Potty Training

For the last several months, I have been hounded to start potty training Mattea. Lily caught on quick and goes potty but never consistently but somehow can pee on command. Mattea on the other hand will sit on the potty (5 seconds), wipe (with half a roll of toilet paper), and then flush the toilet (without ever peeing). I say, "she's not ready" or "she's just playing." Well, we have been letting her run around naked in the evenings. Really it is her telling us she will be running around naked since she will not keep the diaper on. She sits on the potty but never pees and I can't find any puddles. I can't figure out how she is holding it for so long. Anyways, last night before bed we try going potty. Again, no pee. She just comes out squeling "pee-pee, i try!" At 3 in the morning she wakes up crying out for "boot." I don't thinks he meant a boot but I had no clue what she wanted. Well I try to get her back to sleep and she tells me she has to pee. This is usually a stalling tactic and i was not willing to stall at 3 am. But I felt her diaper and it was dry. Dry from 8:30 to 3. So we go to the bathroom and SHE ACTUALLY PEES ON THE POTTY. ALOT!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to jump up and clap and sing and everything you are supposed to do but again it was 3am. So I hugged her and did a little yeah (curtosey of Jen). She was so proud of herself but the crappy part was she doesn't even remember it to tell her Oma. But I did!!!

Obama is President

Rosa Parks sat so Martin could walk

Martin walked so Obama could run

Obama ran so our children can fly!!!

Cute story!

So I have a cute story to share. The other day Angi was giving the girls a snack. Typically if the snack the girls are sharing is cheese Mattea gets the bigger half and if it is sweet Lily gets the bigger half ( Lily needs to eat something right!) Anyways, I think it was a cookie the girls were sharing and Lily's was eaten in 10 seconds flat. So she goes to Mattea "Bite?" Mattea gives Lily the teeniest tiny morsal of cookie and Lily gobbles it up. Again "Bite?" Mattea gives Lily another teeny bite ( we are a sharing family, you know). Again Lily gobbles it up and ask for another bite, Mattea looks at her cookie and looks at Lily and finally catches on and stuffs the whole thing in her mouth. I think Lily was a little dejected that Mattea finally got a clue ;-)

Pictures

Just born baby boy!!!

He has a long torso just like his mom and his dad's ears ;-)

Finally off oxygen and able to get dressed!

His happy cousin in the waiting room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's Here

Me and Mattea are the proud aunt and cousin to Zephram Alexander Ellegood who was born
10/20/08, weighing 8lbs 8 oz, and 19 inches long. He is super cute and had a head full of brown hair, but not as much as Mattea. He had to be on oxygen for about 2 hours and we were not given the go ahead to hold him before I left so my arms are still aching. Nina is doing great and breastfeeding went well also. The funny thing was that my mom kept calling him "my sweet girl" and had to keep apoligizing since he was a boy. We all have to get better at it!!!

Ice Cream

As Lana, Beth, and Steph know from pizza night, Mattea loves ice cream. She doesn't get it often so she savors it and it is her favorite treat. When the pic was taken she was savoring her ice cream cone (the kiddie cone at McDonald's) and Lily, who has a major sweet tooth had already had her cone refilled 3 times from Charlie's big cone!!!!!!

Long time, no talk!

Some great pictures from our photoshoot

I can't even say how much I love these 2

pictures!!!!

"Happy to be Nappy" wants to post this
this picture as a homage to African American hairstyles
Mattea reluctantly sharing her banana.

Well, Mattea has no lasting problems from her shopping cart fall but now I am worried about not eating fish during my pregnancy and Mattea ending up falling short in the brain department. Another thing I could possibly say she inherited from her dad and not my lack of fish oil for 9 months!