Sarah's favorite outfit

Sarah loves her birthday suit. I'm having a hard time keeping clothes on this little girl. She is such a little wild woman! Here she is in her birthday suit + a diaper (which she takes off regularly).

In total denial

If you know anything about my potty woes with Jolie you know that she waited until she was almost 38 months before she used the potty for the very first time! So needless to say, when Sarah started taking off her own clothes & diaper & sitting on the potty & actually tee teeing last week I could NOT believe my eyes! She has used the pottty at least once (usually more) all by herself with little to no assistance from me for an entire week. Sometimes I don't even know it is happening until she's finished & runs in saying, "I tee tee, Mommy, I tee tee!" Did I mention she hasn't even had her 2nd birthday yet? I'm not pushing her since she seems to have herself on a pretty good potty plan. Who knows what will happen, but I'm in total denial that she could possibly be potty training herself! She uses both the big & little potty, but here she is in action on the little potty:Such a big girl!

Featured artist

One of Jolie's favorite things to do right now is draw. All the random paper around the house is driving Todd crazy :) I think she is actually pretty good. It's hard for me to throw her creations in the trash, but if I don't the paper might start pushing us out of the house SO I decided to start photographing some my favorites. Here are a couple recent drawings. She helped me label them so you know what everything is:

My girls

I thought this picture was too cute not to share. I love my girls. The big one & the little one.

New skill - mastered!

I promise not to bore you with any more hula hooping videos after this one, but I just had to share that Jolie has found her rhythm and is dominating with her hula hoop. Here she is in action in her swim suit & in the sprinkler!

All in a day's work

Sarah accomplished all of the following before noon today!

1. I thought she was playing in the playroom (which is connected to the laudry room) when I discovered she'd made her way into the laudry room & was having a grand time (yes, that is paint!):

2. While I was cleaning the laundry room she climbed up on her changing table (a new skill) & was moisturizing her little legs all by herself:

3. While I was in the living room doing something she climbed up on a stool in the kitchen (I think she was only able to accomplish this b/c Jolie had left a chair next to the stool) & got into some more paint. Does she look guilty or what?:

Can you guess who is about to be 2?

Good friends

We love the Spence family! I'm keeping Hannah & Chloe tonight while their parents host an event for girls in our youth group. Hannah was demonstrating that she can pick up Jolie & I caught a really cute pic. Can you tell they are good friends?