Watch out for the steaming ones.

So Natalie said I need to add a little detail to my story. So the second time Nate pooped in his underwear I was walking to make sure nothing had come out behind the recliner and squish I stepped in a big pile of you know what!!! Between my toes and everything. I reclaim my post about nathan being potty trained :) That poor kid I feel bad I haven't been the nicest mom while kevin has been gone but would you be if you stepped in your kids poop. Sorry my last few post have been about poop but that's the life of a mother. I feel like if I'm not cleaning up poop I'm not doing my job. Well I guess that's enough of that. Happy pooping to all. Yes I'm trying to set a record on how many times I can say poop in one post. OK I'm really done now.

Spidie senses

Kevin has been out of town for the past couple of days and it's been kinda hard. Besides being tired from taking care of the boys by myself all the time I don't sleep very well when Kevin is gone. I swear Nate has spidie senses he knows how to push my buttons. He wanted his friends Jack and Spencer to come over after playgroup yesterday and all he did was cry the whole time that he wanted to watch a movie. Spencer said "why does tator keep saying show". So after they left he was still screaming until he fell asleep. I was done and it was only 4:30 four and a half hours til bedtime :( We ate dinner and he was really good so I made him go potty and let him play his computer and not 20 minutes later he pooped in his underwear. I lost it. I screamed at him and threw him in the tub :( Then today. Today started out awesome he woke up happy and went over to Aston's house to play. No accidents he even said when I picked him up "mom I had a good day" so cute. He was really good all day. Until during dinner he snuck off and pooped in his underwear again. I mean seriously what the heck. I'm very grateful that Ben as been good (knock on wood). Nate would never do this is Kevin was here. Oh well only 2 nights and 2 days left. Wish me luck.

Random Pictures

These are some random pictures. I was really bored and started playing with the editing stuff on my computer. If you are a professional don't look too close but I think they are cute. Mostly because they are of my boys.

On a side note today Nate broke Kevins heart. He was watching Disney Channel and the Jonas Brothers came on and he said "look mom it's The Beatles" I said to him "nope that's the Jonas Brothers" he said matter of factly "no look it's John and Ringo". This kid kills me.

Yipee!!!

Nate is finally there with the potty training. He gets to play Wii when he goes poop so he goes like 3 or 4 times a day. We had to buy a timer so he wasn't playing all day. He's doing awesome. He wakes up with a dry pull up and the only accident he had was when we were traveling. (knock on wood). It was hard but I think he finally has it. I say this like it was forever when we really just started working on it the second week of January and he has been doing good for the last 2 weeks :) It was hard to see an end in sight at the start. I am such a pessimist sometimes.

We have all been sick for the last couple of days so that hasn't been fun. Ben is usually such a happy baby but lately he has been very very fussy. I thought he was getting teeth but they haven't popped out yet. Kevin fed him some frosty last night and he loved it but all night he was awake crying and this morning I couldn't get him to stop. I think he likes frosty but the frosty doesn't like him. He is trying to crawl but just sort rolls from side to side while inching slowly forward. He's so cute and chubby I love him.

Nathan wanted to sing the Super Mario song in church the other week that was super funny. No one could understand what they were saying so they came and got me and he said I want to sing mario mom. This child is addicted to Wii. You gotta love him.

Potty Training and Update

We have been potty training Nate for about 3 weeks now. He is doing so so so awesome at the pee part of it but the poop not so much. Just when I think we are doing good he poops in his pull up or underwear again. I'm so frustrated because I know that he knows what to do he is just so stubborn. Anyone have any suggestions???

Anyway Ben is doing really good. He's so chubby and cute. He rolls all over the place and laughs all the time he is such a good little guy. His head is in the 99% weight 59% and height 31%. I bet half his weight is in that giant head of his. We had a rough spot with him not sleeping through the night but he's back to normal (knock on wood).

Nathan started primary and he is doing so good. The first week they said it's singing time and Tator jumps up and says "Yet's sing Yellow Submarine" it was so funny. He gave a talk last week and he did so good. He even told his dad what it was about after church. He also had his first kiss (not in primary). His friend Macie was over playing and when she was getting ready to leave they hugged, then he kissed her shoulder, then their eyes met and then came the big wet one...it was the cutest thing ever. I just love my little boys. They make me so happy :)

Christmas 2009

We had Christmas in good ole Wyoming this year. It was freezing cold but we were nice and warm in our Christmas jammies.
Here's a little action shot Christmas morning of Tator making a basket with his new basketball hoop. Too bad all the kid wants to play with is the Wii. He's addicted to Mario.

Christmas was so fun this year!! It was smaller than we are used to there were only 7 people in my mom's house on Christmas morning. This is Ben and Nate in their Christmas monkey pj's they got from each other on Christmas Eve.

Nate got his basketball and bowling like he wanted and tons of other stuff. Here he is in his goggles and construction hat.

Here is our family picture Christmas morning. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!!

Pre Christmas Fun

This was Nates idea of decorating our Christmas tree. He was so excited he didn't even want to take the ornaments out of the box.
Here is Nate in front of our real Christmas tree. Thanks for breaking our fake one last year Jana. This one is so much better. It smells good too.

Here is Nathan meeting Santa for the first time. He would just follow him around. it was so cute.

Nate wants a basket ball hoop and bowling this year for Christmas and he made sure santa knew it. When Santa was leaving he was running after him yelling I want basket ball and bowling.

Ben's first Christmas. He didn't care too much we woke him up to get this picture.

We let Nathan pick out our Christmas tree all by himself this year. I asked him if he was going to get a big tree or a little one and he said" a teeny one like tator". He did such a good job. I'm so excited for Christmas this year. Nate gets the whole Santa thing and we are teaching him about Jesus. We set out our nativity and he said it's baby Jesus and then he said a prayer "dear Heavenly Father thank you for Jesus thank you for Christmas amen." it was kind of random but oh so cute. Merry Christmas everyone!!!