Weeks full of laughs

We have been doing a lot of laughing at our house these past few weeks. Haley is quite the talker and can come up with some of the funniest things that just keep Matt and I laughing and laughing. Here's a few random stories from the past weeks:
I meet my mom half way to drop the kids off in the morning at a Kroger's. Now Haley thinks that is where I work but I try to correct that. Well, the other day we took Jackson to the dr (more below on the dr. trip). My mom came to Walgreen's to meet us since I was so late for work. We were in the parking lot waiting and I explained to Haley Grandma was going to meet us here. Her response, "How eber (ever) will Grandma find us?"

On the way home one day she tells me she wants to go swimming. It was looking like it was going to storm so I said, maybe we could go as it looks like it's going to rain. Hopefully it will hold off. Her response, "There's always hope". I asked her where she got that from and she told me her new Barbie movie in Grandma's car. I smiled and said she is right!

We went to church last Saturday night and were in the family viewing area. Haley said she had to go potty. So I take her and she does her business. As we are ready to leave she says in a very loud voice, "Mommy, you have a hairy butt!". What?? THIS IS NOT TRUE! I tried not to overreact or she would repeat it so I simply said, no, that is silly and went on. Good thing the bathroom was not full or I would have been mortified!!!

Bedtime is always fun. She picks out books before bedtime and one of her favorites is, "It's hard to be 5". It's about a boy turning 5. Don't worry, she knows she's only 2 "and I'll be 3 on my birthday. My birthday is in October. I'm having my party at Chuck E Cheese (or so she thinks...)". She also says her bedtime prayers and what she is thankful for. It's usually a long list and you never know what's going to pop out, like apple juice, my carpet, Mommy and Daddy's carpet, Grandma's hurt toe, etc. She is fascinated with our carpet since Buster had his accident. She likes to tell him every morning to "be good Buster and not poop on my carpet".

Potty training is going pretty good. She is trained as far as pee pee goes but sometimes has accidents still at nap time. Poopies is still a challenge to say the least. She asks to put on a diaper to go poopies. I'm trying to get her comfortable with going on the potty chair so the other day I told her ok but she had to sit on the potty with her diaper on to go poopies. She said ok and ran upstairs to use her bathroom. I asked if she needed help and she said no. Finally she calls us up for help. She was sitting on the potty alright, with the lid closed and on her knees playing with stuff on the counter :) The training continues.

Jackson is pretty funny himself. He is starting to babble and can say da da. Matt usually gets him in the morning and feeds him a bottle. The other morning Jackson was up and started yelling da da da da as if to call Matt to come get him. Too cute! Jackson also is a pro at climbing the stairs, which he knows he shouldn't. The minute he starts he looks at you to see if you are watching. One morning I was taking Haley to the potty and Jackson was with Matt, or so I thought. I came out of the bedroom and asked Matt where Jackson was. Quickly we learned neither one of us had him. We called his name then I looked upstairs. He had a huge grin on his face as we crawled around the corner! Silly boy.

We took Jackson to the dr to have his ears checked out. He had sores on the back of them for awhile and started pulling on them making them bleed. I began to worry about an ear infection and wanted to have it checked out since we will be flying at the end of this week. Turns out his ears look perfect and he has eczema. The dr. warned it was going to be hard to treat in that spot but he already looks much better. Whew. We did get weighed and he's now 20.2 lbs. Even though we call him chubbs, he's only in the 50% percentile.

A few pics from our weeks...

Jackson laughing when when Daddy is wrestling


Haley in on the action too. Again Daddy...



Trying to get both of them together. This was two seconds before Haley went behind Jackson and put her shirt over his head, which then made him cry. He was already tired and that put him over the top.


While Haley likes to read books, Jackson likes to eat them. Best part is this was Haley's Hot Dog book. Guess he picked an appropriate one to eat!

Yum Yum Yum that was good.

The kids had a very special play date last week. Our old neighbors and good friends The Kirkham's were in town from Australia. The kids had a great time and it was great to see Laura again. I hope they move back soon. I've been scoping out a house on our street for them to move into. We miss you guys!! Haley especially liked the cookies Ben and Alex brought over and is still talking about them.

The kids also got a special treat from Grandma Vara this week. Grandma sent over money for them to pick out some new clothes. Haley picked out a few outfits but her favorite by far was her new boots. She saw them at the store and jumped out of the stroller to get them. She has yet to take them off!

Thanks Grandma!