I tried!

So I have a post with pictures have finsihed, but for some reason I can't get the second group of pics to post! It waits for forever and then gives an error, so I guess we will try again tomorrow...

Valentine's day - finally!!

Yes, it has really been that long! I would like to make my blog into a book one of these days, which is the only reason I am going back soooo far! So if you are looking for something more recent, you will just have to wait! As for us, for Valentine's day we just go out to a nice dinner somtime around Valentine's day and call it good. This year we went to Brio at Town Square. It was really yummy. We also decided to watch a movie while we had a babysitter. As for Valentine's day it was all about the boys. We started our day with some pink doughnuts for the boys and some cute homemade mini quiche for David and I. (I have a pic of this, but I am trying to make these old post short and sweet.) Then we headed out and to feed the ducks at Rhodes Ranch. My boys love this activity, even if my husband thinks we are going to get hit by a stray ball one of these days!

Okay, so the next part of our day was just plain funny. We bought Spencer a kite for Valentine's day and David was determined to fly it that day because Spencer was so excited about it. I tried and tried to tell him there was no way no how enough wind, but he knew best so off to the park we went. Well, as we all know, women know best and that kite went nowhere despite a very valiant effort from David! The kids still had fun running and rolling down the hill.

{Pictures were supposed to go here of attempted kite flying, but my computer sucks and I can't seem to get them uploaded! Luckily my new computer is coming soon!}

Pictures coming soon!

I have been very neglectful of my blog. It is just one of those things I want to do, but never get around to! BUT today I am finally taking the pictures of my camera, all 407 of them! Yes, I take a lot of pictures and yes it has been a while! So this week should finally be filled with some new posts! As for what's going on with us, not too much. I only have 5 more weeks of school left to teach and while I am not teaching again next year, I must say I am glad I did this year. It made me really appreciate staying home. I didn't realized how MUCH I missed it until Spring Break last week. Apparently working stresses me out. I was so relaxed while visiting my sister and yes I was on vacation, but it was more than that. I didn't HAVE to be out of the house at a certain time in the mornings, so I wasn't getting frustrated with the boys first thing in the morning and I was able to start my days out on a much better note. Anyway, it will be nice to stay home again. I am VERY grateful I get to. As for David, he just finsihed tax season, so it is nice to have him back. He didn't have to work as much as usual this year, which made things a lot easier, but he still gets stressed from work. I love that he only had to work 1 Saturday this year. It was great! Spencer just started tee ball, very cute pictures to come. And Jaxon, well, he's as cute and as troublesome as ever. He has finally started talking more, which is marvelous! And that's it. I have much to post, so as soon as these pictures finished downloading I will get started!

Silly Boys

Gotta love this bathtime fun! Both boys were cracking up!

Disneyland!

So I am finally to our Disneyland pictures. We decided to take a quick weekend trip before tax season really started. We had a blast! We were both pleasantly surprised with how much Jaxon liked it! He is all about being a big boy, so he thought it was great when he got to go on some rides. He also loved Minnie Mouse. Spencer said he wanted to see Minnie and Mickey and then freaked out when when it was our turn! Good thing Disneyland wasn't busy so we didn't wait very long at either one. Spencer proved yet again that he is my son by riding Big Thunder Mountain at night! He is so little and was definately scared, but he did it and was okay afterwards. It definately helped that it was a train. :) I also just kept telling him how his cousins love that ride. :) In the end he said he liked it, but did not want to ride it again! lol!

This was a little backwards from what I expected.^

Jaxon having the time of his life!

Well, I did tell him to put shoes on....

This was funny. It was not so funny when a few minutes later I found out he gave my heels to Cora to use as a shovel in the sandbox!

Thank you!

Thanks to everyone for the dentist suggestions! Now I just have to go through and find out which one is on my plan!

Good dentist anyone?

Does anyone know a good dentist on this side of town? I am tired of driving so far to all my doctors. Anyone know any good ones that are close?

