Lucy's talk

Primary talk on 12.15.13

This talk was mostly your words. You walked around and told daddy what you knew about Jesus and him coming again. There were prompting questions but the answers were all your own...

"Jesus came to earth a long time ago:

A big star in the sky that shined brighter than the rest told the wiseman that Jesus was born.

Samuel the lamanite said Jesus was born in Bethlehem and te nephites would know because it would be light at night. 

Jesus died on the cross and then he was risen and everyone was surprised and happy. One of his apostles didn't see him and didn't believe he was risen. Jesus came and showed him his hands and feet. 

Jesus came to the wicked nephites. After the earthquake he came came in the sky. And then he helped the righteous and the people that we're tired. 

Jesus will come again and I will be happy and smile. "

Potty Training

Cole has been potty training for the last few weeks. I wasn't going to start yet because I hated the way I pushed Lucy to be potty trained and I've heard boys are usually ready later, but one day he told me he wanted to go on the potty and he went. He went several times that day so we decided he was ready! It had been pretty good. Here is the log I've kept on my phone:

September 26th you started potty training. "Mommy! I go human potty!" 

We decided to start him standing to pee, seemed easier and we have a seat is hard to get over without hurting himself. That first day he was peeing he said, "Yook, I'm popping bubbles!" :) Yes, yes you are.

10.1.13 -- Dry all day today! We went out THREE times and you had no accidents. Trying underwear tonight! [he has been wearing underwear every night since, only peed once...sadly last night]

10.4.13  Two accidents today but its because I'm not prompting you to go I wanted to see if you would run to the bathroom yourself. You peed on the way to the potty but made it in time to poop! You peed and didnt' say anything once, the next time you ran as fast as you could but couldn't hold it long enough :)

10.7.13     I was putting Sadie to sleep while i heard the following take place:

Running feet

potty slams

stool scooted into place

Lucy, "oh, do you need to dough potty?"

Cole, "Ya."

Lucy, "I'll help you!!" (very enthusiastically)

Hear peeing sound....

Lucy, "Dood Jab, buddy!" (good job)

"a little more..."

Cole, "All done" 

Lucy, "otay do you need a wipe? Let me help you, otay? Otay. There ya go bud!"

"Ahright, pull up your pants and panties"

LOL. I just sat in the room and listened. And tried not too laugh too hard. Still working on telling Lucy that Cole wears underwear not panties.

This week we've hit it hard. You had a few days last week where you just peed. And stopped saying anything. It was really weird. So this week we printed off a sticker chart and told you that if you stayed dry for a week we'd get you Spider-man underware. Well you did it and got you big boy underware!! In the end you picked Pixar but still loved them.

Lots of training and goofiness

 I felt like we had just recovered from being sick and lo-and-behold the kids all got sick again! It wasn't that bad, thankfully, just some stuffiness and a little bit of a cough. They are recovering, and hopefully we can go more than two-weeks without being ill :)

Apparently when you move things they become a LOT more exciting! In lou of winter approaching we decided to clean our slide and bring it in.  The kids have been having a blast with it being downstairs.

Sadie can climb up the ladder half way and then tries to get back down....and climbs in through the holes in the bottom without using the door.

Potty training and Sleep training

The kids spent a week sleeping in the living room while we worked on teaching Sadie to sleep at night :) That was a lot of fun. She cries louder than any baby I have ever had. The first night was rough, the second was slightly  better, she had a couple of good ones. I wish I could say she sleeps through the night. She doesn't. She has once in the last two weeks which I'll take. For the most part she wakes up once or twice. I can usually get her back to sleep without feeding her one time. The second time she has to eat or she screams forever. So that's where we are at. Much better than waking up every hour to and hour and a half like she was for a while there. 

Here are the pads in our futon cushion being used as slides... because Cole has been potty training and had an accident. I had to clean the cover...

Praying these things make it through the training and the slides :)

Chores

We decided it was time for the kids to start doing the dishes. 

No worries not all the dishes, just their breakfast dishes. We're trying to teach them some responsibility..its going well and they actually like doing most of the chores. Thankfully.

Probably because they play for a good portion of the time. But that is okay too. They get them cleaned.

Making Faces

Sadie makes the best faces. Someday I will figure out how to get a good pic of her making the scrunch face...

I'm horrible for taking pictures of her crying, but she really makes the cutest crying faces.

Goofy Lucy

Cole-meister was sticking out his tongue, so Devin helped him make a more appropriate face.

 I swear these kids grow up over night! 

October Videos

Doing Puzzles...Cole loves his puzzles. He always has. This time he is doing his favorite dinosaur puzzle upside down :) I love that he says, "oh Sorry!" every time he doesn't know where one goes...

