guess what...

Yesterday Claire announced to me that she had to go poo, so I sat her down on the toilet and lo and behold, she really did have to go, and she did! She's been sitting on the toilet for "fun" for a few months now, but nothing has ever happened, and so you should have seen her face when something actually did this time! She looked pretty unnerved and wanted to get off but I encouraged her to stay and we sang some songs, and she did it!

She was pretty proud of herself after.
We figured it was time to bring out the potty chair and get going on some actual potty training. I'm tired just thinking about potty training again.
Still, she seems eager and ready to go, so who can deny that?

Aww look how sweet! She loves it.... and that is chocolate on her face.... chocolate!
Anyone seen "Baby Mama"?

and here's a pic of Josh on the potty when he was training :)

Funny how they're both wearing pants in their potty pictures :)
Not very efficient is it?

And finally, last but not least, a pregnant picture of yours truly... not a good one, but here it is...

I am 25 weeks, 1 day prego now!!

Saturday silliness...

We looked in the bathroom and saw Claire doing this over and over again with her winnie the pooh! So what do you think... is she ready to potty train, or what?

For months she's been interested in sitting on the toilet and says "my turn going pee pee", and we've been reading some potty books a lot lately, so I guess we could start training... I'm exhausted just thinking about it though! Maybe next week, when we actually have a sink in our bathroom again! :)
we're so close!!!

Ok this next video is Josh singing his FAVORITE song EVER! haha
It's this cursed cd we got for free in a happy meal that he insists we listen to at every meal...
it has 5 songs only, so it gets old pretty fast... and his favorite song on the cd is "Kidz Bop"... the band's song. He says he likes it so much because "it's a rock n' roll song, and those are the BEST."
Here he is singing it!!!

Crazy kid!

Josh asked Jason the other day
"Daddy, do you want to be a part of Eddie Vedder's band?"
haha

Happy Memorial Day!

Hope everyone had a happy Memorial Day! We had a lot of fun! We started out the day with pancakes for breakfast, then went to watch our little small town memorial day parade - there's not a whole lot to it, mostly tow trucks, high school marching bands, and firetrucks, but we love it! :) Traditionally the parade ends at the cemetery where there is a ceremony at the grave of an unknown soldier. People lay dedicatory wreaths on the grave, and there's a 21 gun salute as well as a WWII bomber flyover. Josh and Claire took their turns standing in front of the statue with their hands over their heart, and saluting. I love Claire's salute :) After, they were handing out free ice cream, and "The-Obama-free-hotdog-man" man gave us all hotdogs on their portable bbq truck/float that drives around the city on holidays campaigning. I love this town. Later on we went and picked up some more flagstone for the path in our front yard, and then we spent the rest of the afternoon working on the house and in the garden. We had a yummy BBQ dinner and roasted smores in our firepit for dessert. It was a fun day!

Fun in the sun!

Josh and Claire spent all afternoon outside today playing outside throwing water balloons (nope, I don't have pictures of the balloons because we were at a friend's house and didn't have the camera!), and running through the sprinkler in our backyard. It was HOT!! Claire was funny trying to pop her water balloon to no avail! She just carried it around and would drop it, throw it, sit on it, and it still wouldn't break. Josh on the other hand probably popped 3 dozen singlehandedly!
Horray! The warm weather is finally here! Here's a short slideshow of some of their afternoon of sprinkler fun :)

Later I took this video of Claire dancing in the kitchen... she does this quite a bit, and I finally caught it on film! :) It's pretty funny, especially with the boots!

THREE !

Here are some spring pics of Josh and Claire!

Hope our baby #3, due september 24th, is just as cute!!! :)

ya. i guess this is my announcement.

Spring flowers

Here are some pictures I took of Claire in our backyard...
I'm glad we didn't trim that flowering shrub! Claire fits in perfectly with the pretty flowers.

... smelling the flowers

Thank you for the bead socks Aunt Lori! Claire won't let us take them off :) she loves them and requests them every day!

Horray for spring!

I'm trying to do better at blog posting.... but I'm really not that great on doing it on a regular basis! These 2 crazy kids keep me busy... as you can see in these pics I took today. The weather is just perfect right now!

Claire riding on the "wiggle racer". No matter what she rides on, she can only go backwards, so she usually ends up stuck on the grass.... then she sits there and says "help me! help me!" haha it's pretty cute. Still, I'm looking forward to her figuring out how to go forwards herself so I don't have to rescue her every 2 minutes! OH ya, and another funny thing..
Claire will NOT take off those rainboots! She loves them so much, and when we put on another pair of shoes she will take them off and go find her boots and put them on herself! She is a funny girl. She also has this funny obsession lately with diaper wipes.... they are comforting to her, like a security blanket or something! But they have to be fresh out of the package.... cold and wet. They can't be lukewarm and wet or dry. It's so funny and strange!
This is a pic from a couple of weeks ago when she scraped up her legs falling. Notice the diaper wipe and 2 fingers.... instant comfort!

Springtime means.. MUD! Josh's 2 favorite things... trains and mud.

A couple of years ago some friends who were moving gave this farm to us, and the kids love it! Claire kept throwing the cow out of the barnyard into the plants though... don't know why that cow was evicted.

... eating lunch outside... Josh still loves pickles! He ate about 4 huge kosher dills today!

Josh playing t-ball... this is the best shot I got of him in action.
He hit it quite far a couple of times.

And last but not least..... HAIR!!! Things are looking up for Claire-bear -no-hair! She has quite a bit in the back now, and it's really blond and curly... wonder where she got that from? :)
But she still has what appears to be male pattern baldness in the front... poor girl. We can only hope it will grow eventually... do they make baby Rogaine?