Growing Pains

Poor Braden has been experiencing some hard changes lately. I guess we have been feeling the need for him to grow up a little bit since we have another one on the way. We took him off of the bottle and the binky a couple of weeks ago, he is strictly on sippy cups now. He always had to have a bottle in his mouth, even when he wasn't drinking, and I was worried it was going to mess up his teeth. It was very hard for him, I felt like he was acting like a smoker that got his cigarettes taken away, he was so addicted. Since he has been off the bottle he has also started talking a lot more! Yay! The other change that we have seen is that he is a lot more aggressive and has a bigger temper. Uh-oh.
Braden is also sleeping in his toddler bed (converted from his crib). So he has the ability to get out but he has been very good and only gotten out one time at the very beginning. I thought we should transition slowly so his crib doesn't get it yanked out from under him all at once.
Potty training..... we'll leave that for another day... I'm not ready for that!

The news you've been waiting for...

Well, the polls show that most of you voted for a girl, though the vote for boy was close behind (in part because of a few of you that voted for boy more than one time, Glenden and Patty). And as it turns out, most of you gambled and WON! It's a Girl!!!

More Sadie Pix

Sadie played with Natalia yesterday when Teddy and Christina from Utah came to visit us yesterday. They were so cute playing dress-up together. They almost exactly 1 year apart in age. We haven't seen their family in a year and a half so it was fun seeing how everyone has changed, including new baby Angelina that we hadn't seen before - already walking at 8 months!

My Girly Girl

Sadie has been asking for the longest time to paint her nails. Well, I'm not a real girly kind of girl and I hate doing nails, spending hours on makeup and hair... and Sadie loves it. Ok, not the hair part, but the makeup... She loves to carry around a makeup bag (with chap stick and lip gloss) and put in on all day. She used to cry and cry if she couldn't wear her dresses every day but I finally got her talked out of that and now she does like to wear pants and shirts too. Here is a picture of Sadie doing my toenails after I finished painting hers.

New Year Resolutions

My resolutions for this year (feel free to remind me later on in the year when I forget or neglect to follow through) are to
1- Get more organized. Both with my daily schedule and with my house. I want to have better night-time routine and get the kids to bed at no later than 8 o'clock. In order to do that I need get dinner ready by 6'o'clock.
The downfall with getting the kids to bed earlier is they don't get to see Daddy much because he usually doesn't get home and showered until 7 and sometime he has meetings at night. :(
I also want to keep my house cleaner so I am trying to get into a better routine. I wish I could just hire a maid! Its not my favorite thing to do but I love a clean house.
2- Exercise regularly. I have friends that have done it so I know that it can be done! I do exercise occasionally but since I do have a treadmill at home and weights and exercise videos.... I should have no excuse. I can imagine it would be so much easier to get back in shape after the baby is born if I walk everyday too!

Don't you love making new goals for the new year? The one thing I am not going to resolve to do that I have tried before and failed every time is change my eating habits. I just love food too much! I would rather work harder at exercising than not eat bread products! That's just me. ;-)

How do you like Reindeer?

Its a little late but I had to put this in here. Sadie and her friend Sarah were at a Christmas party together and they were talking about some interesting things. If you listen in on the things Sadie says when she doesn't think you are listening it can be very funny! But don't let her know she is being funny because she does not take that as a compliment. Anyway, Sadie and Sarah were talking about Christmas and Sadie brought up Reindeer. She asked, "Do you like Reindeer?"
Sarah replied in a completely sincere voice, "Only when its cooked."