What's wrong with this picture?

You're absolutely right!!!!

The three and a half year old is wearing a diaper and the one and a half year old is sitting on the potty. Talk about SO frustrating.

I need help. I cannot figure out how to get Ben to pee in the potty. He's peed in it a few times in the past, but doesn't really want to have anything to do with it.

This is the problem. He can hold his pee in if he's in underwear, and he will all day long. But when it comes to actually going, he can't figure out how to make his pee comes out. "It's too tricky, Mom." "It's stuck." He really doesn't know how to get it out.

What in the world do I do???

Help.

Please.

P.S. Brooklyn doesn't know how to go potty yet either, but she sure was excited to just sit on it for a while.

Funny Ben

Benjamin is hilarious!! Here are just a few of his funny and super random things that he says.
And this doesn't include his quoting movies, which he does all the time!


"Emily, I was in the bathroom and I heard an airplane in my bum!"


"Mom, what's that guy's name?"
"I don't know."
"I know, it's Ruby-a-gus."


"Mom, what are you eating?"
"I'm eating Wheaties."
"Wheaties?"
"Yep."
"That's not Wheaties."
"Yes it is."
"No, it's kitty poop!"
"Kitty poop??!?"
"Yeah, it's kitty poop. And you're eating it...that's disgusting!!!"


pointing to his nipple
"Mom, look, I have a big big goosebump!"


Benjamin loves to bend over backwards off the chair, put his head on the floor and flip his feet over onto the floor. He was doing this with Brooklyn standing right next to him and he managed to rope her neck with his legs and whip her around. She whacked her head into the wall pretty good.
McLain was talking to Ben about this and how it's not okay and he needs to be careful so he doesn't hurt his sister.
McLain: "What happened Ben?"
Ben: "I was going upside down."
McLain: "And then what?"
Ben: "And then Brooklyn almost broke the house!!"
(talk about placing the blame somewhere else)


"I love you Ben."
"Mom, I'm called BENJAMIN!!"
"Oh, okay."
"Mom, say I love you Benjamin!"


"Oh, crumbbuckets!"


Here he is showing off for the girls already!


And no post is complete without a cute picture of Brooklyn.

Cute pics

Here are some random, but super cute pics of the kids. We sure have good times around here!

At the park...

...climbing up the slide...


..climbing up the climbing wall...


With Dad... (love these pictures!)

...raking leaves...


...watching Mythbusters...


Hanging out...


Posing by the Christmas tree...


Talking on the cell phone...already...


Sleeping...(not 5 minutes after Ben asked me over and over if he could "play something fun", we found him dead asleep on our camping pads...cute!...)


And I think this one's funny just because Brooklyn's whacking Ben on the head!!...


...my kids are cute, what can I say?...

Ben and Brooklyn's Thanksgiving Feast

BENJAMIN

Roll
Corn
Jello
One bite of mashed potatoes
Chocolate cream pie


BROOKLYN

Turkey (no gravy)
Ham
Cool whip from the top of her jello
Banana cream pie
Pumpkin cheesecake

YUM!

Dressing Up

Well, Halloween this year was loads of fun. Ben loved trick or treating. He said "Trick or Treat ... Thank you!!" perfectly every time.

Ben was convinced he wanted to be a tree, until he had to actually BE a tree. But he was a good sport. And so cute.


We knew that dressing Brooklyn up was not going to be easy, so we opted for a simple kitty, with simple face paint. Bad idea. Who knew this girl could get so mad?


She wouldn't even let us take a picture of her and Ben together.


But she ended up looking so cute anyway, even with pretty much no nose left, and smeared whiskers.


Halloween is getting more and more fun each year!!