Update

First I need to apologize for my lack of blogging in the past few months. Since we have moved we have had internet issues that resulted in no internet at our house. I had big plans to do an 18 month old post for Madie and a 4 year old post for Slade in April… didn’t happen. I am sure that if anyone did read my blog they have probably given up any hope on me posting some new pictures of our new house as well. I am hoping that this will all change in the next week or so. We are also getting Slade’s new bunk beds next week so I will be closer to finishing his room (that is the other problem… lack of time for me to get our home put together enough for me to feel comfortable posting pictures for everyone to see).

However amidst all of the chaos that is going on with us I have noticed that our kids are getting so big! So I thought that I would just put down a few things that are going on with us.

Madie
• Has started talking a bit. She says baby, STOP, Don’t, Mama, Dada, NO, please, thank you, cracker, doggy, hi, hello and eyes (which is accompanied with an eye poke)
• Dances all the time
• Loves to watch Alvin and the chipmunks and sponge bob
• Is very feisty
• Eats everything that you give her
• Is figuring out doorknobs
• Has days when she likes to try the potty and others that she wants nothing to do with it
• Takes pee diapers off herself and brings them to me
• Loves her brother so much
• Climbs like a mountain goat
• Has to wash her hands every time that she sees a sink
• Builds guns out of legos (just like her brother) and spits at you like she is shooting
• Still sings herself to sleep
• Gives great hugs

Slade
• Constantly tells me that things aren’t very necessary
• Is very good at opening doors for ladies
• Will always tell me if I look pretty or if I need to go back in the bathroom in the morning
• Loves to help cook
• Begs for a cat or dog or both
• Asks the kids at daycare to call him by his full name
• Has tried and likes… no LOVES pizza and carrots
• Keeps asking if we can get a new baby and get rid of his sister
• Even though he says he wants to get rid of his sister he is very protective of her and hugs her constantly

In other news Ben got a new job and keeps assuring me that if I just hang on a little longer I will be home with the kids.

I am loving the warm weather and am really looking forward to my Mom and Mike coming in August!

Our Cute Little Family

We got some new family pictures taken a few weeks ago. Slade spent most of the time trying to flirt with our photographer (she is a very cute girl) and Madie was just plain mad this day. I was worried that we weren’t going to get any good ones of Madie because she was so ornery but we got some really cute ones. See some new pictures of my cute kids here. There are two posts so scroll down past the wedding that she did to see some more. I will post some more when I get them back too. I can't wait to see the rest, these turned out awesome!

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”

Where do they learn these things?

This weekend Slade went to his mom’s and Ben was gone working most of the weekend so Madie and I had a lot of alone time. We made our first ever trip to Kings (a local discount that seems a lot like a Family Dollar). It happens to be Slade’s favorite store – he always wants to go there… I don’t see the excitement in it really. The we went home and I worked on our flower beds a bit. Then we took a break for lunch and I put Madie down for a nap and went back to my work outside. I went in and checked on her a couple of times and after about 2 hours she started to wake up a bit. So I was trying to clean things up outside before she got up and every couple of minutes I would poke my head in the house to see if she was crying. Nothing. So I finished and went in the house. We have a crib that has a changing table attached to it, she has outgrown the changing table so it now houses her stuffed animals and her baby monitor. I found her standing in her crib holding the baby monitor close to her mouth saying “Mama, Mama” into it. Seriously how does she know what that is for… Kids these days are just too smart!

I made it until 11 today

To do what you might ask… open my pepsi! Those of you that know me know that this is quite the accomplishment. In an effort to save some money and shed some pounds I am trying to give it up. Crazy I know but I am trying. So I am sitting here at my desk trying to ignore my urges to open that delicious beverage when I heard a loud Pop! It was my pepsi, literally calling out to me. The bottom of the can had popped out making it rounded. I had no choice but to open it. One of these days I will conquer it but not today!