New Christmas Pictures!

I stole some pictures from Hamilton's blog! (I hope thats okay, Melissa!?) These pictures are so cute of Izzy and Hamilton together! Isn't he adorable!?

Izzy looks like a bully here! She was just studying Hamilton!

Izzy was showing Hamilton how to play with his new toy!

She loves to pat people on the back!

Hamilton is being so patient!

Izzy was trying to help him out...she was determined to get that pacifier in his mouth!

I think Hamilton was cutting another tooth!

Hamilton was so excited about his new toy!

This was the teacher coming out! I pulled Loren's tooth!

Izzy's new pictures!

We had some extra pictures made of Izzy at Christmas time!

This is very late....I know!

Izzy had a wonderful Christmas! I think she finally knows who Santa is after several visits with him this Season. On Christmas Eve, Santa brought Izzy a present early at Bebe and Grandad's house. She acted better around him when he was handing her toys! The next morning, Izzy woke up to Bebe, Grandad, Aunt SaySay and Uncle Matty, and a new kitchen from Santa. She was so excited that she screamed! We got it all on video! She was so excited about her new kitchen, that I had to open up the rest of her presents. After a huge breakfast, we loaded up the car and headed for Arkansas to surprise Nawna and Grampy. Christmas continued for the next two days in El Dorado! Isabella had so much fun playing with stickers with Aunt Jennifer and Melissa while Jeremy and I played video games with Loren and Jared. Enjoy the pictures, I know they're a little late!

Check out Izzy's hair on Christmas morning!

We had to explain to Izzy that this basket was for her new baby doll!

"With Mom...."

"Without Mom!"

Hamilton has grown so much!

The Black Eye!

(She has a cracker in her mouth.)

Izzy has her first, and hopefully last, black eye! She tripped over her pajama pants right before bed Saturday night, and hit under her eye on the trunk upstairs. After several tears, some from her, but mostly from me, I moved the piece of furniture out of the room. Izzy was very brave. The eye turned blue instantly, and looked worse the next morning. Jeremy had to talk me into going to church that morning. I didn't want anyone to see her. She looked awful! Her eye was almost swollen shut. I felt like I had to scream before we walked into every room, "she fell on a trunk"! Everyone was great at church. They told me their stories of raising kids and it made me feel so much better! So.....when your child falls for the first time, you know who to call to make you feel better! Children are tougher than we think, new parents!

"My Life"....Mommy Diaries!

Izzy is potty trained! We have taught Izzy to go "number 2" on the potty! Yes, that is so exciting, but I have to tell you the story of what happened this morning. You might want to hold off on potty training after you hear this. Or better yet, send your child to the grandparents house for this stage of life! We just got in from Arkansas real late lastnight. We arrive to a clean house, because we are having life group over on Sunday. So we have a ton of luggage to unpack and I am trying to keep the house very clean until then. If you guys know me, this really stresses me out. Well, Izzy showes me that she needs to use the potty, so I run over to her, strip her down and set her on the pot in front of the t.v. with a book. She finishes, so I do the "yeah Izzy" dance. Meanwhile, she is standing there without a diaper and a messy bottom. So I quickly run to get some wipes. (Yes, I should have already thought about that, but I didn't!) So I get back to one of my dogs, eating out of the pot like it is a treat! I scream of course, run the dog to it's room just in time to see Izzy standing so proudly up against the window waving her arms like she loves to do. Now I have to clean off the window seal, pick up the pot out of the floor so the other dog doesn't get into it, and put a diaper on my child before she does number 1 in the floor. I bet you can already guess what is going to happen next..... Camry, my other dog has discovered the "treat" in the floor. In case your wondering, Camry is our good dog, I never thought she would do that, but she did. So the story can go on. I finally got everything cleaned up. Izzy got a diaper on in time, and the dogs are going to the groomer today. The house is sanitized again, but not before I had a huge laugh. I thought this story might amuse some of you moms out there. Please tell me you have had mornings like this!