Potty Update

Tenille peed for the first time tonight in her potty!  Yes she did!  Not on the floor, not on me, not on the bath mat, and not in the tub.  Yippy!  I don't care if it was sure dumb luck. We Celebrated here!  Tracy Wag more, Bark Less!

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t and her new kitchen!

baby stella and her magnetic toot!

We have completely enjoyed our Christmas! It currently is snowing outside again and I am not working! Yippy! Tenille did as good a job as an 18 month old can do with strangers in red suits and presents and people all around. And to top it all off I think she is teething again. :) So we are back to no more sleep with the added bonus of having a child who is starting to throw tantrums if you tell her no. For instance, last night she slept for awhile and just as I am getting ready for bed, she is up. We tried rocking and snuggling, nope, she wanted her new baby Elmo. This Elmo has a diaper, bib, toot, and blanket. I made the mistake of asking her if she would like me to fix his diaper. She threw him down stomped away and screamed into the wall. I was like, "who is THIS kid?" After five minutes I realized it was the diaper comment that set her off so I said, "look I took it off" she immediately stopped crying, came over and got it and was happy. So weird. I didn't realized that we had a teenager in the house! Santa came over this week to tell her to leave cookies out for him and carrots for Rudolph. She listened intently but didn't want to sit on his lap or touch him. She did give him knuckles. Tenille got an abundance of toys and books. All so cute. I didn't know there was so much Elmo stuff out there! So last night at one point I was carrying her, baby Elmo, baby Stella, violet the singing dog, and and Elmo blanket. My most comical nights always happen when J is gone. I thought to myself, holy cow, next year the kid gets 1 toy! She did get some money and all that is going in her college fund. I officially can't find Bart. So if you helped us move and know where he is let me know. Since this is the case, Tenille took her 18 month photo with the bunny uncle mark gave her. She used to be smaller than this thing! In the picture of my crazy family you can see Tenille with my cell phone trying to play rock band with everyone! She got those jammies and the baby Elmo there. I know the last picture is not Christmas related but it was so FUNNY! I turned around to put something away and she somehow got the bottle stuck on her butt. I was laughing and you can tell by the video I will post that she didn't think it was funny at all! And yes I know she is carrying around a soft scrub bottle. I took it away from her and she was in no danger at any time. :) I hope you all had a GREAT holiday and enjoyed some time off! Until next week.

Tenille and the bottle

Not sure how this happened but it is funny all the same!

sasha helping t eat

I thought this was too funny!

Tenille got a new chair from Aunt Heather and Uncle Jeff. She loves it!

Our weekend completely tuckered Tenille out! Here she is falling asleep while eating lunch!

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I know much to your happiness we are starting to sleep again at our house. Tenille is starting to feel better and I think that is making a huge difference for her. We are eating better and sleeping better and are just more fun to be around. I hope you all enjoyed the photos this week. That night was really rough on me but I survived another day! :) Or maybe I should say night! Anyways, school is going well for Tenille. She is going there this week and next for 3 days each. I am going to use this time to get errands done and relax a Little! We are starting to use a cup! Thanks for the cup aunt brenda! We had a GREAT weekend. Because of the snow we stayed in, had a fire all weekend long, and just relaxed. What a great start to the Christmas break. I know I have shared with you many a story that is probably pretty funny to you all. I would like to add another: It answers the question, " How does Jason end up in the garage, sweating, out of breath, holding a gun?" Do I have your interest now? :) Like I said we had a fire all weekend in the upstairs fireplace. I thought I would make homemade pizza for dinner. I wanted to make the pizzas before J got back from hunting in the woods. So I put more wood on the fire and t and went to work on the pizzas. After making one I realized they were too small and I needed to make another. So we started over, just then the smoke detectors went off. In the whole house mind you. J and I both have this fear that since our house caught fire once it might do it again. :) So I calmly picked up t and turned all the fans on. I was pretty sure something had fallen of the pizza and was making the smoke. The house did smell like smoke but we were having a fire in the fire place! So I started opening all the screen doors and checking the house out. By the time I made it down stairs and opened that door, the house had aired out and the alarms turned off. So how does J come in to play with this story? Well, he was down the hill in the woods hunting when he heard the alarm. He said he sat there for a moment and thought, "what is that?" "huh that sounds like a smoke alarm. AHHHHH it is our smoke alarm!" and he started running, up the hill, about an acre or more away, in his hunting gear, with his gun, just running. By the time the alarms turned off and I came upstairs, I found J in the doorway, sweating, asking, "is that what I think it is?" No worries! Our house didn't burn down and the pizza was great! Well Santa is coming this week so I am sure there will be more good stories for you all to read later. Have a GREAT Christmas break.

