The Kiddos

I know that it has yet again been "FOREVER" since the last post and much has happened.

Reagan is FINALLY daytime potty trained, and we're working on nighttime training. Since being potty-trained, he has developed a bit of an obsession with what makes him a boy, which is a whole new adventure for me having grown up in a family of only girls!


We recently took Reagan along for a college/career activity. We went to a Green Bay Blizzard game (IFL), which they won by 1 point in the last 9 seconds of the game! Jared bought Reagan a "Yeti (the team mascot) Claw"  and he was having a blast with it. He also managed to eat 2/3-3/4 of a tub of popcorn ALL BY HIMSELF! He had a bit of a tummy ache the next day though.

Evie Sue is really developing a large vocabulary (it helps that Reagan's is even bigger and he never stops talking). She is finally getting some hair, but almost never lets me put "pretties" in it. We've started working on potty-training with her but she recently decided that she will only use the potty if she has her seat (the little kid toilet insert). She is quite the little giant for her age, she won't be 2 till next month but is already almost completely in size 3T (and some 4T) clothes. She is also only a couple of inches shorter than Reagan.


A group of moms-with-small-children (from church) went to the N.E.W. Zoo in Green Bay. I took the kids and they had so much fun! They can feed the giraffe, goats, llamas, etc. Here are pictures of Evie and Reagan feeding the giraffe. 

     

Also, the geese and seagulls were horrible when we were eating lunch so this picture is of Evie holding on to and protecting her sandwich. (She loves her food and generally will not give it up for anything.)

Amelia Ann is growing like a weed. She was 29.5" long and weighed 18.5 lbs. at 7 months. Meli is even outgrowing her 12 month clothes. At 8 months old, she has been rolling over for a couple of months now. Recently, she started waving "bye-bye", saying "Dada" (which Jared rubs in when he gets the chance), and just this week, getting up on all fours. No crawling yet, which I am fine with, but she has figured out how to get where she wants to go while in the walker or when she is sitting up on the laminate floor (she just rocks back and forth until it scoots her to what she wants). She LOVES to go for walks in either the wagon or the stroller, and Reagan likes to be the "big boy" holding her in the wagon.

Jared will be done with school at the end of May and graduation is set for June 6th. We are both getting really excited for the school phase of life to be basically over. I was thinking about it and one of us has been in school since we got married five and half years ago.

We have also been in the process of remodeling the living/dining room and it has come along nicely. We still have some finish work to do, but for the most part it is done. Here's a list of the things that we have done:

• Tore out the old greenish, brownish shag carpeting that was in the living, dining, and hall area, and replaced it with honey oak laminate flooring.
• Widened the doorway between the hall and dining room, and trimmed it out to mimic the pattern of the French doors on the opposite wall (between the dining room and entryway by the garage).
• Repainted the living, dining, and hall walls in Sandy Beach Beige (everything was white before), and the trim in Sand Dollar.
• We added 4 can lights in the living room, 3 can lights and a ceiling fan in the kitchen, a new light fixture in the hall, and a new light fixture on the front porch.
• We finally bought drapes for the living room windows and found a decorative curtain rod that was long enough for the big picture window (it is 11' 4" wide and most decorative rods only come in up to 10' lengths).
• We replaced some of the base boards and the heat vents (a big long bulky one for 2 smaller ones).
• We also replaced the trim around the doorway between the dining room and kitchen.
• We bought matching rugs to go under the dining room and coffee tables, as well as one for front door.

Things look sooooooo much better, and as Jared puts it, "Our house is looking more like a normal modern house."