I have the best husband in the world!

Ben knows that I have been having a rough time at work lately. Friday morning I got into work and found this laying across my keyboard.



He sure is wonderful!

I’m a big kid now!

Disclaimer: If talking about or seeing baby poop grosses you out then this might be a post you should skip.

Apparently I am not pushing the potty training hard enough with our little 19 month old Madie. So she is taking matters into her own hands. She has recently started grabbing her diaper and then running to the bathroom. So we have been putting her on the potty (the big potty – for some reason she is not a fan of the little potty, fine by me!) Well Tuesday morning as I was getting ready for work she came running into the bathroom, tapped her bum and said “Mama, bum bum”. So I asked her if she had to go potty and she nodded “Yes” so I put her up there and sure enough she pooped (most of the time she would just sit on the potty or just pee a few drops because her diaper was already wet when she went in there).

So I took her picture by the potty with her poo. She was so proud of her self and kept pointing in the toilet and laughing.



(This was actually the second time she pooped on the potty but the first time she told me that she had to and actually went)

What time are you going to listen?

The answer being “the first time”.

Last Sunday during Sacrament meeting Slade was acting up. He was being very loud and simply would not listen. I asked him a number of times to use his quiet voice and to be reverent only to get sassy remarks in return. So finally I turned to Ben and asked him to take Slade out in the hall and talk to him about listening better in church. Ben took Slade’s hand and led him out to the hallway. Ben relayed what happened out there to me like this.

He first explained to Slade that he needed to listen better in church and he needed to listen to us the first time that we ask him to do or not to do something. Then he sat him against the wall and told him that he was going to go back in to listen and Slade could come in when he was ready to listen, he turned and started back into the chapel. He stopped when he heard Slade crying hysterically. So he went back to Slade and said

“Now what time are you going to listen?”

Slade sat there for a while thinking, then between his sobs said

“In 20 minutes?”

Ben lost all sense of sternness and busted up laughing. He then reminded Slade that the correct answer to that question is

“The First Time”