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I began the task of potty training today. I got him to go twice this morning in the potty. But then I ran out of energy by lunch and put a diaper on him. I know what you're thinking--but I am slowly warming him up to the idea. The car undies didn't last long on his booty however, they were held above his head as he ran naked through the house making car noises. Oh my dear Luke how I love you.

I trimmed Kaleia's hair today and it looks soo much better. It was beginning to resemble a mullet a bit. We did decide though it was my last time cutting her hair because I am not "nice" and I "hurt her feelings" when I cut her hair. It is really hard to be patient with her as I cut her hair with a sharp instrument as she keeps moving. I tried to stay calm but I did loose my cool at the end. I apologized to her and "pinkie promised" to not yell the rest of the day and she promised to listen really well. I think we both upheld our promises.

My day 2.0

After a long break of blogging I have finally had a day I feel the need to blog about.

I woke up about the same time as always. Jordan had already left for work, but today the kids had not woken me up. They both laid asleep in their beds. Ahh. I thought the dark rainy winter weather has them fooled and they have slept in. 1 hour later I hear Luke driving cars on his door so I open it. And I find that he has emptied every last toy tub and drawer. AND he has climbed a rather unstable homemade ladder that included a case of Costco diapers, a step stool, and a toy tub to find the 4 tubes of sunblock. Which of course he had squeezed out all the contents onto the carpet. I grab some cleaning items and set to work trying to get it out (to no avail may I add, I had to call a carpet cleaner to come). While I am on my hands and knees scrubbing he had gone downstairs then up again and was tapping my on the back. "Yes?" I ask as I turn, to find he has pulled out two fist fulls of poop and was wiping it on me. This ended up in a bath of course for the both of us. And a cleaning spree of poop that he had wiped on the banister going up the stairs, the baby gate, his dog, and his only clean pair of pants. SO I had to cross the the complex in pouring rain to do laundry. While his dog was in the "bath" Luke cried the entire 1 1/2 hours at the door for his "who who" (that is what he calls that dirty dog) and "no bubble" (which is what a bath is called). Heaven help with this third child. Please new child of mine be a well behaved, extremely mellow, calm, still, obedient child. PLEASE.

Tear

This past weekend we took down the crib. I caught Luke doing flips in and climbing out of it. This caused me to have visions of him breaking his neck-so the crib was promptly taken down. I don't usually get sad when mile stones are met. I was glad to be rid of the high chair, and so excited when Kaleia graduated to a booster seat. But, this time it was sad to haul the crib out to storage and to watch him sleep in a little toddler bed. He actually has been sleeping at night and napping during the day in it. He even stays in his room and doesn't bang on the door to be let out.

So for the first time in 4 1/2 years there is no crib in our house. Tear.

Halloween

This was my very favorite Halloween so far. When Kaleia was 2 we made it a whole 3 houses and then she was done. Last year we didn't go trick or treating because by the time Halloween day came we had already gone to three Halloween parties and were done with Halloween. This year we went to a great neighborhood. FYI golf course neighborhoods always give the best candy! Each house was decorated and almost all the people were in costume when they answered their doors. So fun! Kaleia was very excited to knock on the doors and Luke was happy to run after her with his bag and say, "tweet tweet" at each house. We lasted an hour and then decided to end the night while everyone was still in a good mood and not sleepy.

Pumpkin Patch

Can Time Stop Please-just for a hour?

Had so so much fun today at lunch. We grabbed Subway and headed for this fun park near Jordan's work. We were the only ones there and had a blast. Jordan and I got on these little (how to explain?) rocking horse things on wire coils that rock every which way. Well I guess we were a little to big and were leaning almost on the ground in every direction we leaned. We both ended falling off hysterically laughing. Luke ran over crying thinking we were hurt (my sensitive concerned boy). Kaleia climbed the highest she has ever on the dome of ropes that is 2 stories tall. This park is so much fun with tuns to do. Rock walls, slides, ships, spy glass', etc. I didn't want the lunch hour to end.

Play Dough Fun

First Day Of Pre-School

Kaleia started pre-school last month and is loving every day of it! I kind of was back and forth deciding if I was going to enroll her in a school or not, but am so glad that we did it. She is having so much fun and is experiencing many new things each week. Here are a few pics from her very first day.

the poo nap

I went this afternoon to Luke's room to get him up from his nap.

I walked into a very stinky room.

Upon further inspection I realized he had painted the crib, his toys, his dog, and himself with poo. Thus calling for an emergency bath, load of laundry, and full scale washing of all toys.

The first of 3 new posts...

Last week I thought it would be fun to go to the zoo. However, when we got there Kaleia thought it was a "better idea" to go to the play park across the street. This made me uneasy. At a zoo they would be contained in the stroller but a play park? Running around? and me alone? I tried to convince her the zoo would be more fun but I was told she would be the best little girl at this play park. So we went to the play park. It was cheaper and worst case scenario I thought we would leave fast and I would be out $8 bucks. So we went and...IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. They were both really good and Luke just fell once-well it was a tumble/summer-sault down a winding slide.