First off, Wayne passed all four sections of the CPA exam!!!!!!! We are both super excited to have all of the studying out of the way. We will now have a lot more time together as a family which will be so nice. I am so so so proud of Wayne. He really showed amazing discipline while studying for that thing. We found out yesterday and celebrated by finishing up Christmas shopping for the kids.
The day before we found out about the test was Wayne's 33rd b-day. Seriously, he's getting old;) Our awesome friends took our kids from us for the evening so that we could go to dinner. We did our traditional dinner at Tucanos on Tuesday and will have cake and ice cream tonight with the Lewis fam.
It was so nice to be able to go out on a date with Wayne. We were in need of a night out after all of the studying that he's been doing.
In other news we may have narrowed our baby names. Well these have pretty much been my top three from the beginning but we don't discuss it too much and the other night Wayne put his in order so here they are.
Wayne's Amy's
1. Eleanor 1. Hazel
2. Holland 2. Eleanor
3. Hazel 3. Holland
Friday, December 9, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Silly Kiddos
I was having issues with posting on this blog so I have been writing silly things about the kiddos in my written journal. But since this is our family journal and it will eventually (hopefully soon) get printed I have decided to post them on here.
The Other day I caught Noah trying to clean out his poopy undies in the toilet just like his dad. It was pretty funny but he also made quite the mess:(
***** Reading this back I just realized that it sounded kind of funny. Wayne cleans out Noah's dirty undies in the toilet not his own:)
Presleigh and Noah held hands the entire way home from the Lewis'. When I asked if they were trying to stay warm, Pres said to me, "no, we are being safe."
Presleigh told us that the man at the tree lot was a dog because his hat looked like it had puppy ears:)
Noah pulling at his undies, lookings down and saying, "Look mom, my puppet is shaking."
The way Noah says ha ha ha ha ha when he gets away with something or is teasing. Or when he is playing the mean character from one of their favorite shows to act out.
Noah tries to stuff all of his favorite little toys into his pockets, and then gets frustrated when they don't fit.
Presleigh likes to get herself dressed these days. She changes clothes about 3 times daily. She usually has one piece of her outfit that stays constant, like her favorite skirt or dress but then she changes her leggings or tights and her tops. She comes up with very creative ways to put her outfits together. I guess this is probably my fault because I like to put random outfits together too. I use to try to fight her on it but now I let her dress however she wants, well usually:)
I am having an extra hard time understanding Noah. He is talking a lot more and it takes me a few times to catch some of his new words. Sometimes I just smile and say, "that's so cool Noah." But then he sometimes responds with a, "No, it's not cool mom." like he was being super serious about what he was telling me.
I love the way that Noah talks though. He has the cutest little voice. I love it when he says to us "Come and get me," when he wants us to chase him or play. Or when he pulls on my hand or pant leg and says, "Mommy, come here." Or when he asks me to hold him and then points to another part of the house and says, "Mommy, hold me over there."
We've been working quite a bit with the kids on their alphabet and each of them can identify almost all of the letters in the alphabet. Noah is a lot more interested in letters and colors. He loves to tell me what color things are. My favorite is when he will pick out letters randomly on things though and then make the letter sound. Especially when we are on the computer, he will show us where all the x's are:)
They both have the silliest reaction to the word bum and most potty words. Noah thinks saying bum is hilarious and can crack himself up by saying it over and over.
Presleigh is finally able to buckle her own carseat, except when she has a big puffy coat on. She can't unbuckle it though which is great.
On Sunday Presleigh wore a cute bracelet to church and it broke during nursery. She was so sad and kept asking me to fix it. I told her that it couldn't be fixed and that she would have to ask for one for her birthday. Wayne and I both told her a few times that we couldn't fix it. Then while we were having dinner she looked at us all excited like she had the greatest idea in the world and said, "I know how we can fix my bracelet!!!!" and we responded with a, "how?" and she said, "With teamwork!!!!!!" It was dang cute, because Wayne is constantly talking to them about working together and using teamwork to get things done. Plus it is something that her favorite tv say too. Teamwork was not able to fix her bracelet though:(
These kiddos keep us busy and laughing constantly. They are so fun to watch and even more fun to listen to. They are constantly pretending and sometimes we can't tell if they are using their own imaginations or if they are role playing from some cartoon. Presleigh is like her uncle Devin and has a lot of movie lines memorized. We love our Sis and Buddy and can't wait for this sweet baby girl to join in on the fun:)
The Other day I caught Noah trying to clean out his poopy undies in the toilet just like his dad. It was pretty funny but he also made quite the mess:(
***** Reading this back I just realized that it sounded kind of funny. Wayne cleans out Noah's dirty undies in the toilet not his own:)
Presleigh and Noah held hands the entire way home from the Lewis'. When I asked if they were trying to stay warm, Pres said to me, "no, we are being safe."
