Day 3

So far so good! Cora didn't have any accidents today!!! She even told me a few times that she had to go, and even pooped twice!! If you have not gone through potty training, you have no idea the excitement that this brings!!! We dropped the kids off with grandpa and grandma Lynn so that we can have a night out, so hopefully the success continues!!

Avoided the stores and did my black Friday shopping online today. I got some awesome deals and am pretty much done. I just have to even things out a bit and get some stocking stuffers. Thankfully I have lots of time for that!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We ended up having dinner here today which worked out very well. Since it was a last minute decision, I didn't have time to stress about it! Tricia brought about half the food, and helped with the clean up which made things go much easier! She is going to be a great addition to our family and I am glad Jeff found her!

As the picture shows, our Christmas tree is up and the elf is here too! I just love this tradition and can't wait for the kids to see him in the morning. Hopefully it improves their behavior for the next few weeks. This is a first...I have never put the tree up on Thanksgiving, usually it would be that weekend, but Blake had been bugging, so we gave in.

Potty training, day 2. Not bad overall, only one accident that she didn't tell me about. A few times she would tell me as she is going, but a few times she told me first. Overall, I think a couple more days of hitting it hard and she will be trained! Although she is reluctant to poop on the potty. It will come though, I'm not too worried about it.

Well, I am off to bed now. Going to do a little shopping tomorrow, late morning. Hopefully I can be 100% done after tomorrow!!! That will really be a first for me!!

Potty Training-day 1

Ugh.....this is NO fun at all! She knows when she has to go, she knows to tell me and knows that she needs to go on the potty. So what's the problem....the gene that she inherited from her momma.... STUBBORNNESS!!

Hopefully it will be easier tomorrow. I am not ready to give up, although that would be the easy solution.

Thanksgiving tomorrow at our house with mom, Jeff and Tricia. Hard to believe it is that time of the year already. Fortunately, my Christmas shopping is almost done!! I will probably head out for a little shopping Friday morning in Sandusky.

My little sleepwalker

Cora has gotten up in the middle of the night a couple times within the last week. The one night I heard her yelling "momma?" repeatedly. I finally found her downstairs wondering around looking for me! Then last night she wanders in our room about 1:00am saying, "read book please?" I sent her back to bed, and after a few tears, she was sound asleep.

Excited to report that I am about 70% done with my Christmas shopping!!! Yah!!!

Potty time

Cora has been been doing a great job with potty training. She has been going on and off for the last week and a half. Sometimes she will tell us when she has to go, other times she will fight it tooth and nail.

Otherwise it has been pretty quiet around here. We did buy a treadmill since we can't run outside with all the crazy hunters out there anymore.

I'm not taking many pictures for customers right now which is fine because I feel like i am falling behind on everything else lately. I still have not taken Cora's two year pictures. Might have to combine that photo session with Christmas card photo session!

I just got a new iPhone from work so this will help to make my life much easier. I will try to upload a video of Cora singing her ABCs and twinkle twinkle little star. It is hilarious. Okay that didn't work. But here's a picture of Tom and I from a wedding that we went to last night.

Big Girl Bed ... and more sayings & doings of a 4 year old...

Well, tonight is Cora's first night in the big girl bed. She was very excited!! It is hard to believe we are done with the crib forever!

We had our last camping trip of the season last weekend out at Forester. It was their Halloween weekend and the kids had a great time trick or treating and the weather was beautiful. We were in the camper the one morning and Blake wanted to go outside and was trying to persuade us....he says, "C'mon outside...it helps to get the stink off ya."

All in all we had a great camping season. We didn't venture far...we went to Forester for the first 6 weeks, then went to Caseville for a long weekend in July, and then this last trip out to Forester. We were supposed to go to Harbor Beach this past weekend, however the weather was supposed to be bad, so we cancelled that. Thank goodness because the weather was cold, windy and wet.

Other things going on....Tom and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary on 9/27/11. We bought a 2010 Chrsyler Town & Country van and got it home on Wednesday the 28th. It will be so nice to have more room!

I will post some pics soon!

It's Potty Time!

Cora peed on the potty tonight!!! She was having fun sitting there, and frankly I'm not sure that she even knew she was peeing!! Oh well, we praised her up and down so hopefully it will encourage her to keep sitting on the potty!

My 3rd 5k of the year is tomorrow morning! Yikes...we'll see how it goes. I haven't been running as faithfully the last few weeks since I've been doing more with the bands.