Update...

Trevor has gone three days and nights with only one accident , and I can honestly say it wasn't his fault. I don't really have to ask him anymore if he has to go, he tells me, yeah!!!

Our little Audrey, on the other hand, had a HARD transition, I think that she is finally starting to forget about the bottle, but she still asks for it every once and awhile.

SHOULD YOU BE DOING THAT.......

This is my reasoning for letting my laundry get behind! I was folding clothes and I could hear Audrey giggling, but I thought maybe by pure chance she was playing nicely with her brothers. That was my first mistake, like that would really happen, right? ( I say that as a question, please tell me this WILL someday happen:) Oh No, she has figured out how to get the guinea pigs cage open, and proceeded to introduce herself (as if Gilbert hasn't meet her numerous times before. I am pretty sure Gilbert probably doesn't have any hearing left, with all the shrills of excitement he hears on a daily basis from our little Audrey) buy "gently" tugging his ear. She is such a kind, sweet little girl, right.

Needless to say Gilbert is going to find a new place to have his home, because I keep having nightmares about Audrey pushing the cage off the table and me having a loose rodent in the house.

Little toy trains, little toy tracks.........

A little boy in "Heaven"This last weekend, with help from my mom, we took Braiden on a Mystery Date. We have done this before so he knew that he was going somewhere fun, he just didn't know where.

We took him to Thorp, where this man who is an avid Model Train person was having a small open house, he has spent the last 6 years building this layout, and I can't do it justice of how amazing it was. I looked so realistic, after talking to "Mr. Jim" (apparently Braiden is on first name basis with him) he still has another 6 years until it is close to being done. The detail was crazy, he had parts of the track that were scale replicas of the real track. Braiden wasn't shy at all, he wiggled himself right into the middle of the "engineers" and began the "Excuse Me???????Excuse Me??????" with lots of different questions, it was so cute. His dad got into it as well, he was telling me to take pictures of the underneath so that "IF" he wanted to do something like this on a smaller scale for Braiden he could. REALLY????
What a fun Mystery date for us to see his little face with that much joy.

Now we have to think of a fun date for Trevor, any ideas???

BIG NEWS AT THE WOLFENBARGER HOUSE.......

Trevor has gone 2 days in underwear, I ran out of diapers Friday Night and I decided that if I didn't buy diapers than it would force me to push potty training. Well, no matter how bad I wanted to have Trev be potty trained it had to be HIS decision and only his decision, so I told him, now please do not judge because if you knew him at all you would understand, that he was a baby because only babies wear diapers. That got him, hook line and sinker, he looked right at me and said "TREVOR NO BABY" and ran and got underwear and has since only had 2 accidents. My biggest help has actually been Braiden he is smart and I wish that I could take credit for thinking of this, but Braiden gets candy whenever Trev does for going potty so I don't even have to remind Trev to go to the bathroom, his brother is right there encouraging him to go so they can get candy.

Our other big news is, Audrey has gone 2 days without a bottle. I know, she is way to old to still have a bottle, I agree. When Braiden was a baby I totally had preconceived notions of ages things needed to happen and he did everything on that schedule. He was broke of the bottle almost to the day of his first birthday, but I think that with each additional child you find that as long as they are happy and not screaming, your thoughts of what is "important" change dramatically. Anyways, she hid the bottle yesterday, which I finally found last night in her closet in a box of diapers, so I felt this was one more "sign" that since we were already doing something kind of hard with Trevor we should kill two birds with one stone and do the bottle thing also. It has been a hard transition for her, but I am hopeful that we are on the downhill slide.

A Sign the foods good.........

Audrey and Cruz.............

The Youngest Trouble Makers...

Watch out ladies these Dimples are made for heartbreak.....

I got the privilege to watch Cruz on Friday, WHAT A CUTIE!!! I have a feeling that Audrey and Cruz are going to get into a lot of trouble as they get older. Audrey thought he was great, it was like a giant baby that she could shove crackers into his mouth, and because we have laminate floors she could drag him anywhere SHE wanted him to go. Poor kid, I think after a day of "hanging" with Audrey he was ready to see his mama. He played so hard that the last picture is of him sleeping, we had to go pick Braiden up from school and he feel asleep in the car, I even took the car seat out of the car (it is one of the big convertible leave in your car, car seat) and set it onto the counter and he slept through it all.

P.S Please note that these children almost 11 months apart and yet they are the same size!!!

The Mitten

(pause the music at the bottom)

Braiden preschool unit has been the Mitten, it is a really cute book about this lost mitten that is found by a bunch of animals and they all try to "snuggle" in to get out of the winter cold, and then at the end someone sneezes and they all get ejected out of the mitten. I don't do any justice to how cute the story is but I am trying to just give you a glimpse of the book so you understand the song, which is why I post this. He learned this song for the story and I couldn't resist posting it, I love when he starts to forget the words or distracted by the other kids.

A whole new world.....

A whole lot of girl!

