Madison's diaper adventure

Yesterday Madison decided to make her mommy really work.
In two hours, the two hours of trying to get dinner cooked and on the table, she peed no less than 10 times. I am not joking.
This would not normally be a problem because I wouldn't have known if she'd stayed true to her usual protocol: pee and not even say anything about it.
But, she decided that she wanted to go to the toilet each time that she peed.
The problem you ask? She'd peed and then tell me she needed to go, so we were going through diapers like they were candy.
More importantly, when I ran out of diapers and had to go upstairs to get some more, after having just taken her off the toilet, she popped a squat on my carpet and peed.
It gets better, wait for it.
When I decided that we had finished with all the potty breaks and I was safe to return to cooking dinner Alexis says: "Mom she peed on my puzzle!"
I did not think that this could be possible as I had just put her diaper on her not two minutes ago.
Lo and behold, Madison learned how to get out of her diaper by herself and she had indeed peed all over her puzzle.
At this point I was pretty done with pee, even though I was laughing.
I went upstairs and got the potty training underwear thinking that they would be easier to get off and I might get her to the toilet in time.
Ha, ha, ha.
As I'm finishing up dinner to put in the oven,
she stands at my feet and pees everywhere.
Now when John gets home I tell him about it and he gives the
normal are you joking face.
But then it happens. She goes and sits on Drew's truck and pees THEN tells us she needs to go.
John thinks if we duct tape the diaper on her we may be able to solve the problem.
On the potty training note, she had to poop yesterday and when she needs to go she starts grunting to let us know that she needs the toilet. She started grunting and I asked her if she needed to poop to which she nodded yes. When I tried to hold her hand and take her to the toilet she kept shaking her head no. When I asked her if she was already pooping she shook her head yes and started grunting more. Don't worry, when she was done she tried to go get on the toilet.

THE pictures

A mixture of some favorites. They were all really good but I didn't want to put all 32 up, it seemed a little much!
Thanks again Kristen!

Family pictures

Today we went and had our family pictures done professionally. Yes, we finally did it!
We went to Kristen Ising who also did Stephanie's wedding pictures. She is doing a black and white special. . . $50 for 15 pictures on a disk that you can do with as you please. I know, it's great.
She does such amazing work and she has the best personality.
She posted a few pictures from our session on her blog http://kristenisingphotography.blogspot.com/
I'm so excited to go and pick up our pictures from her tomorrow!!

Taking a break

What do you do when you need a break?

John wanted to take a break from the kids so he pretended that he needed to go to the bathroom.
Yes, he was hiding in the bathroom.
Unfortunately for him just because you're in the bathroom doesn't mean the kids will leave you alone. After trying to get into the bathroom and not succeeding, Alexis took a stick and shoved it under the door. John tried to get it away from her and thus a game ensued.
John didn't get the break he was looking for, but the kids have a new game that they love to play with their daddy!

My pink butt

During dinner Monday night Drew would not sit down. After repeating "Sit Down" multiple times, I said: "Sit your cute white butt down in your seat!" It worked!

After Drew sat down he pipes up with: "Sit your," then he looks around to my butt and takes a second and finishes with "cute pink butt down!"

Today has been a patience builder. Madison will not for the life of anyone within a 200-yard radius stop her screaming. It doesn't matter what you do or don't do for that matter, she is just not happy with you. I even commented to my mother-in-law today that my goal was to let Madison live through the day without losing my mind. It's been that good.

Isn't it funny that when you are so frustrated with the screaming and whining and such they come up with these cute little thing they do or say that just make you laugh?


Like Drew putting all his "babies" to bed because it is nap time.



Or looking at your little one trying to escape their confines.




Or finding that the only thing that will make your little one stop screaming is riding on Alexis' bicycle while being pushed. Don't stop pushing though, the screaming will come back.

P.S. John is mortified that I would put a picture of my butt on the blog. But, it is fully covered and everyone has one. And yes, I am sticking it out.

Jesus' home

Monday we went to pick John up from work because of the rainy weather and on the way home out of no where Alexis says: "Look, there's the cloud Jesus lives on." When we got home, Alexis got the camera and took this picture.
How often do you get a chance to take a picture of the cloud Jesus lives on?

Hyrum reservoir

Mr. Poppins and his children.

The kids making good use of the oars. They were perfect for flinging sand everywhere!

On Saturday we took the kids to the Hyrum Reservoir. Lets be honest, I'm not a big fan of bodies of water that aren't saturated with chlorine, but it was fun for the kids and it didn't stink too badly so I can't complain too much.
John blew up the raft and took us out and about and then he decided to go for a swim. Luckily it wasn't too cold for him.
Madison decided that it was nap time and she wanted to play in the car instead of at the water. Hence the reason the pictures are all taken from a distance.
(You've got to love the black dot in all the pictures, I have no clue what it is, but it is really annoying.)