Catching up

So I've decided that if you take for-ev-er to get back to your blog there's no sense in trying to pack in everything you've skipped.  I can't even just do the highlights because there would be too many. So I'll do the monumental and then a little fill and move on to the here and now.  Hopefully it will be a much less daunting task to place before me and then I can finally become a great blogger.  One that can do cute posts that may even make one smile with the highlights of my life and family so that our distant family and friends can stay better acquainted with our family and lives.  HA HA!!

BIG...

I haven't mentioned that I'm pregnant. I also haven't posted very well since I have been.  Here's a little bit of what's going on with me. :)

 I'm now 33 weeks along this Sunday and according to strangers, I look like I'm “about to pop” I've had quite a few people tell me that lately. When I say that I'm not due until January, they always look at me in shock and ask if I'm sure there aren't twins in there. Yes, four ultrasounds have revealed only one. My new favorite stranger conversation went about like this, I was walking through the dollar store and went to pass this older looking gentlemen, he asked, as if he knew me, “Are you having a boy or a girl?” I told him it was a girl as he watched the two children following me down the isle. He then continues, gesturing to the kids, “so, it'll be two to one” I said yes. The man chuckled pointing toward Shaylor and said “that's good, so they can keep him in line... “ I laughed and replied, “I hope so!” He then paused for a second and looked at me thoughtfully, “you're doing good though?” I smiled and said yes and that was the extend of our conversation. I'll probably never see him again and if I did, I probably wouldn't even recognize him but it was a nice little moment. :)

Kids :)

Well, I usually post mainly pics and fun stories. I thought I'd post Journal style.  I wrote this in Oct.

Shaylor is learning his letter sounds. He want's to read just like his sister. I don't want to push him too hard so that he's bord when he starts school but I do think he will be reading a little bit by the time he is in kindergarten. He is also now potty trained!!!

We thought he was ready and so I put him in underwear one day. I reminded him to go every 20 minutes throughout the day and he would go for a candycorn. By the end of day two he was begging for his diapers and I realized that I was training myself not him. (We went back to diapers) A few days later I found some monster truck and race car underwear. I also found "slide on diapers" so he could switch back and forth whenever he chose. ( he doesn't like pull-ups or the potty watch he borrowed from KatieMae because it was forcing him to fo in the potty) This time I just fold him that if he wanted to wear them he needed to go in the potty, and if he went in the potty, he would get a candy corn. He basically did the rest himself. It was amazing. after two days three days, he was having dry nights. He still "likes diapers" but he doesn't go in them and rarely asks to use them. Seriously surprised me!!!

Lauren is doing great at school. She is reading and writing beautifully. She even gets extra credit on her spelling tests. ( She gets all of the words and some of the bonus, harder words) Her math skillls are very good as well, She can do addition and subtraction and thinks it's really cool when she gets it right really quickly. :)

Her eye is improving as well, in febuary her weak eye tested at around 20/60 or 70 and this month she tested at 20/50. This ais a pretty good improvement. this is with her glasses and at the same time she tested her strong eye at 20/20 with her glasses on, which was an inprovement as well. YAY!!! The next step would be to wear her contact in the weak eye, which has been a struggle. She's been scared but I think she's getting ready. we've been practicing her "finger in ey technic". She's getting pretty good at it and pretty soon I hope she'll be ready to do the real thing. When she does strat to wear her contact, we'll see a huge improvement. She'll be able to use both eyes and her weak eye will become her dominant eye when it is in. This will force it to use those muscles that her brain is not used to using and make it stronger because of it. It's will aslo mhelp her brain to put the images together better.

Right now she has such a drastic difference between the two eyes as far as perscription that her brain has trouble putting together the two images. She has no idea because that is what she is used to but when that contact is in I think she'll start to realize the difference and really like it. 

Random Fun

Just some quick fun stories, ready set go.... :) oh, and the stories have nothing to do with the videos. ha ha!

Corey was on the roof hanging some Christmas lights, Shaylor, standing on the ground, could see him on the roof and still kept calling out, "Dad,-you-up-deh?" Corey's response repeatedly was, "yes, I'm up here."  He would even ask if shaylor could see him or even say that he wasn't up there and shaylor knowing better would tell him that he was up there and then ask again, "dad,-you-up-deh?"

