Christmas catchup

I need to get better about updating my blog but most of the people who read it are on FB so they already know what's going on with our lives. It's just life as usual here. Christmas was wonderful. Probably one of my favorite Christmas' ever. Nothing really special happened but it just felt perfect. A white Christmas for the first time that I can remember and 3 sweet kids who I love more that life. It was so much fun to curl up on the couch with all my loves and watch movies with snow falling and a fire in the fire place. There was very little rushing around from one house to the next to see all the family this year. We spent all of Christmas day in our PJ's and we all loved every minute of it.

Canaan's favorite gift....buzz lightyear wings

My 3 and their cousins

The kids with their grandparents (Sean's parents)

Canaan & cousin Andrew

My rock star

Addison Christmas Caroling at the Veterans Home with her classmates

Christmas Caroling

Sean & I before going to a Christmas party with friends

Our Christmas tree with all our special ornaments. The ones the kids have made me.

Addison baking cookies for Santa

Mercy gift from Nanny & PawPaw

Nanny and some of her grandchildren...isn't my sweet baby niece so cute.

My sister, Lisa's kids were sick and couldn't come to mom & dads so we opened presents on Christmas Eve over skype

Aunt Diane and Mercy.

Addison was pretty excited about this gift don't ya think? Her own digital camera

Canaan got a batcave...he loves it.
Santa brought Addison a necklace
Santa brought Canaan his beloved ironman glove

our WHITE Christmas

Mercy playing with her presents

It wouldn't be Christmas if Mercy didn't eat Santas cookies

Checking out her stocking

how about pictures....

Guess who's potty trained?

YAY! I couldn't be more excited to get Mercy potty trained and out of diapers. As most of you know I cloth diaper and I'm OVER washing diapers. She's a potty training pro. She decided she wanted big girl panties so we got her some and she never looked back. As a prize for learning to go potty like a big girl we got her a new baby doll. Here's Mercy and her new BFF Senia.

Chattin' with Mercy

wow...where did the past 5 months go?

I didn't mean to fall off the face of the blogging world but somehow I did. Life has been super duper busy just being mama to 3 fabulous kidlets.

I decided about 3 months ago to quit my job of 15 years and just be a mama to my babies. It's been so rewarding. My cup truly runneth over. No, it's not always sunshine and lollipops. There are plenty of times when I'm up to my eye balls in poop and temper tantrums but honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Mercy has changes so much in the past few months. Her personality has changed so much. She's fun and spunky. She's quite sassy as well. She's testing boundaries alot lately. She's a little different than my other two in that she can throw some really ugly tantrums. WHOA! Sister will throw herself on the floor and kick and scream. Yikes. I am not that mom that I use to say "control your child" yikes! We're working through it and teaching her how to use her words to tell us what she wants and needs rather than throwing a fit. We'll get there...eventually.

She's so super smart too. She talks soo much. She can carry on a full conversation with you. It's so cute. She loves playing with her brother and sister and they all get along so well for the most part. They have their moments but they do love playing together.

It's summer break so Addie is out of school. We've been to the beach for vacation and spent alot of time at the pool. All 3 kiddos love to swim. Great summer so far.

I feel a little caught up now and hopefully it won't be 5 months between blog posts again.

Mercy feeding her babies