isn't she uncontrollably sweet??? oh baby dylan we love you!

potty training

tuesday i decided to potty train ryan. she has been showing major symptoms of a need to train. i have been collecting panties with cute characters like elmo, hello kitty, frogs, minnie mouse, and etc.. we tried the big girl panties on and she was THRILLED to be wearing them. i simply tell her go to the potty and she will sit for a LONG time. the first day we had plenty of accidents but a success with a number 2 in the potty.

the next morning, i was on the computer and she came and told me she went potty....i went to look and sure enough...it took us a day to have a successful trip to the potty by herself. i am sure there are going to be plenty of accidents...we've had a couple but she doesn't like being wet. oh i am so happy!! she is happy too of course...maybe not the way mommy and daddy are cause that is money we will be putting back in our pocket!! yippee!!! hopefully, i bought the last of the diapers. YAY for ryan!!!

both kiddos taking a nap....

wow. both kiddo's taking a nap. i must be overly exhausted and dreaming. ha. the other day...i had an enormous epiphany. ryan needs to be potty trained. yes yes she does. i have been WANTING too...however, i made the choice to wait till baby Dylan was born so i wouldn't encounter regression. well, we started full throttle. this seriously happened the other day. saturday we were preparing for the city...i was getting ready...tucker went to the car to put the dvd player in...when he walked in ryan was standing there grunting...telling daddy "i poo poo i poo" then ran to the pantry...tucker asked to change her diaper only for ry to tell him "go that way". what a squirt. thus, i have realized many months ago that ry needs trained. advoiding the issue no further...ryan and i are on adventures of potty training.
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she isn't really pottying here...she is hanging out on the potty watching diego.

well, i took a couple pictures the other day and thought i would share. isn't she adorable...sweet little baby girl.....but can you tell who the first two babies are?? which one is who??

i think this will be dylan's announcement picture...she gets an award for cooperating with the camera....

this is a moment where i captured ryan's sweetness. she isn't ALWAYS sweet...she has moments...don't we all...

oh, the answers.....the first is ry and the second is dylan.....

last weekend...we all went to izzy's party. she had a wonderful pooh party...honestly, i think she likes piglet over pooh...anyhoo, ryan and izzy are only 2 weeks apart in age. we get the girls together quite a bit and lately it seems as though they are starting to actually "play"...although, ryan struggles with sharing or walking up to izzy and taking something...all age appropriate, yet frustrating cause reasoning with a 2 yr old is like reasoning with a dog. hate to compare my kid to a dog...but sometimes they act the same.

after the party, keith, nancy, and juju watched the girls while tucker and i went to the city for some "alone" time. we went to target...babiesrus...the mall...then tucker got all fancy on me and took me to jonny carino's (sp). we had the best ever delicious nachos italian style. i crave them now. glad we don't live close cause i would get extremely fat! definitely fun to spend time together...

this past week...juju has been on spring break so she has came over several days. i miss her. she is growing up way too fast in my eyes. now she has so many things going on it's hard to catch her. right now she is doing track and soccer (middle school and league).

i plan on ordering announcements of dylan's birth...and birthday pic of ryan but i am waiting on getting my new camera. patience people! i am getting a nikon d90 b/c it has a movie mode. i so CAN'T wait. i want to dance a little jig dressed up as a leprechaun it makes me so happy to get a camera.

dreaming of sleep

lately, i am a little sleep deprived. that's right. no sleep for momma pool. i am pretty sure my family wants to throw me in a tank of sharks cause i am a person that doesn't function well without sleep. i blame my lack of sleep on a little coocoo child named DYLAN! one night, she will sleep almost all the way through...the next she is blowing the roof off the house crying. for now...i will dream of sleep.

house full of girls....

everyone...here's the 411. the pool party is still adjusting to two precious little girls. Ryan has truly enjoyed having baby dylan at home. she is always interested in what baby dylan is doing...

most of the time it is this...SLEEPING...during the day though...not at night!

i love this smile that ryan gives...she is a nutter!

