Making Progress...

...or maybe not.

{just to be clear, I did not encourage this behavior, nor did I turn on the swing so she could break it}

Harper transitioned nicely into a big girl bed, not nearly as much drama as I thought it would be. I believe she is still struggling to find her place in the family though.

Am I the baby or am I a big sister?

So with all of that comes tantrums and we're in the throes of the terrible twos, that's for sure. Out of nowhere she's become a picky eater and I feel like she spends more time in the corner then not. Most days you will find Harper wearing her Cinderella dress and not only in the house, she likes to wear it when we go out as well and frankly it's not worth the battle.

I plan to start really potty training her during spring break when we won't have to leave for school every morning, unless of course she decides she wants to try earlier. But so far this little girl could care less if she's sitting in a soaking wet diaper although she will ask me to change a poopy one. And she loves to wear the Dora underwear but has no problem peeing all over Dora. I haven't been all that strict with it, to be honest and I just hate potty training but it needs to be done so we'll press on.

Harper is definitely proving to be her own little person, nothing like her sister and knows all the buttons on mommy to push, just enough to send mommy over the edge.

But then there are times like this and then all the tantrums don't seem to matter. She'll always be my baby girl.

First "Real" Haircut and My Roller!

Ha! I bet you thought it was Bennett's first haircut-nope, already taken care of that myself-just a little snip,snip here and there {don't worry, I saved it}. It's the girls that needed their hair cut and this time it was done by a professional, not mommy! I've been cutting Ainsley's hair into this little wedge cut for the last 2 years that was really cute but I'm kinda over it for her so I just needed someone to add layers.

First up was Harper:

She did really good, she sat somewhat still and watched Pinocchio.

Not much change here, she's still got that baby fine hair, hard to tell what her hair is going to be like.

Ainsley did good too, she was used to me cutting it all the time!

So while I'm trying to grow it out, it is a little shorter but it needed to be trimmed and layered so now we can start fresh and really let it grow.


This was her idea of "fixing it" after we got home-lol.

This girl has got some curls!

So Bennett decided he was feeling a little better and thought it was time to roll from his back to his belly today! He's been working on this for a while now but would always get stuck on the bottom arm...until today-take a look! (Excuse the shriek and the raspy voice-still recovering from this flu thing)

So proud of him!

Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head...

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head

But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red

Cryin's not for me

'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'

Because I'm free

Nothin's worryin' me

Remember this song? My mom always used to sing this to me when I was sad or down about something. Ainsley has been complaining of the rain lately or any time it rains actually and she's been asking to go outside and "jump in the puddles" next time it rained. So finally we did...

Monkey see, monkey do.

This is so much fun!

Ainsley found out that chalk worked even better in the rain!

I thought this was fitting since it was our anniversary. That says Adrienne and Mike by the way;)

I think I'll start singing this song to Ainsley when she gets sad or starts complaining about something. It always seemed to cheer me up!