Potty Training.

WARNING THIS POST MAY GET ALITTLE TMI.....I always knew i wanted to potty train Erilyn Early for a number of reasons.

1. I nanny and 95% of the kids i nanny for are not potty trained so that makes for alot of diaper changes....BOO!!
2. Even though My Gran buys our diapers......they are EXPENSIVE!!!.
3. We are hoping to have another baby soon and i would like to have some kind of break from changing diapers :-D

The other thing she is INTERESTED so why not?! Since she started to walk i started taking her to the bathroom when i go as much as possible. I talk thru everything im doing in great detail.... i.e. Mommy going to go potty, Mommy pull down her pants, Mommy sit on the potty, Shhhh can you hear it? Mommy going pottty, Mommy wipe, Mommy all done.... YAY Mommy!!! Mommy wash her hands, Mommy such a big girl!!! Yay Mommy.
I Also started asking if she went potty after her nap or when i change her diaper and when i open her diaper and see that she did i say yay Erilyn went potty!! So that hopefully she would connect everything.


And it worked!!! She learned the order of everything and one day to my surprise she wanted to go during nursery when i was helping another girl. She pulled down her pants motioned for me to take off her diaper and sat on the potty all though she did not go potty she still went through all the motions including wiping!!  I  usually let her sit on the potty when ever she wants or after i go.
The other day i was siting at the computer looking some stuff up for my sis ,when she came up to me grabbed my hand and said "doppy" thats how she says potty. I said ok in a min then i noticed she was grunting so we ran to the potty and she finished her busines on the big girl potty!! This was May 24 she was 17 months and 2 days old!!
She still loves to sit on the potty and this morning (may 28) when i was changing her after her nap she wouldnt let me put a diaper back on went and sat on her potty and peed!!!! I was so excited !! Who ever would have thought that pee would be excting lol!!!
Heres to hoping that it continues to go well and she will be potty trained soon!!

Enjoying the warm weather!!

This is another toy for our yard that my mother in law got for us Erilyn is crazy and climbs all over this thing!! She loves it! One day London finally got the guts try it out.... She loved it to till it started to rock because Erilyn got out of it. Its a teeter totter.

She LOVES to color with chock she almost always has a piece in her hand when we are out side. Notice she is more then likely going to be a lefty!! The few times she has tried to draw with her right hand she ends up switching back to the left because the right is way awkward for her .

One day after her not letting me take her inside Except for her nap i decided it was time for a Slurpee .She was so excited that i got her her own "big girl" drink and drank almost all of it!!

She would not let me take it away from her so i had to show her how to stir it so she could get more at a a time she picked right up on it!!
I'm so happy that it is finally warm and i can take her out side to play and that she has my skin so we usually don't worry about sun screen. Unless we will be out side for a long time. She already has quite an impressive farmers tan. HAHAHA

Travis 26th birthday

This year Travis birthday was the day after mothers day and because it was on a Mon he couldn't have the day off. So he did the next best thing and did truck so he got up at 3am and went to work while i stayed home and did my regular Monday activities (baby sitting and laundry) till he got home from work and donating plasma about 230 i surprised him and had his mom come and pick up Erilyn so that he could rest awhile then we meant up with his family for dinner. The next day i took the day off from baby sitting so i could spend the day with him. Travis sis watched Erilyn while we went and saw iron man 3 then we stopped and got pizza so i could drag Nisha with me to get our Mani/pedis before it closed it was a fun day and nice break!!

His birthday cake it actually had 26 candles and Erilyn was mesmerized by it.

It was pretty bright!!

Mothers day.

This mothers day Travis had to work  he worked 7-1:30. So he got up went to work and i got Erilny ready and went to church. When we got home Erilyn was pooped and fell asleep eating lunch so I layed her down and got me some lunch and sat and watched tv and ate.
 While i ate i got to thinking how amazing being a mom really is!! I have a really good baby that i love more then i can describe and that i get to stay home with and watch her go and learn more and more every second!! Being a stay at home mom is the best job in the world all though it does have its down sides....Im a very out going person and being stuck inside all winter taking care of a baby was kinda depressing. So needless to say im so happy that it is finally warm and that i can take her on walks and out in the back to play. My sister and i were teesing one day about being a mom of a toddler and how your home is clean even when there are toys all spread out on the floor becuase you dont want to move them and put them away for the 10 seconds that they stay put away before the baby takes them out again. Like i said before the hardest part for me is not being able to get out of the house aften. I always joke that you know your a stay at home mom when a shower, 10 min to blog in peace, or a simple trip to the store is like a mini- vacation. But honestly i would go months with out those things if it means i get to be with my baby all day every day she is my world my everything and im more then proud to say that she is mine for ever!!
Im also thankfull for the many moms that sacrifice thier time with their kids to work. And for the trust that they have in me to watch ,love and care for thier kids while they do what they need to do make sure thier kids have good lifes.

When travis got home we walked over to my moms house helped put a play ground together and talked to Elder Hammond!! He is doing so well and seems happy!! For mothers day Travis got me a mani/pedi.

It was a nice mini-vaction :-D and time well spent with my sis-in-law who i dragged with me . :-D

On mothers day while we were at my moms talking to Elder Hammond Erilyn got her first skinned knee  :-(

Garden update

As you can tell we have had a few fatalities but we are happy with the out come. We knew we would loose a few thats why we planted so many. We ended up with 18 tomatoe plants and 4 pepper plants along with 3 water mellon (not pictured ) that are ready to be transfred into our garden this sat :-D