Do you see what I see?

Mikey was walking down the hall the other night and I hear him laughing hysterically. He saw little fingers sticking out from under Donovan's door. We thought he was asleep but obviously not.

She is so funny!

As I am sitting her updating my blog, Ellie comes out for probably the fourth or fifth time and said with her finger pointed into the air, "I think I know the problem. My pillows are too bumpy and are hurting my head. Yeah, that is the problem." She is trying to convince me to either let her sleep in my bed or stay up later. This is an every night occurrence but she has never said that before, "I think I know the problem." She amazes me with some of the comical stuff she says lately. The other day I put her in time out and then soon after she was mad at me because she wanted to go play outside and I did not want to deal with the dirt. So she says, "I am so mad at you mom!" She said this in a very mean voice with tears in her eyes. So she says she is going to go "make a sign for moms." So she draws this big face with crazy hair and puts a big X through it and says, "It says no moms!" She was SO mad. It was funny but man does she have a bad attitude lately. We are trying to deal with this but she has been such a stinker lately.

Finally!

At 4-1/2 years old Ellie is finally fully potty trained. We are SO excited. It has been a very stressful past year. I had been very worried but the doctor said that it would be okay. He gave me lots of tips on how to get her to go #2 on the potty. we had tried everything. He wanted us to do a sticker chart and list several things so that we were not focusing on the potty so much. We were getting ready to do it when all of a sudden she decided she was going to start doing it. We had told her the she would get a Light Sketcher if she went 3 times in a row. She started going on Wednesday and Friday she did it for the third time got her Light Sketcher! She was so proud. I am so glad that she is finally done with that. I asked her where she was going to go next time and she said to me "At school," in a very exacerbated tone. It was so funny. We had told her that she would not be able to go to school till she was potty trained.

Donovan has not been as successful. He did really good one day but then the next day he just wanted to throw toilet paper into the toilet. I think I am going to just completely focus on him on 2 of my days off and hopefully we can get him started. Hopefully he will be easier because I really want to get him into preschool soon.

Ellie lost another tooth.

Ellie's second loose tooth has been barely hanging on for the last week. I can hardly handle that, it really creeps me out. Friday night Ellie would not go to bed. She got out of bed probably 5 times. She came running down the hall and I was getting ready to yell at her because I was pretty fed up. She was out of breath and so excited. The tooth fell out! We had to search her bed because she did not realize that it had fallen out at first. We put the tooth out for the tooth fairy and this time the tooth fairy did her job right. She took the tooth with her and left her a silver dollar. She was so excited the next morning that the tooth fairy did it right this time. I cannot believe that she is already losing teeth.