Ryan LOVES to love on baby Dylan...

this picture made this blog for several reasons. tucker's work gave Ryan this tricycle for her birthday....daddy put it together and rushed outside...when i mean rush...look at her shoes...then look at the chocolate chip cookie smeared on her face! turns out that little Ryan can't reach the peddles of her "car". maybe in a couple months??

i am feeling MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of times better than last week. i went for my two week check up yesterday and my incision is healing well. i get sore if i do to much but we have had a lazy week. i can't wait to be able to get back to my old self and not have 40 lbs making my back ache or surgical incisions making me sore.

tucker is holding in there...now he is stuck in a house full of wonderful and sweet girls....

birthday party fun! :D

we had ryan's 2nd birthday party this past weekend! she enjoyed the party VERY much. we had a lot of out of town guests.....and guests from around here. tucker's family is enormous...i believe we had around 20 people...20 people who love ryan dearly!

eating some of kimmy's fantastic mickey cake...

adeline did all the photos....this one is cute!

she did perfect...she let everyone sing happy birthday and then blew out her candle like a pro!

BEST FRIENDS.... :D

isn't this cake awesome??

carrie and kimmy did excellent at party planning! i wouldn't have made the party look this fabulous...a BIG ENORMOUS THANK YOU to those girls! hopefully, they will do this every year since i will have 2 parties at once...more than likely the help will be needed!

since i am awake....

last week was HECTIC...after daddy pool got in a wreck...we were wondering how we were even going to bring home a newborn that saturday. God has a way of working things out though...our friends Shane and Adeline are allowing us to borrow their car till we get a rental. i praise God that tucker walked away from a wreck that could've been a million times worse and he came home completely intact.

thursday came...the d-day. we took ryan to shane and adeline's very early in the morning and then headed to the hospital. we checked in and we were first in line for the OR (our dr only does scheduled c-sections on thursdays). we were getting ready...iv's and all that stuff when the lady two slots behind me came in laboring. i got pushed back to number 2. i wouldn't have minded this but i had a catheter and those babies HURT! i spent 2 hrs with this dumb thing till i got to go. once i got to the OR though..i got hit with the spinal block...ahhhhhhhhh spinal block is how i spell relief! however, they gave me something to make me all sleepy...tucker came in and the process began.

i let my mind trick me into thinking we were having a boy...but we heard the famous words "IT'S A GIRL"!!tucker yelled "YES"!! he wanted a girl. wow. what a blessing! God chose us to take care of one of his precious children.

Mommy, Ryan, and Dylan

Baby Dylan 8 lbs and 20 in long. born at 10:11 am

one might wonder where we got the name dylan. we like boy names. i loved marley...but no...so we started thinking of other famous Bob's...like Bob Marley...we came up with Bob Dylan. i kid i kid.

well, this c-section has been a better road to recovery. i hate not being able to pick up ryan when she beams her brown eyes up at me and says "hold you". i can't pick up the house...do laundry...drive. why people elect to do a c-section i will always wonder....tucker has been taking excellent care of us girls...

the adventures of daddy pool

this is what happens when daddy pool gets called back to work during his lunch break. to those of you who don't know daddy pool works for a construction company...his boss needed something during his lunch break so he was driving back to work...yet, there is a construction zone on his way there and his company is a sub-contractor for asphalt...a work truck pulled out in front of him and daddy pool swerved only to hit slick oil (kind of like black ice) and ended up running into the president of his company. how ironic, eh? odot had fun jokes about it...

daddy pool left with a major bruise on his forearm and some scrapes from the air bag...his boss was okay too....oh, this was two days before dylan was born! talk about a hectic week!

dylan jean

please welcome DYLAN JEAN!!

wait a minute...this picture was taken 2 years ago...this is ryan

here are the stats...dylan weighed 8 lbs...craziness.

this is after the lovely nurses gave her a bath

and here she is...an exact replica of her big sis RYAN.