I can hardly wait

Only 52 more days until our vacation. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I have managed to get Paige somewhat weaned, I am thinking she will be totally weaned in about a week. YAY!!!! I am so liking the bottle right now!! My mom is getting ready to watch the kids too, she is a little nervous about if they will be okay spending the night with her. Parker tried to stay the night over there about a month ago and came home at 10:30 because he wanted mommy and daddy. So I hope they will be good for her and that she will be okay when we get home. Everyday I think I get more and more excited, this is the first time I will be going out of the country and out of the western states. It will be a much needed break from everyday life. I think Matt is excited as well, he doesn't let on that much if he is. I know he has to be somewhat excited because he keeps asking me questions every once in a while about the cruise, so I know he is thinking about it. He just doesn't say out loud that he is "so excited".

I can't believe it is February 5th already. January flew by so quickly. I haven't been that great at updating. After posting every few days in December it seems like we have such a boring life after the Holidays. I am looking forward to spring and being outside with the kids. We are all feeling a little cabin fever. I know it will be here before long!!

Swimming

Matt finally had a Monday night off in I don't know how long it has been. I thought it would be fun to something fun with the kids for family home evening. What to do around here, there aren't that many choices. So we decided to take the kids swimming. It was super cheap $6 for us to get in - half price because Matt is a city employee. So we couldn't get a better activity. The water could have been a little warmer. Both the kids were shivering before we got out. We had a fun time together and Parker really seemed to like it. This morning when he woke up he came into our room and the first thing he asked me was "mommy swimming again?" I could tell that he had a great time and can't stop thinking about it. Matt and I decided that we would have to things like that more often. The kids both slept pretty good. Maybe that is the key...wear them out before they go to bed.

One a side note we are going on our cruise in 61 DAYS. We got our passports and our plane tickets and everything else is in order. Now it is just waiting and anticipating. The only thing that I am worried about is weaning Paige before I go. She will not take a bottle. I am getting nervous, I wanted her to be weaned for about a month before we go so she would be used to a bottle or cup. Any suggestions on what to do???

Yay!!!

We are officially potty trained here at our house. Parker has not had an accident in 3 days. We are so proud of him and how quickly he caught on (once he decided that he was ready) I am absolutely loving not having to change his diapers!! Two kids in diapers was ridiculous and expensive. Now we can move onto bigger and better things. I am trying to talk Parker into going to a preschool. I just want to get the idea in his head so that when he is in preschool he will enjoy it. So I am going to be looking into a few places to see what will work best for us. I think it would be great for him to be involved in something outside our home and to be around other kids. Also I know I would love a few hours of the day to run errands with only one kid. If anyone out there that lives around us has any suggestions, let me know.

Potty Training

Well we are on day three of the whole potty training adventure and Parker has done so good. I am so proud of him! He had one accident yesterday and one today. But he did go number two in the toilet today without my help or Matt's!!! We are so excited, I am so glad that he is understanding the concept and seems to understand the importance of it. My little boy is growing up I can hardly believe it!! I hope it continues this good until he isn't wearing a pull up at night!

Wall-E

So I cursed myself on Sunday for posting about how I love church at 11 and that Parker does so good. He was horrible in Sacrament meeting on Sunday and threw a huge fit when I had to drag him to primary. He finally did okay, but I had to leave the room and visit another class because he was so on my nerves. I hope he grows out of this stage!
On a side note before I post what I was really going to post today. We are on the 2nd day of Potty Training with Parker. A friend reminded me of the idea to put cheerios in the toilet and let him shoot them. Well we tried it yesterday and he loved it. He thought that was so much fun. I think that is all we had to do, make it fun somehow to wear big boy underwear and go in the potty. He is a stubborn little boy and we just had to do it on his time. He had a few accidents yesterday, but none today so far. (Crossing my fingers) I bought Spider man Stickers for him to put on a chart each time he goes in the potty and a special treat each time he goes number 2 in the potty. He also gets a big toy when he doesn't wear diapers anymore. Whoever said bribery doesn't work, didn't have kids! Wish us luck, we are hoping he will get the hang of it and be all the way trained before we go on our Cruise, which is in 74 DAYS!!!
Now the real reason I was going to post today, Parker got the movie Wall-E for Christmas and has watched it several times. He even found a box and put it over his head and was pretending to be Wall-E so we altered the box and made it fit him better and we had ourselves a little robot. He is beginning to have quite the imagination and can keep himself entertained for a little while. It is great because he even entertains Paige for a little while. She mostly follows him around, yes she has become quite the little crawler. Some days they will play for about an hour in their rooms together. I hope they continue to play together as they get older. It helps me accomplish more during the day when I don't have to entertain them both all day long!

Sundays

This year our ward starts at 11:00a.m. Can I just say that I am loving 11 o'clock church. It works out so much better for me and the kids, even Matt likes it better. We all can sleep a little longer in the morning, sometimes when it was at nine, I would have to wake Parker up. I am not as rushed to get myself and the kids ready in time and am able to cook a nice breakfast. I can get a few last minute things ready for primary and we are always on time. I really like church at this time. The only thing that is a little bit hard is that Paige usually takes a nap about 11 so that is hard to adjust, but she usually falls asleep at church. The kids in Primary seem to get a little more restless, but I can deal with that. Also it seems like the day goes by so much faster after we get home. I am hoping this year with it being Parker's first year in Primary as a sunbeam that this time change will be good for him to adjust. He did really well last week, better than I expected and I am hoping that he does good again today. He has a really great teacher and not a very big class, only 4 kids, so he will have quite a bit of attention. Most of all I hope that he is able to sit still for a few minutes to actually learn something from the lesson. Maybe it will increase his vocabulary as well.

In 83 days...

This is what Matt and I are doing in 83 days!! We can hardly wait, no kids, no snow, just the two of us!!... oh and golfing.(Matt's choice)