My water babies.. -Photo of the day

Mom got a pool and the kids love it. We go down every evening and let them swim. Taylor loves to get in the floaties, she calls them her boats:). Ryder on the other hand thinks he can swim and wants to wonder around the pool, without arm floaties. He wouldn't keep them on even if I could find them ;/ lol 

He's a Big Boy(well trying to be)

So Ryder, 20.5 months, has decided he wants to start going on the potty. The potty in the picture wasn't working too well(pee never made it in the potty, it was all over the floor) (AND he was wearing Sissy's panties :/) So this evening AFTER he got his stitches taken out we went to walmart and got him some Big Boy Undies and a new potty! He has already peed one pair of undies. On pair 2. I don't know how this potty training so early is going to go, Taylor was almost 3 before she finally was potty trained!

Evening in Photos

We went to the park and had pizza at the picnic tables and then the kids played for over an hour. Then we got the call that Ryders new glasses were in! He already bent his other pair and we can't fix them. These bend and have memory metal or something like that built into them. They fit him so well! They do not slide off or anything! 

Photo of the day 4-18-12 - Llama Drama

Taylors favorite book of the moment : Llama Llama Red Pajama. We read it before bed at night, and randomly through out the day. She remembers just about every page and loves to "read" it to me. lol :) In the book baby Llama throws a big tantrum because his Mama Llama is busy downstairs. So now, when Taylor is throwing a tantrum I remind her not do all the Llama Drama like Baby Llama in the book! That usually makes her stop crying/screaming etc. and look at me like I'm crazy! lol

Photo of the Day 4-17-12

We are working on Taylor with her sleeping habits. Since she was born she has slept with the TV on cartoons all night long. She is 3 years old, and never sleeps through the night. So we have tried taking the TV away at bedtime many times before but we could never actually do it :/ So, of course after she was up all night Sunday night because her cartoons would go off, we decided to try again. I talked to her all day about how the tv has to go to sleep at bed time just like she does. She would cry every time I mentioned it. At bed time it took 20 minutes of me reading a story to her, and then about 45 minutes of her screaming to get her to sleep. Finally, at 9 15 I checked on her and found this ^. Sadly, it didn't last long. She was up all night crying/screaming and we finally just let her in our bed................ I got NO sleep. She kicked me, rolled on me, took my pillows, took my blanket. And was up with Daddy at 6 am ready to go. So today I made her take a nap. It was rough at first. But I caved and let her watch ONE cartoon, when that went off I told her the TV would be off so she better go to sleep. It worked. But I know tonight it wont. Because when she wakes up at 2 am and the TV is off it will be a screaming fit again. I wish I could go back in time to when she was little and cut out the TV then. I will never let the kids sleep with TV's on again, if I can get her out of the habit that is......

Photo of the weekend!

Taylor Grace -40 months, Ryder Blake 20 months, Easton Rhyne 15.5 months!

The kids had a blast playing together as they always do! Can't believe how big they are now. They are growing way too fast for me :/

Photo of the Day 4/13/12

We went shopping this morning and stopped by Good Will :) It was half off day! (yay!) And I found a ton of neutral baby clothes!!! This one of course is one of my favorite :) Found alot of great deals tho and also bought a super nice bumper bad that is neutral as well!

I could kick my self for selling/giving away all of the kids things as they out grew them. Either way, I believe this will be our last baby so maybe I wont have to worry about it all again!

But anyways! :) LOVE half off days at good will!!!

Ryder got his new glasses today! He went to the eye dr on April 2nd for a clogged tear duct and we found out he needs glasses like mommy! These are the only type the eye dr had that would fit him. So we are going to go order some new ones from walmart this evening. :) He is still soooo cute in his glasses! Thats for sure ;)

Photo Of The Day Jan 14 & 15

Photo of the day for Jan. 14th 2012. Taylor Grace & her cousin Easton Rhyne. They are 2 years and 2 weeks apart :) They had a blast sharing her bike, and playing with the other toys. Of course Ryder was there too! But he was to busy trying to keep mamaws attention to actually play much! lol

Photo Of the day Jan 15th 2012. I was trying to get a good picture of me and the kids. everytime I said to say CHEESE Taylor closed her eyes and ryder just made a funny face.

I guess its going to take more work to get a good picture of me and both kids :)

Photo Of The day Jan 11 2012

The kids and I found a bag of Easter Eggs and put all the letters and numbers on them. They kids LOVED it! I showed Taylor how to spell her name, we put the numbers in order, and we practiced all the letters and numbers. Taylor knows just about every letter, and can tell you just about any letter out of order etc. She is great with numbers and can count to like 20 something when she wants to!! Ryder on the other hand loves to open and close the eggs, try to eat the eggs, and throw them all over the house :) So I am still finding random eggs under things :) LOL