I leave the room for 2 seconds...

Hints

So do you think he is trying to tell me something? Actually he was pretending to be Santa Claus, but I thought it looked pretty funny!

Giddy up!

We bought Spencer this cowboy hat the other day and he has been loving it! He walks around the house singing the Backyardigans song, I Love being a Princess except he says Cowboy. It is really funny and I am definately glad he is not singing Princess. :) He also has to put my boots on before he is really a "cowboy" or sheriff. The other pictures are his new favorite activity for while Jaxon is napping. He has some preschool activity book and he really enjoys them. I figure why not start early! He also likes the one on one time it gives him. :)

GHWT

So I finally got the pics off my camera. My printer, which has my card reader in it, has been giving me troubles lately, so here's a little catch up (more posts to come in the next few days). We recently purchased Guitar Hero World Tour and ALL the boys are in love. Sadly, I don't have any pics of Jaxon, he was asleep when I got the camera out. It has been really fun, if anyone wants to come play, just let me know!

Potty Training Update

Okay, so saldy I had pretty much tried all suggestions I received, though I was very thankful to all for offering help. As an update as to where we are now...back in underwear, but still peeing just a little bit. About a quarter size. This I can handle, though we continue to tell him he needs to go potty before he starts peeing. He also only gets his toys back by having no pee in his underwear. How did we get back to this stage, you ask? Well, thankfully it only took 1 day. It started in the morning when he peed in his underwear about 1/2 hour after he woke up. So I put him in a pull-up because I had to go to work and I was terrified that he would pee at my friend's house. When I got home, he had peed a little in his pull-up, so I took that away. Yup, he had to go commando! I also told him if he was going to pee in his underwear like a baby, I was going to treat him like a baby. That meant he was going to have to take a nap. Well, at first he though he would play along and wanted to sleep in Jaxon's crib. Well, Jaxon was in Jaxon's crib so I said fine and set up the pack n' play! All this time I was throughly annoyed, however I knew once he got in the pack n' play he would hate it. So I laid him down for a nap. Every 30 mins or so he would start crying for something which I occassionally went in and told him no he had to take a nap before he could come out. Other times I just ignored him. I let him stay in there for about 2 1/2 hours before I decided I should probably get him out before he peed in the pack n' play. Keep in mind he was still naked from the waist down. No, he never did take a nap, but he decided mabye the pack n' play wasn't so fun and maybe he did want to be a big boy. Just for good measure I left him naked for the rest of the afternoon. He never pees anywhere when he is just naked, only if he has underwear on. He went potty a few more times and has been much better ever since. We also have been working on him doing other big boy things like going potty by himself and getting dressed. Hopefully this will last! We'll see!

At a loss....

So I have a problem and am in need of any help anyone can give. Let me start at the beginning. In March of 08 my son Spencer saw his friend Cora learning to go potty and decided he wated to. So for about a month and a half we worked on potty training. In that month and a half I became very well potty trained. Spencer would pee on the potty, but not poop and he wouldn't tell when he needed to go, I just had to take him every so often. Then we decided to give up for awhile because we weren't making any progress. We would comtinue to ask him and he would occasionally go. We started to make a little progress in Late July early August 08, but still no pooping. I really wanted him potty trained by school time so I could send him to preschool or some other classes. Finally I gave up and about a week later he finally said, "Mommy, I need to go potty." I was sooo excited. Over the next week and a half he finally became completely potty trained.

Then came October...it started with just a little spot of pee in his underwear every once in awhile, then it got bigger and bigger until it was going through to his pants! What? Huh? I thought we were done? So we tried taking toys away, time out, a reward chart for a toy he really wanted for everytime he was completely dry. Eventually the chart started to work, though it took weeks. So, I made the chart big because I wanted him to learn not to do this for good, not just long enough to get his toy. I learned from our early potty training days!

