OUR GROWING FAMILY: Talking & Peeing?

Nice title. It made me laugh. So I'll explain. Kenzie is 18 months now and over the last week or so she has started really talking. She is repeating everything. It is amazing the difference from just 2 weeks ago. I think my favorite age has to be when kids first start talking. It is incredible how fast they learn and adorable to hear them finally express themselves. And then last Tuesday were just playing around in the morning and Kenzie went to pull her pants down. I thought "What is she doing?" so on a whim I asked her if she wanted to go potty and she marched right to the bathroom. I helped her sit on the potty and a few seconds later she PEED. I could not believe it. Since then she has gone on the potty about once or twice a day usually she will pull on her pants. We are taking this slowly so she does not get discouraged (and so I don't get frustrated) But honestly I can not believe what an easy child she has been so far. I am sure she will show me different in those teen years but I am enjoying every easy minute of her now.
We continue to have crazy weeks and weekends around here. We are in the final stretch of the wrestling session. Cam wrestled last weekend at the Slinger tournament and ended in 2nd place. He was very disappointed but we were SOOOO proud of him. The boy he lost to was a state qualifier last year. Although the score was 10-2 Cameron wrestled his heart out and held off the pin. We were all very proud. He is working so hard this year and has made some huge improvements over past years. His record this year is 17 (wins) and 4 (losses). We are looking forward to the Waunakee tournament this Sunday, Chilton next Saturday and then Regionals on the 12th. Just hope all his tremendous work pays off with a visit to state! Either way a proud wrestling mom here!
We also got to enjoy all the new snow this week with a day off of school on Monday (planned day off for President's day). We took advantage of the day off played games, played outside and mom and the kids met dad at work for lunch. Then I took all four of the kids bowling on my own. It was a very good thing there was no one else at the bowling alley because the kids were running around like crazy. It was fun but I am not sure the twins really get the concept of bowling yet.
Wednesday was also a big day - I think I forgot to mention that Cameron won the Spelling Bee for the fourth grade and was the runner up for the whole school during Catholic Schools week. So on Wednesday Cameron and his classmate got the honor of going onto the regional spelling bee at St. Francis Cabrini. This was neat! Grandma Grace joined us and we took Cameron out for some lunch before the BEE. Cameron was one of 18 kids grade 4th to 8th who got to participate in the Spelling Bee. He made it through the first round of telling his name, school and an 'easy' word. The second round was not as nice. His word was dormant. He got it wrong but when he came to sit down had a very positive attitude about wanting to do this again next year. Again proud mommy!!!!
This should also be an exciting weekend for us. Tonight I will be rocking to the 80's at Big Brothers Big Sisters "Bowl for Kids Sake" Back to the 80's theme. Sometimes I love my job like when I get to dress up in 80's clothes and have a blast with great people who are supporting a great cause! Saturday we are planning to do some sledding over at Grandma Jane and Grandpa Gerald's house and of course Sunday is a day of Wrestling. Hope all of you also have a great weekend!!

The boys at bowling!