december 2011

i am not sure why i ever doubted that reid would catch on to potty training but when he wasn't walking or even sitting up at nine months i guess i just assumed.
last weekend i had a couple days in between regular school and studying for finals and we (meaning sadie and I) decided to see if reid would want to try potty training. I really didn't think it would work but once i introduced the idea that he would get a piece of candy when he went and sadie would get one too it was like wild fire. within a few hours he was going almost every 10 minutes. what a stink!! he really puts his mind to something and off he goes. our little ham bone is just that, always trying to make people laugh. just yesterday when i was disciplining him for doing something he made a funny face and started laughing at me trying not to smile and laugh at him. he uses low and high voices to talk, i didn't think a two year old knew how to use that much inflection in his voice. he is also very good and hilarious (in his own mind)at knock knock jokes. reid:knock knock me: who's there? reid:banana me:banana who reid: something completely inaudible then hysterically laughing. me: ummmm
sadie: our sweet girl is four! i can't even believe it! sadie is super into glitter, glue, markers, and paper. the girl can work for hours and hours on a project. we've started to call her ke$ha. she's in a new room now and struggling a bit with the transition. her new teacher is so sweet and she knows so many of the kids in her room but it's a huge change from the last room. sadie still loves helping me with cookies, baking, and is a great egg cracker. our new fun activity during christmas is elf on a shelf. she named him boysara (yes pronounced boy-sara) and we have so much fun finding him every morning when she wakes up. sadie is always up for anything, loves to dust, clean, and wipe things down (whose child is she?!?)
we are so blessed and lucky to have such wonderful kiddos