The Meeces

Skylar Walking

Skylar has made some great progress walking lately! This is a video of her walking at her therapy clinic. She does much better at the clinic because there are lots of long halls, wide open spaces, and on this particular day- no little sisters in her way :) Best walking yet! Hopefully before too long- she will be doing this at home too...

January and New Years Resolutions

January has been a total blur so far. We had the great idea of starting off our New Year by potty training the girls. We started on New Years Eve morning and were going to attempt this intensive 3 day potty training method that goes cold turkey from diapers to undies. It was basically a nightmarish 3 days of cleaning up pee, doing laundry, and giving baths around the clock. Not a fun way to ring in the new year. I guess for the kids that it actually works for in 3 days- it is worth it- but it didn't quite work like that for us. After 5 LONG days, we decided that Skylar's little body was not ready for potty training yet. We also quit undies and broke down and bought pull-ups. Savannah has made slow and steady progress this whole month though. The M&M reward system finally clicked and she has had her fill of M&Ms! She is probably 70% #1 trained, and 50% #2 trained. But, I'm sure we will get there!

Spending lots of days running around the house in undies...

Entertainment on the potty...

First Ring Pop for going potty! We later decided this was waayy to messy for multiple times a day.....

What a lovely look!?

Savannah is excited to leave the house for the first time in 7 days :)

Skylar surrounded by a few hundred of her favorite friends :)

These girls are getting so big!

Tennessee Christmas

We had an exciting whirlwind tour of TN for Christmas! The girls had so much fun seeing everyone, opening presents, and playing with cousins (and cousins toys!). They really did great with all of our traveling..including Knoxville, an overnight in Nashville, and a last minute quick stop in Chattanooga.

The girls having fun playing with the UT beach ball..

Savannah kept trying to arrange Minde and James's candles in their windows for them. She also loved to go in to the office with french doors and open and shut the doors. Two very fun but not so helpful things to do...

Savannah and Aunt Minde
Reading with Mimi
A visit from Santa!
Notice Savannah quickly heading in the opposite direction... and Skylar was so excited to see Santa and was waving to him saying Ho Ho Ho..
Santa brought presents for all the girls...

Aunt Lori and Uncle Jack with Santa
Playing with the new princess dolls from Santa
Christmas with Ty's family on Christmas Eve..
Caroline is excited to open presents!

New easel from Mimi!
Lori and Jack got the girls a cute bowling set. We were showing Savannah how to play- she rolled the ball and knocked a few down so we clapped and everything- then she picked the ball up and walked over to all the pins and in a clean sweep knocked them all down with the ball still in her hands. She was like- I have an easier way of knocking pins down! :)

Christmas Eve afternoon we drove to Nashville. Ryan and Jenny are in the middle of renovating a beautiful old house. It was the first time we had seen it, and it is awesome! They have been working nonstop since August and were sortof crazy but generous to host Christmas for everyone. Here we are Christmas morning waking up to Ben's new toys from Santa.
New kitchen and an Awesome train table...
How cute is Skylar!? Tyler likes to point out that she got her buck teeth from her mama...