End of February

Davis, West Virginia

Shea and Hadley at Disney Priness on Ice (Feb 11)

24 weeks pregnant (Feb 15)

We have had an exciting 2 weeks. Since my last post, Hadley STILL has been using the potty most of the time. She has not had a "DIRTY" diaper since that weekend at the beach which was over 2 weeks ago. We are so proud of our little lady. She wore some big girl princess undies for 4 hours and was great. We spend most of our time in pull ups now. We haven't even begun to tackle night time. Since this all came unexpectedly, we are not there yet. We had our first long road trip with a kid that wants to be potty trained so we toured LOTS of public restrooms between Annapolis and West Virginia (scary). We tried to pick nice places and used lot of antibacterial wipes. Price and I kept telling her to just go in her diaper, but she refused. WE had 3 #2 false alarms so it made for a long trip. But...we had to stay positive and give lots of praise. We were on our way to Brother and Sis in Laws new cabin at Timberline and Caanan Valley resort. Price got to ski all weekend while I spent lots of quality time with kali and Hads. The new cabin is awesome and we will have lots of fun memories going forward. Other than that, I am 25 weeks pregnant now and everything is going great. I am getting huge and our little man is EXTREMELY active. I thought Hadley was but pretty sure he puts her to shame. Anyway, we are ready for winter to be over and have this warmer weather that teased us on Friday, stay for good. I am posting pics from the past few weeks.

Exciting Times

Watching the Polar Bear Plunge from Daddy's shoulders

New Shades

Hanging out with PopPop in Mommy's shirt from when she was little

Making brownies with Mimi

So we have had a few exciting times lately, with the transition to the big bed and Hadley turning BACK into the super sweet girl we knew before she turned 2. I am SOO glad that we have our sweet lovable girl back before her little brother comes in 4 months. The most exciting events of the past week are that over the weekend when we were at the beach she, on her own, decided to go to the potty all weekend. We did not ask, push, or in any way try and get her to do this so it was VERY exciting that she chose this on her own. She does now know that she either gets some smarties or M&M's when she is done as a reward. I think I might have only changed one dirty diaper all weekend, if that!! SO exciting. We are very proud of her. She is not quite ready for all the new fun princess underwear we got but soon enough. I did do my first order of pull ups so we will see how that goes. She really has no fear of the big potty but also enjoys sitting on her own. She has been spending LOTS of time on the potty the past 5 days. Keep your fingers crossed that this is the beginning of the end and I MIGHT only have one child in diapers at a time. Next week marks the 6 month of pregnancy and we will have one last sonogram. I have posted a few pictures from our weekend at the beach.

Few exciting things for end of January

Hads new big girl bed

Snow ice cream

My belly

complete!

Making snowman

First fall in snow

Hadley was obsessed with George and Hershel

Morgan, Hads and I at Piedmont Park

Hads, Heather, Me, Julie and Mo at Julies shower

On the airplane at 6:30am

Hadley and I traveled together to Atlanta to visit some of my girlfriends. Julie is having a baby the end of February so Heather hosted the baby shower. Hadley was an AWESOME travel partner. She listened to everything I said and cooperated. I was very proud of her. Price's Ipad was a fabulous addition and distraction for her so we are very glad we brought it along. While we were there we stayed with Heather but Maureen flew down as well and we visited with Julie's family and also had some time with Morgan while there. It was a great weekend. I have posted a few pics from our trip. We also had our first measurable snow. It was super wet so we made our first snowman. Hadley loved it. Lastly we ended the month with building Hadley's new big girl bed. Its awesome and so far she loves it!! We were having some sleeping issues last week so the new bed came at the perfect time. Plus, it sure makes reading at bedtime better. Kali is enjoying the end of the new bed as well. Overall was a very exciting month. I am now 22 weeks pregnant and this is sure flying by. I will try to be better about belly pics soon.