Shoveling a "track" in the snow for Max to ride his car on.

He was so happy that Hailey made this for him.

Hailey asked me to take a picture of her with her babies (all wrapped up ready to be adopted).

And here is a picture of the "Potty Monster".

After dropping Hailey off at school this morning, Max asked to get out the Lego's. I got the Mega blocks out and he said "No, not dose ones. Da little ones wif da wheels." So I put those back and got out the bucket of small Lego's. He played with those while I fed Jack his cereal. Max got excited when daddy came home and said "Daddy will you play wif me? I want to make a car wif da wheels... Help me to make a motor, daddy." Daddy had put together this bucket of small Lego's awhile ago for Hailey, mostly with pieces that would be good for building houses because that's what she really likes to make. He had only put two sets of wheels in this bucket and had a whole bunch more out in the shed. Since Max was having so much fun with them, he said to Max "Daddy should make a special car bucket just for you, Max." Then Max said "Thank you for saying dat." He really enjoyed making cars and airplanes with daddy. He said "Daddy, you nice." After awhile, daddy decided to remind Max to go potty. Max was still playing Lego's when he heard the "potty monster" talking. Daddy always makes the potty talk ( by opening and closing the toilet lid while talking in a "monster" voice) asking Max to come give him "pee pee or poo poo". As soon as he heard it, he put down his Lego's and ran to the bathroom. Max absolutely loves the "potty monster" and hasn't had a single accident since daddy started this with him. It's so funny how he knows the "potty monster's" voice and comes running when he hears it. Max used to have an accident every morning because he would get so busy playing that he would forget to go potty. And if we tried reminding him, he would say no he didn't want to. Then one day a few weeks ago, daddy thought of this and tried it with him. And it worked! Max liked it even with just the voice but a couple days later daddy made eyes, a nose, and teeth for it and he thought that was really funny and absolutely loved it. When he first saw it, he said "He hab teeth. Dat's funny." Now he is always happy to use the potty even while he's busy playing. And most of the time we don't even have to remind him anymore. He tells me on his own that he has to go. He must not think I do the monster voice as good as daddy though cause he always redoes it after me, trying to do it just like daddy does. It is so funny how he makes his voice sound just the way daddy does. Max went back to playing Lego's and I did some laundry. Daddy went to bed so he could get up on time to take Hailey to dance class. After picking Hailey up from school, I took the kids outside to play. They had fun riding their cars around. Hailey used the shovel to fill Max's dump truck with snow and then he'd go dump it out on the back patio. Then he would drive over it making marks with the wheels. Hailey shoveled him a path through the snow and told him she was making a track for him. He was so happy to have a "track" to ride on. We tried to make a snowman but the snow wasn't packing good. The kids were happy with the little baby one I made for them. I pulled them around in the sled. We stayed out until lunchtime. Then I put the boys down for naps and played Lego's with Hailey. We each built a house and then played with the little Lego peoples. We had fun pretending we were neighbors and visiting each others houses. Jack and Max woke up around 4:00. Hailey and Max asked to get out the tunnel again. They love hiding on me in it and sure were giggling as I would find them and tickle them. After daddy woke up, we ate dinner and then took Hailey to dance class. Hailey did excellent again. It is so cute watching her. Her whole class is really doing good. It's amazing how much they have learned since last year. Afterwards, Hailey said "I'm doing really good. That's because I'm practicing. And I listen to the teacher. I can't wait till my recital." I'm really looking forward to her recital too. They dance and sing so cute. We stopped and got donuts and then went to visit grandpa afterwards. When we got close to grandpa's driveway, Hailey got all excited and said "Yeah, I want to go to grandpa's house! I love Grandpa." It was funny cause we knocked on the sliding glass door and grandpa couldn't hear us because he had headphones on watching TV. We knocked louder but he still didn't hear us so we let ourselves in with the key through the back door. He sure was surprised to see us walk up behind him. We had a nice visit. The kids really liked watching Wheel of Fortune. Max liked the spinning wheel. Hailey liked the letters. Max asked for a drink of milk so I got a cup from the cupboard. He said "No, a top cup (sippy cup)." For some reason he only likes to drink his milk out of a sippy cup or a straw cup. I told him he's a big boy so he can have grandpa's big boy cup. He said "I can?" He liked that I gave him a yellow one and kept smiling as he took sips. He said "I be-in careful, so I don't speel (spill) it." After drinking it, he ran to tell daddy he drank out of "gwampa's special cup". Hailey got down on the floor and held Jack. Jack kept looking up at grandpa and smiling. Hailey said "I think he wants grandpa." Then she scooched over by Grandpa and held Jack up to him. He held Jack and talked to him so sweet. Jack gave him some big smiles. It was 8:30 so we said we should get the kids home to bed. Daddy got Max's shoes on and Hailey went up to grandpa and held her arms out to Jack and said "You want to go home and go to bed, don't you. Are you ready to go bye bye?" When we got home, Max helped me clean up the toys in his bedroom and I told Hailey to clean up her doll stuff in the living room. When I came out, she was cleaning everything up. She folded all her doll blankets neatly and set them in a pile. She picked all Max's cars up off the floor and lined them up neatly in a row. She even picked up Jack's toys and lined them up in a row on his blanket on the floor. She was excited to show me how she had cleaned the whole living room for me. She showed me how she folded the blankets and lined up Max's cars. Then she said "And don't you like how I set Jack's toys up nice so he can play with them in the morning?" I thanked her and told her she did a great job and she jumped up to give me a big hug and said "I love you, mommy".

