What a GREAT day!

YEAH!

Xander has been working on being a big boy all week by learning how to go potty on the potty.

Today he had an excellent day and didn't have a single accident!

He conquered his fear of the scary bowel movement!

He went on HIS own without encouragement!

Dare I say it... I think my boy is well on the road to being potty trained!

Silver Slipper Design

Are you, or is someone you know, always saying that they wish they could scrapbook all their fun pictures and stories but they just don't have the time?

Well... I have a solution for you...

I absolutely love scrapbooking and have learned that doing other people's pages excites me more than doing my own, which is hard to imagine.  So I've decided to take the plunge and start a personal & custom scrapbooking company, Silver Slipper Design.  I offer great deals on digital scrapbooking pages and free printed and bound scrapbooks (with a minimum number of pages purchased).

Why Silver Slipper?  Well because I adore Wizard of Oz and in the books her shoes were silver not ruby colored!

Spittin' Image

Lately I've been hearing James saying "She's a spittin' image of her mother" when talking about Elsha. Of course I ask why and ponder all the cuteness that is Elsha thinking....

hmmm....

Does my smile bring a tear to your eye like Elsha's?

When you come home does the excitement in my face rival her squeals of happiness of Daddy being home?

Are those gorgeous, crazy curls on Elsha's head an insight to me when I was a child - yup I had them too!?

So many ways this question could be answered that would melt my heart.

No such luck. Here's the answers I've gotten lately. (Love you hun!)

Answer 1:

"She's not a happy camper when she wakes up" I'm not saying this isn't true. We both hate waking up - such an unpleasant experience. But really? Not nice!

Answer 2:

"When I went in to make sure she had covers on the small squeak of the door knob woke her up. Why are you two both paranoid sleepers? Anyone enters your room and you're wide awake." Well there's a funny story here about me learning not to sleep through the door opening but I'll save that for another day. Let's just say my Dad enjoyed finding unique and torturous ways to wake me up on the weekends, dripping water, smelly dogs and tickling my feet were just a few of the methods he found to be quite fun.

Answer 3:

"You both have to touch EVERYTHING in the store."  Once again, not denying the truth of the statement but I'm not sure he meant it in a positive manner since he's been known to say shopping with me makes him dizzy.  :)

SO... How long do you think it will take for James to notice that some of her cute qualities come from me as well?  (Love you hun!)  

 

Oh and by the way - she has James' flat butt!  I would say "spittin' image of her father" but... (Love you hun!)

I Simply MUST Share!

I haven't posted one of my scrapbook pages in a long time because, well, I said I wouldn't.  Now I'm going to make a liar out of myself and post a scrapbook page.  I did this one today and it turned out SO CUTE I just had to give it some special attention by sharing it on my blog!

Now let's hear a collective "Ahhh"

Happy Halloween

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Homemade is YUMMY!

I learned something new about James yesterday.  He makes a KILLER pizza.  What's even more impressive is he does it all from scratch.  I wouldn't even know where to start!  Jaxson & Xander each made their own pizza. 

Xander was sure to put a mountain of cheese on his.  Everytime James would turn to help Jaxson Xander would grab another handful of cheese for his pizza.  I was actually really impressed with him for putting it on his pizza instead of just eating it.  I usually have to keep shredded cheese well out of sight and reach if it's going to last until dinner.

Jaxson piled his high with sausage and mushrooms. 

Please pardon the mess in the kitchen.  Apparently it takes every dish in the house to make a good pizza :0)

Both boys were very excited to eat their pizzas.  The big pizza for James and myself took a little longer to cook and by the time the adults had a slice Jaxson's was long gone.  He said it was the best crust and sauce he's ever had.

Xander didn't eat his too well but didn't want to share either.  It was HIS pizza and he wanted to control everything about it.  I stole a piece before we realized how possessive he was of his pizza and he begged me for it back.  At one point during dinner we had to send Xander to his room.  He almost took his pizza with him to keep it out of our reach.  We could tell he was VERY worried that we would eat more of his pizza while he was away so I did what any mean parent would do and told him I was to eat his pizza if he didn't stop whinning.  He came crashing out of his room, tearing down the hall, growling at me the whole time!  He quickly took stock of his pizza and sat down to pick at it some more. 

Despite the drama surrounding actually eating the pizza we'll be making our own pizzas on a regular basis.  The kids loved the project!

Hair Cuts

Xander got his first haircut on Friday.  Okay,  not his FIRST actual haircut - but his first haircut by someone other than myself.  Everytime it's time for him to get a trim I say I'm going to take him somewhere because I'm never happy with the results of my cuts.  Everytime I don't for whatever reason.  This time was different...

James took both Jaxson and Xander to get their hair cut at Cookie Cutters for Kids. They had so much fun stuff going on that I don't think Xander even noticed he was getting his hair cut. Check out the cute car he sat in...

Yeah, he got pretty shabby before we got his hair cut.  Oh well, I actually like his hair a little longer; more stuff for me to play with and run my fingers through :)

They had fun video games for the kids while they're waiting... Jaxson especially liked these!

Poor Jaxson couldn't sit in the cute cars... I think he was okay with it though.

Background

I'm sad....

I really wanted to use pictures of the family in the background of my blog but I think I've learned why no one else does that.  Everyone's computer is going to display your blog differently based on their settings.   Oh well - I have a lot of fun papers to play with so I'll just have to be happy with that.

Okay, so the picture doesn't really go with the post - but when else am I going to use a picture of my little boy's sad face, dirt and all?  Those teary eyes do me in every time!