Milestones

We have hit a huge milestone as a family this week. First we brought home a twin bed and transfered Carter out of his crib. My girls have all had to move out of the crib right on their 2nd birthday because the new baby was ready to take over. I have said that I was going to leave Carter in it until he goes to kindergarten, but I didn't realize that he would learn how to climb out and make the crib pointless. The transition was smooth other than the "scary" dreams he is having and we keep having to go into his room at night to get the spiders, big dogs, scary guys, and sharks out.





But the biggest change is that we started potty training him on Monday. I have heard that boys were hard and waited until he was getting closer to 3 even though my girls have been trained right around 2. After he went in the potty the first time he hasn't gotten his "undies" wet. The first 2 days have been great and I am so proud of him. After 8 years of having babies in diapers, we are done. I can't believe that we are at this point. How could you not love this face? Adorable!

We are so blessed to have 3 sets of grandparents! This is our Grandma Karen who has a date with our kids every Friday night so that we can have a date. Date night has been a huge blessing in our lives. I wouldn't be able to have fun if I was worried about my kids, but they are always pushing us out the door because they are so excited to play with grandma.


Decorating cookies - What a mess!
The kids love this and I love them being happy and having fun, but I hate the mess it makes. They decided they were going to "sprinkle their cookies to death". Notice Allie's blue lips in the background, she had a bite of her sprinkles, I mean cookie.

Child Abuse?

Carter is a rough, tough kid. He always has some kind of goose-egg on his head from a crash, fall, etc... Last Saturday my mother-in-law took the kids hiking down at red cliffs and they had a great time. They came home with red sand everywhere! Carter had a little fall and when ever anyone asks him what happened to his head he says, "I fell down on a big rock." Last Thursday I was reading with my kids at school and my Aunt Grace (who works at the school)came walking by. Carter and I usually pass her in the hall when we are there and he never says a word to her even though she talks to him. Last week she came walking up and he said "mom look, there is your aunt Grace!" I said yeah and was amazed that he was going to notice her. She started talking to him and then said, "Carter, what happened to your head, did your mom hit you with a big stick?" and Carter said, "no, her hand." ..........He tells eveyone that he fell on a big rock, but because of the way she asked, he accused me of child abuse. We all laughed, I kept saying, "I wasn't even there when he got hurt, I promise."