Happy Birthday, Meredith!

I can hardly believe my baby is one now! This has been an awesome year and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. :) I can't wait to see what this next year will bring. I love you Meredith!

PS - Mad props to Katie for the rocking new header! <3

Life is crazy...

and awesome! School is going well... I hardly have time to blink before the day is over. My classes are great; I'm really enjoying everything. Michael and Meredith both love their classes. I have to drag Michael out the door most days.

Meredith is getting better and better at walking. She got another tooth on Tuesday, so now she has 1/2 of one tooth and 1/4 of another... almost a whole tooth now! ;)

Michael is talking like crazy... he wants to know everything! He knows pretty much all the main colors, can count to 13 (but he skips 5, on purpose, and 12). His favorite shapes are triangles and circles, and he can name and draw them. He loves animals and vehicles.

I haven't uploaded new pictures lately... sorry! Chris got me a laptop for my birthday and I'm still working on how to deal with my pictures. Right now they're still on my old computer and it's usually off. Hopefully I'll get some new ones up soon. :)

First day of school!

School started this past Tuesday... the kids love it so far! Michael is always so excited about what he did at school and loves all his friends. Meredith just likes being able to play!

We have a tooth!!!!

Yay! Meredith finally got a tooth! I was beginning to think she'd never get any, despite teething for 9 months. Today a little tooth poked through and I think the neighboring one isn't far behind. I would post a picture, but she refuses to have anyone take a picture of her mouth at the moment. :) If I get any time tomorrow night, I'll try to post some new pictures. Otherwise, check the Picasa album as I added a few new ones yesterday.

No crayons in your nose

Why is this something you have to tell children? Shouldn't that be clear... stuff comes out of your nose... nothing goes into your nose!

Turns out that "Mommy, crayon nose" is not something you want to hear first thing in the morning. Bath crayons are soft and wimpy... until they're in a nose. Then they turn stiff and unyeilding. Fortunately tweezers were on hand and the crayon was safely rescued! Then Michael felt compelled to announce... "more crayon nose, Mommy." Did I cry... No, but I wanted to!! No more crayons were to be found in the nose and the green residue on the "other nose" matched the crayon on the shower floor. Now he has a beautiful purple and green nose. Yay.

I know Mom... I put stuff in my nose and didn't tell anyone. But WHY!?! That's what's perplexing.

Have a great day everyone... I know I will! :)


PS - I don't feel like writing another post, but Michael did #2 in the potty yesterday! Hooray! He's doing so great! Only 1 pull-up per night and that's it - underwear all day long!

Another potty update

Yay! Michael is doing so great with his potty-training! He's trying #2 on the potty now... doesn't quite get the right idea yet, but he's trying. This is great because it means he doesn't wear pull-ups at all during the day - no more diaper changes - hooray! I'm sure he'll have it down in another day or so. Next is night-time training... not sure how that's going to work yet. He does have a little potty in his room in case he wakes up during nap-time; maybe that's what he can use at night too. Maybe I'll just give it a try one night and not put him in pull-ups. I wonder if Meredith is ready yet - I'd love to be totally done with diapers (just kidding, well, at least about Meredith being ready... I'm ready to be done with diapers!).

More Pictures :)

Well, I'm just now getting more pictures uploaded... I really should stop promising them on a particular day. Anyway, just a few since I updated Picasa as well.

Eating Cheerios

Meredith really, really wants to walk!

Cute ruffle-butt :)

Wearing Daddy's glasses and looking ever so cute!