Officially A Big Girl!

We did it!!! Or we should say she did it!!! E is now officially in panties! Today was the first full day of it. She has been accident free in pull ups for 2 days so thought we would go ahead and do it! She is all proud of herself! Now working on night time will be a different matter but we'll get that too. :-)

Other news...

Nimi is doing great! Potty training with her has gone great too! N loves her and they are pals. He loves to take care of her and hates the fact that she can't always go where we go. She sleeps through the night too! (Feel like I am talking about a new baby.)

My sister is engaged!!! Yea for her and A! Looks like they will get married in August (tiny wedding) and then move to CA for A to go to grad school.

Weather here has been finally nice enough to spend time outside which everyone loves! So running energy out is great.

N has learned not to climb our jungle gym thing w/o socks! Last night (early evening) he was out with Nimi and decided to climb up and slipped and fell onto his chest hard onto the bar. Got him calmed down and he seemed fine until he ate and then said that hurt...so off to the new ER near us. 5 xrays later he has a serious bruise but nothing cracked, separated or broken! We even had a follow up from that ER this morning asking how he was doing! I couldn't believe it!

That is all our exciting news so far this week. Hopefully the rest of the week is uneventful! :-)

Newest Family Member - Nimi!!!

Okay well some of you know we have talked about this and others don't. But we now have a new family member. Through M's work we found some Miniature American Eskimo puppies. M and S talked about it for a month and decided we would surprise the kids with a new dog. Tonight they were ready to leave if interested. So after soccer practise we told the kids we had to visit a friend. We went inside and right away N was hooked. :-) Can't say we weren't either! Anyways, we decided on this puppy and on the way home we voted and named her Nimi. (M and S had come up with 3 top names and then asked the kids.) She is so far different then Molly dog was at this point. She was not nervous in the car...just curled up in my arms and watched and then tried to sleep a little too. (There was a lot of activity with teenagers at that house and other dogs.) We got home and she didn't like outside too much b/c it was cold, but was fine. Then we came inside and she didn't leave our sides much out in the living room. We did figure out that if N is sitting down she would come over and try to climb right up in his lap. She really likes him. But then again so does he! E held her and it was perfectly fine too. We then took her into the bedroom and introduced her bed (crate) and after a little bit we got the kids ready for bed and she started to fall asleep so put her in and she curled up and was out. So that is where she is right now. We have not heard her bark, growl, whimper or cry as of yet. Now asking me after tonight is over and we shall see. :-) We did warn the kids they might hear her cry tonight and not to worry. N had to ask me a few times to make sure I would take care of her. :-)