I want to thank Lindsay (a.k.a. Ole Miss Mom) and Lori for helping with my blog! I could not have figured this out without you! I'll be using the info you gave me from now on to help with with any future problems I know I will have. Thank you ladies!!

VH1 has a show that I love called "Best Week Ever." They talk about the funny and crazy things that happened in entertainment that week as told by comedians. I think it's hilarious! We had a very good week at our house, so I thought I'd share some of what happened. I don't have photos of everything, but in my defense, I knew that I'd miss the moments if I ran inside to grab the camera.

Monday morning Christopher wanted to ride on his tractor, surprise! It was really nice out so I didn't mind. He rode around for a while and Sophie was in the swing, so I thought I'd put him to work. I had a bag of mulch that needed to move from the front yard to the back and I asked him to come help me. He was more than willing to haul some "dirt" in his trailor! He wanted to keep some in his trailor, so not all the mulch ended up where I wanted it to, but that's fine. He's happy and so am I.



For some reason, Sophie is always trying to put Christopher's underwear on her head. Whenever we put it on there she starts snorting and laughing. She was trying to put his pj bottoms on her head the other night so we helped her out and Christopher ran to grab another pair for his head. We still had our tree in it's box b/c we weren't able to move it yet (due to Bran's surgery) and they chased each other around it for like 20 minutes laughing their little heads off. It was great! The next two days Christopher would come up to us saying, "Me and Sophie be silly around the box!" We finally put the tree away last night, but that didn't stop them from trying.



Sophie went poo poo in the potty! Yes, our 11 1/2 month old pooped in the potty. Christopher is not at all interested in doing this, so I have a lot of poopy underwear to wash. After dinner the other night, Sophie was trying to go #2 while sitting in her booster seat and well, there's not a whole lot of room down there to add anything else when you are strapped down, so we thought we'd just put her on the potty and see what happened. She pooped! Yup! We'd heard of people potty training babies, but never thought we'd try it ourselves. The best part was, Christopher wanted to try. No luck, but at least he tried.

As you learned from our previous post, Pillow Island has become a part of our lives now. It lasted all day the other day b/c I didn't really care to put it away. I knew it was free entertainment and I was out of ideas, so it stayed. Christopher loves to stand on the chair and fall into the middle of it. Sophie climbs on top, gets on her knees, puts her hands in the air and falls over laughing. It's adorable! After we put Sophie to bed Christopher trying climbing up on the arm of the couch and diving off. Thankfully he hasn't tried that anymore. It was a special treat for that point in time.

One morning I walked in to see Christopher had colored on my rug in the kitchen. He said he wanted to make it pretty for me. I really appreciated the thought b/c it IS very boring. It was meant to go somewhere else and didn't work, so I just stuck it in the kitchen b/c it fit and was inexpensive and I didn't feel like dragging the kids all over town looking for a new one. Thank goodness for washable markers and indoor/outdoor rugs!

On Thursday after naps, we heard the diggers tearing more houses down and Christopher wanted to go check it out. He rode his bike and I put Sophie in the stroller and we walked a few blocks over and got front row seats to the show. I think we spent an hour over there. It was great! We saw an excavator tear a house down, pick up the trash and load it in dump trucks and a material handler. Christopher even got to pee on a tree, which was very exciting for him. Sophie got into it as well and started yelling at the trucks as they drove by. We went home and had Spiderman mac and cheese and Sophie really liked it, as you can see below. She wouldn't let me help feed her, which is fine. She found another way to get what was at the bottom of the bowl!

Friday, Christopher had MDO and didn't wet his pants the whole time. I was so proud! Sophie and I ran a few errands and had some great Mommy/daughter time. She was in the best mood all day. We went to Chick-fil-A for lunch and she just laughed and ate and tried to talk to the other babies that were there. She always seems to draw attention to herself, which I don't mind. I think she's pretty funny too!

Saturday, Brandon decided to wash the cars. They needed it really bad, so I was excited about this. Christopher always wants to help b/c water is involved. About halfway through the process he got distracted with the puddles that had formed. We didn't have anything to do later, so we didn't care. Sophie woke up from her nap a little while later and once she realized what was going on she wanted to join in. I took her pants off and let her walk around a little. The water was freezing, but they didn't care. Before we knew it, she was crawling around in it. Sort of. She wouldn't put her knees down and walked on her hands and feet like a monkey. It was too funny! They had so much fun, but once Christopher started shivering we took them inside for baths.

It has been a really great week! For that I'm incredibly thankful!

Ok, I've been trying to figure out how to put a picture on our header for weeks and can't seem to get it to show up? Is there anyone out there that can help me????? I go to the Layout page and click on the Edit part of the Header section, select a photo from our computer, save it, yet I still have no photo on there. WHAT'S THE DEAL???? I love all the fancy ones people have, but I change my mind so much on the background that I know it'd be a waste of money to pay someone to make it for me. I'd change my mind a month later and have to do it all over again! SOOOOO... I decided I'd just put a photo on there with our name in front. I begging, will someone please tell me I'm an idiot and then tell me how to fix it? Even if you dont know me and happened to come across my blog and know how to fix it, PLEASE HELP ME!!! This is driving me crazy. I'm not THAT computer challenged, but I'm obviously doing something wrong.

