A Great Week!

This was a really great week! For many reasons (in no particular order)...

Eric returned from NY. He was up there as part of his presidential advance job. I'm so proud of him: he was the only agent there at first and did all the prep work for Obama's arrival. He was a little nervous about it, but everything went well! Of course :) He was able to see his parents and spend their 39th anniversary with them. Congrats Karen and John!! They visited West Point and then Eric got to spend some time with a friend of his upstate.

Aine is sleeping very well. Before Eric left, she was sleeping from about 10-3/4, but now she's at 9-5/5:30. God picked a good week for her to start sleeping through (while I was alone at home with the girls). Praise Jesus for little blessings! Although I consider long stretches like that big blessings.

Leah is potty trained! I've been putting it off, but finally decided I just had to do it (plus I wanted to try and surprise Eric by having her trained before he returned). We practiced the procedure with her bunny, Hop, first...and she was way more interested in dumping out Hop's "pee" in the toilet than anything else. When it was her turn to sit, she fought me and cried. Once she did pee and got to dump it in the toilet...it was all uphill from there! She dumped it out and yelled "more" :) We started Wednesday and as of today have only had about 3-4 accidents. She gets so excited when she realizes she has to go that she yells "potty, potty" and runs to it. Sometimes she forgets to pull down her panties, but all things considered...I'm really pleased. She even went poopie in the potty. I took a picture of it (because I'm sick and want to embarrass her when she's older and looks at her baby book..hehehe). Eric told me he'd kill me if I put it on the blog...so you can thank Eric for me not posting it! :)

Aunt Sharon and Frank came to visit for a couple days. We get to see them twice a year when their group meets. They're making a short vacation out of it this time and will stop through again on their way home...which will coincide when Dad comes up!

Aine had her 2 month check up. She's 13 lbs, 10 oz. (has gained 5 pounds in 2 months) which puts her in the 93rd percentile!!! She's all cheeks and chins, with no neck :) BUT she's healthy and happy!!!

Leah and Katherine walking hand in hand at the outlet mall. They were sooo adorable! This was shortly before they tripped over each other. Leah fell on her face and got a fat lip. Katherine flipped over Leah and hit her head. Ouch!

Leah taking a break from potty training to read her bunny a book (Peter Rabbit)...

Family night at the mall. She and Sydney were chasing each other (and a couple other kids) around the pillar...

Eric and Karen in the church at West Point...

happy baby...

As part of her potty training process I've kept her in a shirt and panties, but sometimes she'd take them off and run around naked. After she got naked she decided to play dress up, threw on a dress and tried to put on a pair of pants. They ended up on (but inside out AND backwards)...without panties on. Gives new meaning to the term "chaps".....

Eric getting flipped off...

With Aunt Sharon...

Seriously...who sleeps/sits like this????

Aine sure can give some goofy looks!