Our House - continued

Since Ryan was in CT for Mon and Tues - we did some holiday reorganization and clean out of our playroom.  Besides the living room - this is where the girls live - 9 times out of 10 it is disasterous - we are working hard on cleaning up one activity before getting into another.

I really like where this room is - directly behind the kitchen and beside the living room.  If I am cooking or folding laundry - which I swear occupies a good portion of my day - I can hear and see the girls.  They are beginning to play pretty well together but still have their moments.  Currently Brianna is working on picking up - she likes to get out a bunch of things and then leave the room.  Aly is working on not tattling - which is really hard for her - to not tell mom everything Brianna is getting into.

We moved around some toys so all of the Christmas things would fit.  I would say the top toys have been the Leapster - which we use for traveling and the kitchen stuff.  Between the apron, mixer, and new food - we have goumet meals quite often.  Also, the play school  - Aly has been teaching us all about our letters - which is quite cute.

So here are a couple of pictures of the playroom:

Bye Bye Crib

Well the first time since March 2006, there is no one sleeping in the crib......Boo Hoo.  Last night Brianna insisted on sleeping in the bed, which is in her room.

This afternoon for nap - I did not even attempt the crib - it was a little sad honestly, I laid down next to her for a few minutes and BAM she was out.

I am glad that it is queen bed, because based on these pictures, it is apparent that she is still rolling around and moving quite a bit.

So much for waiting until we returned. 

Welcome 2010!

Our New Years was busy - we rang in the New Year with friends from CT and NC - it was so nice to have people come and visit us in PA! 

We had a great time visiting and meeting Morgan for the first time.  We are hoping to head down to NC this fall with the new baby.

The girls are having a great time playing with all of their new toys - although dress up continues to be a huge favorite, especially Brianna.

Speaking of Brianna - she is no longer staying in her crib - she has hopped out every time this week and when we return from Alabama we will move her into a bed.

We head to AL this Thursday to visit with my friend Tara - Ryan will have a quiet weekend to himself - so he thinks - I have already started the to do list ;)

Bits and Pieces....of our HOUSE!!!

Since we are having guests for New Years Eve - I thought I would post some pictures of our new house.

I have this AMAZING friend in CT that I miss dearly - shout out SUSAN!!!! She literally sold our house in CT and then made the trek to PA to help set up our house here.

So far the foyer, the family room and the guest room are mostly done.

This is the foyer

Our guest room:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE our family room... we have high celings and I love the way it came together. Here it is decorated for the holidays...

Our second holiday in NH

We spent a couple of days in NH for Christmas. The trip up was not too bad, however it took us 8 hours in the car yesterday to get home. That was long.

While we were there, we decorated a gingerbread train - courtesy of Connor, who happens to be a tad obsessed with trains ;)

Brianna started to sing Twinkle,Twinkle while in church on Christmas eve during the silent prayer.

Ryan and I got a night out to have dinner by ourselves - we have not done that since August!

Aunt Brooke help Aly make chocolates for the first time

Brianna of course, spent lots of time exploring the new potties in NH

It was nice to have some downtime to relax. Here are some pictures of the week:

Our Holidays in PA

Santa came to our house the weekend before Christmas, to make is easier for Mom so she did not have to lug all of the presents to and from NH. The girls were excited to put out cookies, although Brianna thought Santa should share, so she had one before going to bed.

We had a small celebration and the girls had a great time. Hopefully this week, I can post the rest of the pictures from our holidays

Our snow day!!!

So much went on this weekend it is like 5 posts!! We got a foot of snow and Aly LOVED it - Brianna not so much. I think she just wanted to spend time on the potty.

How we spent our snowy day

The number 1 reason I did NOT want to potty train until Feb:

Seriously, this girl loves the potty. I literally spent 20 minutes in the Target bathroom this morning with her. She announced quite loudly over and over that she pooped.

In addition, she loves to just sit on the potty - as evidenced here.

Both of these were taken today, notice the outfit changes. Maybe I have a future toilet paper model on my hands - look at the sheer happiness!

Being Good For Santa

I think every holiday should have a Santa - granted I have only started to use the "santa is watching" in the last week - but it has amazed me how Aly has really picked up on Santa.

This morning we needed to be out of the house by 7:40 to be at Brianna's 2 year well baby visit. Aly had a meltdown over the car seat choice and on the way to the Dr. I had to call Santa - well you can imagine that just made her hysterical over the idea that she might be on the naughty list.

We did call Santa back and tell him about our much improved behavior after school.

Brianna appt went well. Our pediatrician is new so she went over the standard questions. She asked if Brianna could string two words together - to which Brianna responded "I poop on the potty" yep killed two birds with one stone when the next question wasabout interest in the potty.

Speaking of the potty - it has become a slight obsession with her - the girl would spend hours on that potty - she just likes to sit there.

Here are a couple of pictures from this week:

Decorating the tree

We got our tree this morning and after bath and pjs we decorated the tree. I think it took them about 5 minutes - well maybe 15 but they were marathon decorators.


As you can see - they adhered to the one ornament per branch rule quite well.

There were no ornaments above three feet high - it was fun to watch their excitement. Aly was really interested in the ornaments - they each got to pick one out again this year.

Yahoo lets the holidays begin!!!

I train them well

I ordered pizza for dinner since our kitchen is under construction - the backsplash is getting done.

Ryan called from the train to tell me that he would pick it up - a slight argument ensued over the sizes. I assured him that the girls would eat the spinach, tomato and feta over ham. He disagreed.

Not only did they devour the "good" pizza both had 2 slices before the gym and shared one after. They would not touch the ham - well Brianna had a couple of bites of the ham.

hmmm next time I am ordering a large spinach, tomato and feta.

I LOVE this girl

You often hear about how kids from the same parents have such different personalities....

Well, ours fit that bill just about perfectly. Brianna when possible tears through the house naked - as happy as can be.

She really wants to potty train - I am holding out until Feb.....We are traveling a bunch these next six weeks and to be honest, the thought of hitting every possible potty though the holiday season and various airports is enough to make me want to encourage pull ups.

Tonight I found her in the bathroom...on the potty. She told me to leave her alone she was in the potty - pretty much the exact same words I use with her multiple times a day when Aly is in the potty. So, I left her to do her business. No more than two minutes had gone by when she announced that she had peed........on the floor. Hello - you were on the potty. I swear she just knows I am putting this off.

So we cleaned up the floor and went to read books - naked of course.