potty time!

I'm behind on documenting a lot, but I figured I had better get this one on the page since I have been putting it off for so long. We are officially out of diapers at our house. Yesterday when I was on my potty training supplies trip at Babies R Us Gracie had one big stinky diaper. I didn't have any diapers with me (bad mommy I know) and I was determined to never buy her another pack of diapers, so I took her in the changing room and squeezed her into a free size 1 diaper that the store gives you. Below is a picture of all our supplies: LOTS of juice - Gracie picked all of it out especially the blue kind, her favorite color right now.

Timer

Potty books

Dora potty sticker chart

To-go potty seat with bag

A couple packs of diapers, she picked these out too

Chocolate for pee

Sucker for poo

Day one: after my church meeting this morning we started. 2 1/2 hours of trying every 10 minutes and she finally did it! Her first pee. She had closed the door on me so I sat in the hallway and heard it, I started yelling with glee and opened the door, she jumped off and ran over to hug me and she kept saying, "all by myself". I don't know who was happier. She kept her pull dry though her nap and had one more successful pee. I'm going to ignore the poo in her panties that happened later because that is a harder one to do right? I am pretty happy about day one.

routines

after many weeks of candice being on maternity leave we are back in our routine again. gracie is so lucky to have levi and piper come over every other week to play all day. levi and gracie think they are siblings they love each other and fight with each other just like brother and sister. gracie wakes up each morning asking if levi is coming and if i say yes it results in both hands in the air jumping up and down yelling "evi yeah evi!" they are both so patient with waiting for me when i am feeding piper. they love to get right in piper's face and say, "baby baby baby" and kiss her a million times (gracie) and grab her nose (levi).
levi takes his naps in my bed and they thought it would be really fun to take naps together. the first day didn't work out because there was too much excitement about being in a big bed together, but day two was success and i snapped this picture. ahh nap time - definitely a blessing!

4th of July

This year we were in Huntington Beach for the 4th of July. The parade went right in front of the house we rented. For the first hour of the parade Gracie sat quietly and watched, but she broke out and started dancing for the rest of it. The beach was really fun this year. Candice was good about documenting it, at least for the first half of the week - check it out here: http://candicestewart.typepad.com

hair cuts

the weather starts to get warm and everybody want to get their hair cut short right? well mine can't get any shorter so I moved onto Gracie's. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned to Paul that I thought it would be cute if Gracie had a short hair cut not realizing that I would be making her a mini-me of well me. He thought it would be cute too so I called my friend Michelle to chop it off. As you can see she thought it was the worst thing ever. On the way there she kept saying over and over, "no Gracie hair cut". Levi got his hair cut first and even though he gets it cut all the time and never cries, he decided to today. So that didn't help Gracie's panic attack about it. The first few minutes she screamed and I am sorry to anybody who was trying to relax in that salon! She finally calmed down when she realized it didn't hurt, but she still didn't like sitting there.

The after shot. I say it is a short and sassy cut for a short and sassy girl!

This was her actual first hair cut that I did on our porch about a month ago.

choo choo

a couple of months ago my mom organized a trip for all of us to boulder city for a picnic cand train ride. my mom said it was for levi, but there is a debate going on right now of who loves trains more - levi or mom. it was so much fun and thanks mom for your organization skills!

after the train ride papa bought the 2 footers trains. super cute!

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I was tagged for this one - you go to your picture file, pick the sixth file and the sixth picture in that file and post it.... I actually miss that hair!

happy easter!