Best Day of the Week


I would have to say this whole weekend was the best! November 4, 5, and 6th.


Friday, November 4th

• Got a great review today at Keira's parent/teacher conference! Wasn't surprised, but still a proud mama!

Saturday, November 5th

• Taygen went out of the house in panties today and did not have an accident. 
• Aden went 5 nights in a row in his underwear without any accidents in his bed.

Sunday, November 6th

• Relaxing day for me. Went to a meeting for an hour, tanned, napped for an hour, then went out to eat with the family, relaxed while the kids played with balloons, relaxed while daddy got snack ready and relaxed while daddy put the kids to bed. 
• Hubby did the laundry for me today! 

Aden has been potty trained for over 2 years now, but he was still having accidents during the night so we left him in Pullups at night.  We have tried several times to put underwear on him, but he just kept having accidents. He does fine at nap time with his underwear.

One night he got his jammies on earlier than normal and when I put him to bed I forgot that he had his underwear on. In the morning, he woke up dry. Dan put him to bed the next night and left his underwear on (on purpose) and was dry again. He has been dry at night now for 5 nights in a row. He is not officially out of Pullups for bedtime.

What a great weekend! Had a couple of accomplishments!

Taygen has been doing awesome at potty training. Today, Saturday, November 5th she went out of the house with her big girl panties on and didn't have a accident!

We went out to eat at Carlos O' Kelly's and then went shopping at Hyvee, she did great. She has been wearing her panties around the house.

I'm thinking we are done with Pullups! YAY! No more diapers either! We will probably still use the diapers or pullups when she sleeps.

Saturday, October 29th

I would have to say my/the kids' bad day of the week was Saturday night. The poor kids were up all night getting sick. They didn't get any sleep and felt horrible.

Today was Keira's parent/teacher conference at her preschool. She is doing amazing! They said she could just skip kindergarten and go into 1st grade right away...they were just kidding of course, but that is how good she is doing.

They have 'skills checklist' that they check off for each student

Keira's tests were...

• Uppercase letters~ knows all
• Lowercase letters~ knows all
• Numbers~ knows all
• Colors~ knows all
• Shapes~ knows all
• Sight words~ knows all! 

Keira even read a little book to them from beginning to end (they told me that she had never seen it before, it wasn't one that they use at story time). 

Very proud mama! 

She helps the other kids when they are struggling. 

It is hard to believe but we saw our first snow today. It was beautiful. It was very weird though. It started out as a light rain then thunder, lightening, heavy rain, snow. But the weird thing was it all happened at the SAME time.

It was Taygen's first time seeing snow, that she will remember anyway. Keira just loves snow and always wants to catch the snow with her tongue. Aden just loved it, he stood at the door and watched it for a long time.

I didn't get any pictures today, was a pretty busy day. We will take snow pictures on the second snow day :)

Saturday, November 19th, 2011 is National Family Pajama Night. Pajama night is for those families who do not get a lot of time together, it is a fun filled night at home doing activities that make memories for you and your children.  These days with both parents working and school activities it doesn't seem like some families get a lot of time together. 

There are many different ways to enjoy the time as a family, you could

• Have a pillow fight
• Play a fun kid card game
• Play hide N Seek
• Take turns playing your child's favorite board games
• Puppet Show

See how many ideas your family can come up with. Click on National Family Pajama Night for more info.  

It was a rough weekend for the kids. They were all sick at some point in the weekend. They are all doing great now and seemed to bounce back the next day or so.

Today was the first official snow of the Winter? Fall? whatever you want to call it. You gotta love Nebraska weather, one day it is sunny and 72 the next day it is raining, snowing, sleeting, thundering & lightning ALL at the same time..oh and did I mention 32 degrees for the high! Crazy! Not looking forward to this weather for the next 4 months.