Hint of Spring and Recent Fun

February 17th was an excellent day for my kids (and myself). It was finally warm enough to stay outside for more than 10 minutes without freezing our extremities. We went to our little park and stayed for over 2 hours! It was the best morning ever :)

Reed and Eve loves the slides, driving, climbing up the stairs, monkey bars, playing in the wood chips, and using sticks to dig beneath the wood chips and find lots of dirt! It was a bit messy, but completely worth it! Now, I just wish those days were more frequent. We can't wait for warm spring weather!

Eve had a great time!

Reed posed so nicely. I didn't even have to ask him. Maybe he really should be a model :)

Eve showing off her dirty fingernails! Peek-a-boo is a favorite game with this hole.

Digging in the wood chips never gets old.

Reed has been doing very well at potty training. It took a little bit to get him there (#2 in the toilet was a hard thing to do for him), but he got there. It was as if a light went on one day. I am happy to report that he is completely potty-trained and wears big boy underwear through the night as well!

A while ago I made him a dry Pull-ups chart. He got to put a Lightning McQueen or Mater sticker on every night that  he kept his Pull-up dry. Well, he did fantastic! There were a few times when his Pull-up was wet, but it ended up being because he couldn't get it off in time the next morning.

He filled up his chart super fast and was working on a second chart, when I finally bought him special Lightning McQueen underwear to wear at night. He got those on Wednesday and has had 2 successful nights. As a precaution I did buy a mattress cover and put that on.

Go Reed!

Of course, it had to be green :)

Reed loves taking pictures! Every once-in-a-while I will let him snap some pictures with our camera. He takes a lot random pictures of walls, but gets a decent one every so often. This picture turned up on the camera. Nice going, camera man!

I am still impressed that Reed got both of us in the shot.

Reed enjoys finger painting, and I have come to find out that Eve does, too! Here are some pictures of their recent creations.

Reed had to mix all the colors together.

Reed added extra blue in this one because Eve was using blue.

Eve was just happy to be putting her hands in paint and then everywhere else!