Happy 2nd Birthday Olivia!

Happy Birthday to our sweet cousin Olivia!  We love having you at our house to play!  We celebrated her birthday last Thursday when she was here with some yummy cupcakes.  The kids all just like the frosting of course!

Big Girl!

We have definitely had a big week here at our house!  Kadence decided she was a big girl!  She has been pottying in the potty on and off for awhile now, but after this week, she is officially trained!  She loves her big girl underwear and tells us when she has to go each time now!  I am so proud of her, with 2 months to the big 2nd birthday!

So...after some contemplation, we decided to transition Kadence's bed into the toddler bed-meaning she could get in and out on her own.  I just thought the idea was a little silly for her to be potty trained and still sleeping in a crib.  She has never climbed out or even tried (her big brother climbed out at 17 months  the day we brought her home from the hospital).  She has always been such a great sleeper we were hoping this was not going to be the end.  No time like the present, she couldn't sleep in a crib forever!  It has been 2 nights and she has slept wonderfully.  She hasn't crawled out or forfeited her wonderful sleeping habits...wohoo!!!

Here she was playing when we first switched it, she thought she was pretty cool!

And...of course her and big brother have another bed to play in together!  I have two bed jumpers that I have to tell repeatedly, "NO JUMPING ON THE BED, IF YOU WANT TO JUMP, GO DOWNSTAIRS AND JUMP ON THE TRAMPOLINE!"

***Cute Story***
I had checked on Kadence about a half hour after she had fallen asleep last night and found one of her puppies laying on the floor beside her bed.  A few hours later, I went in to check on her before I went to bed and the puppy was no longer on the floor, but back in bed with her.  I immediately checked with Ryan to see if he had gone in her room and thrown it back in her bed and he had not.  She must have woke up and realized her puppy was on the floor, got out of bed and rescued it, and then went back to bed all on her own!  What a little sweetie!

My little jumping bean!

This little munchkin has been a jumping bean lately!  We have a mini trampoline at our house that the kids are loving right now.  Once Kadence figured out how to jump and actually get air, she has not stopped!  She jumps on the ground, trampoline, and her favorite-the bed.  Jumping on the bed has recently been outlawed at our house as I find it much too dangerous and do not want either one of my children to have stitches as many times as I did.

Kadence's love for jumping showed through even more at gymnastics today.  They have a bunch of big trampolines which is where she spent the entire 45 minutes.  What a joy it was to watch her bouncing around loving life!

"Whatever, Mom"

Landon has just exploded in words and expressions lately.  He says some pretty funny things on a daily basis.  As long as he's not repeating anything Ryan and I say during our Wii playing, he's ok.  Today we were talking and he looked at me and appropriately said, "whatever, mom."  It was classic.  Had to post this one so I would remember the first time he said this dreaded expression.  Too funny.

Let's Go Vikes!

1 game to go to Superbowl Sunday!  Let's go Vikings!

Go Away!

We have had a rather long week at our house.  Wednesday afternoon turned ugly when Kadence got the nasty stomach bug that is going around.  She was a very sick little girl Wednesday afternoon and evening.  I spent the night sleeping on the floor in her room next to her crib.  This was not a fun slumber party!

Kadence has been better today as she could keep some gatorade in her tummy, but that's about all she had.  She was very tired so I put her to bed early.  Needless to say, less than a minute after I came back downstairs from putting her to bed, Landon started with the nasty bug.  So, I made a bed on the floor for the 2 of us and I am up for another slumber party.

The picture is from Wednesday when Kadence first got sick.  Her big brother was pretty worried about her and I caught him laying next to her rubbing her back.  They don't usually like to share anything with each other, but didn't seem to waste much time in sharing this nasty bug!

Oh the joys of parenthood.  Did I mention I am exhausted?

Preschool!

This cool dude is all registered for preschool!  I think it is a little ridiculous that you have to decide by this time in order to get into a preschool.  I played the game and was at the preschool with my application the night before the registration opened to the public, and it worked.  He will be going two days a week for just 2 1/2 hours starting in September.  We talk about him going to preschool and he says, "next time, next time, mom I want to stay home with you."  Good thing we have a little time for him to warm up to the idea.

I love this picture of both of the kids as I find it hilarious.  Ryan was telling Landon to give the thumbs up, so that was his version, and Kadence's version of thumbs up is a little different!