First week of March 2017

March started with a re commitment on potty training. Emmalyn went potty on the big girl potty mostly in Vegas but I wimped out with diapers or pull-ups a few times. But no more in March except naps and bedtime!  First day back on she had one accident.  Day 2 was 0 accidents.  Day 3 she had one accident and Day 4 no accidents.  She's only having pee accidents although she seems to be pooping mostly when she's in a diaper and she asks me in the morning to let her wear diapers. (I can tell this girl totally gets it...she knows what she's doing...) Tonight I got her in pjs and diaper and later she asked if she could pee in her diaper. So she knows there is a difference between underwear and diapers and behaves differently in them.  

She is not sleeping peacefully lately and whimpers at night many times or talks in her sleep.

Maxwell has been spelling when he's talking. For Example , he'll say "Mom, can I have a s-n-a-c-k?"  He's not always correct in his spelling but I think it's great that he's thinking that way!

Trying a new face mask.  

My heart explodes when she sleeps like this.  It's so stinking sweet.

Maxwell and I went to watch our next door neighbor Jared in his high school soccer game at the FC Dallas stadium. (I think it's pretty cool to be able to play on a MLS field when you are only in high school!)

DTID - Dallas 'til I die! (The cheer for FC Dallas)

Maxwell and Jared

Spring is coming - the trees are starting to blossom!  I love spring!

Eating fried rice with chopsticks

For the life of me I can't remember why we took this picture at work but these are some of the women on the Network of Women steering committee with me at work... Kari, Natalie, and Jessica

Second week of February 2017

Sleeping all covered up

Look, I curled my hair (rarely happens).  Feel good about how I'm looking with the weight loss.

Looking all handsome and ready for school

Her hair is getting long

Maxwell is signed up for t-ball for the first time so we had to get him outfitted

Happy birthday Hayden!

Love this curly haired little girl!

We played outside at the park after Kindermuisk

Then later we hit up another park because the weather was so nice!

Maxwell's sweet note to his friend Preston.  We mailed it to him in an envelope.  It says (I'm correcting the spelling) "Hey Preston Can we have a play date on March 4th?  You are the best friend I could have.  From Maxwell to Preston.

Maxwell was invited to a birthday party for his friends from Castle - Joshua and Lucas.  It was at the Heard Museum.  The kids got to do crafts, walk outside and see the dinosaurs, and they brought in some animals to show the kids.

Maxwell was bold enough to get up and go touch a few of them.

Emmalyn was interested but hesitant

The Utah Raptor

Playing around at the party

Because the day wasn't full enough - Peter and I also had tickets to go see Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical

Maxwell just lost his first tooth a week ago but he's got another that is right ready to come out.  This time, Maxwell knew what to expect and so he was super nervous and upset and just did not handle it well.  The tooth clearly needed to come out but getting it out was a whole other story.

We tried to do the floss technique like the first tooth but it just wouldn't stay on.

terror...tears...screaming...  ugh

Momma tried using a starburst to stick to the tooth.  That didn't work.

Trying to grab it with a tissue didn't work, Maxwell was freaking out too much.

Trying to hold him down so dad could get it.  Didn't work.  We stopped the torture eventually because it was just getting ridiculous.  He wanted it out but at the same time he didn't.

Maxwell calls me Momma-bunana so I call him Maxwell bubaxwell. Emmalyn calls Maxwell cutieous maxus (he came home and taught us about glutious Maximus and that's what she thought he was saying). 

We were talking with Maxwell this week and he said his friend Brooklyn in class wasn't very nice to him today because she said she wouldn't be his girl friend and he was sad about that because she was other boys in the class's girlfriend. He said he wouldn't be her boyfriend and he wasn't going to marry her anymore. I told him not to worry about it and it's more important to be friends plus he doesn't have to pick who he is going to marry for 20 years.  (Can't believe I need to have these conversations with my Kindergartner!)

Emmalyn loving her squeaky shoes.  She doesn't wake up in the middle of the night asking us to cover her up with her blanket anymore, she just snuggles into her soft peppa pig blanket but likes it around her face which makes me nervous.  She is a cuddler and on the couch or in the bed she wants to be right next to you. Max has been wanting us to fall asleep with him at night when we are tucking him in.

First week of February 2017 - Maxwell loses his first tooth

Landen turned 6.  Emmalyn was excited to sing to him and be next to him.

Look at those cute cousins!

Maxwell's school had a science night with lots of fun experiments and hands on stuff.  The kids both loved it.  He's playing with magnets here.

This one was standing in a bubble

So much personality!

100 days of school!  Maxwell dressed up as an old (sloppy) man.

I'm feeling good about the weight I've lost and how I'm looking!  It's exciting to be able to wear clothes you've bought but never worn because it just didn't fit well.

Me and my girl

Love her

How she likes to go to sleep - on TOP of her stuffed animals

Learning some guitar with dad

We LOVE LOVE LOVE Kindermusik with Mrs. Carolyn

Enjoying the playground after Kindermusik

The kids in the hats we brought back from Jamaica

"trying" to get a good picture of them in the clothes we brought home

the best I got

Trying out the soccer outfit with the soccer ball

Silliness

Me with dreads - not a good look

Trying to teach Maxwell how to eat edamame out of the pod.  He likes it, it's just hard to get the hang of it!

A little ice cream treat

Guess who has learned to tie his shoes!  

Ready...set...

go!!! Playing football.

Our spread for the superbowl.  Just the Mejias and us, no big party.  Just lots of food.

Emmalyn playing at the mall with Brittany

Maxwell's first tooth was ready to come out!

...Before

He was excited when Peter was going to take it out with dental floss but then as Peter started trying to put the string on his tooth, he got nervous and scared.  It was tough for Peter to get the floss on his tooth which I think added to him being scared.  Once Peter got it on, he did a quick yank and the tooth was out but boy did we have to endured some panicked crying.

It's out!

Such a little tooth

After (you can't really tell it's gone!)

After

His tooth all ready for the tooth fairy.  He was talking about how he was going to sell it to her for $125.00 I told him that was too much.

She gave him $5.00!  (The first tooth is very special and worth more than the rest of the teeth to the tooth fairy.)

Those curls

Really loving her personality right now

She wanted to take a picture of me

Brittany and I took the kids swimming inside at the FAC.  It was fun to get in a pool!

Update on the Kids:

Maxwell loves soft things - blankets, pjs, shirts, sweat pants, jackets, stuffed animals, etc.  

Most of the time when I ask who he plays with at school during recess, he says himself..  That's how he likes it, I guess.

If he ever gets goosebumps when eating a food, he won't eat any more of it.

Emmalyn doesn't sleep peacefully like Maxwell does.  She cries out in her sleep a few times a night or whimpers.  It's sad but she's at least she's not waking up.

She is getting better at knowing her letters.  She still misses C, G (they are both E), N (calls it M), T (which is I), and W (which is U).

She's also finally catching onto her colors and will say most of them right but if you ask her what color something is, her default answer is "I don't know".  She knows black, brown, red, pink, purple, green, sometimes orange and blue but doesn't know white and yellow.