WHIRLIGIG

     Thank you to my beautiful and wonderful husband who chose to take this past Tuesday off of work to spend time with the family and take the kids to WHIRLIGIG in Seattle.  He couldn't have chose a better day because the sun was shining and it was absolutely beautiful.  It was our first time going to WHIRLIGIG and apparently it's been taking place at the Seattle Center for 30 years.  There was a bunch of bouncy houses with food and live music from local high school bands.  After bouncing for a while we went up in the Space Needle.  This was the first time for the kids and I.  Thanks again Mike for being the best husband and the most wonderful, loving daddy ever!
     Johnny and Shaine are also signed up for a movement and music class at our local YMCA.  Today was their second day and they did so well listening to the instructor Diane.  She is wonderful with the kids and I'm so happy that they are having a good time.
     I have also posted pictures that were taken over the past few weeks.  Enjoy!

                                                                  WHIRLIGIG

 

 

Mommy taught Shaine how to make pretzle teeth.  She's pretty good at it.

     Taking a short walk over to the Space Needle

      Dance and Movement Class at the YMCA

     Chuck E Cheese

Grandma and Grandpa's house for lunch

 

Grandpa's doggie "Bear" with his head on my lap while we eat.  He's such a good dog.  Unfortunatley all my other pictures of the other pups didn't come out.

 

Grandpa and Bear

 

I couldn't see or hear the kids one day so I went wandering through the house calling their names.  I could hear a faint and muffled replied saying, "I'm in my room".  I wandered into Johnny's room, but didn't see anyone.  I looked in Shaine's room and they weren't in there.  I could hear Johnny say again, "I'm in here", which came from his closet.  I open up Johnny's closet door and there they both are.  Clothes completely stripped off.  I asked, "What are you guys doing?"  They replied, "We're getting ready for a nap mom".  Naked?...My little nudists.

 

My Cutie Pies

Johnny found a frog in the backyard today.  He was so good with this little frog.  He said, "Mom, I need to put him in a safe place so he can find his mommy and daddy", and then he walked to the far fence and put him in a spot where no one will step on him.  Five minutes later Shaine found a catepillar and insisted we go out to the front yard so she can put him on tree or bush. She also wanted the catepillar to have a safe home to turn into a butterfly.  I'm so proud of them today!!!  Love my babies!!

 

What the POOP do we do?

     Johnny and Shaine have been potty trained for 2 months now, but they still wear  pull-ups at night when they sleep.  Shaine will nap without a pull-up on and is doing great staying dry,but now we're having some poopie issues.  Johnny has refused to poopie in the potty.  He will ask for a pull-up to poop in, and Shaine is starting to copy him.  Mike and I have tried so many different attempts to encourage them to use the potty.  Stickers, candy, reading stories, and signing songs.  Oh my goodness...I made up a song last night for Shaine called Princess Poopie.  It was about a poopie that wanted to come out and go swimming in the potty before it gets too late.  Ha ha ha, as gross as that may sound I was pretty impressed with my singing and rhyming talents about poo.  I had asked their doctor about what we can do with the poop issue.  I was given some information on Toilet Resistance training that tells us not to talk about using the potty.  Don't push the kids to use the potty and keep the pull ups off of them as much as possible.  In fact, it says not to talk about it at all and let them figure it out on their own.  Well, guess what happen?  They both held their poop for 2 days getting constipated and stomach sick.  Now what????   I don't want them to hurt or get sick and we are definitely tired of spending tons of money on pull ups which is just as expensive as diapers.  Here's the thing...they will always pee in the potty, but they just refuse to poop without a diaper or pull up.  Oh my.  If anyone has any helpful hints or suggestions please send them our way.  I so tired of poop!

Easter Sunday!!

Oh boy did we have beautiful weather this Easter weekend.  Thursday night we colored Easter eggs, and Saturday morning we went to an egg hunt at Jennings Park in Marysville.  The egg hunt was allot of fun with candy, games and even face painting.  Later that day we went to Safeco Field in Seattle to watch a high school baseball game, but the kids were so excited to be there Mike and I just chased them around the entire time.  When Easter Sunday rolled around are plans had to change because we had a very sick little boy.  We were suppose to spend the day with grandma and grandpa in Belligham, but the last thing we wanted to do is get everyone sick.  Mike, Johnny and Shaine were all fighting colds, and Johnny was stomach sick amongst other things.  He says his ear hurts so we'll find out later today if we have our first official ear infection.  Hope everyone had a beautiful holiday!