Our New Niece!

My sister Danielle and her husband adopted a sweet little girl a little over a week ago. It was last minute, which it seems is how it always happens with the adoptions that have taken place in my family. They found out on Wednesday that the couple wanted to place with them, and the left on Friday, and the placement happened on Saturday morning. It is amazing and quite the adjustment to have a baby so suddenly. They are so happy and excited to have her in their family. They have named her Adalynn. Abigale and Preslie are so excited too. What an amazing thing that the mom and dad have done for them, they are great people and I hope that they have a lot of happiness and no regrets. They have chosen to place her with an amazing and loving family. CONGRATS!! Here are a few pics of her. The photograper who did these is a friend of Danielle's and she offered to come and take these for them. Her link is emilybaileyphotography.blogspot.com and is just getting her business going so if you are looking for a photographer check her out.

Hello are you out there??

So here's the thing. I have recently added a map to see where people are visiting my blog from, and I didn't know that more than my sister Danielle and my SIL Julie even looked at my blog. So I am excited to see that friends, family, or strangers there ARE people who check it out once in a while. So I am going to ask a favor of anyone who looks at my blog. Please leave me a comment as to where you are from, if I know you or not and how. I am so curious as to how my blog reaches so many people. Alabama who are you, Tennessee? Twin Falls ID? California? Herriman? You get the idea. SO if you could say hi, even if you don't know me I would really love it. Come on you know you want to do it, it really would make my day. Thanks, and a double thanks to those of you who choose to participate.
Thanks, Chantel

I NEED SLEEP!

Here she is on her sweet days which really is most of the time these days. I absolutely love it. She brings so much joy to our home. It is fun having a little girl now. They are so different from boys.

So I know that one night of no sleep shouldn't be that big of a deal, but last night it really was. Our sweet little Enza is teething and it just won't hurry and break through. So I was up with her until 5:30 last night. I actually at 4 ended up going and driving with her, because she had successfully woke up the boys and my grandma. So we were out driving and I actually was able to find some really cute houses for sale that could be possibilities when we are ready to move. So I guess it actually was not a complete bust. IF I would have really been on the ball, I could have got my grocery shopping done, but my menu was not complete hence my list was not made. Dang it! That would have been so nice to get that done with only one child instead of three. It was just not meant to be.


Here is Enza sleeping off our all-nighter. I wish I could sleep it off too. I'll definately be in bed early tonight. She is such a cute little stinker.

Potty Training is a Disease

*WARNING* This post is about poop again. So if you really don't want to read about poop yet again on my blog you had better stop reading now.*

There are few things in life that I hate more than potty training. For the last 18 months we have been trying to potty train Cruze. It has been one of those things that well has made me feel angry, sad, excited and at times happy. Our problem has been that Cruze can go without accidents, he just doesn't want to. He will wait until we put a pull up or diaper on him for bed and he will poop. Every night without fail this has for at least the last 9 months. He is one of the most stubborn kids I know. He is very smart and he knows what mom can and can't handle. Every time I would ask our Pediatrician he would say don't worry about it until he is 4. So I have been biding my time. My sister who has the same dr. asked him the other day about it, because we have not been in for Cruze's 4 year appt. yet. He said that you need to put them in underwear period. And not just put him in undies but if he has an accident he has to clean it up too. He is 4! I don't want him cleaning it up, then there will just be a bigger mess for me. I was thinking we already have done that. He does okay, but he meant at night too. What? I mean why if he isn't completely potty trained while he is awake would I put undies on him for bed. I would have to be stupid. IS he actually certifiably crazy? He has to be, I absolutely do not want to be cleaning up poop, pee and bedding in the middle of the night, or in the morning every morning. I wanted to cry and have a panic attack all at the same time. But I also know that nothing else has worked and as long as Cruze gets a pull up at night he will poop in it. So we started last Friday. He has not had any accidents at night. He does just fine. He has pooped in his undies from Friday until yesterday. My mom had the idea to bribe him with going to eat at Arctic circle and playing on the toys. Between that and the threat that if he pooped in his pants again he would lose his special blanket for the night he pooped 2 times in the potty since yesterday. So as of right now we are winning the power struggle that is our life with him right now. I'm glad he can't read, because if he knew I was winning he would poop his pants again. Thanks for listening as our battle rages on.

Seriously??

So this morning my boys were up at 6:00 am, and my boys were into everything. I woke up to hear Cruze on the monitor say, "Hurry and get the wipes." So I bolted out of bed because the wipes are in Enza's room and they wake her up every morning. SO I ran down there and Gauge had taken off his poopy diaper and Cruze was trying to get the wipes to help him clean it up. So there was poop all over in my bathroom. There was chewed up gum in my bathtub and all over my bathroom rug, a whole packs worth. The toilet was flooded with too much toilet paper. All of their toys were everywhere, not a single toy was in it's place. There was 1 or 2 whole pediasure's spilled on my kitchen floor, and crackers were smashed all over my living room. Where were we, well fast alseep, but how did we sleep through all of this. I really don't know!! Usually they come in and wake us up when they wake up, but no, they were on a rampage. I think they woke up and decided that today was the day to make mom realize that hey you can't stop us if you don't know we are awake. HEE HEE HEE!!
The kicker is they must have been up at like 5 or 5:30 to make that big of a mess by 6 am.