To potty... Or not to potty...

Brooklyn has been showing a lot of interest in using the "big girl potty" the last couple months. She actually first wanted to try sitting on the potty on Christmas Eve but the last couple months she's telling us when she goes and needs a diaper change and has made it a couple of times so I decided it was time to try some "big girl panties." I decided to wait til Memorial Day weekend to try it out because between Chad and I she was gonna be home for 5 days. Well I get them out and got her all excited about them, they are Elmo panties after all and she LOVES Elmo. I laid them all out on the floor and we talked about not "going" in them, -I'll spare you all the 2 year old jargon we use around here ;) - she picks her favorite pair and she tried but couldn't go before we put them on.

She was awfully pround of them! She walks to the living room, I take this picture.....

then I turn around a couple minutes later and she is squatting on the floor going pee! Seriously, it had not been 5 minutes! So we clean it up, pick another pair and start all over again. I wait about 10 minutes and try to get her to go again, she says she doesn't need to so she gets down walks in Kenzie's room and squats on the floor AGAIN! So we clean it up and are about to pick the 3rd pair, only this time she refuses and begs for a diaper. I've asked her everyday since if she wants to wear the Elmo panties and she tells me No, a diaper! I guess she's not ready afterall.

For the teachers...

We made these for Kenzie's teachers. They turned out cute and they loved them.

Kenzie did a lot of the painting and planting herself...

....and Brooklyn.... always standing by looking cute!

Graduation Day!

McKenzie graduated from preschool today! We are so proud of her! They put on a cute little program where they sang songs and they gave the kids a medal and a diploma. She had a great year and learned so much. I am glad she is done with preschool but it was a rough day to think how fast she is growing up and that her next step is Kindergarten! Thank you Meahma & Papa, Uncle Clint and Grandma for coming and being a part of this day with us.

Our Little Graduate

Congratulation hugs from her little sister!

This is her class. McKenzie is right in the middle - the one without the hat - she didn't want to wear it because it was messing up her hair and wouldn't stay on very good! Such a girl!

Ahhh.... kids!

Since the weather warmed up, Kenzie had been catching and playing with potato - or rolly polly- bugs. I gave her a jar and she has throughly enjoyed making them a home with grass, dandelions, sticks and even a feather to climb on. Well the other day I'm doing laundry and bathing Brooklyn after dinner and she decides she doesn't want her new pet to be all alone and finds some family members. Well she takes the jar in her room and a little while later I call her for her bath. While she's in the bath Brooklyn goes in her room and comes back out holding one of her bugs, I ask how she got it and she leads me to this.......

She had turned the bottom level of her dollhouse into a bug house. They were about 5 crawling around in there still and we found a few more that had escaped. They were crawling all over in her room, about 10 all together. Thank goodness it was only potato bugs!

Warm weather is finally here for now at least...

So I realize I have not blogged in a while, I've just been having so much fun being able to take my kids outside! We have made, ummm, I can't even count how many trips to the park. My girls love Willow Park the best! There's so many things to play on and they love the animals. We've been able to have Savanah along with us a couple times and also been able to meet up with some of my friends and their kids.

(Top right: Kenzie on the monkey bars. Top left: Brooklyn on the slide. Bottom right: Savanah on the slide Bottom Left: Kenzie taking Lilly down the slide)

The girls have enjoyed playing outside on the swing and we set up the trampoline too. They also had a blast today blowing, and of course chasing, bubbles at Grandma's house. Even Brooklyn finally got the art of bubble blowing down today! It was so funny to watch her, she was blowing so hard I thought she'd pass out!

Kenzie's a pro by now...

Brooklyn concentrating hard...

See her bubbles...

I had a great Mother's Day. I got a sweet little card from Kenzie, she made it at school and Chad stuck some spending cash in there for me so I could go and buy some stuff I wanted. I was able to go with my whole family to lunch and I got a gorgeous planter for my porch from my parents. Then we were able to have dinner with Chad's Mom and Dad. It was a perfect day!!!

I also wanted to post something fun my friend Jackie and I did over the weekend. We painted terra cotta pots and seperated a plant of mine that was outgrowing the pot it was in. I didn't take long at all and was pretty easy and inexpensive and I really like how they turned out. I gave one to both our mom's for Mother's day.

Time to go private...

Because of some comments from people I don't know and vistors I don't recognize I've decided to go private with our blog. I'm not comfortable with our info and pictures of my little girls out there for anyone to see anymore. I would love to still share what we are up to with all of you who currently read this so please send me your email (if I don't already have it) and I will send you an invite.

Happy Mother's Day!

Just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms! I'm very lucky for the reasons I get to celebrate this day. Not only for the 2 sweet little princesses I've been blessed with but also because I have THE BEST mom. Also when I married I was lucky to have been given another wonderful mom in my life! I also want to say Happy Mother's Day to my Grandma Vella, We miss you and wish you could be here to celebrate with us! We love you! And one last wish for my Grandma Jean, hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day!

♥/ The Liebes'