Another fun weekend!

Remember Caroline?  She is almost 1 now and she is walking all over the place! It's hard to believe how quickly 4-1/2 months have gone by since we last saw her.  She squeals in delight and in anger, and she does this hilarious quick scoot across the floor on all fours.  She and Katie had a tea party on Friday night.

Katie got a haircut on Saturday morning.  Thankfully, the woman with the mullet did not cut her hair!  I wanted to take her to my hairdresser, but she wasn't working that morning, so I had to settle for Great Clips.  I don't think I'll be doing that again, even though the haircut turned out OK.

Andy, Liz and Kerri arrived on Saturday to meet Mags.  We had a great time, and I think Katie was on cloud nine having so many family members to boss around and play with.

On Sunday, Lisa and Mike stopped by to meet Mags while scouting out apartments in Raleigh. Their house in VA sold and they close on Dec. 5.  So, they'll be moving here soon!

Monday was a fun day at Monkey Joe's!

Kerri had to leave on Tuesday evening.  When we got home from the airport Katie had a major meltdown!  I know they say three year olds start to develop a longer attention span...  this must be true because this meltdown lasted FOREVER!  I calmly ignored her and she finally gave up after almost making herself throw up.

Good times!

Last couple days...

Sunday was a lot of fun for the Wilsons.  Around lunch time we finally met little man Jed!  We're so happy the David's made the trip to our house, even though we should have been the ones who traveled months ago to their house!!!  Jed is absolutely adorable with those big eyes!  He is so much fun.  Katie loves him and thinks he's "so cute!"  Maggie loves him, too, even though she slept the whole visit.

Thanks so much for coming, and thanks for posting pics on your blog!

Thursall and Nicolas came to visit us Sunday evening.  It was a lovely visit and I'm pretty sure Katie is now in love with Nicolas!  Seriously, she went to the bathroom and wanted to share her joy of peeing in the potty with him immediately!  Then, on Monday, she woke up singing "Nicolas, Nicolas, Nicolas..." She kept asking me all day if she could see him again.  I told her he was in Texas till Thursday, but she wasn't buying it.  I guess we'll have to get together with them again ASAP!!  (Or finally take them up on their offer to babysit :)

We had another playdate on Monday with "the boys..."  Kayden and Chase Langworthy and Corbin and Grant Vaughan.  It was a lot of fun, and we're hoping to do this regularly since the kids play together so well.

Jimmy has started running in preparation for a 5K.  I am supposed to do this too, but haven't actually started yet.  I know how hard it is to get motivated, but I'm SO proud of him for taking charge!  He runs every other day and walks on the off days.  Last night was an off night, so the family bundled up for an evening stroll through the neighborhood.

AND FINALLY...

This morning was a miracle morning.  Katie finally pooped in the potty.  I'm thankful on so many levels.  This particular poop would not have been at all pleasurable to clean out of underwear. Perhaps this is too much information for some, but I want to shout it from the roof top!!!  I am so happy!  She got a "big" lollipop for this amazing triumph and she was happy to show it off, as you'll see below.  We danced and cheered for a long time.  She got in Maggie's sleeping face and yelled, "I did it, Maggie!  I did it!"  We're all so proud :)

Welcome Fall

I know we're actually rounding the corner into winter, but here are some pictures I took on the fly while at the park on Friday.  I say on the fly because had I thought about taking a picture like this beforehand I would have dressed the girls nicer and actually done Dorothy Hamill's hair : )

    

Here are just some silly pictures of Maggie in a milk coma while Jimmy is playing video games.

Halloween and more

As you could tell from the previous post, last week was not the best for Jimmy, so we took it easy on Halloween night... 

For the last three weeks or more, we have been trying to find out what Katie wanted to be for Halloween.  She started out wanting to be a dinosaur, like that of Corduroy in Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever!.  Then, after seeing a Snow White costume, she had to be Snow White.  Soon after that, she didn't want to dress up at all because Halloween was "too scary."  In fact, I found her one afternoon pulling two stools together so that she could read her imaginary friend a story, "Once upon a time...  scary, scary, scary.  The end."

I assumed Halloween would come and go and she'd be just fine if it did.  She continually refused to try on her costume.  However, on Thursday, I made one more attempt to get her to wear her costume so that she wouldn't be the only kid at school not wearing one.  She misinterpreted what I said and thought I was telling her that if she didn't wear her costume I was going to let her friends at school wear it instead.  She immediately said, "It's Katie's mine costume!" Translation: EVERYTHING BELONGS TO ME, KATIE!  So, she allowed me to put it on her.

   

   

She enjoyed the party at school, but because her teacher couldn't give me the correct time of the festivities, I missed it.  I arrived when all the kids had changed out of their costumes and were eating lunch.  Sigh.

Again, since Katie was so fickle about the whole Halloween thing, I didn't make any grand plans to go trick-or-treating.  If we went, we went.  If not, no big deal.  Sadly, she was so geared up for it, but our neighborhood isn't ideal for trick-or-treating.  In fact, we only had 3 kids come looking for treats.  Instead of going out, we let her eat candy and watch a Charlie Brown Halloween special while also watching me carve a pumpkin.  Super fun!

Saturday was way more festive as we got to visit with family in Randleman for the annual Williams Family Reunion.  Katie had a blast and we enjoyed introducing Magpie to everyone. We came home with a lot of gifts and treats, and if Katie wasn't addicted to sugar before then, she surely is addicted to it now!

Even though this weekend wasn't exactly hectic, I am indeed thankful for daylight savings time! We're all tired and need more rest and way less candy!