We kept reminding Shaylor not to tug on the lights or strings on the tree Two days before Christmas, I heard a horrible scream followed by a loud crash. I ran to the family room expecting to see the tree laying on top of my two year old, but he had realized it soon enough and can run fast in fear so he was only knocked over by the tip of the tree leaving a scratch on the back of his head and sap on his shirt.  I had to re-wrap some presents and clean up one broken bulb not to mention hanving to re set the tree, but I was grateful that he was ok.  He didn't pull on the tree again.

Lauren has discovered coloring in the lines.  She never got into to it and would get bored. Until she found out that crayons could be sharp.  Now a whole new world has opened up.  He can write, color, and draw, and it's fun!  Shaylor loves to color with her. His new famous line is, "duss a decond, I'm tollering."

Lauren and the Tooth Fairy

About a month ago, Lauren lost her first tooth.  It was on the bottom in the front and was so loose it felt like it was about to fall out literally.   The new tooth had pushed through behind.  We decided it was time to help it along and so one day I put some orajel on it and tied floss around the base of it.  After three or four tries (and having the floss come untied) it popped out.  It actually flew a few feet after slipping out of the floss.  We had to search for it on the floor. Lauren was laughing the whole time because the orajel had done is numbing duties!

She soon found out that that her friend had lost teeth  too and that she didn't get the same thing from the tooth fai;ry.  I was concerned that she would be disappointed but instead she explained that the tooth fairy decides what to give each kid and that it can always be different.

Yesterday after quite a bit more work the second tooth was ready to come.  By now the new teeth have already grown in quite a bit behind her baby tooth and we were starting to worry.  After a lot of recent wiggling this baby tooth was finally ready.  I did the same thing as before and the knot once again came untied.  This one hurt a little and Lauren wasn't completely sure about the situation.  I showed her that it was really ready this time.  (We had tried it too soon with this one and it hurt her a while back)  I asked if she was `ready and she said very bravely "I think so."  I wrapped the string around my fingers one more time and prayed in my head that it would come out easily with out pain.... I gave it a firm tug and it flew across the room.  I heard it hit glass, not sure if it hit the window of the t.v.  We looked and looked but couldn't find it.  Lauren decided to have me write a quick note as she headed to bed and she signed it.  The note said,
 Tooth-fairy,
We lost my tooth.
Lauren
It was so cute.  She then explained that the tooth fairy can "see if we are awake or asleep but we can't see them."  I love this child.

Shaylor was in a silly mood at Grandma and 

Grandpas so I thought I'd share it.

Lauren reads!!

Oh Yeah!

This weekend we were in Nephi with my Parents and sister, hanging out.  We went to the Salt lake Temple Saturday  For Kari and Daves' Sealing. It was great. After that We hung out at my parents house for the weekend and my dad was trying to get Shaylor to say more to him then his usual grunts. He can say "Papa" But then he tends to grunt everything else to my dad.  In frustration my dad announced to him that he was "fully capable of saying much more then UH!"  I said, yes, he's just waiting until he can say full sentences and then he'll just tell it all...Without out a pause, Shaylor blurted out in almost a growly voice, "OH YEAH!"  It was awesome.  I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair.

Lauren Starts School

Yes, it's official. Lauren is in Kindergarten.  She is one of "Mrs. Georges curious little monkeys". I expected a little bit of separation anxiety but instead she ran to join her class without hesitation, no "bye mom" not even a look back.  I thought I'd have a hard time too but I actually was excited that I didn't have to force her to stay. :) 

She's is loving it and is growing up so much.   She Learning so much understands more and more every day.  Yesterday she was started to argue with me about something and then stopped herself.  She said that she didn't mean to "talk back mean".  "I meant to talk back nice".  It was awesome! 

It's amazing what she understands. Today she asked for a glass of milk... I told her that we needed to be careful and save it because I wasn't buying more before leaving town for the weekend.  I explained that if she drank water instead then there would still be some tomorrow but if she drank it too fast then it would just be gone.  She thought for a moment and then got herself a glass of water along with the milk and alternated sips between the two... not quite what I had in mind but she's getting there.  

permission

Due to the fact that my cite can be googled and I am unaware of who is reading my family info I'm going to make my blog permission only.  If you would like to continue viewing Let me know and I'll add you to my list.

