What is it with my son?

Not to get too graphic here, but he refuses to do #2 on the potty. He has been perfect about potty training for like 3 weeks now, no accidents or anything....except for that. We'll find him in a corner or behind the desk chair and we have to race him to the toilet. Just now I heard him in the dining room, I look over there and sure enough. Red faced and all. So I tell him he needs to go potty, he screams no, ducks under the dining room chair, because after all, I can't see him under there. So I go to get him, bring him into the bathroom tell him to go potty, and he says "Oh. This." Yes son, that's where you go 5 -10 times a day everyday....not anything new. So he gets on and it's like I'm torturing him. He screams and cries and begs to get off, tells me he's done, anything to get off. I don't get this!?! Any advice? He doesn't act scared, and doesn't tell us he's scared. He finally will calm down enough and sit there until something happens. Right now he's singing. Why can't he just go there in the first place?

Whoo hooo!

PAY IT FORWARD!!

This is how it works..... the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. when and what will be a surprise. BUT, in order for you to leave a comment on my blog, you have to post this on your blog first. (that means that sometime during this year you will send a gift to 3 people as well.) get it? so, the first 3 people to comment on this post will be the lucky ones!
good luck!

MLK Day Fun

We went and played in UT over president's day weekend. We got to see my sister from MO, and her new boyfriend, and my sister from northern UT and her hubby. Unfortunately my brother is still on lock down ;) with the police and couldn't come out, and we missed them. But we had a lot of fun...especially in St. George, my most favorite city in the world!

We decided to take Sean (MO sister's bf) up the canyon the first day they got to my parents house. There is a ski resort about 20 minutes up the canyon, and if you take a side road you can get to a lake. Well we knew we wouldn't make it up all the way to the lake, but the rocks are so cool up there, we had to go part way. We HAD to go part way, against all advice from the experienced.....and thus we had an experience!



Ooohhh.....how pretty......

Yes, yes, lovely...mmmm hhhmmm......

Hmmm? What was that? Why aren't we going anywhere?

Oh.

Welcome to the family Sean!

Thankfully it was a beautiful day, it only took about an hour to get out....probably would have happened sooner if we had realized we had taken it OUT of 4 wheel drive.... and not put it IN 4 wheel drive like we thought....hehehe.....he. moving on.


The red rocks are always fun. We used to live in St. George when I was little, and we'd go play on them, and we have pictures of us hiding in all the holes....it is so awesome to have the same pictures of my son hiding in the holes. Last time we were there he was so hesitant and didn't want to do anything but this year he LOVED it. He was all over the rocks, giving his mom a heart attack half the time! Here's a few of my favorite pics.













Some family pics.....

The three girls!

All the girls with dad :)



And to finish off the trip, on our way back home we stopped at Georgetown Lake and walked across it. Okay, like 15 ft across it. It was cold! And scary. :(


My dad and I were talking about how fun it is to be able to share these experiences with our kids. When Cameron and I were first pregnant we were a little disappointed that we wouldn't be able to do all the things we wanted, but being able to show Kai all these awesome things, and to watch the excitement and joy he has doing this stuff with us is a million times better. I love my little family!

This is going to sound weird....

But I was doing laundry today (that's not the weird part, though Cameron might disagree), and I'm putting Kai's clothes into the dryer.....and it's so cute (and weird, I get that) but for the first time ever I washed his underwear! We just started potty training him yesterday, and as I was washing his clothes, it hit me that I have a lot more underwear cleaning days ahead of me! But it's so cute to see the little dinosaur undies in the wash! OK, I'll stop with the weirdness. But he is doing really great, we've done it for two days, and he's had 2 1/2 accidents. I say a half, because this morning he did tell me he had to go, but we couldn't get the jeans off fast enough :( so it was part mom's fault! We started yesterday morning, he didn't seem to get the concept yesterday morning, but by the afternoon, he was not enjoying the cold baths (thanks for the tip Deb!) or the wet underwear. So we're pretty excited. And so is he! Can I say hallelujah for no more diapers!!

Family picture sidebar

Because I have to explain every picture apparently. So the picture up top o' the blog was taken at Christmas....and I don't love it of me, but how hilarious is Kai's face? He's like seriously people, this is the last one.

Late Shout Out

Here's a late shout out to my sister-in-law....it was her birthday Saturday! Happy Birthday Rach! We love you!!!

Winter Wonderland?

I think not. It took Cameron an hour and 45 minutes to get to work this morning. The usual 15 to 20 minute commute. I called him at 9:30 to make sure he got to work safe...he was still on the road..... he had left at 8:00. We went to bed last night with howling winds and woke up to snowing. I think I prefer last Thursday's weather, where it was 61 and Kai and I played at the park and took a walk. If I could just put an order in for more of that, please? Thank you.