Sunday, February 24, 2013

Life moves on

Well the potty training is ...ongoing. Some days are hits and some days there are a LOT of pull-ups in the trash.
In other news: look how man-crafty my man is!!! He fixed my BACK brakes on my car!!!
(apparently this is WAY more complicated than the front brakes)

Also, Josh bought the girls the XBox game of "Brave" and they (after two days) now get the concept of video games (I know, I know, and they are six already!) and have even defeated (apparently) one big monster by themselves:
Josh and I went on a real big person date! His colleague from work had a murder mystery dinner. Fortunately, neither one of us was the murderer. Here are our costumes - straight from Chicago gangster territory!

Josh also got some fun, sludge bath stuff, that makes the water thick and then turns it back into water. It was VERY popular.
Ellie opted out for a quiet bath and reading:
 And then we had our friends, the Dyes, over for dinner on Sunday and had a MARVELOUS time Dance-Dancing and singing karaoke. Rock on!!