We're in Training

I've always said that potty training is the all time hardest thing, thus far, for me to do as a parent. Kaitlen is 2 years and 5 months and talking quite well. She is dry when she wakes up in the morning, tells me shes wet, and when she is stinky. So now that the summer of fun is drawing to a close I feel like it is time I taught her how to put all that "junk" in the potty. If only it were an easy thing. I try to compare it to teaching them how to walk it is a totally new concept and takes time to master; walking however does not involve the "junk"

Today was our first real solid effort at it and it did not go well at all... I am pleased to report however that I kept my cool and patience with her and tried to stay positive and up beat about the whole learning processes. I am however asking you, all my friends for any advice that might help this process happen smoother and quickly.......anyone???

Kaitlen loves candy and I cut her supply off unless she goes on the potty which happened a total of 1 time today with 5 accidents (all of which were outside and on kitchen floor yeah for the carpet:). Yikes!! I'm not ready for this.

Whew!

Whoa! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only blogger who is to busy during the summer months to post very often, isn't that how it should be?? I've had a vinyl in my closet forever that says "Live every Moment" we finally got around to putting it up on our kitchen wall and it has kind of been our motto for the summer. One week left of summer and I am utterly exhausted!! Anthony spent the summer working a few days a week in Orem so that meant alot of days away from home for us, fortunetly for us however my mom has an appartment in her basement and was gracious enough to let us crash at her place. Here are a few pictures of the summer highlights.

Kaitlen riding "Captain" up at the cabin

The kids took swimming lessons with their cousins and had a great time.

Savannah turned 5 and had a fun party at the pool with all her cousins.

We visited Mesa Verde, really amazing place.

We spent a week in New Mexico visiting my sister. Here we are "down by the river" Rio Grande.

I love this picture of Savannah and Samuel playing in the water.

We stayed at Bear Lake for a few days with Anthonys family and had a great time, they are such a fun family to hang out with and we always have a lot of fun laughing whenever we are together.


I also was able to spend a lot of time on my bike this summer, which I was grateful for. It gave me time away from the kids to just have time to think.................silence. As a mother of 4 sometimes there is nothing better then just that.

Kaitlen

I have finally got to Kaitlens 2 year old pictures, we took these at my moms strawberry patch and I love how they turned out. We were able to completely capture her spunky little personality.

Grandma Liza has 10 new little kittens at her house and Kaitlen loves them to pieces!

Summer Fun, Lisa and Blessings

We started off the summer with my sister in town which means two weeks of FUN! Camping up the Caynon

My mom has the perfect slip and slide hill behind her house so we tried it out, it was a blast! I havn't laughed that hard forever the kids did it until their little chests were bruised and burned.

We blessed Isabelle this last Sunday my mom made her gorgeous dress. I was so glad that lisa was in town for the blessing. Our babies are only 2 weeks apart and it was so fun to have the two of them together.

More of Isabelle

Here are Isabelles one month pictures that Jill took I am so excited about how they turned out.

2 Weeks

Update

Just wanted to give everyone an update on Isabelle and I, we both went to the doctor on Friday. My doctor gave me the ok to pick up kaitlen, funny how excited that made me. Two weeks of not being able to take care of my 2 year old has been really hard for me. I don't like to be dependant on other people to take care of me and my family. So besides the lack of sleep that I get I am feeling really good. Isabelle is also doing good she now weights 7 lbs 1 oz she's still a little peanut but is gaining. The doctor wants her on O2 at night for two more weeks just to be safe which also gives me peace of mind. Anyway I'm starting to feel like each day my life is getting to be a little more back to normal.