So here is his Mickey chart. He had the thing filled up except for one ear. I made the mistake of thinking, "Good, I think he is over this." The next week it started all over again!!!! Aaaarrrgggg!!! How long is he going to take to potty train!? Yet again I am continually bugging him all day long, we have taken away his beloved Handy Manny tools that he received for Christmas. He has sat in time out. He has had to take stickers off his Mickey chart. Tonight I came home from the store to find a sobbing son as my husband made him pick out toys to take away. It broke my heart! I am at a loss!!! What do I do?!? I can't possibly put him back in diapers he has been out of them since August, with the exception of night time. I really don't know what to do, but at the same time if I have to change my 3 1/2 year olds wet pants again I think I might scream! Any help, anyone?

Spencer and Cora

Yea! I am all caught up with this post! Maybe my New Year's resolution should be to keep my blog current! lol! On Fridays, Spencer's friend Cora comes over to play in the afternoons while her mom goes to work. I don't think she believes me when I tell her that Cora is absolutely no problem, but she really is. Cora and Spencer always play really well together and do cute thing like this! How can you not love them! Don't they look like an old married couple in this picture? Haha!

This one was just too sweet. (Chelsea -I promise I told Cora to take her thumb out of her mouth right after I snapped this! Though I am not sure it actually was in her mouth. I couldn't decide!)

Love these two!

Snowboarding

The Saturday after Christmas, David went snowboarding with my brother, Trevor and his wife Maria. We missed him, but he had fun and he doesn't get to go very often anymore.

Christmas day!

I have finally made it to Christmas day! Woohoo! Christmas day was perfect. Really it started Christmas eve. Both of our parents live here in town and normally we have to rotate who to spend Christmas Eve with, but this year my mother-in-law decided to do Christmas Day dinner. It was so much better! We also didn't have to rush out Christmas morning for breakfast which was nice for the boys. So, Christmas Eve we had dinner with my family and the grandkids opened presents. It was necessary for my brothers kids, and once one has started, of course everyone wanted to! Then Christmas morning we spent at home. We were able to take our time and really enjoy watching the boys. Spencer was soooo much fun this year. He just had the perfect reactions to everything and was loving every minute. Jaxon was actually pretty good at opening as well. The only problem with Jax was we could get him off his brother's scooter! Check out our matching pjs! I know, I know, you are all jealous! lol!

Then it was off to the Murray's to exchange gifts. They live up the street and Spencer insisted he ride his new scooter despite the fact it was drizzling rain outside! Oh well, it was Christmas, right? Both boys loved their presents, of course! The pettiskirt was actually for both girls since they are so close to the same size! Too cute!

Next it was off to my parents house to give my parents their presents and my brother his. Spencer had fun with Uncle Trevor and Jaxon was all about Grandpa's cookies!

Then it was off to the Wilcock's! For dinner, family and more presents! I think Spencer got a little spoiled with this day full of presents. He is already looking forward to his birthday and next Christmas. Hmmm...we might have a problem. (His birthday isn't until May!)




For those of you thinking, wow what a day, that wasn't the end! We went straight from the Wilcock's to our friend's house to lay the kids down and play Rock Band! It was a very long, but very fun day!!! Good thing David decided to go snowboarding on Saturday instead of the next morning!

Christmas projects

Just in case I wasn't busy enough in the month on December,with the new job, and everything in the previous posts, for some reason I ended up making a bunch of Christmas gifts this year. Below are a sampling. I made a total of about 20 pairs of pajamas (cute matching ones to be featured in later Christmas day post) including these for my neice and nephew. And then there was the hardest craft....Pettiskirts! I had a blast making them. Especially since I don't have a girl! BUT, the pink and brown one took me about 1 1/2 days to complete because I wanted to make it really full. The brown and blue one was much more reasonable, only about 5 hours. I didn't make it as full. Anyway, I had a lot of fun making all of them, but it is a good part of why my blog was so neglected in December!

Since my mom was helping me figure out how to make the pettiskirts, she made one for my neice as well. ^