14 weeks -

i figured i would show you (while i noticed it tonight in the reflection in the window) my "baby bump" i sometimes feel huge, sometimes i feel like it looks like just fat. I think it looks more like a bump tonight because i ate... a lot... of dinner. Whew. 2 babies plus a food baby = BIG belly.

here it is.


and by the way - new post below about potty training day #2

Potty Training Day #2

11x pee
1x poop

ALL on the Potty!!
no accidents!

and i didn't ever have to tell her to go on the potty either.

what a big girl, im pretty happy, but still nervous. TOmorrow = try with panties which will definitely be harder!

But she got a pink ice cream cone tonight for not having any accidents so maybe that'll help? hope so!

potty training day one

so i knnow i said i was going to start yesterday. But with D waking up before 6 am and me having the worst headache AND it was going to be sunny ALL day (first time we saw sun in over a week, and its supposed to rain for the next 10 days) i figured we would skip a day and play outside while there was sun. Good thing, we had a lot of fun at the park.

anyways, today marked Day #1.

she woke up at 8 am and we took her diapers, put them in a bag and put them out on the front "porch" for the "mail man" to pick up and give away to babies who need the diapers. Cause D is going to be a big sister and they dont need diapers anymore.

Im trying to get her to get used to going on the potty on her own when SHE needs to go . not every 20 minutes to try, if you get what i mean.

well she happened to watn to sit on the potty 2 times when she went because she was coloring and happened to be on the potty..
then while getting lunch ready she took the initiative and did it on her own! YAY! ever since then she went on her own except one time when i was half asleep (thank you double the hormones) and she started to go but we rushed to the potty and made it.

she did have one accident - which was when she wanted to put the big girl undies on. not 30 seconds later she peed in them, she then realized with pee running down her leg and getting upset, that they did not hold the pee! hopefully this wont mean she wont want to wear undies ever again!



Day 1 - Poopy on the potty - 2x
Pee on the potty - 7x
Accident - 1 and then two 1/2 accidents (half on the floor/half on the potty)

i hear 2nd day is the hardest, so we will see!

Do the Potty Dance...

Tomorrow is the BIG day... we will start the "3 day method" of potty training. we have a treats jar ready, her potty chart and stickers ready...
and most importantly...
big girl undies....

Happy Valentines Day

From this little cheese ball -

Double Trouble

(click to enlarge)

slacker

obviously ive been slacking on the blog when im usually really good at keeping it updated.

Toms in school full swing and is going to start coaching freshman baseball - basically we'll never see him.

Dulany is getting over the chicken pox... after having the hand foot mouth virus... awesome. Its been ridiculous.

and then theres me. who's dreading all this rain.

LUCKILY - Bonnie, Jason, Adam and Niccole are in town!! so hopefully ill have more to update you all on soon.

for your viewing pleasure i made D take a picture so this isnt such a boring post -

Snow Day!

more like hour - but thats ok. a few hours of snow on the ground is better than nothing.

Luckily we went out early and got to play before it melted.

Christmas Recap

this year for Christmas (eve) we had our own little family dinner (as in with tom's parents and siblings) instead of ALL the cousins/uncles/aunts/grandma and grandpa (since grandma is still recovering from back surgery). We had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, fruit salad, veggie/cracker trays and i made these AMAZING bacon wrapped green beans. They were a big hit at thanksgiving and christmas dinner so now i think that will be the side dish im assigned to make for the rest of my life!


the family at dinner - and miss Ayla LOVED her mashed potatoes! this pic cracks me up



After dinner we decided to unwrap presents that night on christmas eve since the whole family was there and we werent sure if everyone would be together after church on sunday for actual christmas. So we unwrapped presents from the family at grandma and grandpas and Dulany got a lot of fun stuff including a new pillow pet ( a cute elephant she calls ellie the elephant replacing the flat old pig pillow pet she has), a princess castle she can color from her aunt julie. a few books from Aunt bonnie and a few other things. The best thing was matching wooden rocking chairs grandma got for both D and cousin Ayla - they are awesome!

Then grandma and D started to make chrismtas cookies for Santa (and carrots for rudolph) - this lasted for 3 days in a row. she didnt get that christmas was over.




we had such a fun night that night and stayed and hung out. Then decided we better get D home to go to bed so Santa could come to our house. Despite going to sleep around 9 D woke up wide awake at 5 (right after tom got up)... i dont know if she knew or what?! Anywho, she came down and saw presents and got really excited (see videos in before post) and i sadly didnt get any pictures...

she did get lots of puzzles, movies and books from gramps and gram (my parents) and 2 stockings! from us she got a little chalkboard/dry erase board which she's obsessed with, books, and the simba and nemo.

overall it was a pretty great christmas!! i did miss my family though. earlier this month marks a year since ive seen them but thank goodness for skype!!

Hope everyone was able to have a very merry Christmas.

now its time to figure out what to do for New Years!

Christmas Videos

Here are 2 videos from christmas morning.
the first one is just of D opening a present or 2. nothing TOO exciting.
the next one is one of her with her new simba stuffed animal... she loooves simba. So much that she gives him a special kiss, silly girl!\





im going to work on getting pictures up of opening presents on christmas eve with the family tomorrow so stay tuned.

zaboo and elmo

here are a few videos of D from the past few weeks.

this first one is reading an interactive book "there is another monster at the end of this book" on the ipad - D LOVES it and can do it all by herself. So nice. For the first few times she would laugh and laugh and laugh. it was hilarious.



This next one is her watching Zoboomafoo. she loooves zaboo. She loves all the animals and singing along to the song. its pretty funny watching her trying to say zomboomafo.

Miss Ayla Rose

Kaylee asked me to take some pictures of Miss Ayla for Christmas. This girl is too photogenic! she is too cute. here are a few of my favs (all of them can be seen on my facebook)

Christmas Cookies!

so the other night we baked cookies! YEUM. Dulany loves to watch and help make anything so she helped this time making christmas sugar cookies. She LOVED testing the dough and the christmas cookie cutters. Then the next night (yesterday) we decided we needed to decorate them! She LOVED putting icing on the cookies but didn't get that you could eat them... she thought we were just coloring. finally she figured out how yummy they were and now all she wants are cookies. ie "dulany what do you want for lunch" - "COOKIES!"

Happy Holidays

Im not sure if ill end up being able to print this off and send it to people - so i decided i might as well post it on here for everyone as an E-Christmas Card - Love the Roberts Family



ps - new (and a lot of!) pictures in a NEW POST below!

Christmas Pictures

today the sun came out - for like 2 minutes. so i tried to get D ready really fast to make go snap a few pictures outside. With her virus we havent been outside in a week so i figured why not. of course, right when we go outside, the sun goes away. Lame!
so i tried to take pictures - this is what i got.


These first 2 are my favorite - but i cant decide between color and b&w -


This picture - she looks just like her daddy -










these ones i just took of her playing in the (very wet might i add) leaves.