Hard to believe....

Welp, we are reaching our last few weeks as a family, thankfully i got good news tonight that dates have been pushed back some so we get some more time! SOO what have we been doing.....NOTHING BUT FAMILY TIME!!!!! :)) Spent our 4-day weekend watching movies and playing with the girls!

Started fully potty training Ruth, its official NO MORE DIAPERS in this house!!!! she has done great for being 18m and on her second day. I have learned that she has AMAZING bladder control. stays dry for 2-4hrs! She stayed dry her first night which was awesome, and she has only had 3 accidents today compared to the 6 yesterday. Ive noticed she does better when she is without undies on, she will stop herself from peeing, she caught herself in a dribble today and stopped walked to her potty and finished (Awesome right?!?!)!!! So thats what I've been doing yesterday and today, hoping by this time next week she is at least telling me every time before and/or going on her own!

I have also realized that it is MUCH harder to potty train with treats and rewards with a child that is already potty trained, cause then they think that they deserve them too, so we've had to explain to Jennika that its Ruth's turn to learn how to be a big girl and this is what we did with you so now we are doing it with Ruth. So i compromised and said if she stays dry all day (which she does no problem by now) she can have an M&M before bath time....so far its helped thankfully!

We have my mother in law and John's best friend coming out from Oregon on Monday, to spend a week here with us, so this weekend is getting the spare room back together and a bed in there. Glad John will get some time with his mom before he heads out.

Last week we got rid of dressers, we had a scare with Jennika the dressers were in their closet facing each other and Jennika pulled on her dresser and it fell over, thankfully Ruth's dresser was right across and it caught the dresser instead of it landing on Jennika. So i bought some closet organizer starter kit from Amazon and set it all up, girls now have everything hung up which is nicer for my OCD self since everything is in its place and neat! no more digging into dresser drawers for one shirt and ruining my folding and organizing haha.

Jennika has also been working on her letters and name. She did an amazing job for her first time!!

Thats about it thats new with us Rodewald's hard to believe January is already almost over!

New year new goals

Haven't blogged in a while a lot has changed! Sept we found out we are expecting baby number 3! Final one :) and it's a boy! Yay! Joseph Harlan Rodewald will be gracing us with his presence first week of may :) the girls and I went to visit with some awesome family at Disney world end of oct and early nov! The girls had so much fun Jennika really loved meeting the princesses and characters :) Jennika has been going to preschool since sept and she loves it! We continue to do dance class and looking to get Ruth into a dance class or something soon.

We found out early dec that John will be deploying again sometime in Feb. which was a shock to us since a few days before he was for sure not going. But nothing is ever for sure with the army! So his deployment will be 9m as far as we know and he will come home to meet his son when Joseph is 6-7m old. :(

We spent a week before Christmas cleaning and organizing every since inch of our house (which isn't a lot)! Trying to get everything organized before deployment well before the new year so we can spend as much time as a family as possible. Still have a few things to do but that's only because I don't like the set up in the girls' room and I'm picky. So today I worked on the girls' dress up stuff!

We don't have much storage in this house but since we cleaned organized and got rid of a bunch if extra stuff we were using out under the stairs storage for baby toys and baby things. Well we have a bedroom for that and the bedroom won't be used until next year so I changed it to a dressing room for the girls! Which cleaned up their room a lot! So I will be in there tonight to organize again and hope I can get it to something I like!

So now I have this brand new bookcase I originally bought to make a dress up closet thingy and I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet....but I have an idea so we will see.


I will be blogging more since I am trying to cut my time spent on Facebook, but still want to include family on what we are doing and how the girls are doing. Plus when John leaves I want him to be able to see everything we do like he is home :)

Happy new year!