Art

When we were visiting the fam in Texas, Meema wanted to do artwork of all the grandkids' hand prints; she'd seen it in a catalog. She bought canvas and several colors of paint so one afternoon, we dove in and got messy.

Cassidy went first and did the best job; she was purple.

Then we did Tilly in green. We used her feet since she's always putting her hands in her mouth and we thought it would be easier to get a solid, flat foot print. It turned out to be really hard!




Then Aislinn picked pink and went.


Tigger was last and went with yellow. He did a pretty good job.




After the kid's work, Aunt Lorelei and I added the kid's names and date. Here's the finished product. Pretty neat!

A Tooth!

At about 8 1/2 months, Tilly got her first tooth!! Of course, by the time Papa TT and I got around to taking a picture of it, she had two! Check it out:

Here are a few other cute pictures of Tilly. When she sleeps, she tilts her head way back. It doesn't look very comfortable but she likes it.

Papa TT got some action shots of her crawling. She like to get RIGHT in front of the camera.


In addition to crawling, she likes to pull herself up to standing. She's a pro by now:

Merry Christmas!!

Earlier this month we traveled to Texas to see Meema, Aunt Lorelei, Uncle Michael and cousins Cassidy and Aislinn for a belated Christmas.

We had lots of fun playing:


Opening presents:















And reading books!



We even played outside. Gotta love Texas weather!










I love my Aunt Lorelei:)





Thanks everyone for a great time!!

Potty Trained!

Yes, folks it's true. Tigger is finally potty trained!! With the Christmas holidays and the opportunity to spend 5 straight days together, Papa TT and I decided Tigger was ready to start using the potty.

It was tough the first few days, but Tigger got the hang of the whole potty thing in about a week. We basically went cold turkey with the diapers - one day it was no more diapers. The first few days were tough. Tigger had lots of accidents and at one point I was actually begging him to pee in the potty (something I never thought I'd be begging another person to do).

After 2-3 days, he started to get it and actually peed in the potty a few times. By day 5-6, he was having fewer accidents. By a week's time, he would know he needed to pee, would ask to pee and would pee in the potty!! After about a week and a half, he even got to pooping in the potty.

Here are a few action shots. Yes, they're a bit personal, but I HAD to preserve this very important milestone! So at 2 years, 4 months, Tigger was potty trained. Go team.