70 degree January

We're enjoying our summer in January!
70 degrees

It's Potty Time

Yep, I got him a potty chair and its Cars and when you "flush" it makes an engine revving noise.
He's still pretty young (19 months) but he's been telling me when he needs to go to the bathroom or when he's gone to the bathroom so I thought we'd just get a potty chair and see what happens. I'm not going to push him. So far, he hasn't gone in it but likes to use it to store toys and the remote. Oh, he loves his Thomas the Train underpants that he picked out.

School on their Day Off

On Martin Luther King's birthday holiday from school, we still went to school. It's near our house, has a great playground, fenced, hang out for deer (which Micah loves) and the kindergarten playground is different for my kids who don't play there during school hours.

We saw SO many of these cool mushrooms on our way walking to the school. Their should be a toad or a mouse hiding under one! (:

We brought cars to play with!

Linnea rode her bike!

Micah wanted to ride it SO badly so I helped him.

It was SUCH a gorgeous day! Who gets a warm, sunny 70 degree day in January?!
Really, it was warm enough for the beach, but the school was just fine.

Gingerbread Boys and Girl

I'm finally getting around to posting these but we were late doing them too. I make gingerbread houses with the kids every year. Some times we buy a kit and sometimes I make from scratch. This year I had no motivation to make them but the kids kept wanting to. Christmas came and went and still we didn't. Then I saw these gingerbread kits at Trader Joes and they were even marked down to 99 cents because it was after Christmas so I got them and the kids were happy with them. Maybe next year I will want to do the whole house scha-bang. We'll see. I'd be more inclined if I knew the kids thought of it as art work and less of it as how much candy can I stick on this thing to be able to eat later. (:

No Pregnancy

I guess I announced too soon.
I am the girl who conceives super easily and
carries her babies without any trouble at all.
Not this time.
Miscarriage at 8 weeks.
I am fine and feeling fine.
I was happy to be having a baby but I realize that miscarriages are
nature's way of dealing with potential problems.
I guess this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.
It is difficult to transition back into the mode that I'm not pregnant any more.
And I feel sad that my children will be sad about it.

Anyhow... on to normality. (If their is such a thing!)

Can I Just Say?

Can I just say how much I love Anthropologie?
These shoes were on my wishlist.
Being the frugal girl that I am, I was patiently waiting for a sale.
They went on sale and within an hour they were all sold out.
So I started checking ebay. None.
I had dreams about these shoes two nights in a row. Is that weird?
So I called Anthropologie and told them that I had to have these shoes. They located one single pair in my size in Colorado. I called and got the amazing sale price and they were shipped out free shipping that same day.
And...shoes are so worth it. My size never fluctuates. (:
YAY!