Partying

Today our nephew,Coby, had his 3rd birthday party. Unfortunately, David wasn't feeling well so he stayed home while I took the kids. It was a fun little party, Sierra really enjoyed herself. They had a lot of games planned, all in a Cars motif. They had pin the tire on the Lightning McQueen, potato sack races, 3 legged races, and a Lightning McQueen pinata. All in All the party turned out great, the only negative side was that Sierra missed her nap and has been EXTREMELY cranky since we got home. At this very moment she is in her room crying because she wants to "snuggle her daddy". I gave her the option about 10 minutes before bedtime to snuggle, but she chose not to and has now decided that she wants to. Hopefully she'll fall asleep in the next few minutes.

She needed a lot of guidance to pin on her tire.
She actually ran more than she hopped.
The bat was a little bit heavy for her, but she got a few good hits.
Reece had fun at the party too. He used this box of nerds from the pinata for a rattle
She couldn't figure out how to blow, at first, but she got the hang of it. I tried to get a picture of it blown out, but I couldn't time it right.

Thanks

We got a package in the mail a few days ago from my friend Shannon. I posted earlier about Reece finally taking a certain brand of sippy cup so she sent me some that she had. She also sent along with it the cutest Littlest Pet Shop I have ever seen. It is a little fairy kitty. Sierra fell in love with it right away, anyone who knows her will tell you Littlest Pet Shops are her favorite toys right now, not to mention I think they're adorable. I tried to get a picture of Sierra holding up her new toy, but she was so excited about it she wouldn't hold still, so you can't see the actual toy only how much she absolutely loves it. Thanks Shannon.

Twinkle,Twinkle

My friend Shannon recently started putting little videos of her kids on her blog so I wanted to give it a try. Sierra's favorite part about the whole thing was watching the video of herself afterwards. Ignore her hairdo, we had a lot of time that morning so I went a little crazy with the ponies.

ADORABLE

I got the cutest pictures of the kids this morning. They were on the couch watching Barney while I got everything ready to head out the door. They looked so sweet sitting next to each other I had to grab the camera. These pictures kind of tell a story: first they were sitting so nicely next to each other, than I asked Sierra to snuggle Reece, but he wasn't really interested in that, he started pulling away from her, than he decided , if she was bothering him, he might as well bother her too, so he started grabbing her face and her hair which only made her bust up even more. It melts my heart to see them interact with each other like little friends. Reece loves his big sister so much and Sierra is so protective of her baby brother.

This goofy picture was just the icing on the cake, they both look sooooo silly.

Training

I have been trying so hard lately to get Sierra potty trained. I can't believe I thought I would have her trained by 18 months, boy, was I kidding myself. As soon as she learned to walk I was putting her on the potty. I would sit there with her forever and praise her just for sitiing there, then eventually she would go, probably just because she needed to and she had sat there for so long, and I would get so excited. I tried giving her a small treat for a reward, but at 18 months after the treat was gone she would just stand at my legs and scream for more, she didn't understand that she was only getting a treat for peeing on the potty. Finally when it got close to Reece being born I gave up. I didn't want to work really hard to have her potty trained just for her to regress after the baby was born. Now it's over a year since I had Reece and we are finally making progress. She goes most of the day without any accidents, I think it has really helped having her in preschool. She sees the other kids going potty and wants to do what they do. I've even decided to keep her in panties at night, she's had one dry night and one accident so far. I decided with Reece I'm going to wait until he is really interested in potty training before I try anything. I'm definetly not going through 18 more months of potty training.

Winks

Sierra has some pull-ups that she wears for bed and they have Tweety Bird on them. They are pretty cute and she loves to wear them. One of the Tweety's on the front is winking and Sierra tries to imitate it all the time, it is really cute. I actually got her to let me take some pictures of her being like Tweety. She tries really hard to wink and it just makes her look really adorable

I got nothin

I dont really have anything great to write about still ,but I wanted to put up some of our older pics. I picked some of my favorite pictures of the kids, I love the one of Reece sleeping with his hands folded it is just so sweet. The close up of Sierra was my wallpaper for a really long time, I love her eyes, they look so bright.

She was always trying on our shoes and walking around the house.

I made that hat for him and he looked so cute in it.