Happy Birthday, Bestie!

Today is my older sister's birthday. My sisters rock. Seriously, they do! Becky is 19 months older than me and has been my best friend basically forever. I use the term "bestie" hesitantly, because although she is indeed my "bestie", she has also proclaimed herself the "Bestie" of the kids in our family (there are 5 of us), and is highly competitive to maintain the title of "Best Kid". The rest of us just go along with it because, hey, she's the oldest. Although each of us individually believe we are the Besties of the family. And in my opinion Betsy has the best shot at it because her name is practically already Bestie. Anyway, Happy Birthday to the awesomest, kindest, funniest, toughest, and down right Bestest in the world.

"Besties" Becky, Em, and Betsy

So, are you tired of potty stories yet? Too bad! Juneau earned herself 2 more chocolate beans yesterday. If you ask she'll tell you a hundred times over "Chocolate Beans!" "Eat 'em!" "Blue and yellow!"
Savoring her prize

The evidence of the blue and yellow chocolate beans!

A perfect morning - watching Sesame Street on their potties

I know juneau looks partially insane in this picture, but this is pretty much the look she is going for when she plays with stickers

Nova was CONVINCED that she could fit in this little box. she wanted to sit down in it and have me push her around

she was very mad when she discovered it wouldn't work. This little box is one of nova's favorite toys for working on her "projects". She likes to go around the house and take things out of one container and put them into another container then repeat the whole process. This keeps her occupied for ridiculous periods of time.

sweet

Nova wore her hair in these little buns and it looked sooo cute!

Tomorrow is my first day running Labor and Delivery all by my lonesome. I love L&D, but i hate that the shift is 730 a.m. to 730 p.m. That's basically Juneau and Nova's entire waking day, especially since i don't get home until after 8. fortunately i only have to work that shift a couple of times a month. and it seems like if things are pretty slow the fam can come over to the hospital to hang out a bit. hopefully it will be a slow and easy day with no crazy emergencies!