So you think you can dance?

While helping Alisha clean her room, the girls got into the music. And FYI, I did not teach Kate how to dance like that-it was all her dad!

Our power is back!!!!

This winter's snowstorm left us without power, so we spent the week at my mom's house. It was quite a week!

Lily helping Andrew and Dakota sand, what this picture doesn't show is that two seconds after I took it, Lily took too many steps forward and rolled down the steps. She was too fast for anyone to catch, she is fine though, just scared.

The girls raiding Alisha's shoes. Hours of fun, hours.

Wii Fit.

Playing soccer on the Wii.

Andrew's snow angel. And Andrew making his snow angel.

Celebrating Mama's birthday. We love you.

Kate refused to go out and play in the snow, so Lily had all the fun sledding with Andrew and Alisha.

Mom's house after the first of the storm. See her trees bending under the weight of the ice and snow.

We gotta go back up.

All bundled up!

It was a fun, even if we were off our normal schedule. The roads are still ridiculous, and the kids haven't gone to school since Monday,and they are not sure if there will be power in all the schools for Monday. What an adventure.

What a day its been.

Lets sum up today.......

Ahh, the joys of motherhood. The sun will come out tomorrow!

From Pacifiers to Potties

For the past few weeks, Kate has been "practicing" at potty training. I could get her to sit on the potty, but only after her bath and with promising her candy, but the whole candy thing was not quite as motivational as I thought it would be. So yesterday I decided to try something new: movie time. Every time she went potty she was allowed to watch 10 minutes of a movie-and voila! It actually worked!!! Well, sort of, she still doesn't tell me when she has to go, but she will go when I ask her to. So the journey has started, not something I am too excited about, but a necessary part of having children. Also, on Tuesday we were at target and she was transfixed by Sleeping Beauty underwear, and I promised when she started keeping her pull-ups dry we would come back and get them. Wish us luck!!!

Jan 18 2009

Kate and Lily LOVE to help with dishes. Kate will push up a chair and climb on and Lily is never far behind her.

Daddy loves having his little helpers.

Lily's easter dress.

No photos please.

cMoe

Last month Emily, Andrew, Drew, Mom, the girls, and I went to the Children's Museum here in town. We had a great time. Kate and Lily playing the pipes with flip-flops.

Climbing the stairs in the under 5 room

Digging in a pit of rice.

More digging. Lily and Kate liked the rice box the best, and they were great at sharing and playing with the other kids. We can't wait to go back.

I know I have been a super blogger the past few days, but I had to put this on. Drew was at eBash today when he got a surprise visit from a local news team that wanted to do an interview!! It was on the 5 o' clock news, so we set up a table and ate dinner while watching Daddy become a tv star. Go Drew!!! That's Kate in the background saying Daddy Daddy. Oh, and the sounds isn't great, so you will definitely have to turn up your speakers.