Lots of pictures!!!!!

Here are some pictures from our recent adventures. Going on walks, playing at the park, and our neighborhood Easter egg hunt.

I think Presleigh looks ill in this picture. The lighting is not the best, but wanted to show you (MOM) the hat!

Presleigh loves princesses but for some reason wasn't a big fan of this Cinderella. Maybe she was scared of her nose Piercing:)

Dying Easter Eggs!!!!!!!!!

Presleigh is officially potty trained! I had to celebrate with this (only one kid in diapers) bag.

Easter Dresses

I can barely remember my childhood. I have the worst memory ever. But one thing that I do remember is getting a new dresses for Easter. I remember a trip to gunny sack (I think that's how you spell it) in San Francisco we took once, I think to look at Easter dresses. I love this picture of my siblings minus my youngest brother. Look at those silly haircuts:) I'm not real into matchy matchy but can you believe that my mother made the dresses that my older sister Kim and I are wearing? I mean I know they look pilgrimish with that doile thing around the neck, but I'm sure they were stylish, because well my mother is pretty fashionable. hehe. Can you tell that i'm giddy over easter dresses. Anyway... This is why I decided to make Presleigh her Easter dress. I want to be like my mommy and hopefully make my girls their dresses every year. Hopefully when they are old like me they will appreciate it like I appreciate my mom for using her talents to make me things.
So, TA DA............................................... The Bubble Dress, modeled by the cutie herself, with a little bit of bed head.

And the Back view. You can't really see the buttons unless you click on the picture to enlarge it.

For those of you worried about the immodesty here, don't worry she has a yellow cardigan to go over it. And these adorable shoes too!

So there you have the special homemade Easter outfit that Presleigh will get to wear for this special Easter Day. I should probably get started on Noah's coordinating tie.

Potty training

We've been working on getting Presleigh potty trained this past week. She is actually doing a lot better than I thought she would. She's only had a few accidents since we started and she finally went #2 in the potty today. We got her a little potty from Ikea and I basically let her run around with no panties and she just goes when she has to. I love watching her run into the front room from the backyard when she has to go potty. And then when she's all done she yells "I did it!" She's such a big girl and we are so happy that she is doing so well with her potty training.

Noah is trying to crawl these days. He gets up on all fours and rocks but hasn't quite figured it out. He is able to get around pretty well with his scooting, although he seems to get frustrated with it. Noah babbles quite a bit. He loves to say dada and clicks he toungue a bunch too. Noah's bum problem is so much better. He had a follow up appointment on Monday and the doctor was relieved that it was going away with the antibiotics.

We've been spending a lot of time outside. The weather has been beautiful here and we are lucky enough to have a park down the street from us so we go pretty often.

Wayne is working on getting his CPA passed. He works all day and then goes to the college to study during the evenings. We definitely don't see enough of him, but hopefully he can get this test over with soon.

I've been sewing a little lately and i'm totally enjoying it. I grew up watching my mom make all sorts of things, and I wasn't really interested in any of it until now. I love creating things. My newest creation is Presleigh's Easter dress. It turned out so stinking cute and I'm so excited about it. I will post a picture of it soon.

Here are a few pics of the kids. I tried to post more but blogger is being lame. Sorry mother!

Silhouettes

I thought it would be fun to make Silhouettes of the kids. I know you probably can't tell but they are making the same face. It's really crazy how similar their silhouettes are. It was a fun and very easy project.

I almost had some made on etsy and then I realized that I could probably make them myself.

Projects

This isn't the most accurate before picture of Noah's room, because before we got the computer armoire our computer and office stuff was taking over this room. So just imagine this picture cluttered up with files and a computer desk with lots of junk everywhere.

Here's the after. I painted the rocking chair and have yet to paint the changing table because honestly I just can not find the time. But it will happen one of these days.

We found these chairs on craigslist.

And here they are in our front room.

I totally wish that we could paint the walls. I'm so sick of the white walls. Well I guess they have some color on them from my dear Presleigh's color crayons. Which will have to do for now. Oh and for all of you wondering about the credenza, I decided not to paint it. I love the color of the wood and it's such a nice piece that I don't really want to mess with it just yet. Although I do with I would have painted the armoire a fun bright color instead of black, but oh well. I'm sure we'll have the chance to paint it again soon.

As you probably noticed we still need window treatments for pretty much the whole house, and a bunch more accessories. It's definitely a work in progress, and as soon as I get it just how I want it i'm sure we'll either move or i'll want to change everything.

Noah's emergency

I took Noah to the doctor yesterday because he had this major infected lump on his bottom. About three weeks ago I noticed a purplish bump on his bottom, so I had my nurse friend check it out. She told me just to watch it and put diaper rash cream on it, so I did. Then Presleigh got an ear infection about two weeks ago, so I had the nurse practitioner at the doctor's office look at it after she checked Presleigh's ears. She told me the same thing, just keep an eye on it. Well after Wayne got home this weekend from his week in Philadelphia I designated him diaper changer. Well not really, but I think he changed all of Noah's diapers this weekend so I wasn't aware that Noah's bump was turning into a massive boil.

Monday morning Wayne told me Noah's bump was a little swollen. When I checked it out I couldn't believe my eyes. It was nasty and I felt so bad because I could tell my poor baby was in so much pain. He could barely sit down. I had three little ones in the doctors office packed into our double stroller. Yes people were laughing at us, and I should have taken a picture. anyway... Noah's little bump popped and now he's on a couple antibiotics. He's still in a little bit of pain, but we're hoping that it will go away soon. If it's not better by the end of this week, we have to take him back in.

Update

Everytime Wayne goes out of town for work I have a breakdown because I absolutely hate airplanes. I always freak out that he's going to crash and that we're never going to see him again. Crazy? Yeah I know! So we had to take a family pic the night before the airplane ride. Hopefully someday my fear of flying will go away but I doubt it.
Aren't they cute. Last week it was a little chilly out so we were ale to bust out the beanie for Noah. Wayne made it back safe and sound with no airplane accidents, thank goodness. This weekend we spent a little time outside, because it was beautiful out.

Had to snap this picture of Presleigh. Look she's getting hair!!!! And it's a little bit curly!

Here is Presleigh and my cousin Delaney making their silly faces!