Short Update

I have been meaning to post about this for a while now. Landen is FINALLY potty trained. I tried the "Potty training in three days" program. Well it actually took my little man three weeks to fully grasp it and have no accidents. Kind of funny, but in the beginning of training, he would just hold it in for hours and hours. And then when he would finally go, it would be a lake full. He wouldn't even go during the night. So that was pretty nice. But thankfully he has learned to get up on the toilet all by himself and go when he needs to.
I told Landen to smile and this is what I got. Ha ha silly boy! This is his reward chart. Everytime he went to the bathroom without me asking if he needed to go, he would get a sticker. One for pee and two for poo. The big reward is a bike. Sadly we have not yet bought that yet. We looked at Walmart once, and they were all too big for him. I saw one at Fry's on sale and wished I had bought it cause now it is gone. I'll have to look around some more. His birthday is in August, so maybe he'll just have to wait till then to get his bike.
Landen loves to help me cook and clean. In his words he tells me this: "My making rolls mama!" Just the other day I was looking at him and thought, wow he is getting so much taller. I can't believe my little man is going to be three in five weeks. CRAZY!!!

Sydney is growing up too fast. She is officially nursery age now. Even though she has actually been going with Byron and Landen since she was about 14 months. However, since she is officially of age now, I decided to put her in her age group class. I went with her the first Sunday. (they needed me to help the nursery leader out anyways) and then this past Sunday I took her in there, she saw some toys so I escaped. I checked on her once and she was doing just fine. After church was over I asked the teacher how she did and she said she kinda whimpered a few times and liked to be held but she never cried. HOORAY!!! She is talking so much more. I think she is saying more words at her age than Landen did at the same age. She must be learning from her big brother. Some words you can understand and some you can't. And some only I can understand. Tonight as I was putting her to bed I said tell momma you love her and she mumbled some words. I asked her again and she mumbled the same words. So even though I can't understand her mumbles, I know that she was saying love you momma. Those sweet moments help the not so sweet moments get forgotten.
This is one of her not so sweet moments that I'm talking about. Now that her hair is a tiny bit longer I have been trying to put it in a pony tail. She hates it, but is getting used to it. One Sunday she didn't even squirm or cry, she actually let me fix her hair. But she really doesn't like it when I try to take her picture. She must take after her Aunt Shauna.(she hated getting her picture taken when she was little. she would run and hide every time you got the camera out.)



Sorry I said this was a short update, but it turned out being a little longer that expected. Oh well.