This just couldn't wait - too funny!

Tonight after her bath Tenille pitched an absolute FIT if I didn't up these things on her. She is currently sleeping with the shoes one. Yep, that is TWO bibs and a pair of sandals. What a fashion diva! I can't wait to see what she comes up with next! I know I should wait for this funny moment for next week but this is SO cute! I am trying something new with my photos. I hope they load faster for you with dial up. Also, the elephant is supposed to go on humidifier!

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Here is Tenille writing her letter to Santa!

Sleep, what a nice word. Sure wish we could get some of it! Tenille dozen't feel well and has given us all the daycare gleap as we call it. It is basically a bad head cold with lots of snot in her case. J has it pretty bad tonight. Our weekend consisted of being up from 11pm until 1:30am on Friday night. I finally gave up around 12:30 and just turned the lights on a started the bed time routine over. She took a bath and we read books and finally she went to sleep. Ugh! I tell you what, this one kid is killing us. And everyone wonders why we don't have 12 more by now! Don't get us wrong, we love our little pumpkin, but she is a LOT of work. Sunday night it got even better . . she wouldn't't sleep until 9:30 pm and then she got up at 4 am. That's right 4 am. At 5 am I brought her into bed with J and I. I never knew a kid could flop and hit you so much. But even in all this, she steals your heart. She sits up in bed, looks at me and says, "Hi ma ma. Booooo!" J and her play these games where they scare each other. So she just wanted to play. We made cookies this weekend and went to a fire department Christmas party. It was very nice. T got so excited that she grabbed the hot polish sausage and burnt her hand. Poor thing. She just had this look on her face like, why would anyone eat something so HOT? There were other girls to play with so she was pretty happy about that. One of them kept growling at her. She didn't really like that very much. Two weeks from today I am having my lasik surgery. I am one week into wearing my glasses and I HATE them. No fun. It is funny to see my kids, everyday one of them asks me if I just got glasses. Apparently that proves that they don't actually look at me very much. J They must be listening to my words of wisdom. J So 10 days until Christmas are you ready? Our biggest news is that I am typing this from my couch at HOME! We have the Internet. We have arrived out of the middle ages. We got a mifi which is like another cell phone and we get the Internet through it! It is pretty fast so that is awesome. Well that is about it. Enjoy the photos. Hopefully I will have one of her sleeping soon!

Week 23 Picutres

Making Candy with the family! A holiday tradition!

Tenille got a letter from Santa! She is on the "nice list".

Tenille LOVES the trucks and the fake dog at Daddy's fire station!

Our role in the Christmas play! There is Tenille's friend Ryan and his mom Jen.

pictures

Well in my rush to send out the email I didn't attach the photos . . I know those mean so much to you!   The one is T in the fire truck at J's station, it is there for repairs.  The other is candy making.  And the best one is her opening her letter from SANTA!  Yep, it is offical, she is on the nice list!  So thank you Santa for sending the letter.  It was so cool!

