Potty Trainin'

We finally decided to ditch the diapers for Everett last weekend and it's going well so far. He's had about 2 accidents a day and still hasn't gone #2 on the potty yet, but we're convinced he'll get it soon. It's definitely nice to not have 2 kids in diapers anymore!!

Everett also now has an imaginary friend named Bingo that goes around with him most of the day. Bingo has eaten lunch with us the past two days and plays games with us too. I wonder...Will I have to potty train Bingo too?

Bye Bye Home Phone...Hello Verizon

In a few days we'll be canceling our home phone and begin only using our cell phones. We've had T-Mobile for years but we don't get service in our house which means up until now we've had to have a home phone. We just switched to Verizon, which has great coverage, and now we can ditch our land line.

So, if you want to reach us, you'll have to call our cell phones from here on out. Thanks!

Sleepy Baby Camille

I never took many sleepy pictures of Everett. I think I was too afraid to wake him up. So, here's one thing the younger one will have that the older one didn't. I'm trying to do a good job of this since I was the youngest and therefore neglected in all of my parent's photography. :)

Camille Elizabeth Joiner

Camille Elizabeth Joiner was born on April 23, 2008 at 3:28pm. She weighed 8lbs. and 7oz. and was 20 inches long. She's adorable and has been a joy and a wonderful addition to our little family. Everyone keeps asking me what it's like with 2 kids and my response is usually, "better than I thought it would be." This post is a long time coming, I know. I was already behind on blogging/posting photos before we had her and now life with a newborn has reduced my capacity for things like this. Hopefully I'll be able to post many more things in the upcoming days now that I've gotten the ball rolling. :)

Here are some photos on our way to the hospital and of her birth:

Happy Easter

Here are a few photos from our Easter. It was a nice, relaxing weekend. I'm now 4 weeks away from my due date. I'm getting quite uncomfortable and I'm really ready to have the baby, I think. :)

Baby Gear

Here are some photos of Everett testing out our baby gear. I got it out for our playgroup and to get it ready for the new baby too. Of course Everett can't resist playing with them.

Exercises

Today Everett and I were out in the car and he saw a man walking down the sidewalk. He asked, "Mommy, what he doing?" To which I replied, "Oh, he's exercising." At which point Everett began to raise his arms up and down and count, "1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7!" (He always skips 5 for some reason.) I have no idea where he learned about exercise...definitely not from me! So, just now as we were playing blocks he began to do his exercises and I decided to capture it on video to share with you. Don't mind the mess in our playroom...after all we were playing, right? :)



I think this is some form of a jumping jack.

At the end of the video, you can hear Everett say, "Let's play blocks now, Mommy." And after I turned off the camera he said, "No more cheese, Mommy, Let's play blocks." To Everett, "cheese" means me taking his picture. So, now I'm heading back to play blocks...

Everett's First Snow!

It actually snowed fairly significantly in Atlanta on Wednesday. Here is a photo Allen took of our house Thursday morning with what snow was leftover:



Here is a cute video of us playing in the snow just after Allen got home from work. I apologize for my commentary. :)

Our kitchen

Per Alayna's request, below is a photo of our newly painted kitchen. I thought it turned out very nice. We don't have a lot of wall space in there so the red isn't too overpowering. We have a lot more work we want to do in the kitchen, like painting the cabinets and redoing the floors, but this was a first step towards those improvements. The rest will be done as our budget allows. After Allen finished painting this room we realized that we have now painted every room in our house and most of the the trim too!

Christmas 2007

We had a wonderful holiday this year. We got to spend a lot of time in Augusta with Allen's family. My mom came with us too, which was nice.



Then we spent some time at home. My dad and his wife, Karin, came to visit from Missouri. We hung out with them and my brother and his family. We also got to go to the New World of Coke.



Then we had several days just to chill at home, which was much needed. We painted our kitchen and did some more work on Everett's new room. We also spent a lot of time working on our budget for 2008. We are attempting to save money for a bigger car of some sort since we'll soon be adding a baby girl to our family!