Catching up...

A LOT has been going on at my house lately. Nothing too exciting mind you, but it's sure been busy with the regular old everyday things. Valentines was fun. We went to a ward party because it was free dinner AND babysitting! Wahoo! (I know, we're lame.) It was nice though, and dinner was really great. WE were able to get the girls to bed early and watch some episodes of our latest obsession Prison Break. Good times:) The girls and Caleb each got a big cookie that I ordered from the young women's in our ward. They did a good job. Adi was thrilled and mostly just made a huge mess of the frosting!
Emersyn was thrilled too, but mostly just because mommy was smiling and talking to her. I just wanted a picture of her with it. Then I ate it. Cruel huh?

On Friday this last week we decided to finally get going on the potty training thing with Adelynn. We've been off and on for several months now, but never really pushing it. She has been ready for quite a while, but I've been putting it off for one reason or another(I know, bad). But Friday when she jumped out of the bath to grab her own diaper and go "poopy" I realized I better get a go on it. My first impressions were "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" I thought it was going to be a nightmare. But seriously, I've lucked out in the kid department. She went straight from a crib to bed no problem, she has always slept so well with naps and through the night, and now potty-training has been a breeze. The pull-ups weren't a great thing for her, so she just went straight to panties, and she LOVED picking those out. She's had a total of 2 accidents. 1 was at my sister-in-law's Bec's house, and I think that was because she was playing hard with cousins, and she didn't know to tell Bec. The second one was just an accident here at the house, and she was devastated when it happened, big crocodile tears and all. The poopy thing had her nervous, and I had to give her a pedi-lax and just sit her on the potty to help her out after 3 days of holding it in because she was so scared, but since then she has been very excited and proud to be a big girl! She goes by herself all the time, and will then come get us and tell us how excited she is. She even has been waking herself up at night if she has to go. She's staying dry through naps and all night etc. We stopped by Bec's house the other night, and she was off with Brand-man playing. Then she came and got Bec and said "Bec, I went pee-pee." And sure enough she'd just walked into the bathroom like a big girl and gone! I'm so proud of her. She's doing great! One funny thing is the other day before nap she had gone, and then when I was laying her down she said "I need to go again." So I told her OK, and then she looked at me very seriously and said "I'm going to need a book for this one!" HAHAHA, she makes me laugh! I snuck a picture because it was so cute.

We've decided that we are going to leave both girls for our trip to Cancun. I am nervous about this...very nervous, but I am also VERY EXCITED! Caleb and I away together? Are you serious? AH! So wonderful! I am pumping right now to save as much milk as possible, and then I will continue to pump while I am down there. My friend Christi that I was telling you about, she thinks that Emersyn won't have a problem taking me back because she will be 7 months old, and very aware of the difference between a bottle and her mommy. I hope she's right. I decided to try cereal again though, in hopes that she will start liking other things besides just milk while I am gone, and make it a little easier on those that will be helping. Here are the results...
She loved it! She got mad at me when it was all gone, and I had to make more. Look at those cheeks though, you can tell she's not a light eater! :)