Our Christmas Miracles!!

Merry Christmas!!!


We started the week off at home in Ohio. We had a great time at my friend Kelly's house. Belle had a BLAST playing with Jayda and Jacey. We had Christmas at Mimi's and Poppy's and then went over to my cousin Chris' for a family get together. Belle had fun playing with her cousin "Shiny" (Cheyanne) and we had to hear Belle whine all the way home that she wanted to go back and play with "shiny".

We came home Christmas Eve night so that we could be home on Christmas morning. Belle had fun opening all the presents. She asked "Belle's?" after each one, making sure it was hers. Her favorite gifts so far have been her dollhouse hands down (from Mimi and Poppy) and then her Hide and Seek Safari game, with her Sit and Spin close behind.

Now for our Christmas miracles. Belle is going diaper free after Christmas. We put some plastic panties on her a couple times and she peed in them. Then while she was running around diaper free one time she stopped playing and ran to the potty and POOPED. Thats a big deal and it was the first time she's done that. We've been setting the timer for 20 min and she's been going pretty well. One time she peed on the floor, stopped it and ran over to the potty and finished. We may just get this done by New Years. I'm so proud of her!

Second, Ethan has been having some reflux troubles and the doctor put him on Reglan and Zantac. I just have to say that Reglan is the devil and after googling it, it scared me to death. It turned Ethan to a little monster, but after I took him off he was his sweet happy self. Now he's been drinking 5-6oz at a time compared to 2-4oz before. I don't know if it's the Zantac or his new bottle. He's been such a happier kid and I'm happy cause he's eating more.

Christmas at Mimi's



Whats a picture of the boys without Brody trying to suck on Ethan's head.


Belle and "Shiny" (Cheyanne)



This is the kids after Belle tried to choke Ethan (see picture at the top)


Our potty training outfit

Eat Boy Eat!!!

Ok so Mister Ethan has been a bear to feed. He's only been eating around 17-20 oz when he should be eating 2.5oz per pound, so atleast 28oz. Come to find out he's got reflux. We tried soy formula with no help and are now on meds, zantac and reglan. Hopefully that makes a difference cause I'm also afraid he's got MSPI (milk soy protein intolerance) and that means we'd have to get the REALLY expensive formula, and I don't want that.

A Freshour Christmas

We celebrated Christmas this past weekend with the Freshour family. Belle is finally getting the hang of the whole present thing. She's getting a lot more excited about all the toys.

And Belle did so well with going to the potty while we were there. Come to think of it, she kept the same pull up dry all day on Sunday. Nap included. I think what helped was that there were more people to hold Ethan and keep an eye on Belle's potty dance. We'll see how well I do when it's just the three of us at home.

The girls got dress up clothes.



Ethan even got in on the fun


Then we made an attempt at a group shot. Turned out ok.

Mmm chocolate cake!!

I made Blueberry muffins yesterday and well Belle loves them. Its probably the only way she gets fruit, except for juice. Ha Ha. Although I'm afraid she likes it for all the wrong reasons.

The first time she had one she said there were chocolate chips in them, and well I wasn't going to correct her. So now she keeps asking for chocolate cake. I supposed there could be worse things she could be eating.

Ethan the teething toy!

I was gonna let Sara post these on her blog, but you snooze you lose. Aren't these just hilarious. Brody thought Ethan was just one big teething toy.