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I am potty training!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And it is going really really well.  I just had one accident the other day, but am on day 3 of wearing my new big boy underwear.  I start in my new classroom at daycare today too and will be going on the toilet at school regularly (mom's words, not mine)!  Lauren helps cheer me on too. Fun times!

Tiny Dancer 11/23/13

Lauren Kate- Tapper

LK had her very first dance recital.  She was in the "Americana" themed group doing a tap routine to Shirley Temple's Polly Wolly  Doodle.  She did wonderful considering she didn't even have a dress rehearsal on the large high school stage.  She did so well and looked so beautiful.  It was a so fun to watch and brought me back to my old dance days.  How odd sitting in the crowd watching MY daughter now.

BOO- Pumpkin Time

Pumpkin Carving: 2013

LK loved the pumpkin carving this year. MC, not so much...he'd rather not touch the goop. 

Ariel and Spiderman

A Flower Girl, A Balloon Fight, A Dancer

My cousin Matt got married on  8/3 and LK was one of the flower girls along with Natalie.  The girls did great and the wedding was so much fun.  It was a lot of fun and Chris earned the title "Dancing King."  My favorite is that he said he danced to Toto's Africa with my mom.  How do you fast-dance to that??!

Grandpa Jordan

Sarah (maid of honor), LK and Natalie, priest, Matt (groom)

only decent family pic of the bunch

Cousin Tayler, John, and Natalie

LK and Natalie belly bumping

Our kids, like most kids, love water balloons.  You need to fill a bunch before you tell them about them or Michael throws the balloon as soon as you fill it, 2 feet away lasting all of 1 minute.

  

And Lauren started Tippy Tap a week ago.  She is having a blast tapping away in her little leotard.  Can't wait for the recital in November.  I'm sure she'll be wearing something that is adorable...not the craziness Erin and I wore at Dance Defined.    Here is LK dancing on her bed the first day of tap.  She was excited to go!

Michael turned 2

Our little prince turned 2 on March 10 with lots of family and friends to help celebrate.  Michael has finally reached the age of independence....in his mind at least.  He likes to pick out his clothes/socks/shoes (which ALL have to have some form of green in them, his favorite color, or he has a fit.  I love that he picks out what he likes, but he is severely limited to green, and if all the green is in the wash, he will succumb to a different color only after a nice fit of tears.

He loves donuts, sweets,  sports- mainly football, and reading books and pushing trucks.  He recently had a ball outside playing with our 3 year old neighbor and a teenage boy throwing a football around the lawn.  He was in heaven.

Michael loves to dance, and is addicted to "Jack and Jill" skit on The Wiggles DVD.  He also likes to listen to the nursery rhyme about 20 times in a row.  We have started to wean him from the bad habit by telling him the DVD is at Nani and Papa's house, which it is...thankfully.  His vocabulary has really picked up and he speaks in sentences now.  We are still so in love with this little baby boy....ok toddler.

Here are the highlights of his party: