Treehouse Twins & Congratulations

I don't know what we'll do this winter when we can no longer spend our evenings and just about every waking hour outside. My little monkeys are real climbers now. They love to play in their "treehouse" which is a part of their swing set. In a few years they will probably be hanging "No Girls Allowed" signs up.


They also like to hang out on the porch and sit on the glider chairs.

...and Liam likes to sit IN the side table.

Hi!

A little wet from the sprinkler...

"In jail" on the porch...

My guys look so indestructable outside playing, but so vulnerable when asleep.

Congratulations goes out to my neice, Sophia. She called me last week to say, "Tee-see! (my name), I pee-pee on pot-tee!"

YAY, Sophia! My sister has been trying for months to make it happen. She tried everything from an Elmo video about using the potty, to commands, to trying to hire it done, to bribery ("if you pee on the potty, all of this will be yours" she said to Sophia in the toy store).

"She's riding her new bike today!" my sister announced with the kind of pride reserved for the top 3 moments as a parent of a child: their birth, the first tinkle in the potty, and graduation.

Now, however, the pressure is on me. Before, I rested on the laurels of having a neice who is 10 months older than my boys and not trained. Tonite I really should at least take their potty that I bought a year ago, out of the box.