Catch Up! and Happy Birthday to my Baby Girl

It seems like forever since I've written anything.... I'm not even sure what the last thing I wrote was (guess I could have looked). Anyways here's a little update on everyone~ AJ is totally potty trained, as far as I'm concerned. Not at night, we'll work on that in a few months, or in a year, just not now! We checked out a book from the library called Zoo Poo and he loved it. After reading it for a week he wanted to be like the rhino and doo doo while charging on by. (You would have to see the picture to fully understand.) Well it worked, even last night while I put TK to bed he went and took his diaper off and #2 in the toliet. I was so proud of him, because normally he'll wait until after bath and the diaper is on and then he'll go take care of business. So we have definitely come a long ways! AJ is also doing this new thing ~ not sure where he learned it from ~ but when he wants something he'll fold his hands and say "PLEASE, it is my best!" For instance if he wants candy ~ Please candy is my best. And his face gets all scrunched up and he gets really intense. It just totally catches me of guard.

TK has not been eating during the night for the past week!!! YEAH!!! You can tell how excited I am about this since I mention this before I even mention her birthday! Yes my baby girl is one today, I can't believe it just went so fast, somehow even faster than AJ's first year. Maybe because I know it is my last and my kids will never be that little again.... makes me a little sad, but then I just think surely soon, maybe this year I will get to sleep for at least 4 or even 6 hours in a row ~ oh the luxury!!

We did 2 activities this last Saturday ~ quit a feat for me! I just haven't been doing hardly anything for fear of the "accident". Now that I feel we are all a little more comfortable with the situation I think we are ready for more. First we went to the Farmer's market, this used to be a regular event for me, but I'm not sure I had been since TK was born. We found an excellent deal on pumpkins for TK's party, which was great, except I drove to a friend's house and then we walked there. Let me tell you pushing 20 pumpkins in a stroll with 2 kids that weigh about 60lbs together is not a good idea!! And my friend had almost have the pumpkins! I seriously thought some hamstrings or something were going to start exploding! But they are great pumpkins and AJ thought the market was great so it was well worth it! Our second activity was a trip to the local cheese farm. We hadn't previously been there so I wasn't sure what to tell AJ to get him ready. Well once he got over the flies he thought it was the best!! I put some pics on with him feeding the cows. He gave ALL the cows some corn ~ this farm is not big at all, but we spent probably over 2 hours there. We even went for a ride on the hay trailer behind the tractor. Now AJ will tell you he loved it, but don't be fooled, there was MUCH protest and even crying before he got on. His new thing is to say, "NO I don't have to, it's my choice." ~ That's a whole different story, so here's the pics: