Something to Celebrate!!

Natalie has been potty trained since last June, but she wasn't quite ready to do the night training and I never was really in a hurry to mess with it. She did such a great job during the day. So a few weeks back I was noticing her waking up dry day after day so I asked her what we said when we stopped using diapers. She piped right in with "bye, bye diapers!" When we moved to just at bedtime, we just used pull-ups so she says with a huge grin I can say "bye-bye pull-ups!!" So I waited another week and she continued to stay dry so I got brave, put her old sheets on the bed with the mat underneath and prayed for no wet beds. SHE GOT IT!! She is a big girl now. And she even gets up at night, goes to the bathroom and back to bed. I LOVE IT!! So after 8 1/2 years I can officially say GOODBYE DIAPERS! I surely won't miss you!!!

OOPS he did it again....

Mr, Ethan for the second time this school year has broken a bone. Only this time he really banged it up and had to get a cast! So for the next six weeks he will be sporting this lovely green thing you see before you. He's smiling now... At least there are no sports he is missing out on, just no gym for 6 weeks. Poor Mrs H!!!

Miss Elena's first lost tooth

Elena has been waiting not so patiently to loose her first tooth. She came home one day way back in January with a wiggly tooth. They had check ups with the dentist and he said to really try to loosen it up because the adult tooth was coming in and pushing it. Well she wiggled and wiggled it and it would NOT budge! This last week it was pretty much hanging there and we could not get the little bugger out. So Sunday night she went and got a mirror and was looking at it and Yank! out it came! Oh she was never more thrilled in her life! Here she is showing off her new smile. I still had my tooth pillow from when I was little, so she put her tooth in it. Checking to make sure all is goSo anxious to get a visit from the tooth fairy!

Unfortunately she came down with the flu that night and was so sick Monday she forgot all about her tooth until about halfway through the day and checked under her pillow.

She missed two days of school so when she went today she couldn't wait to show it off to her toothless grin to her class!

REC olympics

Last year Ethan participated and really enjoyed himself. You can click here to see that. He was so frustrated because he didn't place in anything. We explained to him that it was his first year and now he knows what to expect next year. Well he was ready! He placed in 3 of his events. First in Long Jump, Tied for second in all sport and third in Obstacle course. I was so proud, he really was giving it his all! This was Elena's first year and we were surprised to see our nephew was there! He was in Elena's group and so was one of our neighbors. She was just getting over being down sick for a few days, but she wanted so badly to participate. She did a great job! She did beat our neighbor when they had the races and after she was done, she tells me " I told him I was going to beat him! I'm a fast runner!"
Miss Natalie was old enough to be involved this year, but she is more of a quiet observer at this point, maybe after she starts preschool, she'll be ready for next year. Great Job Kids!

Happy Birthday Aunt Judy!

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Hope your day was wonderful!