Matters of Business

Kylie is doing GREAT with potty training! We first tried 5-6 months ago and she'd she did pretty well when she was running around with nothing on, but it was just a disaster when she was wearing underwear. I couldn't handle the endless accidents so back went the diapers. She got to the point where she'd announce when she needed a new diaper so I figured it was time to try again :). She's doing great and will even tell us when she needs to go now, so I'm not always having to ask her. The past week or so I've been even venturing out on short trips without a diaper. And she went to church without a diaper for the first time last week.  Go girl!!! I'm so happy she's doing so well with this.


Kylie's also been on a painting kick. She loves to paint, and usually by time she's done she's covered in paint herself. We've been going swimming a lot this past month and she's having a lot of fun. She's not near as daring in the water as she was last year. I really enjoy taking them. I was worried I'd have a hard time with the two of them but it's been pretty relaxing.


Kipton is pretty easy going as usual. He's just the calmest, cutest little thing. He's very interested in what we are doing now, especially when it comes to food and likes being held. He's loving his mush (rice cereal), sweet potatoes and lets us know when he wants some! Jared had to take him home during sacrament meeting this past week because he was just desperate for food and wouldn't take his bottle. I was wondering if the day would ever come but he finally rolled over last week (5 1/2 months). I actually caught it on video, I could hardly believe it. Though he doesn't get much tummy time because of his big sis! He also slept through the night for the first time at our family campout a week ago.

I could just kiss their cheeks endlessly & love them so much!

First Hair Cut - June 2010

Well... first non-mom haircut that is.

 

Before:

During:

 

After: 

(take note of the sucker for a job well done)

 

Mostly it was re-shaped in back (looked pretty scraggily), so it's hard to tell from the front. 

in trouble

I just saw a blog post about these new gems.

(I may or may not have yelled out in excitement). 

Hopefully these are just as good as the girl scouts? But if they are I'm in trouble. Still trying to lose a few baby pounds and I could easily see these adding a few inches to the waistline. But alas that might be the price to pay for the taste of heaven? I'm excited to try them either way.

guilty confessions and random stuff

I love craft and design blogs. I have a few I visit and I love them. But I admit they are starting to grate on me a bit and add to my mommy guilt. And then I start saying things like "geez... I'm not scrapbooking my mailing labels like XXX just did when they sent out a package and what is wrong with me???" I guess it's pretty rational in my mind that with two young children I'm not really going to have time for crafts or the blog or email or much of anything else? I have a lot of "I want to do this and this and this" regarding a lot of projects in my life (let alone keeping up with the house and laundry) but I find myself being completely exhausted during the day. Having two little ones is much, much more time consuming that the first 18 months we just had Kylie. I knew I would be more busy, but I had no idea. I know being a mother is God's work and I'm where I need to be. But I think I need to cut down on checking out certain blogs because it just makes me feel like crap that I can't do even a tenth of what is on my want/wish list.

(potty training discussion so you can skip if you want)
Kylie is starting to pick up an interest in potty training again. Yes! A few months ago she did really well when she was running around in the buff but as soon as you put underwear we were having constant messes. So I ditched all efforts and went back to diapers. The last couple of days she's done really well with remembering to go on her own and even when she has underwear on. I'm still not quite comfortable taking her out of the house without a diaper yet but she's getting there. I'm SO GLAD she's finally at this point.

With that said Kylie got in trouble yesterday. She was wadding herself up quite a bit of toilet paper after she did the deed. I told her she couldn't use that much and pulled off a smaller amount. So I go into the laundry room, the door closed behind me and I didn't watch her finish. The little stinker unrolled the entire roll of toilet paper into the toilet, flushed it which of course clogged and I come out of the laundry room finding toilet water overflowing everywhere. Jared saved my bacon when he got home and fixed the clog.