My silly kids

One day a few weeks ago they came across the santa costume in their bureau. They were fighting over who got to wear it.

Jackson wanted to sit on Maddie's lap and tell her what he wanted for Christmas! HAHA I was so surprised she let him near her let alone sit ON her.

Now that I've totally slacked off on the monthly letters I feel like I haven't shared much information. I feel badly because I really want to document as much as I can as timely as I can. I have continued to take pictures on the 17th of every month though. I haven't shared those because I was thinking that I would eventually do a post. Maybe I'll share 6 of them in September and write a letter then? Then continue every six months with the letters? I don't know. I'll figure it out.

But for now, Maddie is 100% potty trained. She still has accidents here and there but she doesn't even wear a diaper to bed. The thing that shocked me most was how ready she was to wear underwear at night. I thought I'd keep her in a diaper for a really long time to avoid any messes in the middle of the night. From the day she stopped wearing a diaper during the day (Memorial Day) she woke up dry every single morning. After a couple of weeks I decided to stop doing the diaper at night. She has never had an accident at night. I think one night she woke up and said she had to go but other than that she sleeps through the night and is completely dry in the morning.

Jackson is still being a pain with wearing underwear. He is perfectly willing and able to pee and poop in the potty but he just can't be trusted. No matter how often I have him go he will still randomly pee on the floor.

Fourth of July

I was really excited for the fourth of july this year so I could take M&J to see their first fireworks. Chris has absolutely no interest in seeing fireworks so my parents came over and we all went together. We found a great spot in Danvers and hung out until the fireworks started.

Here is everybody watching. I was really happy they weren't afraid at all! In fact the fireworks had a hard time keeping their attention. My mom bought them these flashlights and all they wanted to do was play with those.

Visit at Gia's

We spent last Friday at Gia's house with Max and Lane.

This picture of Lane cracks me up because he looks like the pope.

We swam in the pool and hung around in the yard. The kids mowed on mac and cheese while I went and picked up indian food for Gia and myself. There's not much better than chicken makhani and vegetable pakora. Seriously it's like candy.

Max is almost a year younger than Jackson and they are the same size! They play so well together and Maidson and Jackson both love all of his toys! We spent the first hour we were there playing in side instead of swimming the pool!

The sandbox

The sandbox is done! This was their first step in it.

Their little footprints.

They absolutely love it. In this picture you can see the tarp where the path is going to be.

By the next day the path was all done. To the left of the path is going to be another patio area with a water feature. To the right is going to be a putting green.

Chris used these two different blocks for some reason and said that they were for Madison and Jackson. Then he carved their initials in them.

Happy 4th of July!