We went back to Montgomery last weekend to go to our best friends' son's 1st birthday party. They are very special to us and do so much for us and we didn't want to miss the fun.

When we got there Saturday morning, Christopher and Nicholas ran around playing with all the cars and toys and Sophie just tried to figure out what to do first. Joshua, the birthday boy, was napping, but not for long. The rest of the party guests arrived later and everyone played outside before coming in for pizza and cake.

Joshua wasn't sure what to do with his smash cake at first, but then he got into it. It was great! Then it was time to open presents and all the kids wanted to help at that point. No surprise. I did everything but sit on Christopher to keep him from unwrapping the presents. After everyone left we but the kids down for naps and the grown ups (if we can be called that) played Wii. We finally had to wake up Christopher so we could put Sophie down for a nap and Melissa woke up Nicholas so he'd go to bed that night and the dads decided to take the boys for a walk to explore. Nicholas grabbed his new scooter and Christopher was on the tricycle. It was really cute! I remember when they were just born and all they could do was lie on a blanket and stare at each other. Boy, how time flies!

8:00 pm, child #2 went to bed: Great

8:40 pm, child #1 went to bed: Even better

9:15 pm, parents are in bed with lights out: Awesome
(or sad, depending on who you are)

11:30 pm, wake up to go to the bathroom and realize you still have the rest of the night to sleep: PRICELESS!!!


That is how we brought in the new year. In our opinion, it was perfect! We haven't felt that rested in a really long time. Now we're ready to face another year together!

We started our week of Christmas at my parents' house. We decided to go Monday night in hopes the kids would sleep the whole way, but Christopher was too excited to sleep... until the last 45 minutes. When we got there we put on pj's and they watched the train go around the tree. Christopher went NUTS!! He actually slid all over the floor to watch it go from one end to the other. It was great!




Here I am watching the kids help Grammie bake Christmas cookies Tuesday morning. They were so into it and the cookies were really yummy too!





Everyone else arrived on Christmas Eve and I had to get a shot of the stockings hanging from the stair railing. We are actually missing two of them!



Christopher showing off his crane that he got from Santa to Uncles Kyle and Trey. He drove that thing all over the house and tried to see how many different things he could carry with it.

Sophie opening gifts in her own way. She'll put anything in her mouth. You have to watch her!

Sophie was excited about her new toy. She got 3 baby dolls as well and loved all of them! It was cute to see her playing with something besides a truck.

I haven't had a chance to go through all the hundreds of photos from Christmas yet (have 3 different cameras downloaded on here!) and so I thought I'd write about some of the funny things that happened yesterday.

(Note: this may be too much info for some, but it's really not that bad!) After putting Sophie down for a nap in the morning I went back to get ready for the day and had to go to the bathroom. Christopher comes back and I guess he thought I was having trouble b/c I was sitting down. (He goes #1 standing and assumes anyone sitting is doing the other.) He says, "Mommy, it's hard isn't it? Let me help you." and makes a fist and pushes it on my leg making a grunting noise. I try not to laugh. Then I realize I'm all out of toilet paper so I ask him to go get me some. Of course he brings back half a square wadded into a ball. I tell him to just bring me the whole roll, not sure if he knows how to do that. He comes back saying, "I'm sorry, Mommy. I'm sorry, Mommy." over and over. I realize why when he brings me a soaking wet roll of toilet paper. Just so you know, there was enough dry spot I was able to use before tossing it in the trash can.

A little while later we went to run an errand and when we got home he wanted to ride his new tractor. (He got a ride on tractor from Santa Hemphill, we had no idea he was getting it.) He's riding it around the neighborhood and I have to go to the bathroom again (sorry, didn't realize most of this was about me going to the bathroom, but I'd had a lot to drink!). I tell him we need to run home really quick and then he can keep riding. He tells me to go home and he'll wait there for me. Not going to happen so I convince him to go home with me and he tells me, "You go potty like a big boy?" I tell him I go like a big girl. He doesn't understand this so we go back and forth a little before I explain I'm a girl and he's a boy. He just says, "Oooooooohhhhh." in his most Southern accent he can make.

After his nap he is having a hard time waking up and is sitting in his little red chair holding lambie, froggie and Pluto with his pacifier in his mouth. He is just staring off into space, not blinking or anything. Suddenly he jumps up and everything flies out, including the pacifier, and says, "I have a GREAT idea!!!!" He runs back to his room telling me to follow him. He says, "Me put some pants and shirt and shoes on and go ride my tractor!" I die laughing. We go outside and ride his tractor.

Just so you know, he did play with all the other toys that he got for Christmas, he basically runs from one thing to the other, but the tractor just happened to be a part of the funniest things I remember. He talks to his trains and cars when playing with them now and it's adorable b/c you can tell he thinks they are real. It's cute! I'll try to get photos on here soon, but I have a massive pile of laundry to tackle, a toy kitchen that still has not been put together, a tree to take down and oh yeah, we are going out of town again this weekend. So, the blog may have to wait a little longer.

We are at my parents for the week and looking forward to having my brother and his family, my sister and her husband and my Grandpa all together for Christmas this year. We haven't had the cousins together since the summer and so it will be great to watch them play together again. We will go and have Christmas with Brandon's family this weekend and I'm looking forward to that as well b/c we haven't seen them since the summer either! I hope you all have a wonderfully blessed Christmas, whomever you are spending it with!!