A quick note

Yesterday I decided it was time to move Adra out of our room and into Farrah's room. With the help of my mom, and then Josh (once he got home from work) we rearranged Farrah's room and moved Adra's crib in there. Adra's crib is the one that turns into a toddler bed, so we had the girls switch cribs also. Farrah was a little reluctant giving up her crib to her little sister, but finally agreed. We haven't changed Farrah's new crib into a toddler bed yet, we are going to give it a couple weeks. The girls woke up very early this morning, but it was mostly because Josh had to wake up really early this morning, and they heard him get in the shower. Other then that, both girls slept all night long. It took a little longer for them to fall asleep, because Farrah decided to read a book in her crib out loud to Adra. We just shut their door and they gradually feel asleep....no kicking or screaming. We were prepared for sleepless nights last night, but the girls did great! Since we were moving stuff around we decided to move our bedroom around, and we really like the outcome. Of course today I need to finish cleaning the rooms and putting everything away. Once I get it all clean I will take some pictures and post them.

Potty training is going great! Farrah goes to the bathroom all by herself already! She only had one accident Monday, and one yesterday. Her accidents are just pee accidents, but once she starts going, she stops herself and calls for me, and we rush her to the potty so she can finish, so there really aren't any messes that I have had to clean up. She loves her big girl panties, and wants to take them off and put them on all by herself. At night she still gets a diaper, and unfortunately she wakes up with a very pee filled diaper, but I know the sleeping through the night without going potty takes time. I am just so excited that she is doing so great during the day. The hardest part is keeping Adra out of the bathroom. I have to leave the doors open so that Farrah can go in there and use the potty, but Adra loves to go in there and play in the toilet water. That little toot holds up the toilet lid with one hand and then plays in the water with the other.....I am always horrified when I find her doing this! Farrah can open doors, but the bathroom downstairs kind of sticks so I have to leave it open, otherwise Farrah can't push it open.
So Farrah just had an accident, and this time she peep a lot, so I just had my big mess to clean up. I attribute this accident to her being really tired, she has been up for two hours (it is now 8:30am) and she usually wakes up after 8am.
Well I guess that is all for now!

A couple videos

Farrah is serious about her dancing, and might I add, she loves High School Musical 2! Notice Adra trying to eat Farrah's food!
Farrah's Serious Dance from Chelsea Childress on Vimeo.

Josh and I looked over at Adra and she was just doing this all by herself. She is so precious!
Peek A Boo! from Chelsea Childress on Vimeo.

Birthdays and Potty Training

Well there have been a lot of birthdays lately......and more to come. Kirby's was the 29th of September. My Gramma and Molly's birthday was October 3rd and my Dad's was the 4th. Next we have Hope's birthday, then Adra's, then Nona's! (October is a busy month!)

October 2nd
Adra got into her sisters make-up (I don't know how she found it!). I was getting Farrah dressed and Adra was being so quiet and good (I should have known she was up to no good). We were getting ready to go out, and I already had Adra ready to go, and I look up and this is what I see!

So we had to do a quick clean up and outfit change (that lip gloss stuff is really hard to get off!).
Then later that day after Daddy got home from work we were all up in Farrah's room. I was putting away clothes, and Josh was changing Farrah's sheets, and we hear a clunk and look down and Adra is on the floor screaming with a cut on her face, that soon starts gushing blood. We freak out! We clean it up and make a call to BC and after closer inspection (after we got the wound to stop bleeding), we decide she doesn't need stitches. Poor thing, she hit her head on the built in shelves in Farrah's room. We knew we couldn't fit a bandage over her cut, so we decided to use butterfly bandages (honestly they didn't work, but it looked really cute!)


We had General Conference last weekend, and Nona, Papi, Hope, BC, and Belle Belle came up. We watched all the sessions at my parents house. We had a lot of fun with each other. My parents made some awesome white chicken chili (a recipe they got from Janine).

Saturday was Dad's birthday, and I made an extremely chocolate cake!


Farrah proudly showing us what we got Dad for his birthday.



Here are some pictures from Sunday. Grandpa took us on a hay ride, and both Adra and Anabelle passed out from the ride!














As you can tell I took too many pictures on Sunday (like seriously, I took around 200 pictures!), so it was hard for me to just pick a couple for the blog, so I picked a lot!

Notice in the pictures above (from Sunday) that Farrah is pants less, that is because she is wearing panties!
Yes I started potty training Farrah on Sunday. It really wasn't planned at all. Suzanne was going to change Farrah's diaper, and Farrah said, "No diaper!", so Suzanne asked if she wanted to wear panties and Farrah said yes. She has been doing really well! She had a few accidents (only pee pee) on Sunday, but she pooped in the potty! We got her some pull ups with cool alert. On Monday I started using those, but she just kept peeing in them, so I went back to panties. She had one accident, and then started using the potty. She has only had two pee accidents on Monday, and she popped in the potty. She can take her panties on and off, and has been going to the potty, without me telling her to go. She is doing really well! I am very impressed. She has not pooped in her panties at all (which I am very grateful for!) She took a nap yesterday (I put a pull up on her), but she woke up dry and went right to the potty after I got her out of her crib. So far today, she has had no accidents, and she has peed and pooped in the potty several times all by herself! I have been rewarding her with stickers, which she really likes. She gets one sticker for peeing, and two stickers for pooping! She is really excited evertime she goes, and loves being called a big girl! I really can't believe she is old enough to use the potty!

Well I think that is enough poop and pee talk for one blog entry!



Random cute Farrah quotes.

