Potty Training!!!

I can happily say that our sweet little Kylee is POTTY TRAINED!!!! I was not looking forward to doing this at all, but Kylee seemed "ready". She would ask to use the potty and sit on it for a while with out ever actually peeing. One day as she was sitting on the toilet before bath, I started the water and she started peeing in the toilet! I was excited because it was her first time. After that, she always went potty in the toilet before baths. I was nervous to start officially training her with schedules being crazy in the summer, and let's face it, I was dreading cleaning up accidents! When Jeremy and I got back from Vegas I knew I had to commit and get this thing done! I went out and bought all the princess stickers I could find and made her a potty chart. My plan was to keep Kylee outside ALL day (as much as possible). I gave her tons to drink! Apple juice, orange juice and chocolate milk. She started out fully clothed...
Then ended up in her panties. Here she is watching Beauty and the Beast. I had to take her to the bathroom every 10 minutes at first! Then I would wait an extra 5-10 minutes. It felt like we were going potty all day long! Luckily Austin took two extremely long naps (which is not like him at all!) so I had time to spend with Kylee on this.

Drinking more juice!!!

By the afternoon she was already sick of her stickers :( I needed to bribe her with something better, so I made cookies :)
When she went poo on the toilet for the first time she got a fudgecicle! Then I realized how gross that might look, so it was ottorpops from then on.

She loves wearing her princess panites!!

She did it! She actually filled up this chart the first day because we went so much. I had to make another one. The first day was hard. I think she had 5 accidents. I wanted to cry and give up. The second day was a little better. I just had to keep her motivated to go every 30 minutes. After a week she was telling me when she had to go! She even tells me at the park and the pool. I am so proud of her and thankful for how "easy" it really was. She is such a big girl now. Every time she pulls her pants down to go potty she says, "They're nice and dry mom!!!!"

7 months old

Our sweet little Austin is a few days shy of 8 months!!! That's right, this is just a recap of his 7th month of life. He is the sweetest little guy and so happy all the time. This month he finally started sleeping in his crib!!! His reflux has settled down enough that it is ok for him to sleep flat on his back. It was a few nights of crying at first but now he loves it. He loves to sleep on his tummy. He usually goes to bed around 7pm and wakes once at night to eat, then sleeps until about 6:30am. He went through a phase of waking at 5am for the day and we had to fix that right away. There was no way I could function getting up that early. He LOVES applesauce. He now has 4 teeth on the top and 3 teeth on the bottom! He has bitten me a few times on my shoulder, something Kylee never did. I started giving him rice puffs witch he loves. He has started to crawl witch means I need to be on the look out ALL the time.

He loves swinging at the park! He could sit in there forever, just like his sister.

He is still such a good traveler!! No joke, this baby can fall asleep any place, anywhere. I feel so blessed to have such an easy going baby. I usually try and stay home for his naps now that he is more on a schedule. He usually naps 9am, 1pm and 4pm. He is not a long napper :( That is why I usually just like to run errands and let him catch a nap when he feels like it. I know it's not ideal but he is a trooper and I am always home so he can take his afternoon nap in his crib.

The funniest thing happened the other day. It was in the late afternoon and Jeremy was rocking Austin while watch sports on TV. All of a sudden Austin starts rubbing his eyes. The next thing we knew.... he was out!!! What a crack up!!! Only his daddy can put him to sleep like this :)

Out cold. Thanks dad!

This picture was taken before Austin could crawl. He loved to just sit and play with his toys! As long as anyone was in the room with him he would sit there and be so happy.
Austin LOVES bath time!!! As soon as the water starts running he starts laughing and screaming! It's so nice that he can sit up now and I can bathe the kids together. It's much quicker and actually easier.

Austin loves to play on whatever toy Kylee is playing on. He will actually sit on this horse for a while. I am right next to him the entire time of course.

Austin is such a boy. He already loves to play and wrestle on the ground with daddy. I love my two sweet, smiling boys!