Recently

A lot has happened lately. For the sake of time, i'll bullet point them...

*Owen pees and poops in the potty, only if we keep his diaper off, which we do as long as we are home. Which totally beats changing stinky diapers, and we are using way way way less diapers, like 1 or 2 a day, depending on if we go out or not!

*Jim has had 11 days off of work, his new job is totally awesome!

*Owen is in love with the movie Cars, which is cute and all but gets to be really annoying, we're kind of glad because we WERE annoyed at ratatouille. Two steps forward, two steps back?

*On Christmas Eve Matilda was sitting on Dada's lap while I was doing something in the kitchen. Owen was over by his potty and said "uh oh!" so jim jumped up and knocked over a cup of super hot hot chocolate! It spilled on Jim's leg and on Matilda's leg. We didn't realize it until a few seconds when she started screaming. It was like no other scream i have heard before. She had a footie onesie on (one my mom got for her, a christmas outfit, that my mom never got to see her wear!) so luckily it wasn't directly on her skin, but the outfit is REALLY hard to get on and off, so it was a good thing and a bad thing. As soon as I heard her scream i jumped up, grabbed her from Jim, pulled her leg out of the outfit as soon as I could and looked at her leg, it looked like she had some hot chocolate on her leg so jim wiped it away and it actually wiped off her skin, only one layer (maybe two?) but it freaked us out, completely! so I ran her to the kitchen... I soaked a clean towel with cold water and right before I placed it on her leg I freaked... I thought "is this what she needs?!" "what should we do?!" "jim call someone" I yelled! I had no idea what to do, seeing her skin wipe away just totaly shocked me and I was not in the right mind. Jim called a few people, thank you dani, mom, dad, michelle, and Jill!!, we finally figure out what we needed to do, after about an hour of her screaming, she fell asleep... and woke up about an hour later (on my lap the whole time) she was smiley and happy and herself! It made us both feel SO relieved! She is really an awesome kid! We thought we wouldn't be able to go to my parent's house christmas morning, which was a bummer, but around 1am she was totally fine and it seemed like maybe we would be able to put her in the car and head over. So when morning came, she still seemed fine! Of course her wound looked TERRBILE! but all burns look bad... But we headed over to my parent's for a nice and relaxing day!

Matilda is doing well, her wound seems to be healing nicely. At first it seemed like it was in the shape of a heart, but now we think it looks a little more like the shape of Australia, only mirrored! So funny! Thanks to everyone who gave us advice, thought of her, prayed for her, and loves her! You guys are great and we love you guys so much!

That is about all that has been happening lately... Just doing some awesomely fun (note: sarcasm) winter cleaning. Today is New Years Eve, our plans? Sleep!

Holidays are indeed more fun with kids who get excited, next year christmas will be crazy, we're trying to keep it just a holiday and not about presents and all... but its hard when i see how excited and crazy owen gets when he opens something awesome... and we feel it will only get worse! ohwell... he'll learn in time i guess.

Love you all

Nicole

New Pictures on Our Flickr Page

My kiddos!

Are driving me nutso!

Well, only slightly, but boy am I learning to be patient.

Owen has decided to go back to being a baby, and matilda has decided she is going to hide her pees from me. I am trying to EC (Elimination Communication) with Matilda, which is communicating to each other when you are peeing... which means pretty much that i could be done with diapers! But, every time I try to figure out when she might be about to pee, I step away for two seconds to deal with something else and I come back and she has peed.. ugh! It's going to be a long process, but I'm determined to be done with disposables soon! (Hopefully, if laziness doesn't get the best of me!)

I haven't been taking many pictures lately, because I can't find my camera, but here are a few Jim took from his iphone. There are more on our Flickr page. (Link also on the side bar!)