Practicing in Panties

Kylee loves jumping off her bed. Yes, we let her do this. It's not really jumping on her bed, is it?

But, she has also been practicing wearing her "big girl panties"!!

She has worn panties all week, except in town, and at night, and has not had one accident. All week!!

We are really proud of her, and I think she is kind of proud of herself too.

She wore her pull-up to town, and I told her I would tell her Bible Study teacher that she might need to use the potty. I asked Kylee, if other kids used the potty, and she quickly said "Yes". So, she has noticed that other kids do it.


She went on the potty TWICE during our Bible study today!! We were all clapping!!

And dancing!

Remember, I blogged about not even wanting to try potty training with her until she was 2 1/2, the weather was warmer, and it was Spring Break.

Well, we just started putting them on her in the evenings before she went to bed, and now, she has done really well with it.

See, it's that easy. Try it for yourself. :)

Now, realistically, I told Jason to be expecting sort of a relapse sometime in a few weeks. I've just always heard that once you think they got it down, they really DON'T!! :)

We shall see!!

And, her room is not finished with how I want it to look since we have transitioned to the Twin bed, that is why I haven't taken pictures yet. But, that is her quilt, and we still don't have a bed skirt (Mom is making it), and I don't know what to do on the big wall with her baby picture. Anyways, maybe someday!!

7 on the 7th

Happy 7 Months!!

Yesterday, Jaxon turned 7 months on the 7th!! And alot of other babies we know turned a milestone too because they were born on the 7th. Like 2 Months!!! And 1 Month!! :)

What's going on with Me??

I think he did have the stomach bug yesterday, but only threw up that one time, and was just kind of fussy the rest of the day. Seems good today so far!!

Sleeping: The swaddle wasn't working because he was breaking out of it after 45 mins to an hour. So, I didn't feel like I should just keep doing that. I felt like if he would get on his tummy he would sleep better. So, on Friday night we put him to bed, with no swaddle on his tummy. Well, he woke up at 12 for some reason. Which is to soon for me to feed him since I just fed him at 9, so Jason went in there and got him to go back to sleep. Well, I thought he would still wake up at his normal eating time, but he didn't he slept the REST OF THE NIGHT. He did the same thing, waking up at 12, the next 2 nights. So, the past 4 nights haven't fed him in the night, which is GREAT, but he is still waking up like once a night, and we have to shake him kind of to get him to go back to sleep. But, I think we are doing better!!

Okay, enough of that. Now the fun stuff!!

Loves for Mommy to hold him! :)

Really doesn't like any toys; or prefers to play with his toys with ONE hand and the other hand on my leg.

Is SO close to actually crawling!! Up on all 4's! Rocking back and forth! And moves his hands forward tiny steps, and then lunges forward!

Loves apple juice. Loves crackers and cheeto puff things. Chokes on the puffs still.

Spits up.

Has hair. Quite a bit of it. It sticks up, and it drives my mom nuts.

Can pull up on toys with a little help.

Can stand for a few minutes.

I'm so glad I got his Dr. Seuss pictures taken because I was a little panic when I figured out Kylee was 6 months when I did hers. So, we will have to get one printed and hang it in the Playroom with Kylee's!!

Here she is!! Do they look alike?

3/4

3 out of the 4 of us have gotten the stomach bug. Yuck!!

I have a mound of Laundry to do, and bathrooms to clean, and dishes to wash, and sheets to change, and babies to rock, and toys to clorox.

And poor Jaxon; he turned 7 MONTHS OLD Today!!

I have really cute pictures of him in his Dr. Seuss onesie; maybe I'll post them later or tomorrow!!

Pray Kylee doesn't go down with the bug and make it 100%!!!

What Should I do......

my baby WON'T sleep??

I have a joke with a friend of mine from church, that "Jason and I LOVE to start bad habits with our children. I mean why not."

Well, we really DON'T like to start bad habits with them.....

It's just that.....

well,

WE

DO.

So, with that being said.

My baby WON'T sleep.

At night.

During the day.

In the car.

What should I do?

See, the bad habit we have is, we still swaddle him. But really, it has been to help him sleep all along.

Truth be known, we didn't swaddle him, just because we LOVE to make bad habits.

He is jumpy, and knocks his paci out.

So, he didn't sleep from 2:30 PM until I put him to bed at 9:30PM last night. You would think he would be SO Sleepy he would sleep all night.

NOPE.

He woke up at 1:30. Then I fed him at 2, but he has started acting like he DOESN'T want us to swaddle him, but then again, he won't go to sleep after you rock him, and try to lay him down.......

So.

We

Cry

A

Lot.

Anyways, any suggestions. And I might add; he is one stubborn cookie. He cried for an hour last night, and then I finally swaddled him after that. I know. BAD.

I don't know what to do.....

But, isn't he a cutie!!

