Cousin Time

Cousin Alexandra came to visit Clemson for the first time this weekend!!


And the girls just so happened to match!

Thanks for making the trip Bristows. We love you!

Who's that Big Girl?

Today was Day 1 of Potty Training Boot Camp for this little lady!

She spent the first half of the day looking like this- naked bottomed-protesting big girl undies, but thrilled to be bare-bottomed!


The second half of the day she decided it was cool to wear undies, and of course she has shoes on-that's a given.


And this big guy- well, he was super cooperative and played along as the chief encourager. His rewards were the same as Karis', if he did his job.


The day went significantly smoother than I thought. By the afternoon Karis had figured out that she was supposed to only go to the bathroom on the potty, and would tell me she had to go. Not that she made it every time, but by the end she was pretty close. The one thing I haven't quite figured out is how we are going to master pottying outside the house, since she refuses to use the words for potty, pee-pee or poop, but instead just points to the bathroom. It should make for a few interesting trips out of the house.

Yay for our big girl Karis! We are both so glad to be done with diapers and diaper rashes!

Apples Apples Everywhere

We LOVE Skytop Orchard! Can you tell? The kids and I spent the morning on the top of the mountain picking apples, lots of them- actually 90, if you count the three we ate while we were picking. Krieg and I took estimates of how many we picked, so we had to actually count them when we got back! Along with apple picking, they have a little area with farm animals, which the kids loved, swing sets, play houses in the shape of apples and pumpkins, and the best donuts you have ever put in your mouth.

So my task for the next two days, make and freeze lots of applesauce and apple butter and perfect the apple pie!

Have no fear...

Spidergirl is here!!