So it's been a while since I've updated, but some big things have happened. Well some cute things :D On Christmas Eve Maddox refused to wear a diaper. I kept trying to lay him down for a nap with a diaper and pj pants on, and he'd take the diaper off and put his pants back on. One time he peed in his pants with out his diaper on..so I decided to give him the potty I bought him a day early. At first he didn't want to sit on it at all. Then when Mikhail and Makenna and Madelyn got excited about him being on it, he didn't want to get off. He sat on there forever. We even did the 'water your bug' trick. He finally peed in the potty for the first time and was so excited! He did it again the next day too. I read him a story while he was sitting on the potty and he sat there for a really long time. He definately wants to use it. It's just so hard potty training when we are such a busy family. Mady is starting to want to sit on it, but she's yet to pee on it. She's so cute though when she cheers Maddox on!

Mady has been talking up a storm. Most of it is just jibber jabber. Tim had to work on New Years Eve and he left really really early in the morning. I wanted to lay in bed and be lazy..so I brought all the kids into my room. Maddox kept opening the door and wanting to go out and play downstairs. I kept counting to three and he'd shut the door. Well I must have dosed off because Mady woke me up screaming in my face, so I sit up and she sits up and she points to the door and Maddox had the door open and when I yelled at him to shut it she smiled with saticfation. She compeletely cracks me up! She's been jibber jabbering all the time. She yells at the boys and says, 'nuh uh' all the time! She's a funny silly little girl! Yesterday I showed he a baby dll that used to be mine when I was a little girl, it lights up and when she saw it she was amazed :) She was amazed like I was amazed when I opened it up on Christmas morning, so many years ago! She actually said, 'doll'! And for her not using a lot of words all the time it was really cute to hear <3

Speaking of babies talking, when Maddox was at my dad's house today he called him, 'BOB' and then called him 'Bobby' he's so silly! He also has been saying, 'bye bye' really well. Max is good with the B words and Mady does well with the D words, like Dog and Doll :)

Today I took Makenna to dance class. I haven't been able to find any of her dance clothes for so long, I really don't know what she's done with them. So today before I picked her up from daycare I went and bought her a new leotard and a skirt and she wore tights Mimi's got her for Christmas. She looked so beautiful! Yesterday she decided she wanted to get her hair cut. The bottom of her hair was always getting knotted. When I took her in, the lady said she still had baby hair...because she really hasn't had her hair cut in the last four years. They cut a pretty good amount of hair off, but her hair is so pretty and healthy looking. She feels really pretty with it! She looks pretty too :D She was so funny, when she was getting her hair cut they wetted it down and combed it and it was stilll knotted even though I had given her a bath that morning and brushed her hair..but when she's at home she SCREAMS when I brush her hair..she didn't let anything out once when she was getting her hair brushed..it was so funny how tough she was being! She's growing up on me that's for sure!