Success!

Zeb is potty trained! I don't have any pictures to prove it but I do have video. Maybe I can get John to post an awesome video of Zeb teaching Kayleigh's baby doll how to use the potty. It is hilarious. Anyways, I have to say I am very amazed at my little man. The morning I decided to start I had a very serious conversation with the Lord. I prayed for LOTS of patience and very LOW expectations. The Lord far exceeded my expectations. Zeb was just ready and seemed to pick it up quite quickly. I think he likes to be like his big sister. I love not having to use diapers any more for at least a couple of months before it all starts over again with our new little one!

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas! It was really fun watching the kids open their new presents. Zeb received several trains which he loved! Kayleigh received a pink dress for her doll which she also loves. She claims that the baby doll will be a part of my sister's wedding in the spring. We will see if Holly goes for that! We had everyone over for brunch and then opening gifts. We did secret Santa. John and I both agreed that this was one of the best Christmas seasons we have had since we have been here. I think having so many kids around made it a lot of fun for us. Plus our Hong Kong trip was icing on the cake!

Kayleigh received a princess themed gift from her friend Brennan which included the Cinderella movie. She was really excited!

Zeb received this awesome truck to ride around on outside from his friends Bright and Zion.

Thanksgiving Day

For Thanksgiving day we went to the Shelley's house to celebrate. We had a huge feast that included things like green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, broccoli casserole, mac-n-cheese and rolls. Can you tell that casserole was a theme to our Thanksgiving feast? We had Laura and Matt and her parents over for Thanksgiving as well. Kayleigh was so excited to have her friend Julianna there to play with.

This is the dessert spread.

Kayleigh with Julianna's baby doll. They continued to put her down for a nap and told us not to go in the room where she was sleeping.

Here Kayleigh, Julianna, and I are trying to do a craft. The key word here is "try" it took a lot of us to figure out how to put this little house together.

Here is the whole crowd minus Zeb. He was sleeping. He always seems to miss out on getting his picture taken. I'm sad we don't have any pictures of him on this day.

Baby Wrap

Kayleigh loves to imitate mommy many ways during the course of a day. This day, she decided to wrap her baby doll up just like mommy wraps up Zeb. This wrap, however, came complete with bib, just in case her baby got hungry and there was no time to take the wrap off to feed him. This wrap is also a very special wrap made of the left over burp cloths lying around the house.

I Love My Sisiter....But Help Me Mommy!

These two pictures are a perfect example of interaction between Kayleigh and Zeb. It starts out with Kayleigh loving on him and being really sweet and then she thinks that she can do things to Zeb like she does with her baby doll. She begins to kiss on him or get on top of him so much that he tries to get away. She doesn't quite understand yet that she can't sling him around like she does her baby doll. However, John frequently tells Kayleigh that one day Zeb is going to get her back!

Zeb's Bed

Kayleigh loves to take care of her baby doll like I take care of Zeb. One day she decided to put her baby doll down to sleep in Zeb's bed. Then she thought she would go "night night" too. As you can see it is a little small for her!