Potty Training Success?

Last Sunday was a big day because Evelyn actually pooped on/in the potty rather than in her panties. I was elated - perhaps we had reached the end of the disgusting part of potty training. So, I busted out the "we pooped on the potty" prize for her. Since then, though, she has pooped in her panties every day sometimes twice a day and now, twice outside. So, I might have given the prize a little too early. Any suggestions for getting over this hump are greatly appreciated!!!

Playing Baseball

Evelyn came up to me the other day with a bowling pin and a football and said, "I play baseball." It was so cute and creative - I had to get it on video.

Isabelle is Walking

Isabelle has been walking between Kevin and I for a few weeks now, but the day before her first birthday, she let go of my hand and walked across the room unprompted to tackle her sister, Evelyn. Since then, she has strolled out on her own more and more each day and now pretty much walks wherever she wants to go. We love it!

Party Planner

I don't know if this is the case in every house with small children, but my kids love catalogs. Lately, Josie has been pouring through the various Birthday party catalogs like Birthday Express and Oriental Trading Company to help me plan her birthday party. While looking through it this week, she showed me the following...

Mom, look at this Mango! We need it for our party. Wouldn't it be fun!?

Ooooh, look at this empanada for this girl party.

Look, it says you can have beer at this party.

Celebrating Isabelle's Birthday

Because Isabelle was still under the weather on her birthday, we decided to keep her birthday low key and celebrate it for the big day it is on a later date. Thankfully, Aunt Jessica did a grocery store run for us since we were homebound and picked up some ice cream sandwiches to celebrate the birthday girl.

Isabelle's birthday ice cream sandwich. She really enjoyed us singing to her.


At first, you just dipped your finger in the ice cream, but once you realized how yummy it was, you ended up just picking up the whole sandwich and eating it.


You tried the candle too, but decided that was not very good.


Of course, the big sister's could not let her eat alone. The funniest thing was Evelyn insisted on sitting in a big girl chair instead of her booster. She has been doing this a lot lately. Unfortunately, she is not quite tall enough and can barely see her plate so I kept telling her to eat on her knees. Evelyn looked at me funny, but then gently placed her ice cream sandwich on her knees.


Surprisingly, Josie did not get more on her. :)


I think she could have eaten another sandwich if I would have let her.
Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Isabelle is ONE!!!

One day old


One month old


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Eight months old


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Eleven months old


One year old

The Waco Zoo Plague

Ok so its not really the Waco Zoo's fault, but little did Meghan and I know that poor Lizzy was coming down with strep and somewhere along the way, the poor girl caught hand, foot and mouth disease. We found this all out on Friday morning after poor Lizzy took her second trip to the doctor. My girls were looking great until I got home on Friday evening and Isabelle was very clingy. I noticed she felt warm and then I noticed her knees were covered in little red bumps. I immediately thought of Lizzy and called Meghan to find out what exactly this rash might look like.

Friday night was awful. Poor Isabelle itched the whole night and barely slept. We had a few baths in the middle of the night and she just wanted to nurse. Her poor little legs were just moving all night long. We were not sure what she had since it was on her knees so I took her to the doctor the next morning and if there was any good out of this, we actually got to see Lizzy's pediatrician who immediately knew who we had been hanging out with when I said we were exposed to strep and hand, foot and mouth. After the doctor's visit, we really did not have a good idea of what she had because it looked a little like hand, foot and mouth, a little like poison ivy and a little like a strep infection. We left with some amoxycillin and topical creams and were sent home to try to get better.

With each day, her little legs got worse and more blisters showed up. We went back to the doctor today and they confirmed that it was Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. And a really, really bad case of it. And it is!

Poor Isabelle. Poor Lizzy, Poor any kid whoever has this. So we'll spend this week at home and try to get better.