We all went in Hailey's room and put on some music to dance to. Jack was laughing at Max dancing with Hailey's big pink dog. He was laughing so hard, especially before I finally decided to go get the camera.

Hailey and Max asked me to get out their tunnel. They had fun standing it up and hiding in it. Hailey said "This is what Uncle Jared does."

Hailey had fun making her Valentines cards. She enjoyed picking out the stickers and putting them on. While she decorated them, I tied on all the bows. She liked telling me who each one was for and then would ask me how to spell their names. She did a good job writing all the names and signing her name on each of them.

They sure were giggling alot while playing in the bathtub tonight.

Hailey shook her head and then laughed at her hair in her face saying "I look like Champ."

I found all these pictures on my camera's internal memory. I took so many pictures the day we went to the zoo and I filled up my memory card so I had to take the rest of the pictures on the internal memory. I forgot all about them and just found them the other day.

Hailey suprised us and ran right up to the horses petting them and giving them hugs. (This was last year when she was still a little nervous around the horses at my sister's house.)

I love this picture.

Peeking through the windows at the lizards, frogs, spiders, and snakes. They both grabbed a stool so they could see better. They would move the stools along with them to each window.

This picture is from the day we had our pajama party.

Lately, anytime Jack is in his exercauser, he spends most of his time looking in the little mirror and laughing at himself. He only turns away for very short periods of time to play with the other toys and then goes right back to the mirror. It's so funny.

Max was having fun making Jack laugh today.

This morning, Hailey got the spray bottle and fixed her hair. Then she came out to show me how she did her hair saying "I fixed my hair. Doesn't it look pretty with this headband? I even parted it by myself."

She sprayed Max's hair too and made him look "handsome". She also got him dressed this morning. She went in his room and picked out some clothes for him. Then she called him in and helped him get his feet in his pants and his shirt on. She was talking so sweetly to him the whole time she was helping him.

Later, she asked me to try to put pigtails in her hair. Then she ran to the mirror to see how she looked.

Jack was really fussy this afternoon and crying alot. I layed him on the floor while I cleaned up the mess after snack time. He started crying when I put him down. Hailey picked him up and held him. She started patting his back and he burped. Then she told me "See mommy, he just needed to be burped." When I was done washing the table, I walked over by her and she handed him to me and said "Here mommy, just pat his back. If you burp him he won't cry." I told her she sure takes good care of her brother. Then she said "Well that's because God helped me. He didn't help you because I think he wants me to get a bean." She smiled big as I put a bean in the jar and told her that she is such a good big sister. Hailey told me she wanted to make us dinner today. It was about 4:00 and she asked me if I was hungry. I told her that I wasn't yet cause I just had a snack. (I just ate four pieces of toast.) Then she said "But you will when you see what I'm going to make you. Just sit on the couch and I'm going to do everything. Don't peak." But I had to peek every once in a while when she wasn't looking. It was so cute. She got a stool and got the bread and peanut butter out. She got her little knife and spread peanut butter on each piece of bread. When she was done she licked the knife and put it in the sink. Then she put the peanut butter and bread away and got a washcloth and wiped the cupboard off. She brought me and her a sandwich to the table and told me dinner was ready. She said "Now you don't even have to cook. I'll make Max his when he wakes up from his nap." Even though I really was full, I ate the sandwich she made me. It was so sweet of her and she was so proud of herself. She kept smiling while we were eating them.