Housewarming BBQ!!!

Ok so I'm terrible because I don't have everybody's contact information to invite you formally but we've finally picked a date for our housewarming party and would love for everyone to come. I'm sending emails and text messages to the people that I have their information and this is to hopefully catch those that I don't have. Please know that you are totally invited and welcome to come even if it's just by blog that you're being invited.

Anyway, it's on Saturday May 22nd at 4:00 We're serving hamburgers and hotdogs with some side dishes and water and soda for drinks.
Please let me know if you'll be coming so that we can plan for enough food and if you need the address information ask me when I see you next cause my blog isn't private and I'd rather not give the world my personal home information, if you know what I mean :)

We were desparate

We've been trying to get Abigail to sleep in her own bed (all night) but she would rather sleep with us and needless to say we don't sleep well with her. So we've been waking her up really early with us and only letting her nap for no longer than 2 hours. We've also extended her bedtime from 8:30 to about 9:30 hoping that would help. Well she falls right to sleep in her own bed at 9:30 but she gets up and comes into our bed in the middle of the night. So last night she woke up at 12:30 crying and Derek went to get her and brought her in our bed. By 2:30 I couldn't take the feet in my face and neck anymore so Derek put her back in her own bed. Around 4 am I heard a thump on the baby monitor and she fussed a little but we waited to see what would happen. I figured she had fallen out of her bed (toddler bed) and would be crying for one of us any second. But she was silent, so I went upstairs to check in her and she had fallen out of her bed and then fallen fast asleep on the floor. So we left her there because all I cared about at that moment was her not being in my bed. She slept there the rest of the night and we slept peacefully in our bed. Are we terrible?

Toddlers Drive Me CRAZY!!!

So Wednesday is the day that I work from home and today I was on a conference call, which means that Abigail has to entertain herself for a little while. She decided to entertain herself by drawing all over my brand new walls with a black permanant marker, which I still can't figure out where she found it. In the first picture I tried to take it off with hand sanitizer which was recommended by the internet and it worked ok but the paint is stripping like crazy...
Any suggestions?

So how do you stay mad long with a 20 month old that walks around singing Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam and Popcorn popping on the apricot tree. Those are her favorite songs right now.

This is a picture of her goggles for popcorn popping

final house pictures

First I need to apologize for the long post this will be, but scroll to the end because there are a lot of things to get caught up on.

So we are finally settled in, for the most part, and loving the new house. The girls love the stairs and thankfully we haven't had any bad falls with Abigail, she goes up and down really slow and she hangs on to the side. Sorry about the quality of the pictures but the lighting for this time of day is terrible.

Potty Training!!!

We've started potty training Abigail and it has not been very easy. We got pull ups and we keep telling her to go potty in the toilet not her pull ups but she doesn't get it. She just wants to sit on the toilet really quick and then wipe. She hasn't gone potty in the toilet yet but at least she knows she needs to wipe and wash her hands. If you notice by the 2nd picture, maybe our trouble is in the fact that she thinks they are hats :)

Fun with the hose

This was the first semi warm day that we've had in a while and the girls took full advantage of it. They started off playing in the water table and than moved to the hose with their clothes on. When I saw Abigail soaked I decided that swim suits was the better idea and here they are wearing them for the first time this year.

Ice Cream Man

The ice cream man never came around our old neighborhood (thank goodness) but he comes by every day at the new house and he drives by a few times a day really really slow. Well you know what that means, we had to get something. This is Abby's first experience with an ice cream man purchase. She picked a Dora head ice cream and loved it.

Easter

Easter was great this year. We started off with baskets at our new house and then headed over to my parents to watch conference and have an easter egg hunt. Can't wait for next year, we're going to start hiding the baskets!

Packing the girls to move

We were packing and the girls thought they needed to get packed too, I guess :)