In case you all haven't realized (ok, who am I kidding, I'm sure you have) that I'm a HORRIBLE blogger. I don't know why I start blogs as I just don't have the time and/or discipline to keep up with them. But enough about that.
The past month has been crazy! I've been working out as much as I possibly can (which means if I could blog while I worked out I could TOTALLY keep up) and as a result have lost 23lbs in the last 7 1/2 weeks. I'm so excited about that although I'm just praying I can keep it up. I've also learned a lot about eating healthier and general lifestyle changes. I still struggle with eating right, but it's coming slowly. I've also lost about two clothing sizes. Which means that I have limited clothes available in my wardrobe. I've been to the Goodwill a couple of times so I at least have pants that will stay up, but the rest of my wardrobe is just going to have to suffer until I'm done loosing the weight. My goal right now (not sure if it's my final goal or not) is to loose about 20 more pounds. Then I'll reevaluate. :) If I can do that - I'll be ECSTATIC!
Enough about me. The kids have been great the last month. Cooper has started REALLY potty training. A little friend of his from our homeschool co-op came to class one day using the potty and I think that motivated him to get moving. LOL He poops almost daily on the potty and only has a few accidents throughout the day when we forget to remind him to use the potty. I'm not pushing him at all and there are days when we just put him back in cloth diapers, but he still does pretty well when we go back and forth like that. Naptime and nighttime are still fully in diapers, but at least we're making progress.
Kaelyn is doing so much better with her reading. We've struggled all year with building her confidence when she is trying to read. Basically, she didn't learn anything in Kindergarten and we had to start from scratch when it came to learning to read. We've used a great program called "Explode the Code" which is a phonics based program. She loves it and I've seen her make huge strides in her reading abilities. I still don't think she is at her grade level for reading, but I'm thankful that it's starting to come. Just this week she has started reading street signs and saying "Mom, what does this say? Sh....ooooo....ppp.....". Which means that she asks me the question and then immediately starts to sound it out. Which shows me that the confidence in her reading skills are starting to kick in. For that I'm grateful!
We haven't really "done" a lot recently so I don't have any really interesting pictures to show, but I'll post some anyways. LOL
At the YMCA Easter Egg hunt
Coloring Easter Eggs at home
I think Jeff was teaching Cooper how to do crunches. LOL
Cooper's new hat. It matches his best friend, Paul's hat. :)
We had to take this picture because we thought it was so funny that he fell asleep with a pile of animals while reading Noah's Ark.
Measure twice, cut once.
New big boy underpants!
This morning we went to the local Farmer's market (well, one of about six farmer's market around here). I was SO excited to see local strawberries that I bought a whole half flat of them. Not sure how we're going to eat them all, but they are soooooooooooooooo good. And I was told that they were picked at 8am this morning. Can't get much fresher than that!
Cooper LOVED the parade. He was enthralled through the ENTIRE thing (well, except for about the last 10 minutes when he was getting really tired). He danced to the bands, flirted with the princesses, said "arg" to the pirates, charmed the lady next to us into buying him a ribbon stick, and actually kind of laughed at the crazy clowns. It was SO fun to watch him. He was absolutely the perfect age for a parade. I'm so happy that we stayed and watch it. 
This is the one and only picture of a float that I took. We liked this one because it was built around a big truck instead of around those little "hard to drive" cars. They did a pretty good job with it. 