It is so funny for us to have a girl! Even when I did full time daycare I mostly had boys, and now All I have is girls and then my two boys. This is a whole new world. I can't say that Audrey is all girl because she still wants to play trains and cars with the boys, but she got this baby doll set for Christmas and she loves playing with them. There are DEFINITELY differences between girls and boys and the people that say there isn't, and it is just how we raise them is full of it, and obviously don't have both genders.

Stamp of Approvel...

Last week Jeremy needed me to bring him some tools, he was way out in Manastash and it was really close to nap time. So, I got the brilliant idea to get a cookie to keep them occupied and awake for the drive. We stopped at Vinmans Bakery and got cookies that were as big as the kids head, and as you can tell they LOVED them. It is so funny the different personality's, Braiden was completely clean not one speck on him and then Trevor and Audrey ended up with more on their face then in there tummy. Trevor ate his like a sandwich when you don't want to eat the crust and it was still warm from the oven so the chocolate chunks went all over his face, and Audrey didn't want to lose one piece. I guess Vinmans Backery got the stamp of approval from the Wolfenbarger kids.

A love letter to Braiden.......

Braiden,

As I type this I can only think of one word, Blessed. I think that we toss this word out there so often that sometimes the meaning gets lost, but Blessed is how I feel when thinking about you.
Blessed, is what I experience everyday being your mom, I am blessed in the fact that God hand chose you for me. That he would feel that I am the right person to care for HIS Braiden. I learn something new from you everyday, and I am blessed .
You are my sweet boy who cares for everybody, when someone is sad, you try to find a way to cheer them up. You are determined in your goals and desires, stubborn and persistent but these are all things we love about you. You have this innocence about you that amazes me daily, an I pray that you will never lose it. You are my “little engineer” who guides your brother and sister as best you can, thank you and please don’t ever stop, they will ALWAYS look up to you, I couldn’t have picked a better big brother for them.
Your dad and I Love you so much and are proud of you in every way. We pray daily that you will grow to become the amazing man that we know you are. I hope you know that no matter what, we will be here for you and our love for you will never fade, that is a promise, forever and always, baby boy. We also want you to grow in knowing that, we love you as much as our hearts can possibly love, but your maker makes our love look like nothing because his love for you is that big.
I never knew five years ago how my 6lb 15oz baby boy could change my life, and I am blessed.
With all my love,
Mom

Braidens 5th Birthday..

Grandma Debbie made this cake isn't it cute!

The three 5 year olds

Can I have some?

Meet Gilbert the newest member of the family!

So our little boy is 5, my time flies when you are having fun!

Braiden turned 5 on Monday, we had a small party for family and a laid back day. I think that the excitement for the day was the surprise of FINALLY getting a Guinea Pig. Jeremy and I have debated this decision for about a year now and we finally decided to do it. We bought the guinea pig and Grandma Debbie bought all the accessories that goes with one.

This was one of those things that I was asking "what have I gotten myself into" at the pet store, it sounds doable until they start telling you everything and then it all started to become real. I was going to have a small fuzzy rat in my house, YIKES!!! And on top of that while we were in the process of buying the pig a lady said "you are getting a Guinea Pig! We had one but I got rid of it, it stunk to bad", thanks lady could you have said that before my son already picked one out and was so excited about it. Anyway, as you can tell the pig made it home. v

Another funny story, Gilbert was the name Braiden chose, I have no clue were it came from AND Gilbert is a girl. Please don't share the last bit of info with Braiden because he is sure it is a boy only because that is what I lead him to believe, I know how could I , but I was already having some commitment issues with a smelly small varmint and the sales lady said that the female are a little more cleanly. So there you have it a five year old and a guinea pig!

Oh, and as you can imagine he received lots of trains and train things as well. In fact my mom got him this box set of train videos I think it is like 40 hours of video, he is having a hard time of deciding what to spend his time doing!

Merry Christmas.......

I might be a little bias, but I do believe those are some cute kids

Christmas Mourning with Grandma Debbie and Papa Nick....

The next Mrs. Claus

I apologize for the lack of Pictures in this post, my camera was out of batteries, but Jer caught a few on his phone.

We had another great time at the Nasons, it was quieter than normal, but it was fun. The kids got way to much, and I ate too much, so all in all it was a hit! I know Grandma Debbie has a lot more pictures, hopefully she will share some with me.

Christmas Eve at Amaws and Papaws.......

Christmas Eve like every year, we spent it with my mom and dad and both sisters family's. It is a lot of craziness but we all have a great time. It was wonderful and loud with all the cousins and we enjoyed every ones company along with some good food. When getting all these kids together it makes me smile because we are blessed with so many different personality's.

Cookies, lots and lots of cookies....

Among all the other baked goods that I made for Christmas you can't go without Christmas cookies. After baking all day on Christmas Eve the last thing I really wanted to do was frost cookies, I rank it right up there with painting, it isn't my favorite thing to do.

Well, the kids started to Frost theirs for Santa and we were running behind so I piled the rest up for me to Frost on Christmas, the next thing I know my husband bless his heart came in and without being asked, and began frosting all the cookies. I think he knows me or something, either that or this crafting thing has bit him since sock puppet night!

P.S I guess it was a prerequisite to Frost with no shirt on, I would imagine it was for their Christmas shirts to stay clean.