"I pee potty"

Ellie has just started the wonderful adventure of potty training! She decided last Friday that she wanted to pee in the potty. She has done so well. We tried to stay put all weekend and not brave the public toilets and the moments of needing to pee where there might not be a potty around. All in all in the last 5 days she has only had 4 accidents. She even went to school wearing panties and when I picked her up I was bracing myself to see her wearing different pants then what I dropped her off in. But they said she did great and went potty once. We are very proud of her adn make a super big deal about going potty in the potty. I tried the Pottywise method with her and it worked exactly the way they said it would. It couldn't have come at a better time either. Diapers for two is pretty expensive. I forgot how often you have to change a newborn's diaper.

Life with our girls

Well, where to begin...First of all I will start with how unbelievably exhausted we are these days. Izzy is a great sleeper. She goes to bed a little on the late side and then Ben and I are up about another hour or so recovering from the day and preparing for the next and then she's up a few hours later and then Ellie is up a few hours afte that. Averaging us about 5-6 hours a night...mine is in chunks though. Everyone in our house has been sick for going on 3 weeks now too. We even took Ismylah to the doctor last week for congestion. Ellie had a fever and green snot and a really bad cough for a week I had a sinus infection and Ben now has an ear infection in both ears making him DNF for 10 days. Britt left us for 10 days to go back to Seattle which was of course when we were all our sickest making for a very interesting week on our own...or I should say my own. But I got Ellie to school on time with food in her tummy, clean clothes on her back, a kiss goodbye and a bath before bed (teeth not always brushed though), what more could you ask for at that point right?

Izzy is almost 5 weeks old! It's insane how fast it has gone so far and she has gotten so big. SHe loves to be snuggled and held and does not like to be alone. She'll take about 10-15 mins in her infant seat and then you pretty much have to hold her until it's time to lay her down. She has a period of time every night now from about dinner until she goes to bed for the night (between 9:30 and 10) where she has to be held and will not fall asleep on her own. So it's pretty much the whole night from when Ben gets home until she goes to bed. Ben and I take turns dealing with the girls throughout the night. The tiem we get to ourselves with each other is usually on the couch while Ben studies (for his Masters class) and watches Glen Beck DVR from earlier and I fold laundry and clean the kitchen and get things ready for the next morning. Then we carry oursleves off to bed and manage a kiss goodnight and not a peep from either of us. We just keep telling each other that it won't be this way forever and that we will eventually get caught up. But I really wonder if we ever will get caught up. If it is possible I've got about 100 or so hours of sleep that I'm behind on and the dishwasher just can't get unloaded before there's another pile waiting to go in and get washed just to get unloaded again while the other pile stacks up...it's just insane!

On a lighter and much more positive note we are happy, working on getting healthy, drinking lots of coffee (decaf for me though), having a blast discovering and getting to know our newest daughter, falling more in love with each other (probably in our sleep) and delighting in all the new things that Ellie is learning and how she grows and changes everyday...