Big Trips & Big Boys!

Well, it has been a big week as always around here!

Sheniah has been on the first (of many) Student Council trips thanks to the help of family and friends. This trip was to Reidsville and she had a great time, but she is really excited about the trip to Orlando and she has begun the daily countdown (only 16 days to go!)! She is so funny! We will be working hard the next few months to get more sponsors for the Phoenix trip and the 8th grade trip to Washington, D.C. (both in March) as well as the ski trip with her Youth Group (in February). We had curriculum night at the middle school last night and all the teachers were going on and on about what a great kid she is (I know this...but it is always SO nice to hear it!). Today she brought home her first progress report and she has all A's and one B. She is such a great kid! Unfortunately with all this greatness she is so busy and hardly ever here, so it is nearly impossible to get a picture of her...so I stole one off her aunt's Facebook page! It is a beautiful picture of all 3 girls...we can't wait to have them out here (hopefully next summer!) So here she is, my biggest little one, with her Aunt's Lizzie and Carmen...

A couple of cute pictures of the boys from the last couple of days...Harrison is so big!

And he is soooo naughty!!!

Showing off his muscles!

Silly boy!

On September 26th, Michael joined the ranks of the big boys! He has been completely disinterested in the potty chair, but I still ask him every few hours if he wants to go potty. Sometimes he will say "Okay" and we will make a big show of running to the potty and putting him on it, only to have him jump up in a few moments and say "All done". Other times he will say "No Tanks (too cute)" and I will ask again a couple of hours later. So on the 26th Yaya came to visit. After she was here for a while I asked Michael "Do you want to show Yaya how you can go potty?" He got very excited and said "Okay" and so we all ran to the potty, we dropped his pants and quickly stripped off the diaper, sat him down and suddenly it happened...he POTTY'D!!! It was so exciting!

He has since lost interest again and I have told my wonderful MIL that if he doesn't show more interest soon she will have to move in so he can show her all day long!

Today Harrison learned a fun new trick which required rearranging of some furniture...

Yup, he made it all the way to the bed...very dangerous! So, Michael's "Thomas the Train" couch had to be relocated from the foot of our bed! I REALLY, REALLY hope he doesn't start climbing out of his crib!



Finally, another video, trying to walk to Yaya but at this point he had been walking for a long time and was wearing out!

Love to all!