Presleigh told us that the man at the tree lot was a dog because his hat looked like it had puppy ears:)
Noah pulling at his undies, lookings down and saying, "Look mom, my puppet is shaking."
The way Noah says ha ha ha ha ha when he gets away with something or is teasing. Or when he is playing the mean character from one of their favorite shows to act out.
Noah tries to stuff all of his favorite little toys into his pockets, and then gets frustrated when they don't fit.
Presleigh likes to get herself dressed these days. She changes clothes about 3 times daily. She usually has one piece of her outfit that stays constant, like her favorite skirt or dress but then she changes her leggings or tights and her tops. She comes up with very creative ways to put her outfits together. I guess this is probably my fault because I like to put random outfits together too. I use to try to fight her on it but now I let her dress however she wants, well usually:)
I am having an extra hard time understanding Noah. He is talking a lot more and it takes me a few times to catch some of his new words. Sometimes I just smile and say, "that's so cool Noah." But then he sometimes responds with a, "No, it's not cool mom." like he was being super serious about what he was telling me.
I love the way that Noah talks though. He has the cutest little voice. I love it when he says to us "Come and get me," when he wants us to chase him or play. Or when he pulls on my hand or pant leg and says, "Mommy, come here." Or when he asks me to hold him and then points to another part of the house and says, "Mommy, hold me over there."
We've been working quite a bit with the kids on their alphabet and each of them can identify almost all of the letters in the alphabet. Noah is a lot more interested in letters and colors. He loves to tell me what color things are. My favorite is when he will pick out letters randomly on things though and then make the letter sound. Especially when we are on the computer, he will show us where all the x's are:)
They both have the silliest reaction to the word bum and most potty words. Noah thinks saying bum is hilarious and can crack himself up by saying it over and over.
Presleigh is finally able to buckle her own carseat, except when she has a big puffy coat on. She can't unbuckle it though which is great.
On Sunday Presleigh wore a cute bracelet to church and it broke during nursery. She was so sad and kept asking me to fix it. I told her that it couldn't be fixed and that she would have to ask for one for her birthday. Wayne and I both told her a few times that we couldn't fix it. Then while we were having dinner she looked at us all excited like she had the greatest idea in the world and said, "I know how we can fix my bracelet!!!!" and we responded with a, "how?" and she said, "With teamwork!!!!!!" It was dang cute, because Wayne is constantly talking to them about working together and using teamwork to get things done. Plus it is something that her favorite tv say too. Teamwork was not able to fix her bracelet though:(
These kiddos keep us busy and laughing constantly. They are so fun to watch and even more fun to listen to. They are constantly pretending and sometimes we can't tell if they are using their own imaginations or if they are role playing from some cartoon. Presleigh is like her uncle Devin and has a lot of movie lines memorized. We love our Sis and Buddy and can't wait for this sweet baby girl to join in on the fun:)
Friday, December 2, 2011
Our November
I can't believe November is already over. I'm pretty happy that it's over though. It was a crazy month for our family.
I finally stopped working. I had been planning on quitting for a while but never got around to it. I am officially done:) I spent the first part of the month working on tons and tons of projects for the kiddos for Christmas. This was the fun part of the month:) I'll have to take pictures of everything soon. I love having some homemade Christmas presents for my kiddos to enjoy. My plan was to get all of it done by Thanksgiving so that I could focus on real Christmas shopping after that. I did get it all finished but it sort of got me in the mood to keep going so I've been working on some other things like fixing up my house:)
The last couple weeks Wayne took off from work so that he could study for his (hopefully) last CPA test. This was the not so fun part of the month:( He locked himself in our spare bedroom and studied from 7:00 in the morning til sometimes midnight every single day. He took his test yesterday and we are hoping that he won't have to retake it. I am so proud of my hubby and all of his hard work. I cannot even imagine spending that much time going over boring accounting stuff but he was so diligent and studied his little tail off. We can't wait to have that test out of our life!!!
The kids have been doing so well with all the craziness around here. Presleigh has been asking for a while now when we will get our tree and Christmas decorations up. We had told her that we had to wait until after daddy's test. So last night we went and picked out our tree.
I don't know what I was thinking but I decided to start potty training Noah this month. Yeah, I probably should have waited until after Wayne's test. He has been doing really well with using the potty though. I tried to do the three day potty training with him and it seemed to work pretty well. We still have accidents though and this week we've had to resort back to diapers because Noah has had a little stomach bug. He is back in his buzz undies today though:)
Our Thanksgiving was really nice this year. We ate dinner with the Lewis family and enjoyed spending our day with them. I got Wayne to take a couple hours off from his studys so we got to enjoy it with him too:)
I chose to go to Target at midnight for black friday. It was a dumb move because I didn't really need anything there but black friday shopping is sort of tradition in my family. It was crazy and the line was super long but it was still fun:) Goodbye November!!!!!!
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