Potty Training

This is what we did yesterday: leaf rubbings and hand turkeys! This way we could all participate in the Thanksgiving decorations. We traced our hands on brown construction paper, then made their beaks and faces and each of our fingers would be the turkeys' feather which were then covered over with purple, red, yellow and green finger cut outs (if this makes any sense-but it's the one I always made in elementary school).

RJ "helping"
Ada also helping

Adas' present for going #2 on the potty. She was so proud of herself. Yesterday we also went to church and she even went on the potty there, which was HUGE as it automatically flushes which scared her A LOT!! But after almost 20 mins of off and and and in and out of the bathroom, she finally felt comfortable enough to go...whew! She is doing pretty well so far but the past two and a half weeks experience is something I can wait to do again...

Her rewards for going on the potty: Stickers!! She loves getting them and she has to do the whole bathroom/potty/wiping/hand washing by herself (with a little supervising of course, but too much and she gets quite mad!) So we got her a little stool so she can get onto and off of the potty by herself and then she can move it in front of the sink to wash her hands.

Meemaw and Pop just had their anniversary and they went to Annapolis and got us Navy t-shirts. Ada loves hers and wants her Navy shirt almost as much as her Imagination Movers shirt.

Ada was acting up so we put her down, hence the picture of just her; she wanted her own picture. Such a diva!

Hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving and eat tons of food! Especially pumpkin everything and cranberry sauce!!

Halloween and other culinary treats

We have had more to celebrate recently: Halloween, Joshs' birthday and the fact that we have been expanding palate! Here are some pictures to show you what we have been doing!

RJ wanted to try on Daddys' sweater. He has some big...sweaters to fill!

the kids noble steed

Our purple sweat potato fries. RJ had some juice which said it had purple carrots and sweet potatoes, so I set out to find such an anomaly as I had never before heard of such a thing. They taste much the same as a regular sweet potato but a little different, a little muted I guess you could say.

The kids loved them though!

You can't tell from the picture, but RJ is eating a starfruit. The kids liked it and it was okay by my standards but when I did a little more research, I found that the one we bought may have been over-ripe and thus that may have attributed to the lackluster taste.

Ada and her starfruit. She liked it best of all.

Holding it up for inspection

Daddys' 27th birthday. This is what the kids "made" for daddy. If you can't see, it says, "Dad: a son's first hero, a daughter's first love."

Daddy reading his cards from the kids

Daddy requested Turkey burgers with avocado and chocolate pound cake with cherries.

Halloween pics. Daddy and I were mobsters (a picture of us was taken by a friend at the trunk or treat but was posted on Facebook so I will try to post that onto my profile). RJ was a tiger and Ada was Princess Tiana.

The treats we made to take to truck or treat. They didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, but they're to be bloodshot eyeballs. They are made out of powdered mini donuts, red icing and m&ms.

Ada LOVED her costume and we were hard pressed to get her back out of it, but she listens fairly well and loves bath time so it worked out as well as could be expected!

posing for the camera

We are also in the process of potty training Ada and luckily, as she loves stickers, so it is going pretty well! So wish us all luck!