Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving today! Hope you all get eat some good food with the people you love! We are going to Casa Grande today to spend it with my family. I love Thanksgiving, not because of the food but because I get to see all my family that I don't normally see during the year. I love this time of year.

How bad of a mom am I?!

I was just looking through my recent posts and realized that on Donovan's birthday post I posted pictures of Ellie as a baby! How bad is that! So I put some new pictures that are from the day I had him. I am so awful! I guess I should organize my pictures a little better!

Halloween

I know this is a little late but I thought I would still post it. I did not get very many pictures but we had a great time. We had my family over and we ate pizza, went trick-or-treating, bobbed for some apples, then we played some Wii. The kids had a great time and were exhausted by the end of the night. Ellie was Hannah Montana and Donovan was Spiderman.

For some reason the pictures are not in the right order but here are a few pictures from the night.

Happy birthday my baby boy!

Donovan is 3 today. It went so fast. All day I thought about what I was doing at that moment 3 years ago. It seems like yesterday. Every time the phone rang today Ellie would say, "Donovan, someone is calling you!" He sang along with everyone who called to sing to him. He is not really getting it like I thought he would.

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.