Catching Up

I warn you this post is long with lots of pictures. I am going to attempt to catch you up on the last 3 weeks or so of our lives. Besides the children each of double ear infections twice, Kevin having an ear infection and me having an awful head cold with no voice for a week, we have infact had Grammy in town, Nana in town, and celebrated Valentines Day. We are going to work our way back starting from most recent to oldest.

This past weekend we have enjoyed the company of Nana. She has in fact been a huge help to me because it makes it a little hard to discipline my children with no voice. We did make some huge strides with potty training this past week as well, now if we can just get past the wearing a diaper to bed thing we will be good.

Last week we took Nana to Arizona Mills and she treated us to lunch at Rainforest Cafe. We thought that Gavin would love it, however he did not. He had a new word for us, "scary". He was quite terrified by the whole experience and kept repeating, "Mommy its scary".

We did however have a big breakthrough at Rainforest Cafe, Gavin went to the potty 3 times while we were there and he initiated it everytime. Oh and yesterday at church he told his teacher he had to go and she took him. Yeah! See audra is excited too!

These pictures were from Valentine's Day. They look so excited.

On Valentine's Day we had a special heart pancake breakfast and the kiddos got to open presents from Gramps & Nana and from Pops & Grammy. They loved all the fun gifts.

Audra had heart shaped peeps among her gifts that she shared with Gavin. At first Audra was not so sure about the taste, but she did howeve finish most of her peep, and made quite a pink mess.

Gavin however took one bite and was done, he did not care for them. So funny side note: Gavin had gotten a chocolate football, he thought it was a real football. He kept insisting that I open the football for him, so I did and he then proceeded to launch the football across the room and then completely shattered into many pieces. He was so confused, as to what happened to the football. It was quite hillarious. He then enjoyed it even more as he ate all the chocolate pieces.

New sunglasses.

New notepads!!! Oh boy! This boy loves to write and color.

Valentine's Breakfast.

One day the Arnolds came over for a morning decorating cookies for Valentine's Day.

Broden was enjoying hugging Audra, who was not so sure about it.

Little friends, too cute.

If you look hard enough you can see cookies hiding under all the sprinkles.

Gavin & Baylor had lots of fun dumping all the sprinkles out onto one little cookie.

Audra was a little frightened by the mess they were making.

But they sure were enjoying themselves.

So I was trying to get the boys to show me their cookies, and Gavin would not cooperate, so yes Coley is holding up his cookie. Silly boy.

We also enjoyed decorating Valentine's, which I know I'm behind, still haven't made it to the mail, with my illness, hopefully tomorrow. Sorry.

So this dress was passed down to my sister and I from our cousins and now to miss Audra, it barely fits her.

8 Month pictures.

And Grammy came for a visit while the kiddos both had double ear infections the first time to help me.

It's difficult to get two little ones to pay much attention at the same time.

And while Grammy was here, Kevin & I had the chance to get a weekend away with our friends the Arnolds to Coronodo Island. We had a wonderful, much needed, relaxing weekend. We also had the chance to meet up with some of our friends that just moved out to Cali for dinner. It was a wonderful chance to catch up because we miss them lots.

We spent a lazy Saturday relaxing and lounging at the beach.

Thank you Grammy for watching our children for us. We definately appreciated it.

And of course we ate lots of wonderful food and plenty of ice cream.

Well that is all for now. Thanks for hanging with me while I had some catching up to do. And now we all pretty much on the mend and Gavin will continue to work on potty training.

The Justin Bieber Movie

So we have been without a computer most of the week, but it is back up and running now. And of course that leaves me with lots of catching up to be done. However, today was quite an exciting day in the life of Gavin, so I am going to tell about our morning.

We all know of Gavin's love of Justin Bieber, so this morning Nana took him to see the movie. "WooHoo!" as Gav would say. He has been waiting for this day for over a week and has been quite excited. And this was Gavin's first real movie in the movie theatre (when he was 6 months old we took him with us a to a movie and that was the last time for a while, since he wouldn't sit still).

Awaiting the arrival of Coley & Baylor who were coming to see the movie with us.
Needless to say Gavin was quite mesmerized the entire movie, except for the couple times of needing to go potty. We are working on potty training, so that's makes everything quite an adventure. The first time he said he needed to go potty as we were pulling down his pants he started peeing all over the diaper he had on. We did manage to get them off so he could finish on the toilet. After that his diaper was completely soaked inside and out so I took off the diaper and we pulled up his pants. About 10 minutes later he said he had to go potty again, so off we ran to the bathroom and discovered his pants were already wet. He did manage to still go to the potty once we got there, however we went got back to our seats he decided the pants were too wet and took them off. So then we just put a diaper on and he refused to put his pants back on. All that explain, why Gavin has no pants on in the rest of the pictures.

The movie was in 3D however the kiddos didn't really get that whole aspect of it and wouldn't leave their glasses on.

Gavin watched the whole movie quite intently and by the end was in the aisles dancing around to the music and Baylor was down front dancing. And don't worry its was a small theatre and there were only 4 other people in there besides us, thankfully.

We had a very fun time. It's been a long time since I laughed so hard. The boys were hillarious.

Enjoying some arcade time on the way out.

And the pantless man running into the mall. Too funny.

Happy Valentine's Day

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! We LOVE you all and thank you for loving us.

Look at that model pose.
And this is what typically happens. Gavin thinks he is giving hugs and especially around the neck, we are working on hugging under the arms.

And then he tackles her to the ground. What a loving big brother.