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 January 2017

Christmas is over but we still have some Christmas stuff up.  It's a work in progress.  :)

Enjoying linking the beaters

Peter made some awesome crepes with the crepe maker pan that we got Brittany for Christmas.

All our crepe toppings

Working on some puzzles

Puzzle time for Maxwell too

Swim lessons with goggles!  She's legit.

Doing great in her lessons

So many faces from Emmalyn...  Smily

Silly

Cheesy

Upset

Shy

Happy Girl!

Getting my walk done (can't wait until it's not pitch dark at night)

Enjoying her baby toys from Christmas

Dress up time

Maxwell brings home a binder from school each day and if he misbehaves, the teacher will sign it with a note about what the behavior problem was.  He made it until January 11 without having it signed (pretty great!).  

I called the teacher afterward to talk to her about it because I've noticed that he's having a hard time staying focused like when he's at Kindermusik or waiting in lines.  My concern is that he is bored at school, not being challenged, and thus he's starting to act out.  His teacher pretty much dismissed my concerns and said that she hasn't noticed anything difference about Maxwell's behavior lately.  I've been asking her to challenge him more since the second week of school and nothing has really come of it.  It's frustrating.  At this point, my take on it is that she is either uncomfortable with how she can challenge him or she just doesn't have the skills to do that for a child in her class.  I can't wait for this school year to be over and hope for an awesome teacher next year.  :(  So much of what I have been told is that he is just only going to learn Kinder curriculum regardless of if he already has that knowledge.  So, we will just keep trying to challenge him at home and keep him growing.

Mismatched dress up day at school.

Emmalyn snuck up stairs to watch tv and eat cereal with Landen.

Funny faces with mom at dinner

Here are the boys

First week of January 2017

Happy New Year!  We enjoyed the little bit of time we still had with Kimberly and her kids.

Uno!

Making slime

Playing with bubbles outside

Hanging out at the park - getting more time outside (You've got to get out after being cooped up playing with all that Christmas stuff!)

Kids are enjoying this marble run toy they got

Fun with slime - Kaitlyn

Fun with slime - Tyler

Late night games together

Maxwell has been sleeping on some blankets in our room while Kimberly was here.  He has loved it.

She loves looking at our Christmas cards

Saying goodbye :(

Maxwell asks to do more science experiments everyday.  I love that he's into it.

We started up swim lessons (sort of).  The kids have a bunch of make up lessons so we are using those up and then we will sign up again at least for Emmalyn.  We will see how it goes for Maxwell.  Since his favorite teachers aren't here any more I'm not sure how into it he will be.  It was fun because they were swimming right next to each other.

Emmalyn moved up to the next level!  I no longer have to get in the pool with her.  She's now a level 3.

Katherine and I are still getting out and walking multiple times a week.  We just have to really bundle up right now.  This time it was 26 degrees ("feels like 14") and we still did it!  Committed to keeping up the exercise and weight loss in the new year!

We got a tiny bit of snow.   The kids were so excited.

Trying to get enough snow together to make a snow ball but it just wasn't the right type of snow.

We took the kids to another movie (again, have no idea what we saw).

Emmalyn is so loving.

After the movie we went out to dinner.  Was a fun evening together!