Oh My Goodness

Oh my goodness is one of the cutest things Juliet says on a regular basis. I wish I could get it on tape (in it's genuine state...not staged) so you all could hear. It's this adorable drawl.."oh my Gooooooodness!". SO cute.

Well, we were trying on her bathing suits tonight..going through the basket/bin to weed out the ones that don't fit from last year, etc. I bought this in the Gymboree sale a week or so ago and hadn't tried it on her yet, so I did tonight. And OH MY GOODNESS. How freaking cute is it??? I drug her downstairs to take some pics and she was loving every minute of it. Probably b/c I kept saying things like, "oh my goodness, you are so cute!". Aidric was at tee ball with Chris, so she was just eating up the attention and turned into a huge ham. I wish we had had a better background...there will most definitely be another "photo shoot" with Juliet in this suit in our future...

(my apologies if you've seen these on facebook....or OOF...I'm totally oversharing =)

Pwincess Juliet

She's totally into being a princess lately and last weekend, she received this crown and jewelry set as a birthday party favor. She looooooves it and even carries the crown around after it falls off and I've gotten sick of putting it back on one too many times. I sat her down for a few quick pics, but it wasn't the most successful of "sessions".

This is the best we got:


This is her lovely "smile for the camera" smile:


And this one is more true to what she would have preferred to be doing at the time.

52 weeks catch up

We're currently on week 10, and I've been faithfully taking pics every week. Just forgetting to post them. So, here's catch up!


Week 6
On our way out to dinner at Mexican Riviera Grill.


Week 7
Just watching our Saturday morning shows. (Diego)


Week 8
On our way out the door..heading to the gym, our typical Friday morning activity.


Week 9
After Aidric's first tee ball game.

Adventures in Potty Training

I have been SUCH a horrible blogger lately. I wrote this post over 2 weeks ago and kept forgetting to add the pics and post it! Oops!

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So, this morning, Juliet kept telling me she was trying to poop while we were eating breakfast. After, I went to change her diaper and she hadn't pooped. So, I go the little potty out of her closet (she had never seen it/used it before) and put it in the bathroom. Brought her in there and had her sit down..told her to poop and I would give her a special treat. Totally didn't think she would.

I went back into her room to fold laundry and she and Aidric were in the bathroom. I hear him coaching her and telling her to push, etc. but I'm just going about my business. About 5 minutes go by and Aidric starts yelling, "She pooped!!! Mommy, she pooped!!" I went running in expecting to see poop on the floor or something, but she had done it!! Pooped in the potty! I was clapping, Aidric was clapping, she started clapping for herself and said, "I so essited (excited) mommy!! Special teaty pease!!"

So, I put her in underwear and brought her downstairs for a special treat. I snapped a picture of her in the underwear and while I was taking the picture, I see a puddle forming on the floor by her feet. Totally peed in them about 3 minutes after putting them on. :)


So, put a diaper on her and go about our day. We pick Aidric up from preschool and when we get home, they went upstairs for something. I'm in the kitchen making their lunch and they didn't come when I called them. So, I go up and hear them in the bathroom. Turn the corner and this is what I see:




I seriously about died laughing..told them to stay right where they were and ran to get my camera. Apparently, Aidric had to poop, so she decided she needed to go too. He must have helped her get her diaper off, b/c she could not do it herself. (cloth diaper with snaps)

I also realized that I hadn't put her potty back together after she pooped- I wiped it out with a wipe, put some soap and water in it and put the "pot" part in the tub so I could deal with it later. Aidric had emptied the water and put it back together for her! And she actually peed in it! (and her diaper was dry)

So, thanks to my 3.5 year old...we may have Juliet potty trained sooner rather than later. How cute is he??

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UPDATE: As of today, she seems to be getting it!! She is now peeing on the potty most times when she tells me she needs to. And Aidric is still being a huge help! A lot of times she sits down, stands back up after 2 seconds and says, "I can't do it" but he encourages her to sit back down and even reads her books to keep her entertained there. Here's hoping we continue in this direction!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm a horrible mother b/c Aidric has a custom Valentine's Card and Juliet doesn't. But his class had an exchange so he NEEDED a card...she doesn't have a class. I still feel bad, but not so bad that I'm not going to share his card here...he's just too cute not to share.



Aidric learned this little "Will you be my Valentine?" song at school and it's been NONSTOP singing for the last week. This first video was last week, when he didn't quite have the words down. The second one is from this morning- Juliet was supposed to do the "Yes, I'll be your Valentine..." part, but she chose to repeat the "Will you be my Valentine" part instead. =)

a plethora of colors

She started out the day in a cute black and white dress with her sparkly red shoes. No fashion faux pas there, right?

But when she napped, I threw some purple leggings on to keep her legs warm. When she woke up, she wanted to keep them on. And then she wanted to go outside...and she put her red shoes back on. But it was cold, and this was the only hoodie we had downstairs.

Did we leave out any colors here??

When we hear ourselves...

Lately, I've been hearing a lot of myself in the kids. Admittedly, some of it does not make me proud, but most of it makes me giggle.

We are huge on choices around here...and Aidric has figured out that his 2 choices are often 2 things he doesn't want to do in a different form. "You can give Juliet a turn with the turn with the toy or mommy can take it away from you and I can give it to her. Those are your choices." or "You can choose mommy to brush your teeth or you can choose daddy. Those are your choices."

Lately, he's been giving me some choices of my own. We'd been outside for awhile one afternoon and we came back in because I was cold. About 10 minutes later, he asked to go back outside and I told him he had to wait until daddy was done working and he could ask him. He replied with, "Well mommy, we can go out the back door or we can go out the front door. Those are your choices." I seriously about fell over laughing. That is EXACTLY the kind of choice I would give him!

He's also been awarding me with one sticker on a regular basis, "Because you have been a good listener today, Mommy."

But tonight, it was Juliet who did it and I tried SOOO hard to keep a straight face and tell her sternly that it was not OK, but I failed miserably. I was giving them both a bath and they were taking turns fighting over EVERY toy in the tub. If one of them had it, the other one wanted it and tried to take it. I lost my patience and yelled, "I am going to take ALL of the toys away from both of you if you don't stop!"

Juliet stood up, looked at me and said, "I ah sick a ooh a-i-ude". I thought I understood her, b/c sometimes she's a little unclear, so I asked her to repeat herself. And then she said, clear as day, "I am sick of you attitude, mommy!" Oh my goodness. I couldn't even argue though...I was being pretty cranky. =)