MAJOR MILESTONES

My little girl turned two years old this week! She is full of personality and SpUnK! She is so independent and testing mom on everything. She wants to do everything herself and is really talking a lot more. It is really so fun to see her grow up and be so independent!

We are POTTY TRAINED!!!!! Yes this is a glorious day:)

She started be interested in the potty about 1.5 but mom was pregnant, and sick and therefore lazy.

Finally we had a poop incident that threw me over the edge.

We had to get potty trained, if I had to clean up one more poopfest.. I was going to loose it:)

We started on her 2nd birthday...

and she did it all herself!

The first day, she showed no real interest, I got so frustrated and just decided I wasn't going to fight her. That night we ran to target, bought some Paul Frank underwear( because she loves animals- thought that might help).

The next morning we put her big girl panties on, and told her to tell mommy when she needs to go. From that point on she has gone on the potty and not had an accident!!!!!

Daddy even took her on an outing on day # 2, and for four hours, no accident. Then she told dad she needed to go potty when they were in Lowes.

What a relief and how excited I am, and more importantly she is! She is so proud of herself and loves all the attention she gets from us. It has really been such a fun thing, to see her so happy, and I have had so much fun praising her!

On the baby front... Blake got moved to his crib, sad but mom gets some good sleep. Elle is continuing to be such a wonderful big sister, always loving on him. I have to still watch her like a hawk though, or she will pick him up and carry him around like her baby doll.

Had to throw this in. Getting ready for church, she says mama cheese...

We are sleeping in our big girl bed! So fun, she is really growing up. Mom is excited so she can get Blake's room all finished!

Getting her baby ready for bed. As you can tell her undies are on backwards.. this is how they usually get worn. Too cute!

Some fun little projects I finally got done!! Blake's car seat tent. This was really fun and soo cute!

His and her towels:) Trying to get started on their bathroom. As you can tell I am literally obsessed with Alexander Henry zoo print. It's pretty pathetic:)

Well that is all from the Raleigh front, we are enjoying playing in our house and having lots of play dates. Winter is rolling up on us faster than we think, we are excited for the snow to fall to have some pretty white stuff to play in!