I totally forgot to mention to those who were still reading my LJ that I got a new blog. It's one I set up for our family but, you're welcome to check it out: http://www.uptonplayground.com/wordpress/

One of these days I'll get around to writing up a backlog of tidbits that I never bothered to post in here. I really have to just get in the habit of posting all of life's excitements and the kids' milestones in here rather than on bulletin boards and MSN. This was where I was going to keep track of everything but, I'm lucky if I sit down to ( Read more... )

It's time to start potty training! While I was showering this morning Xander decided to take his diaper off and poop on the floor instead of in the diaper. I stuck him on the potty while I cleaned up but, he didn't do anything. I'm going to start putting him on his potty whenever I go to the bathroom since that's the only way I'll remember to ( Read more... )

Elizabeth is cracking me up. She took off her pants after her nap so when I went upstairs to get her, she was bouncing in the crib and waving her pants over her head. Not even an hour later she's downstairs hanging on the gate in front of the TV dancing and swinging her diaper over her head with a naked bottom. LOL

Elizabeth is going to be consistently walking by the end of the week. She started taking a few steps a few days ago and then yesterday she was walking everywhere in the living room instead of just taking a few steps and then crawling ( Read more... )

Elizabeth took 5 steps in a row on Wednesday afternoon! Then she took lots of steps while hanging onto Daddy's hands. She's taking more and more random steps every day now. It's very exciting. I wonder what it will be like to have two walkers around. Oh goodness, it's going to be total chaos!! But, oh so very fun ( Read more... )

Xander cracks me up. Last night he learned a new word: Porsche ( Read more... )

Yeah. haha Shawn forgot to latch the cabinet and someone decided to try get himself breakfast. It could have been a lot worse but, he had torn open a box of nutrigrain bars (couldn't get the actual bar open- thank goodness!), took out the tea, and poured some grapenuts on the floor (I think those just fell out when he grabbed handfuls to try and ( Read more... )

Well, I think Elizabeth had roseola. It started a couple weeks ago with a low grade fever on Tuesday afternoon. We heard Shawn's grandfather died and she was feeling ill Wed so we weren't sure if we'd go. She was basically sleeping every couple hours for about an hour or more at a time and not eating very much at all. I think the only reason ( Read more... )