She calls downstairs "upstairs", and when we correct her that she should say downstairs, she says, "down upstairs"

Nona was teaching Farrah how to swing, she told Farrah to kick her legs, and Farrah looked at her weird, so Nona told her again how to do it. Farrah jumped down from the swing and looked at Nona with a disappointed look on her face and said, "Nona, kicking is wrong" and she walked away pouting. She is a toot!

Hmmmm.....I know there is more I am just brain fried right now.
An example of how brain fried I am, on Friday I was baking cookies, and I grabbed the cookies sheet out of the oven using my hand that had the oven mit on it. After I got the cookie sheet out of the oven I grabbed it again to movie it, and I grabbed it with the hand that didn't' have the oven mit on it! I burned all five of my fingers really bad, and they are all still blistered! I think I need more sleep at night!

I have been using two camera's this week, so I only have the pictures from one of my camera's uploaded, because I can't find the cord for the other camera! (very frustrating!) And of course I took most of the pictures with the other camera!


Raspberries! from Chelsea Childress on Vimeo.
Adra and Gramma

Adra and GG

As I mentioned before, Josh was out of town last week, and the girls were so happy to see him! Farrah especially was happy to see him. Nona and Papi arrived just a couple minutes before Joshua, and she thought it was Josh coming through the front door, and was sad that it wasn't. Of course she was happy to see her Nona and Papi, but she really really wanted Daddy to come home. So Farrah pouted a little and went to the couch and said, "my sad), because it wasn't Daddy at the door. We waited outside to watch for daddy's truck to come into the driveway. When we saw him Farrah was so excited and walked out to him with a sad face, and hugged his neck so tight. The older Farrah gets, the more she realizes when Daddy is gone, and she doesn't like it one bit (neither do I).

On Saturday GG went home, but not before she caught the stomach flu (which we all ended up getting!). We had a lot of fun while GG was here, it was a very eventful three weeks! We had the big wind storm, that knocked out my parents power for 5 days, Josh went out of town twice, we hit a deer, and then we all got the flu!
Saturday was also the Applefest (luckily we didn't get sick until Saturday evening). We had a lot of fun at Applefest, it was perfect weather, and we ate lots of yummy food! Suzanne and Clyde left after applefest.
We went back to my parents house to see GG before she left. My parents drove her to the airport and we stayed at their house, and Farrah took a nap. She then woke up walked down the hall and threw up. Joshua was so great, and helped Farrah out and even cleaned up the throw up.....what a man! We took the girls home, and Farrah was sick three more times, she couldn't keep anything down. She woke up Sunday feeling a lot better, but still not 100 percent, and Joshua and I felt horrible. Josh stayed home from work Monday. We are feeling a lot better now, and luckily Joshua and I only felt horrible, we never threw up. Adra has had a runny nose, and has been extra clingy to me, but she never was sick like Farrah.
Well now things are back to normal, and busy as ever. This Saturday is my dads birthday, and this weekend is also General Conference. Suzanne and Clyde are coming up for the weekend. We are going to spend the weekend at my parents house, celebrating my dad's birthday, watching General Conference, and eating yummy food!
Well I guess that is all for now. I will hopefully find that cord and get some more pictures up here, plus my parents took some good pictures, so I can add some of those too!

Suzanne to the rescue!

Joshua left Sunday morning for the week. This is the second time this month that he has had a business trip. This time I called for reinforcements, Suzanne came over here for the week. She got here Monday evening, and the week is going by so fast. I am trying to think of everything we have done.....On Tuesday we went to the outlet malls, and we left at 9:30 and got home at 7:30 (we went to my parents for dinner in there too!). Suzanne bought me a cake plate (as an early birthday present. Of course today we had to make a cake to try out the cake plate. Today we went up to Dayton, and then later went over to my parents house because my Great-Uncle John came into town today.

On Monday morning we made necklaces with noodles that I dyed. Farrah did a great job, and only got a little frustrated, but she made a beautiful necklace and was very proud of herself. She has been wearing the necklaces all week.



Here is the cake we made, Farrah helped by testing the frosting, and putting sprinkles on the cake and in her mouth............YUMMY!




Also today we raided my moms garden......the girls ate a ton of tomatoes!









We love and miss you Daddy!
Oh, I have to tell this cute story. Suzanne was asking Farrah is she was tall, and she said, "No, Papi's tall." So Suzanne asked, "Is Daddy tall?" And Farrah answered, "Yes, Daddy's tall, my love him." So sweet!!!!!! Daddy come home! We miss you and we love you!

Deer

Last night on our way home from my parents house, we hit a deer. Luckily Joshua was driving, because he handeled it very well, I would have probably run off the road. We were coming up a hill and near the top were three deer crossing the road, we hit the middle one. In the process we lost our grill on our car and one of our headlights is loose. My dad and mom came over and dad and Josh went to go look for the grill and the deer, pieces of the grill were found, but no deer....so hopefully the poor thing lived (Josh doesn't think it did though....we hit it pretty good!). While my mom was here we found out that my parents house finally got their power back on....so that was very good news. So I am afraid to drive the car now, and Josh is going out of town on Monday, so I am not very excited about next week, although my mom told me she wouldn't forget about me!

Side note, Adra is getting more....hmmmmmmm......how do I put it, well, she can hold her own now. If Adra and Farrah both want a toy, Adra doesn't give up without a fight......she even growls at her sister! She is also very compassionate too though. Yesterday Farrah was "fake" crying, and Adra went over to her and gave her a big hug and kiss. This morning when I brought Farrah downstiars and layed her down to change her diaper, Adra was so excited to see her and ran and jumped on top of her and gave her a huge hug. They are so sweet together!