St. Patrick's Day

The kids had a fun time celebrating St. Patrick's Day at preschool!


Nathan sitting with his class.


Nathan and his friend putting together this train puzzle. He's really good at it!


Nathan's green consisted of John Deere.


Elizabeth in her fun green vest. She loves it!

Elizabeth is potty trained!

A week ago, Elizabeth told us she wanted to start wearing undies. I went and bought a package of little undies thinking she might have fun playing with them. Since money is very tight right now, getting rid of diapers also seemed like a good way to save a lot of money!

We never dreamed that a week later, she'd be potty trained! She just took right to potty training. As you can see in the photos, she had an older brother who sat right next to her while she used her potty chair. He helped her get her stickers.

After about the first day, she didn't want stickers anymore. She just looked at me and said "I have enough." She was potty trained in about 3 days.

She keeps her undies dry all day. She's even dry after naps (although I've been putting a diaper on her just in case...) She's still wet in the morning, but that is no big deal. That's just one diaper a day!

She's pretty proud and we're pretty excited to almost be completely done with diapers forever!

I hesitated to post this. With my luck, she'll backslide next week and be back in diapers. But somehow I doubt it! She wants to be a big girl and wants to wear her undies!

Truck Rides

Elizabeth took her first ride in the truck the other day. It's a special day when the kids get to take a truck ride. Only one car seat can fit and it has to be in the front seat (don't worry, we turn the air-bag off).

The trips are always with Dad. The trips are to places like Lowes or the dump. These are places where you need the truck!

Jeremy needed to take a trip to Lowes to pick up a post. Our old post rotted. Nathan has always taken these trips in the past, but it was decided that Elizabeth is big enough to face forward and start taking these trips too!

Jeremy likes to stop at a gas station and let them pick out a special snack that they don't get at home. In this case, it was wafer cookies.

On the way home, they stopped at a grocery store and picked up lots of packing boxes. They're going to have to make a LOT more stops to pick up boxes. We're going to need a lot!

Show and Tell

Nathan was show and tell at preschool this week and he was again VERY excited! He decided to bring his Hoppy and his Puppy because they are his favorite animals that he plays with all day and sleeps with all night! He did a great job answering the teacher's questions and the kids' questions.

He got to be the line leader and helper the day before he was show and tell person. He always does so well with the weather! He said the weather was "Half sunny, half cloudy. That means partly cloudy!"

The Jeremy Face

Whenever Elizabeth does this face, I think it's so cute because she looks like Jeremy when she makes the face. So now she'll deliberately make the face and say, "My Jeremy face!"

Dad Snuggle Time

Elizabeth likes to stall a little before we put her down for her nap. Her favorite place to stall is snuggled up in Dad's lap. She gets a little water and her bunny and then off to her crib!

Adventures in Kite Flying

Jeremy and Nathan were out flying a kite on a fairly windy day. The weather was perfectly fine. A large gust of over 40 mph came up and snapped the string off the kite. The kite flew over the shop and into the neighbor's yard. Nathan was really worried about the kite so they went over to the neighbor's house and got it right away. Afterwards, Jeremy said, "Wow, that was an adventure wasn't it?"

Nathan replied, "That's not the kind of adventure I want to have again."