A Baby Story

I used to watch "A Baby Story" when I was in college at my parents house. We don't get that channel now, but I can pretty much gurantee the story I'm about to tell you, beats any story on there. In my opinion, of course. :)

My cousin delivered his wife's baby in the bathroom floor of their house yesterday!!!

Yep!!

This is my Mom's side of the family, and my cousin who delivered his baby yesterday is the one with the arrow pointing at him. Obviously!!

Here he is again, with his wife, who HAD the baby at their house yesterday morning.

You'll agree with me that he is a BIG guy. And you can't tell from the picture, I'm sure, but she is one tough "Mama".

The story as follows (and may be detailed):

She was up all night feeling pains, but didn't want to go in, and be sent home. Well, at around 6AM, she woke Gregg up, and said, "We are going to have this baby, and I mean now." He called their next door neighbor to come and get their 2 year old son, so they could go on to the hospital.

Adrienne felt like she was going to be sick, so she went to the bathroom to throw up, and then she decided no I think I need to go the bathroom. And he yelled, "Dont go to the bathroom. " And, she reached down and felt the HEAD with her OWN hand. So, he yelled at her to "lay down", and she yelled at him to "Call 911".

Now, you can imagine, with everyone yelling at each other, that it woke their 2 year old up. So he starts screaming and crying, for the mere fact he doesn't have a clue what is going on.

He gets on the phone with 911, and they ask him, "Can you see the head?", he says "NO", so they tell him to tell her to do "kagels". He doesn't have a clue what that is, so he jokingly tells her to do some "push-ups"..... :) And then he says, "OH*****, there's the head!!" And he chunks the phone, and with his bare hands, no time to get a towel, he delievers his baby, another boy. They didn't know what it was going to be!!

About that time, he hears a knock at the door; it is there neighbor to come and get their son, so he lays the baby on her belly, and runs to open the door, but he can't because his hands are so slippery, with you know, what on them. So, he is screaming, "I can't open the door!!" He finally gets it open.

He gets back on the phone to learn how to cute the umbilical cord, and she says to find some shoelaces, and he is about to cut it, and another knock at the door, and it is the EMT. They cut the cord, and rush the baby in one ambulance to the hospital, and then get Adrienne into another ambulance to the hospital.

As they are leaving, he looks at the EMT, and asks, "Who's supposed to clean this up?"!!

The screaming, hollering, and action started around 6AM, and she delivered him at 6:23AM!!

And to say that my cousins' head is as big as a door for delivering his own baby at home, well that would be an understatement.

Mama and baby are both doing great. We made a quick trip to see them last night.

Here, There, and Everywhere

We had one of those weekends, were we had to literally be 3 places at once!!

On Friday, the kids and I went to the fairgrounds, and ate lunch with Dad. He was helping with the Cow Show. We walked around the carnival, I ate the biggest corn dog you ever saw, and it made me sick to my stomach :), we watched the pig show for a minute, and walked through the exhibits. I found a vintage John Deere tractor sign that had a dad and a little boy in it, and it also had some red in it. So I bought it for Jaxon's room. I thought he HAD to have something John Deere in his room, you know.

Kylee got her face painted, and some cotton candy.

On Saturday, we went to Aryna's birthday party. It was a ballerina party. And Jaymie had everything so cute; it was perfect.

And Jaxon came to the all girl party. ;)

Eating on our "real" plates, with "real" cups. Very nice touch.

Ready to dance with the big ballerinas. Matching Tutu's and all.

Good Try Kylee.

Aryna trying (key word: Trying) to help Kylee do the streches correctly.

This position is bravo, I think.

Kylee has the BEST cousin ever. I mean seriously who wants a little rugrat underneath your feet when you are trying to perform ballet. Addisyn was so sweet to let her stand by her.

After the party, we went to a 50th wedding anniversary party for a couple from our church. They had a beautiful day, and beautiful dinner. They had a bounce house set up for the kids to play. Most of the kids there were at least 5 and above, most of them 3rd grade and up. Well, that didn't stop Kylee from joining in. She loved the bounce house. She would climb up the wall, and then go down the big slide, ALL BY HERSELF, and then here she would come out the end of the house, and run back around and get in, just to do it all over again. She was bright red, and soaking wet from sweat!! She loved it though!!

Then after that party, we went to a wedding in Wall. It was a gorgeous wedding. Every flower in the recption was real. I just love that. It was so pretty. We had a good time there too.

Here is Jaxon at the wedding; the best picture I could get of him.

And then there were 3

Remember This

Kylee riding on the back of Jason's bike. Look how cute she was in her bonnet. I guess Jaxon wouldn't like that.

She was 10 months old, which would have been July.

Look how, green it was....oh, come on summer, come quick.....

Here she is again around Easter holding her bunny; she was 17 months old.
(And Jason upgraded in the bike department too.)

And, look, who could it be???

Yep, and then there were 3!!!!

Jason fixed Kylee a seat in the front, so you know who could join them in the back. Kylee willingly gave up her seat because she is the LEADER now. :)