Winter Break

We have had the best winter break ever!! Kamryn had an extended winter break this year, as she only attended three days of school in December! The rest of the time was Disney World, and then winter break. We have been spoiled having her around so much!!

  We have been super busy playing video games. 

Chilling around the house in our cozy sweats.. doing absolutely nothing with our time.

You probably already read in my last posts, but Kamryn turned TWELVE on the third!!  We celebrated with my family on New Years and it was a great time!  Look at all those candles.. right next to the oxygen.. we should have thought that out better.

Since Daddy had the 2nd off work for the New Year, we went to a local tattoo shop to get Kam's ears pierced (just the lobe).  Turns out they can't pierce ears until they are 14.. "it's the law!"  So.. I called around to pediatricians and can't find one that pierces ears.  Looks like we might be visiting a store in the mall, which I was trying to avoid, due to possible inexperience of the "Piercers" there.  

After our failed attempt at ear piercing, we took Kam out to lunch for BBQ and then a quick shopping spree for some new clothes.

Kam's other big surprise for her birthday, was a bedroom makeover!!  We are almost done and I will dedicate an entire post for that soon.  We are waiting on one mirror to arrive and then I will post pictures.  Her new room is perfect for her!!  I love it so much, I wish it was mine!! 

Her last birthday celebration will be later this month when she has a small sleepover party with friends. We like to keep parties small around here, but we party all month.  When her birthday festivities are over, Owen's begin!! 

Speaking of Owen.. the big boy is potty training (again!).  He started going potty a few months ago, but just couldn't go pee in the potty.  He is on an insane amount of Lasix (diuretics) twice daily, so he is a leaky faucet.  This is a known obstacle, but I am trying to overcome it.  I gave him a few months, we got past his trip, and now we are trying again.  He can do his other business in the potty just fine.. it's just the leaky faucet that doesn't ever make it.  Today has been a bust so far, but we keep setting the timer every fifteen minutes in hopes that we'll have a little success!!

I had him sit on the potty for about 30 min earlier to see if he could go while playing.  That didn't work. ;)  Ha.

While we are stuck at home and trapped by the timer and a toilet, Kamryn is off to her first day back to school!!  We love her so much and miss her.  She was a bit late as we ran some errands and attempted to drop off her boundary exception form at her Junior High of choice.  Junior High.. yikes!!  She is so excited to try out Volleyball team, Dance Team, and Orchestra next year!!  She is going to love it so much!  We just have to get through the last two quarters of Elementary. 

Our new year has started perfectly.  We are relaxed, my house is getting organized, the kids' bedrooms are getting full makeovers.  The closets and toys are getting purged.  We have a month full of well doctor checkups, birthday parties and getting back to reality!!