it's been. He looks even more like his dad now. This is before (with pop tart all over his face!).

And this is after...He looks like a big boy!

It's scary how fast they grow up. It seems like we just brought Hannah home from the hospital. We sure are lucky to have two beautiful, healthy, happy kids. I really promise I'm done for the night now!

Silly stuff

Tonight was a pretty silly night in our house. We went for a walk to the park so the kids could run off some energy. Too bad we didn't have the camera for that, Jay and I both went down the twisty slide because Hannah wanted us too. That would have been a great pic to see Jay going down that slide. The things you do for your kids. We took a ton of really great pictures of the kids tonight. Here are a few:

Parker being cute, I love that smile.

Hannah doing the "airplane". She doesn't like us to take her picture so it's nice to have one with a real smile.

Hannah and I being silly. I love these moments that we get to have together now. I am really taking to this new role. I was talking to my aunt tonight and I said that I finally feel like a mom. I love the fact that I do everything for my kids now. I was so afraid that I wouldn't be good at this but I feel really good about myself and my family right now.

Super Parker

I'm going to give the whole picture posting thing a try. My mom bought Parker Superman pj's for his birthday and we tried them on him tonight. He was a little cranky being that it was close to bedtime but we got some pretty cute pics of him.

He's a super hero with a fake hot dog in his hand!

Too cute! The cape detaches for when he goes to bed. Thanks Grammy Patti, we love it!

Update on the potty training

It is with much pride that I can update Hannah is still going on the potty!!! I think she's finally got it. Almost... she hasn't had any accidents with the pee but she still won't go #2. We put a diaper on her last night in the hopes she would go and thankfully she did. It had been almost 2 days! Poor peanut had such a belly ache. Anyway, I couldn't be more proud of my big girl. She gets to put star stickers on the back of the bathroom door and she gets a couple of skittles every time she goes. I think she up to 10 stickers on the door now. I didn't think this was ever going to happen. Yay Hannah!! I'm so proud of you!!