Fun pics

We stayed in this great bay by on a house boat. The temperature was high but the water was great.

whoa I look tough.lol

Just a few of my favs from the trip.  I have so many.The one of me is just to show that I really was there LOL.  It was a great trip.  I'm glad I took so many pictures.

  

Lake Powell trip

So, a quick update. It's 12:57 pm and my allergies are so bad I can't sleep, so I thought I'd do a little blogging. It's official, I take a LOT of pictures. We just got home from our week long vacation at Lake Powell and I took 850 pictures. It was so fun. We had a great spot on the beach and the kids were able to just walk out and play. We were with my family (minus Doug and Chamrie who were sorely missed) and our (close enough to be family) friends, The dye family. It was the best trip we've had. I could have stayed longer aside from the fact that I missed my real shower. :)

I took so many pictures on the trip that I am extremely grateful for my digital camera. If you only knew how many picture are on my computer. It's amazing

language

Shaylor man is now fluent in cow, cat, dog, and owl.  his Favorite by far is cow though. Last night I walked in my room and he was down on his hands and knees mooing as loudly as he could.  I love it.  He recognizes a lot too. When we look though our big book of letters he says uh-oh every time he sees the broken egg and can point out almost every picture as I say what it is.  It's so fun.

Quite a girl

Lauren is quite the girl with a huge vocabulary for her size.  Delicious, Difficult, and hilarious are just a few of the words that surprise us as they come out of her mouth at the dinner table. She also has this funny side that loves attention not to mention posing and making faces for the camera.

Viewers :)

Well, long time no see to old friends who have made comments.  Now I'm really curious to see who else follows.  If you could all leave a message it would be really  fun to see...  I plan on continuing my blogging but I was really not sure if anyone was watching so this is our test to find out! Ready set GO!!!

Comments!! YEAH!

We FINALLY fixed my blog so I can receive comments!!!  I've had this blog for two years now and could never receive them.  I hope that people will start leaving fun little tidbits to let me know that they do look and that I should continue updating....

Funny Understandings

Lauren cracks me up the way she understands things sometimes. In fact the term "cracks me up" i guess is a little confussing. She yelled at me the other day when she was in trouble for something and said "YOU'RE CRACKING ME UP!" I explained that I say that when something makes me laugh. Then another time I left Shaylor in the car while I went to the door to pick her up from preschool...I said that we'd better hurry because the last time I left shaylor in the car he bald...She turned to me with such innocence and said "with no hair?". :) I love to see Her start to question things that we do and say everyday, that we don't even think about being taken differently then we meant.
Her vocabulary surprises me to...Last night she was in trouble for not being nice. She said that it was hard for her to be nice...that we needed to teach her how to be nice because she didn't know "how to go about it" She's uses big words that Corey and I don't always know where she gets them from. (sometimes we don't realize we use them) Of course I can't think of them off the top of my head... but you get the idea. :)
Shaylor has been showing interest in picking out his clothes. The other day he took me to his drawer and picked out a shirt and hugged it like his puppy dog, so I picked pants to match. Then a few days later I changed his diaper and left his pajama pants off for a minute. I said that we were changing his clothes and getting new pants in a minute... he ran out of the room and I heard a loud bang in the other room. I called out to see what the noise was and he came running back into the room with a pair of clean pants from his drawer. He was ready!

Shaylor walks

I've been wanting to add video of Shaylor walking for a while. We're still working on downloading video files from our video camera to the computer. I know it's possible because we did it once. I can however take them from my phone so... not amazing quality but hopefully now Laura has proof that Shaylor isn't a walking sumo. :)

Gone for the summer

Doug, Chamrie, and Bryan are all gone for the summer. They are working in Denver and will be gone for four months. I can't believe they really left...so weird.

I keep trying to add pictures of Lauren's new glasses and something comes up. We took this one at my friend Krista's wedding; May 2nd in Las Vegas. It was way fun. Lauren loved checking out all the fun things in the yard. like a waterfall, swimming pool, mini golf, and of course the ladybugs were a bi hit with the kids too!!!