Scrapbooking Trip

It's that time again.... My sister and I have created a tradition where once a year we get together and do pretty much nothing but scrapbook for three or four days straight. It's also tradition that while we scrapbook, we watch an entire season of some TV show. This year we decided to catch up on "Lost" and we watched the entire 3rd season. It has been 4 years since we started doing this and we love it! It's so fun! It's a great way to catch up on our scrapbooks and watch a TV show that we haven't had time for during the year. Plus, my kids love it too, because they love to play with their Aunt Kimmy.

We also had a little Wii tournament. Caiden successfully knocked out me, Casey, and Kim in boxing...

...and Casey beat me in tennis, BUT I am improving, just not exactly winning...

One night after we put the kids to bed, my sister and I went to a late show at the movie theatre. Casey likes to give me a hard time because I always sneak in all my snacks. Drinks, candy, and popcorn all stuffed in my purse! I'm far too cheap to actually buy the food there. Rip off! I prefer to be sneaky and bring my own...

Creative Caiden

So, there were 2 funny conversations tonight between Caiden and Casey that totally cracked me up. It went something like this:

Casey: "What letter did you learn today in preschool?"

Caiden: (Holds his hand up and makes the shape of an "o")

Casey: (teasing) "Zero?"

Caiden: (very matter-of-fact) "No dad, 'zero' is not a letter. It's a number. It's the first one in the numberbet."

Casey: "The what?"

Caiden: "The numberbet."

Ha! I died laughing! If there's an alpha-bet, then there must be a number-bet too. So cute...

Then later that night Casey and I were trying to watch TV and Caiden and Paige were running around and being very loud.

Casey: "You have 2 options. Option #1: go upstairs and play. Option #2: go to bed. Which one?"

Caiden: (thoughtfully) "Um...option #3: stay down here."

Oh, that is one clever little boy.

25 Random Things About Me

Well, I too got tagged on facebook to write 25 random things about myself, (and I sure picked some random ones!). So I thought I'd post it on my blog also so my kids can know how truly unique their mom is! Ha!

1. I can type 65 words a minute.

2. I love to eat out. (Olive Garden and Outback!)

3. I don't like to cook (but I am improving).

4. I do make awesome chocolate chip cookies, however.

5. I love to hold newborn babies.

6. I once drove on a suspended drivers license for an entire year without knowing it. oops.

7. I once got 4 speeding tickets in 4 months (hence the suspended drivers license.)

8. I haven't had a speeding ticket in 7 years!! Wahoo! (I have been pulled over 4 times though.)

9. I can say the alphabet backwards.

10. I'm terrible when it comes to turning off the oven, stove, iron (basically anything that can burn my house down). Thankfully, my husband is sort of like the fire chief and is close behind to turn everything off!

11. I love bon jovi and josh groban.

12. I have a tendency to enter every contest I see and am truly convinced that I am going to win big someday.

13. I want to go on a trip around the world (still working on winning the money to fund it).

14. I love boating.

15. I always dream that I can fly. (I hear that's a hereditary thing. Thanks dad.)

16. I love going new places (I never turn down an opportunity to travel!) and trying new things.

17. I love roller coasters. The scariest I've been on so far is the Aftershock at Silverwood Theme Park. I was nearly in tears when it was over, but I would totally do it again.

18. I love to scrapbook and blog.

19. I love to read books that are a series (Harry Potter and Twilight are my favorite).

20. I'm pretty sure I had the largest pregnant belly on the face of the earth. (my family will back me up on that). (FYI: On my facebook account my family DID back me up on that. Thanks alot Kim.)

21. I am a night person and sooo not a morning person.

22. I spend almost every day in the summer at the pool with my kids.

23. I love good deals and I'm a fabulous bargain shopper!

24. I use coupons when I grocery shop.

25. I'm scared of/hate dogs and spiders.

It's a miracle!!

Well, I think I have witnessed a miracle! Paige has actually been using the potty for the past few days. I've noticed within the past week that she has been playing with her potty chair. She will go grab it and put it on the floor and sit on it while she is playing (as you've seen in past posts). Then I noticed one day while she was carrying around her purse (which is a daily thing) that it was filled with all her Dora panties. So funny! So I asked her if she wanted to wear them and she agreed. I told her she couldn't pee in them, which, of course, a few minutes later she did. I said "oh no! you peed on Dora!" She had the funniest look on her face like she really felt bad for peeing on Dora. So for the rest of that afternoon she actually sat on the potty and peed!! I had to ask her, of course, but she still did it! Miracle! Now she has decided that she would rather carry all her panties in her purse instead of wear them, but she is keeping a dry diaper for most of the day. It is so funny when she goes because she will start and then stop, and then smile really big and say "one more time!" and then she will finish. I die laughing. I'm trying to be very careful not to push her, because Paige is the type to get really angry and then take 10 steps backwards just to punish me. I definitely don't want that. I will take whatever I can get. She seems very set on keeping her panties in her purse though, so we will see where it goes from here...