Visiting Amy & Adam

Saturday monring we drove down to visit Amy & Adam along with Candi & Chase.  The 3 "big" kiddos had fun playing while Adam watched.  We even managed to get a picture with all 3 of the "big" kiddos looking at the camera at the same time!  I will have to get this from Sarah though since it was taken with her camera.

When we first got there one of the dogs jumped up on Chase and he was not amused.  He actually cried, which is unusual for him. Guessing the jumping up on him scared him.  He is used to my dog, but my dog is 70 pounds and better not be caught trying to jump up on the little people.  It was very short lived and then he was fine with them.  Chase's mommy Candi is not much of a dog person, yet the two little dogs Sarah has kept buggin her for attention or snuggling up next to her. 

We went to lunch at a Mexican place and everyone did well.  You never know how a meal out with 4 kids will be!  Adam napped through all of it and the others did pretty good about sitting or at least staying around our table. 

Jillian & Amy enjoying their suckers

After lunch we went to Whole Foods store in search of a specific cheese I had there before that I wasn't able to find back anywhere else yet.  They have rather small carts so when Sarah put the infant carrier in the the back section you couldn't then use the upper part.  It wouldn't open since it was hitting Adam's seat.  We put Jillian and Amy in another cart.  They did well riding with out trying to stand up.  While there we gave them each a dum dum sucker. 

Amy & Jilly playing the big piano, Chase is playing the little one.

After we left the store we were trying to decide if we would go back to Sarah's to let the kids play for a while longer or head back.  We just said if they stay awake back to your house we will come back if not we will just head home.  They managed to stay awake so they got to play a while longer.



Jillian "holding" Adam. It didn't take her long to ask for me to take him back and hold. She said "mommy hold Adam".



Hair Styles

12-18-11 I think this was actually the first time I pulled her hair up with anything.  Only stayed in long enough for a picture.  She wasn't a fan.

1-26-12 "bitty" pony tail, she hated this and wanted it out.  It was all I could do to get a picture.

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Yipee she has enough hair for me to play with :)  Also she has decided to let me.  It took some convicing.  It seemed to work well to tell her it was like Katie & Ellie's hair (her little friends).  She will on occasion ask for pig tails :).

2-18-12 Full piggy tails

2-13-12 Half piggy tails

Potty training in progress

Jillian is showing interest in potty training.  Especially after seeing that some of her little friends are using the big potty.  Doesn't hurt to have some slightly older friends for her to hang out with. 

She is really just getting started.  She has successfully used the potty on multiple occasions, but won't always use it.  We are just taking it slow for now, which seems to be working.  She will ask sometime to go potty and will actually go.  Of course not every time since I think she sometimes asks to go right after she has used her pull ups. 

In the last few weeks she has even started to let daddy or papaw take her to the potty.  At first she was more resistant to them helping her. 

To encourage her to use the big potty we give her a special treat if she goes.  She gets M & M's and seems to really understand the link.  She will go and then say get MM's (as she calls them), but luckily she isn't asking for the every time she goes.

During her bath on this past Saturday she peed in the tub.  After doing this she told us what she did and asked, get MM's?  Um. nope sorry we don't get MM"s for peeing in the bathtub.  Silly girl.