Finally!

Indiana is finally potty-trained! She still has to wear a diaper at night though, but probably will for a few more months. I am just so happy to not have to constantly be changing her diaper anymore. On Friday morning when she woke up she asked me to change her diaper. I told her that they were all gone, and we didn’t have anymore. She then told me to go get some! Ha ha! She is a funny and smart girl. I told her I wasn’t going to the store to get more, that she just had to wear panties. It was a bit of a struggle to get her to put her panties on but now she loves them. On Friday she only had 2 accidents, Saturday she had 1 and yesterday she had 1. The times when she has her accidents is when she is really distracted playing. But she is doing great! We are really excited to have her potty-trained just a week before she turns 2 1/2!

Cleanup your own mess.

Indiana had a first today.  She was coloring in her coloring book and then I heard a noise that did not sound good.  She was coloring with her purple crayon on the wall!  Luckily I kept my cool and explained to her that what she did was wrong.  I have been trying to not resort to yelling at her.  I gave her a Magic Eraser (best things ever invented) and she wiped away her markings.  Of course, she didn’t get it all off so I had to help, but I was just happy that she was willing to help clean up her own mess.

 

A Fast Learner

Indiana for the last couple months has been trying to write her letters. She can do O’s and P’s. I was at Target the other day and they had some pre-school workbooks in their $1 section, so I picked some up. She had me help her for a couple letters and then the rest she did herself! She is just tracing them right now. I will need to go and get more of these workbooks for her, she is loving them! I got her one for letters and one for numbers. She doesn’t press really hard with her pencil so you have to look really close to see her writing. She has also been drawing a lot. Her favorite things to draw are monsters. She does the typical circle for the head and body, then loooooong legs and arms with tiny fingers. I was just impressed because she is only 2 1/2 years old, well in 10 days she will be. Oh, and she is still in diapers. We had her practically potty-trained before the holidays and then she wouldn’t go potty at my in-laws, my mom’s house, or at Disneyland. We have started again today and she has had 2 accidents so far. Potty-training is definitely teaching me patience.

One

Yup…One year has gone by since we welcomed Porter into our lives.  He turned 1 on Sunday and we celebrated with just a few family members.  We had brownies and ice-cream and it was so good!  We have also switched Porter from formula to milk and he is loving it.  Although it’s not his first time having it.  He loves to sneak Indiana’s sippy cup from her and steal a sip or two before she realizes what he is doing.  He is just happy to finally have that magic drink she loves so much in his cup.  Porter still isn’t walking, and he does not want to.  We know he can because he barely holds onto our hands when walking around and he has really good balance, he just honestly doesn’t want to do it alone yet.  And I am completely fine with it.  He still loves giving and blowing kisses, and giving raspberries. He can say “Momma”, “Dadda”, “baba”, “yeah”, “bah-bah” (bye-bye with a little hand wave), and “baby.”  I think he knows the last word because I always call him my baby.  I say this a lot, but kids grow up too fast, especially when they are your own.

   

I made Porter’s little birthday hat just a few minutes before everyone showed up.  Indiana wanted one too and I she colored it herself, with a little help from me.  She was so proud of it!

Darn you holidays!

Okay, so I can’t really blame the holidays, it is all my own fault.  We have done so much traveling and eating out these past few weeks.  First it was Christmas in Mexico, then New Years in NM, and we just got back from a 5 day vacation to Disneyland.  We have eaten out a lot while traveling and I have not exercised in over a month.  Well, before we went to Disneyland I weighed myself and I had gained about 6lbs over Christmas and New Years.  That 6 lbs has now turned into 10!!!  Ahhhh!!!  So, I usually don’t do New Years Resolutions but I am going to do one for this year.  My goal is to lose the 10 lbs I have gained.  Some of you may think 10 lbs won’t be too hard, but for me it will be.  I HATE eating anything healthy.  I love cheese and have to have it on everything I eat.  I also HATE working out.  I don’t find it fun or enjoyable at all.  Hopefully telling you all my goal will help me to really stick to it.  Oh, and I will be posting pictures from Disneyland, it is going to be a long post and will take me a while to create so it’ll be a couple days. 

Standing alone

I almost forgot to post about this!  On Saturday at my mom’s house in Las Cruces Porter started standing on his own for long periods of time!  He is now standing like a champ and will probably be walking real soon.  He turns 1 on the 23rd of this month.  I’m not in a hurry for him to start walking though.  He already gets into enough things around the house with crawling. 

I live for moments like this..

 

These two cuties of mine fight like a brother and sister should.  But they also love each other and have cute, sweet moments like these.  I was doing dishes and realized it was a little too quiet, which usually means trouble.  I walked into the living room and found Indiana reading to Porter.  I went and grabbed my camera and tried not to disturb this precious moment between brother and sister.

Two Christmases

This year we spent Christmas with Devin’s family in Mexico.  We had so much fun with all the parties, eating, playing card games, and riding motos at the dunes.  Indiana and Porter really enjoyed the time they had with their Grandma & Grandpa Jones.  We can’t wait to be living there permanently this summer! 

   

The picture above was taken at the Dublan Ward Christmas Party.  I could not get Indy to sit in Santa’s lap.

The below pictures are from Christmas morning.

 

    

 

For New Years we had a second Christmas with my mom in Las Cruces.  Indy had so much fun playing with her aunt and uncle who are 5 and 4!  I am kind of mad at myself for not getting pictures of my mom with Indy and Porter.

My mom and older brother made the kitchen (pictured above) for my sister out of an old entertainment center.  How creative is that?!