Start of week 26

Before church at the end of week 25, start of week 26! She's been a movin' and a groovin' for sure!!!

Entryway change

We needed (ok, I wanted) a change in our entry again. This system worked great for the time being but I was tired of it. So we chnaged it back to the way it was before and then added some decorative stuff along with letters for the kids hooks. I also hung hooks in the garage for backpacks and lunch bags so the bulkiness of them didn't take up space in the entry hall. Best.idea.ever.

Cute kids

So Jaeg picked out his outfit this day, he did good! :) (btw, he is now mostly potty trained, finally!!!! This kid is taking forever! He's got the #1 thing down no problem and hardly even needs to be reminded but #2 has been tricky and he usually just ends up going in his undies and then telling us. Yesterday tho, at Easter, he came up to me "pee potty!" so I said 'Lets go' and ran to gmas bathroom quick. He proceeded to go #1 AND #2 and then said "all done!" and I was so shocked (& happy lol) so maybe we are at the brink of no more underwear messes??)

And Selah got into Ariellas "play" makeup. She actuslly did a pretty good job getting most on her eyelids...how does she know that's where that goes??

Easter

Yesterday was Easter. Last FPU class for me, lunch at Mary's, supper at mom's....was a busy day.

Selah didn't want anything to do with taking pics at first.

Then I asked if she wanted an M&M...just the thought was enough to make her stop crying enough to get a couple pictures. Too bad she's teething and always has her fist shoved in her mouth. Still cute tho :)

And we gave Lucky to our old neighbors on Sat. Nathan had had enough of the cat. The kids didn't want to give it up, but we were super thankful he went to someone we knew.

Caedmon got a potato necklace sent to him by Great Gma. He was so excited. He wears it all the time. Him and Gma have a really neat pen-pal relationship going that I think they both enjoy!

Back to the old ways?

I think I should go back to using my camera, uploading pics and then doing posts on the computer. Seems like evwv though I have the tools at my finger tips with a camera and a posting app right in my phone, I still did way more posts in "the old days" hmmmm!

It's coming full circle for tiernan. We changed his diapers for how many years and now he gets to change someone else's. Ha! Love it!

Crazy hair day at school. The boys weren't that crazy. Just spiked w a mohawk but since their hair is short, it wasn't that noticeable.

Today I showed Justin, the guy who bought the salon from me back in nov, the salon for the first time! That was fun and hopefully within a couple weeks, he will fully take it over, yippee!

Caedmons free hand drawing of the US. So good for an 8 yr old. His spatial ability is mind blowing. He started w Maine & worked his way east.

Nathan put in a new ceiling fan the other day. I underestimated his ability. He actually did it very quickly and it's so much quieter than our old one! Glad that one went out! Although it was kinda scary bc it pretty much melted the whole inside and smelled really bad. Glad it didn't start a fire.

Back to cold

So we had a warm snap recently with temps into the 40s for several days. We'll take it since it's January! All the snow melted and it was starting to feel more like march or April. We know better though and now temps are back down (-5 this morning) w about an inch of snow on the ground.

Mom and Dad made it back from Arkansas this week. They were gone for just over a month. We went to their house yesterday after school and the kids were so excited. Caedmon spent most of his time drawing a map of the US. Boy that child likes to draw! He def doesn't get his skills from his mom though!

We are signed up for a marriage retreat in a few weeks, will be a nice wknd getaway with one of Nathan's brothers and wife. We are looking forward to some time away too!

With Nathan laid off this winter (he kinda voluntarily took it off), we've been staying in bed til about 6:30am. Well, the kids get up at about 5:45 racing upstairs to start their day. The only problem with that is that most of the time, the little ones get in to stuff that they shouldn't bc the older ones leave it out or open or whatever. Out of all the years that I've been a parent, I've never "babyproofed" stuff as in locking cabinets etc but go figure with our 6th, I finally broke down and got cabinet locks and they are the best things ever!! (As long as they are kept locked) One problem we were having w Jaeg was that he was going into the fridge whenever he wants to get whatever he wants. Um, no. But we couldn't watch him every second so Ariella actually had the idea that we should put one of the cabinet locks around the handles of the fridge. Best.idea.ever! That along w keeping the pantry locked, keeps jaeg out of a LOT of trouble!

While I was typing this, jaeg went into our bedroom, climbed up all of our dressers drawers in our walk in closet to get a basket of goodies I have set up their for a friend who's bday is coming up. He got to the basket and ripped open all the candy boxes that were in there. Ugh!! That child is a climber and def starting to get into his 'not so easy' toddler years!! Between him and selah getting into stuff, we can't relax much during the day!!

I write this stuff and take pics of their messes bc one day I hope we will find all of this funny :)

This morning, Jaeg opened a bag of veggie sticks and dumped them all over the table, had gotten a bag of little weiners and a cutie orange outta the fridge and was happily eating whatever when we got up. We might hafta wake up earlier :/

Potty training

Man the day's fly by! So Nathan was bound and determined to get Jaeg potty trained last week. He has pretty much potty trained the other 4 all within a few days so he was pretty confident w this one too. He started off great and is doing well with #1....it's the #2 he's not so cool with. He doesn't get the whole "that stuff goes in the potty" part and has continually pooped in his underwear day after day. Nathan for so frustrated w him today that he put a diaper back on him. I think we might have to go to pull ups so he can go potty when he needs to but we don't have to change any dirty underwear.