Spring 2009

These are some of the pictures that I've been meaning to get on here.  They're totally out of order so sorry!

Javin's first official baseball game.  He's on the pirates this season!

I swear Cael always looks drunk in pictures because he says cheese and then starts to run away or do something and that's what the camera captures.

Javin lost his top tooth. Sorry about the gross wide open mouth

With his treasure box that he got from school.

This is the scene that happens everyday now when daddy wakes up in the afternoon.  There is usually lots of throwing around, tickling and sword fighting.

Javin's baseball team

Cael was really sad when I took this picture but getting his picture taken seemed to cheer him up.  He loves this Cat in the Hat and sleeps with it every night.  I have to tuck it in!

Cael wants so badly to be just like his older brother

Cael being a trooper.

Coloring Easter Eggs.

Another one's gone

So I went to pick Javin up from school today and noticed he was missing his front tooth.  YEAH!! It's been loose for awhile and about a week ago i took the kids to the park and Javin was doing the monkey bars and fell.  Well he was doing this the whole time so I wasn't really watching him and on the last fall his knees hit his face and knocked his teeth.  He was crying and I said "I think I see blood" To which a whole new level of hysteria arose!  I  then said "No I didn't" and of course the other moms were laughing at that.  I had him get a drink of water spit some of the blood and then came home to assess the damage.  All that had really happened was he knocked the front of his two top teeth totally off and you know some swelling.  I was telling him how awesome it would be if he knocked his teeth out but he didn't seem to think so.  So, after getting the swelling down we've been trying all week to get those teeth to come out but they were pretty stubborn.  Today it started bleeding at lunch and one of the teachers got the tooth out.  It's probably a good thing because he didn't' cry for her and for us it's all about the drama.  Anyway, if you loose you tooth at school they put it in a treasure box and tape it up so he's so excited to have a treasure box and have the visit from the tooth fairy!  Also, just as an update he's up to 35 stickers in a row at school.  The new goal is to get a sticker everyday until school is out.  I think he's up for the challenge.  Also, I'm finally done with work and get to just be a mom again.  I'm so excited.  More pictures will be coming I just need to figure this computer out and I'll try to get them on tonight after the kids go to bed while Ry's at work.  Sigh, I don't really like his new schedule, but it is the reason I got to quit working and he does get to come to church with us so I guess every down has it's equal ups.  

HE DID IT

For months now Javin has been working on getting 20 stickers in a row from school.  He's almost done is twice.  But alas, has not succeeded!  Well, the wait is over.  He DID IT!!  So, to celebrate and let him know how awesome we think he is I am going to check him out early from school tomorrow and take him to see Monsters vs Aliens, just the two of us.  Now the count is on for thirty and he wishes that he had 29 right now so that he could get 30 tomorrow!  YEAH JAVIN!!

On a side note, we had a great Easter.  I have a few pictures of coloring the eggs and such that I will get on here after Ryan decides how to do that.  Apparently with a new computer comes all kind of new things that you have to have.  For those of you who don't know the old computer finally gave in.  I think it was about a year and a half ago that the repair shop told us we should just call a lemon a lemon if we have one.  Glad it lasted as long as it did but I don't know how to use this one yet.  

WE had a great Easter and the Easter Bunny left us fun things on Saturday this year.  I like to do that so that on Sunday I don't have to worry about the chaos of Easter right before church and getting ready and I also wanted to be able to leave Sunday so that we could celebrate the true meaning of Easter and what it's really about.  But, this year I had to get creative as for the reason that the Easter Bunny was going to come to our house on Saturday since I have one child who believes and one not old enough to understand. So I told Javin that the Easter Bunny isn't as magic as Santa so he can't get to everyone's houses in just one night but that he had to take two to do everyone.  This explanation seemed to appease Javin and then it was exciting to try and figure out which day he would come.  Lucky for me it was Saturday so that I could just relax and enjoy Easter on Sunday.  Javin gave our family night on Christ's Resurrection and it was a great day!!  I will have Ry teach me the basics of the computer tonight and then get some pictures up soon.  Happy Easter everyone (just a little late)

PS:  We had a great Spring Break and were glad when the Master's were finally over so that we could actually go somewhere without all the traffic of the golf course.  I did like calling dad  though and rubbing it in that I could actually hear the cheering from hole 10 (I think that's the one we decided we could hear)  Anyway, it was fun to have Javin home but glad to see him back at school and on schedule again!

It's SPRING

Our Ward had the annual Primary Service Project and Easter Egg hunt today. The kids had tons of fun cleaning the rooms in the building and cleaning the toys in the nursery room. Caellum went potty with me every 20 minutes and hasn't had an accident yet today and he didn't have any yesterday! He's doing so well with potty training I'm glad that I can take him places and not worry so much. Good thing I have been blessed with smart children!

Javin wanted to find 100 eggs. He fell a little short but did find the golden egg!!


The nursery kids went out hunting first and Cael had lots of fun finding eggs and opening them up afterward.

They also had crafts set up and the kids got to make posters, color, make hats, and do word searches.

Cael's hat! He was pretty adamant about getting this particular blue one!

Javin ended up putting a lady bug and flower on his hat.

Amira's nap time.

This is a super cute picture of me after I just got done with a run. Ryan was testing the camera.

Ryan got a gun for his birthday this year. I know it's a little early but we figured while I still had an employee discount we might as well take advantage. So far he has gone shooting every week at least once and loves his gun!

Javin had kite day at school a little while ago and I went over and took pictures. He got his kite going really good because he sure does love to run.

Potty Training update

So, We officially started potty training the other day and here how it's been going. First day: We went though 7 pairs of underwear and mom was very excited to be working so that I could leave and let dad do the rest of the potty training. But, right before I left, Cael finally used the potty instead of his clothes. Day 2: Wake up take off diaper and he immediately goes in the potty and we put underwear on! Success. I had to do many errands and was all set with change of clothes a diaper wipes and towel on the car seat and guess what!! Caellum went potty in 3 different stores and didn't have one single accident while we were out. You can't catch everything though and we ended up going through 2 pairs of underwear. So far today we've had 2 changes of underwear and mostly success with the potty. I have to say though, I'm always grateful when bedtime rolls around and I can stick that diaper back on him. Last night I was rocking him and we were talking about what a good job he was doing and he says "I potty again mommy" and I'm like you want to go right now and he says yes so we go into the bathroom take off the diaper and he uses the potty and then puts his diaper back on and goes to bed. I really thought on that first day that he would NEVER get it but he's doing much better and is starting to really get it. IT's so frustrating because with Javin it was like he had one accident. Realized he wasn't supposed to get his clothes wet and we never had an accident again. He was just like oh that's what it feels like to not have a diaper and he was potty trained. Cael is more of a trial and error, error, error, type learner. I guess I needed to learn patience!
But, he is doing AWESOME and loves getting those potty treats!