Potty Training again

Ada's doing okay with her potty training... except for Sat... when she had four accidents before noon.  But she's become obsessed with the toilet.  Her rinsing bowl in the bathtub is now called a potty... and she tries to sit on it while she's in the tub.  And her stuffed Daisy Duck has narrowly missed several trips into the toilet... Ada's just determined that Daisy has to go potty too... gross.  I've learned to take EVERYTHING... and I do mean everything away from her before she goes into the bathroom.  Too many blankets having to be washed, too many toys having to be bathed... and my favorite... a binkie being thrown away because it fell into the toilet while she's looking.  Fun.

Ponies

    For Ada's birthday she got a My Little Pony... so that brings her total up to two.  I asked her what their names were... She said they were named 'Yellow' and 'Green'.  The best part is that 'Yellow' is pink and 'Green' is orange.  Hmmm.

Happy Birthday Ada!

It's official.  Ada is now two... now I can blame tantrums on being two right?  It was really fun and here are some of the pictures... And I'm so glad that so many people that we care about were able to come.

Ada Pictures

I do have to say I have a cute little girl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family pictures

I had the hardest time spelling the word 'pictures' right in the title of this post... I sure hope the post is worth the effort of getting that word right!

Newest pictures

I took some family and engagement pictures on Saturday... here are some samples of the engagement ones... I'll post the family ones seperate... again, I haven't had time to mess with them in photoshop or anything, but oh well....

Ada

Ada was soooo cute today.  First of all she told me she wanted to go to "baca's house" (grandpa's house), then when I told her I had to work first she went to play with her dolls... she had a care bear and was making it talk... I finally started listening to what she was making it say... and her care bear was praying that we could go to grandpa's house... amen.  Then at my missionary reunion she didn't want to sit still so she followed the lines around the gym talking about how there were more black lines... and counting pictures of Jesus... 2 Jesus'! What a nut!

Relief Society Broadcast

I just wanted to share a couple of things about Saturday's Relief Society Broadcast.  First of all, I got to go with my sister Sharon and my Mom both of whom are Relief Society Presidents for their respective wards.  And second of all, one of my callings is Visiting Teaching Coordinator... and it seemed like at least two of the talks were directly targeting all three of us.  It was neat to be able to discuss our feelings and excitment for what was shared with us.  I really liked Sister Allred's comments and also the talk about "Minding the Gap".  How lucky I am to belong to the great organization of Relief Society!

Maisy's baby blessing

Yesterday we got to go to Jer's sister's daughter's baby blessing... ( I should probably just say our niece...) It was a beautiful blessing and we got there just in time... but after the blessing in less than an hour we had quite the excitement.  A grumpy two year old that wouldn't sit still and had to be taken out twice and hushed several times, a hungry three month old, a misunderstanding about an M&M, a speaker that fainted in the middle of her talk, and having to drag a car seat, a toddler, a diaper bag and open the double sets of doors by myself.   It's a good thing that I know the church is true otherwise I might think it was more effort than it's worth to go.

Potty training update

So I'm not being consistent with potty training though I know it would probably be easier if I would be... Ada gets the idea pretty well though.  I had her sitting on the potty and when she went I praised her and said what a good girl she was....She looked a little taken aback and said, "No, I'm a big boy."  I told her that no, Sammy and daddy were boys but Ada and mommy were girls... and she said very forcefully that "I'm a BIG BOY!"

Corn, corn, and more corn

No... I'm not talking about the corny jokes that I make... I'm talking about the fact that Jer and I took the kids to the Thanksgiving Point Cornbelly Maze on Saturday.  It was a blast... of course the maze itself was a little too frustrating to an almost two year old and a mom with a double stroller, but that wasn't the only thing there.  They had several play areas including a jumping pillow, bike races, "gold" digging, a dress up area, and our personal favorite... the cornbox (you know... kind of like a sandbox but with corn instead of sand). Here are my favorite of the gazillion picture that we took... and it goes against everything I believe to have pictures of me on my blog... but I have to do it sometimes right?

Jer and Ada on one of the three large slides, they're built on bales of straw.

Ada in the dress up area.  They have a princess story time but we missed it.

Not ideal lighting but the only family picture that we took.

My favorite people ever!And yes this the cornbox.

Tickling Ada's toes.

If you look... that's a powder from the corn... When we all got out everyone was just covered in it.

Sammy driving a wooden tractor.

Choo choo all aboard!

Ada driving the train "to California".

Into the maze...

Yes, she's riding an armadillo... I tried getting her to say it, but I'm not quite sure what she actually ended up saying.

This is the jumping pillow...

This was the bike race... check out the neat bikes, and just so you know they are dang hard to turn!