Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!! I'm changing up the blog template and colors because apparently the other one is harder to see because some of the backgrounds are not loading. I also think I got rid of the crazy rap music... and I'll be changing the Christmas music soon now that its not Christmas anymore. Here are some pictures from Christmas - enjoy!

BeforeThe girls in their matching jamas! Thanks Grandma 'Salvo

Karis playing with the Santa and Reindeer

Mommy and Sierra

Karis opening a baby doll

Chocolate kisser with stylin' glasses

Vacuuming with her Barbie Vacuum

Daddy getting all the Barbie crap opened

More Barbie crap...

And more Barbie crap!

Karis was such a little stinker!!! She kept getting into MY stocking and stealing the candy out. She had candy in her own stocking, so I put mine up on the couch. I turn around and she had pulled it off the couch and was sneaking candy out of mine (which her hand is in now) and putting it in her stocking... which is behind her in the pic. LOL! Such a character!

Aftermath!

Whaddaya Think?

Karis broke my glasses a few weeks back, so I got new ones yesterday. The style these days is colored plastic frames. You should have seen the 'selection' on base. WOW! Um, yeah, I don't think tiger striped is for me! Or lime green. They also had blue, red, white, orange, yellow... lots of purples and pinks! I told Dustin I might go back and get the hot pink with bling as an alternate set! LOL! Finally decided on these... they are a burgandy red. Still not too sure... the pictures look okay, but every time I look in the mirror I think - what did I do - I have to wear these every day!



Oh, and I picked the frames out by myself, but I had the girls with me when I picked them up. Sierra saw the kids Disney Princess glasses and asked if she could have them. I told her, no, they are for kids who can't see and need glasses... you have sunglasses. About a minute later, Sierra tells me, Mommy, I think I need glasses, things are blurry and I can't see a lot of stuff, can I get the Disney Princess ones? LOL! Um... no, you little stinker!

Thanks Shawnel - Dustin said... oh, that's who you look like! GRRRR!

Whoa Santa!

We went to the Sugar Plum lane again this year. Santa had his hands quite full. We told the girls to stand on the side. Then I told Santa I was going to give him the baby, take a few pictures, and take the baby for the girls to talk to him. So we did. And this is the best picture I got! Oh well... the girls were pretty quick with Santa, I didn't even get another pic of Sierra and I got one of Ruby just as she was sliding off Santa's lap. They said they had already covered their lists when they had Daddy help them write an email to Santa! LOL!

Look What Sierra did!

I have been 'playing' in an online crop this weekend. So I've spent a lot of time in the scrapbook room. Sierra had asked me to stamp some pictures for her to color while I was in there. Instead, I gave her a little 4x4 scrapbook, some pictures (that were doubles) some stickers, and the markers. Added a little glue stick and she went to town!!! Check out what she did, it is SO VERY CUTE!

I love the doodles - which are very 'in' right now and the colored in images. Watch out, we have a scrapbooker in the making ;-)

Okay, I'm going to call it OFFICIAL

At 3 years, 2 months, and 17 days Miss Rubriana Lynn is finally potty trained!!!! Woohoo! She woke up Wednesday and changed her own pullup (like she does every morning) About an hour later I caught her with her 'poop face' You moms know what I'm talking about! LOL! So I asked her if she had to poop, fully expecting her to tell me no like she usually does. But she said yes! I asked if she wanted to poop in her pullup or on the potty. She said potty!!!!! OH MY GOODNESS! We rushed into the bathroom and I sat her on the potty. She asked me to shut the door and leave. So I left, thinking, okay, she's going to play, I'll put a new pullup on her, and then she'll poop in it.

SHE CAME OUT AND SAID 'MOMMY I WENT POO-POO!' YAY! I did a happy dance for her in the bathroom! Then I asked her if she wanted to wear underwear or a pull-up. She said UNDERWEAR!!! Okay, calm down, trying not to get my hopes up... she'll probably pee and go right back to pullups. Nope, a few hours later she came to me and said she had to go pee-pee. And when I sat her on the potty she went!!! OH YEAH!!! Can you tell how excited I am!!!!

She's had 3 accidents in the last 4 days. All because we didn't make it to the potty in time when she tells me she has to go. So we are working on it, but at least she's telling me and she can get up and down and pull up her underwear and wipe all by herself!!! Before she would hide to pee or poop and then sit in her wet clothes until I noticed because she didn't care!!! YAY! RUBY!!!!

So we picked out underwear at the BX and she has been such a big girl. I'm going to call it official, Ruby is potty trained!! FINALLY!