Trike life

I'm okay, mom!

This is what she tells me when she wants to go outside, but I need to do something inside and can't quite go yet. She tells me she's ok, then proceeds to play, by herself, outside in the backyard for about 15 minutes. Who is this child and when did she get so big?!

A rare moment

It's no secret that Penny's not too fond of Ellie. So moments like these truly melt my heart.

Gorgeous girl

Because sometimes I look down and what I see seriously takes my breath away. I can never do it justice in a photo, but here was my attempt today.

POTTY TRAINING!

And here we go! I read a book called "Oh, Crap!" which is basically a boot camp potty training method and it resonated with me. We went for it. And it WORKED! We started on a Thursday cold turkey - no diapers - no anything for that matter - you keep them naked and watch them like a hawk. What you learn about your kid and their potty habits is fascinating and what I learned about this girl is that she is a CAMEL. Yes, my child can drink water all morning, plus a juice box or two, and hold her pee for SIX HOURS. This made the first day a little challenging in ways I was definitely not anticipating, but we persevered, but by day 3, she was basically potty trained. We had a grand total of 2 accidents, both of which were because she just wasn't quite to the potty in time, but she was on her way. By day 4, we had our first outing (a quick one to the park) and within a week we were running longer errands (with a potty in the back of the car for good measure).
I am so proud of my girl for simply nailing it!
Side note: we are still in diapers for naps and bedtime - we're not quite THAT good :)

The infamous car potty. This thing saved us so many times!

My sleeping beauty

I know so many people who do this on the regular, but I can never bring myself to walk into her room when I know she's sound asleep and take a pic with the flash and risk waking her up. I just can't do it. But I'm always so jealous of those amazing sleeping shots people get of their kids - it's when you can't help but adore them in the most intense pure way.
Tonight when I crawled into bed, I checked E on the monitor and I just had to do it. She was so sweet with her babies all over her, holding her hair, in her Minnie jammies - it's so perfectly E right now and I couldn't resist. So behold, the rare pic of my sleeping beauty.

25 weeks!

Again, I've been terrible this go around of keeping track with bump pics, but here we are at 25 weeks!! A little over halfway there!