Happy Thanksgiving!

Yesterday Nikki had a Thanksgiving party at school. They made Indian hats, place mats, and turkey cookies. After seeing how cute her cookies turned out I decided that we could make some more and take them to Grandma's for a dessert item for Thanksgiving dinner.

On the way home from school yesterday Nikki said this was the best day of her life but you can't tell by the look on her face in this picture, lol.

Nikki made this place mat at school. It's even laminated.

Getting our supplies ready.

Let's make turkey cookies!

The finished turkies :)

Miracles Do Happen

My Monday started off great and here is why...

Nikki's room was a big mess last night when we went to bed and this morning she decided to clean it all by herself before eating breakfast. She was the last to get up so the boys and I were in the kitchen eating our breakfast. I heard some noise but I thought she might have been watching TV. When I called to her and asked what she was doing, she said she was cleaning her room. And sure enough she was. I think our little talk we had last night worked. I asked her if she liked having a messy room. She said "yeah" playfully. Then I said "Do you think Jesus likes your room messy?" She said "No". "How would Jesus like your room to look?". She says "clean". And then I said "we should do what Jesus wants us to do". Then she replies "yeah". ( I don't remember the exact words of the conversation but it was something like that.)

This morning after she cleaned it, she then wanted to vacuum it. So of course I let her. When she was all done she said "now the spirit can be in my room". Of course that made me very happy and I told her repeatedly how impressed I was and how happy it was making me, etc. etc. to encourage her. These are the moments when I finally feel like I'm doing something right. I also went visiting teaching this morning and had a good time so today has been a really good Monday!

I Spy A Tooth!

Life has been so busy lately I haven't had time to blog since last week. My thoughts have been preoccupied with getting applications turned in for financial assistance, trying to find out if Curtis's insurance will cover Garrett's surgery for sure or not, getting ready for the surgery, trying to get Christmas done before Curtis comes home in a week(which I don't think is going to happen at this point) and Thanksgiving coming up this week! That's a mouthful. Speaking of mouthful, I discovered yesterday morning that Jack is finally getting his first tooth! I tried to take a picture but it's hard to see right now. It's his lower front left tooth. Nikki was about the same age when she got her first tooth.

If you click on the picture and bring it up to a bigger size you can kind of see it.

Earlier this week Nikki got out her dress up and was dancing around. Garrett then tried to get me to help him put a dress on. Don't worry Curtis, I refused to do it. So I remembered that when I was a kid we used to use blankets or sheets to fly around with. I found this pillowcase in the closet and pinned it around his neck to make a cape. He was very happy with it and wore it all day!

A few days later Nikki decides she wants a cape also. So I found another pillowcase and they both flew around the house like super heroes. They even went out on the swings so their capes could fly in the air. Oh, and they both had one of my big hair clip claw things on their arms. They have worn these before as a super hero thing.

This was funny. I was going to take a video of her and had it on camera instead and so this is the pose I got as she was taking off to fly around. It's also funny that I don't mind that Nikki does things boys do but I don't want Garrett doing girly things, lol. Guess that comes from me being a tom boy when I was a kid.

Bath time pictures are so cute and I loved the look on Jack's face. I just had to post it.

And this picture I thought was just as cute. I love my boys!

Potty Time!

I was finally able to get Garrett to go on the potty yesterday! Of course, I haven't really been trying that hard. It started out earlier in the day when it looked like he might be pushing something out so I asked him if he wanted to go on the potty. He wasn't really sure. At first I put him on the toilet the way it was but then remembered we had a Sesame Street potty training seat under the sink that also has an attachment for boys. He seemed to really like sitting on the potty seat. But that first time he didn't end up getting anything out. I just figured it's one of the first steps to get them interested.

Later on after dinner I was doing some laundry and he was standing next to me and all of a sudden I heard him doing some pushing again. So I asked him again, do you want to go on the potty? At first he shook his head no but I asked him a couple more times and then ran him to the bathroom anyway. Luckily, nothing came out yet and I was able to get him on there without any messes. I just kept telling him to keep pushing and get it out and he finally did. He was so excited about it that he didn't want to get off. He kept saying he wanted to pee. So I let him sit on there for awhile and then cleaned him up. And of course he was excited to flush the toilet when he was all done. After washing his hands and calling Grandma to tell her the good news I let him have a piece of candy for going on the potty. Good job Garrett! I hope he can keep it up but I'm not too worried if he doesn't yet, especially with his surgery coming up soon. It was very exciting for all of us though.

(And yes, I did take a picture and even though it doesn't show anything I decided not to post it just in case some people might get offended or whatever. The only thing you see are his legs, lol. It was a very cute picture though with a big smile on Garrett's face.)