The Frantz Family: A BIG Week!

I am not even going to try and catch up since the last post. In summary, we has a fabulous Thanksgiving. Dad, mom, and Susan visited that week, and we hosted Thanksgiving at our house with about 23 people, including both of our families and some great friends from our church! It was a blast. The holiday season was pretty busy for us (as you can tell with no posts). We celebrated Christmas for about 10 days with all of our family. We had a really sweet time celebrating the birth of our King with our church and both of our families. One of the sweetest things for me was reading books to Madeline about Jesus' birth for the first time. One book in particular she loved and wanted to read it all of the time. Whenever she was ready to read it she would hand it to you and say "Sheshus".

Sorry about the brief catch up. Here are some of my favorite pics from the holidays... if you want to see all of them, the two posts under this one are my albums from Nov and Dec. Feel free to check them out!

Burr! Its been frigid... our little cuddle bugs trying to stay warm.

All the cousins on the "Hamilton" side together

and playing for the first time

The Frantz family 2009 Christmas morning

Rivers excited about the Giraffe that is bigger than

him that was under the Christmas tree

Our pretty "Big" girl ready to go to church

Little man has started eating all kinds of solids

and has gained 1 lb this month!

Ok now for current news....

This has been a BIG week for the Frantz kiddos. Starting on Tuesday afternoon Rivers finally rolled over! The doctor at his 6 month check up told me he had all the muscle tone to do it but our little guy is just so content he hadn't been motivated to do it. All of the sudden on Tuesday he was trying to get a stuffed monkey toy that was out of reach and just did it. He has been rolling back and forth, back and forth ever since! Check it out....

Also on Wednesday we started potty training Madeline. Its challenging, but she is slowly getting the hang of it. Most of the time she says "potty" or "tee tee" as the "tee tee" is running down her leg and she is walking toward the potty. We have used probably 3 full rolls of paper towels cleaning up accidents in the past 2 days! Last night we had a major break through though. After she was done eating supper last night she said "tee tee" and got down from her high chair. About 2 minutes later she started squealing "tee tee, tee tee" and I look down and sure enough she is sitting on her potty going potty. The only problem is that she had shut the lid of it first, so the "tee tee" was running all over the potty and onto the floor. She was so proud of herself clapping and squealing that we just acted like she did it perfectly for the first time! Needless to say Mike removed the lid to the potty so it won't happen again.

Also on Thursday morning we woke up to a snow covered ground. We took a brief break from potty training to play in the snow. We didn't think that Maddie liked it at first but she wouldn't come inside. We played for a while sledding and making snowballs in our back yard. It was a blast.