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Well the story of the tree continues. J came home Tuesday night and worked so hard for us at fixing our tree. He had gotten a new stand and was ready to go. He got all the ornaments on there, it looked so nice. He went to the put the last one on, and declared, "This is the last one!" put it on, and the whole tree fell over. We only lost two oranaments that time. So it is with a held breathe that I type this. I hope that it stays up. There were lots of foud letter words when it fell again and then even more when I was trying to hold Tenille (who was crying) and the tree and I lost my grip and pointy needles went into J's ear. I think if it falls again, J threaten to throw it over the balcony into the woods. He told me I would have to be quick to get the ornaments off before he did that. :) It seems funnier now as I type this the it did Tuesday night. After a week of looking at my sad mess of oranament pieces I decided to get out the super glue. I spent over an hour putting them back together. Most look like nothing happened. Then there is my most prize oranament from my great grandmother. I was able to put my name and the date back together and glue that back to the big piece that was left. I am sure that there have been a few times in my life that God has spoken to me and I was listening. (I think He speaks to me a lot, I just don't notice in my too busy world, unfortuantely) Last night was one of those. As I sat there with glue on my fingers I calmly heard a voice say, "It is just an oranament Tracy." And He is right. It IS just an oranament. I have many memories with her, I have other "things" that she gave me. Somehow the whole thing is not so meserible now. I know that Grandma wouldn't want me to be sitting on my floor crying about an oranament. She would want me to be up having a great time with my family. So I glued back together what I could and hung it back on the tree. Imperfect and missing pieces. It's just a thing. It still reminds me of her. On the Tenille front, we have her Christmas play. I had to stand up front with her. I had to bribe her with candy to make her stay. When she would get down with a piece she would say "Mor Mor" and give the sign for more. I am she the first couple of rows wondered what she was doing. Halfway trough she decdied to stop blowing kisses at daddy and go see him. So far a while I was standing up there by myself. Very nice. :) I also just have to say that it is hard on us when she doesn't sleep well but it is the most wonderful feeling when she does fall asleep on your lap rocking. She is starting to get heavy! But it is oh so wonderful when she is peacefully sleeping. Last night J took an hour and I took an hour with her. She just wanted to be up. So we heard lots of hey!s and ut - o! and juice . . . kinda funny now when it is not 3 in the morning. I know you all are wondering why this is so late. Well, we thought we were going to be able to get the internet out at our house and so I thought I could publish again from home Monday night. And low and behold, nope, the signal is too weak . . . ugh! So back to sending from home. On last note, Santa spent almost 2 hours working on putting a kitchen set together. Who knew there were so many parts?

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We had a two hour delay this past week on Tuesday. What could be better? Tenille played right along and slept until I went and woke her up. Well, I went in there and she was laying on her back playing with her stuff animals so I guess she was already wake! On thanksgiving day, we did two thanksgivings and ate way too much! Tenille spent the night at my parent's house so I could get up and get the bargains the next day. My bargains included getting a new battery for my car because it died at 4:05 am in the JcPenney parking lot. My dad had to come and rescue us (with Tenille of course). We jumped the car, took it back to their house, got a new car and headed out again. It was still fun. We of course did get our snow globe. We got our tree and decorate the new house. We got our tree at Ebys. We had Borntragers, Wogomans (2 families), Watsons, and Troyers (2 families) all there at the same time! Tenille got to see Santa. You can tell by the picture that didn't go well. Please notice the too small jacket on Tenille. She would NOT take that thing off! She did help J with putting the tree up. She tried to twist all the screws in. We were about half way done with decorating when I came home yesterday to find the tree fell over. It was so sad. An ornament that my great grandmother had gotten me was broken into little pieces. I sat on the floor and cried. Tenille didn't understand and so she came over and cried with me. She patted my back and tried to make me feel better. How is it at 17 months is already understands me? I had my awesome brother in law Jeff come and rescue me. I tried to put the tree up but it poked Tenille and she cried. :( I have all the ornaments in a basket. I didn't have the heart to put them back up there again last night. Hopefully with J's help we will get that done tonight. So that is about it. Tenille has a play this Friday. I will be sure to tell you all the details next week.