After playing in the leaves they decided it was time to move the pile!

At Boggio's Lucy has a conversation with the goats. Before this video she kept saying, "woah, don't crowd us!" "woah goats, too many, too many. Back away I need to feed the baby." 

Snowball and Lucy

The other morning Lucy told me, "mom when we get another animal, can we get a bigger animal that I can play with? Because I can't play with snowball."

What an insightful comment. That girl.

And our crazy hamster tries to escape-- ALWAYS!!

He would have a pretty cool cage if he hadn't figured out how to get out of every hole in that thing!

did you see the duct tape on top of that lid? Yeah, he figured out how to open even that top door. 

C.R.A.Z.Y.

Never again with the hamster. Never.

October so far

Because the photos loaded backwards and I'm too lazy to go switch them around I'll just go backwards :)

Adventures in Canning

We have a wonderful ward. Actually I have been blown away with the kindness of the people here in Illinois. A guy from Devin's work has been brining us all sorts of stuff from their garden! It has been fun trying some new recipes that they have suggested. Then a woman in our ward gave me a jar processor and some canning supplies. And another woman gave me a TON of tomatoes. And a guy down the street has an apple tree that he doesn't care for or use so we've been given the okay to use his apples!

So with all of that this last week I got to make 13 quarts of salsa. It may seem like a lot but with Devins love of salsa that will not last us THAT long :). I also got to try my hand at homemade Spaghetti Sauce, which is delectable!  And I got to make applesauce for the first time, but might need to tweak what I did a little bit..we'll see. Canning was fun, a little overwhelming, time-consuming, but INCREDIBLY rewarding, I enjoyed it.

 Getting our ScArY on

 What?!?? That cake doesn't look scary to you? 

We've been slowly decorating for Halloween and getting into the non-scary side of Halloween. It has been fun. I tried to get the kids to do a halloween cake but since the favorite color of this household is BLUE we had to settle for half-n-half. 

Can you see our puppets??

One of the kids most favorite things of late is playing with flashlights. We hid in the dark and 'search' for whatever they decide we're looking for. 

They keep them in their bed and after Sadie is asleep they are allowed to play with their flashlights until they fall asleep. 

They love it and I think it is so cute....I don't know why but I do.

BOGGIO'S (a.k.a. the pumpkin patch)

We went with a family from our ward we do preschool with. This was a fun place, there were a few animals, some fun activities, and INCREDIBLE amount of pumpkins, pony-rides (thankfully only on the weekends) and some really good doughnuts :)

 Ever seen a goose with hair?? Haha, I hadn't either. They were not nice geese ( I don't think I ever have met a nice goose). 

 There was a big hay pile with tunnels running under it and a tree house next to it with underground tunnels. Kind of cool! 

 There was a corn silo, just a small silo filled with corn! They played in it like you would sand, really fun. Little Sadie kept eating the corn. I thought I stopped any from going down but, alas, I found one in her diaper the next day...TMI? Sorry :)

 Check out these pumpkins!!! They were VERY large.

Fall is here!

I have been loving the fact that this year Lucy understands the seasons and the changing weather. Well, not necessarily UNDERSTANDS them, but notices and asks about it, etc. The leaves have started changing and falling just in the last week and a half. 

Burying each other in the leaves.

He LOVES the pile of leaves! I don't think he has liked something so much since we started swimming in the summer.

Tromping through the leaves...

Now Cole is burying Lucy.

Sadie didn't like the leaves at all. Not sure why, but she is not a fan and really doesn't like to sit down next to them.

 After playing in the pile it was time for dinner. We kept calling Cole in but he kept running through the pile and raking it back together. He didn't want to eat, just to play. Love this kid.

 Thumbsuckers
Yup. Plural. There are now two thumbsuckers in this family.

 Sadie decided it was time to find her comforter. Too bad she doesn't find it at night! I really wish she would. 


She just uses it during the day and sometimes during naps with some convincing from me :) :) :)

 And just because he is the champion of it...here is Cole-meister.

Sinker-face
Sadie is a stinker. Literally and figuratively. A week after Cole recovered from being sick Sadie got the nasty flu. She had fevers for 3 days...of 103...yeah, it was bad. She got stuffy and congested, earaches. The whole nine yards. And diarrhea so bad her bum was sore for over a week! I had never seen diaper rash so bad. After a visit to the doctor and a miracle cream suggested she is now recovered with a perfectly pink cute baby bum :)

 Thankfully, thankfully after the earache settled down she was a happy baby once again. Happy enough to give us some stink :)  This was the face she made when Devin caught her ripping up some tissues or wipes. 
 Her nine month update: 
   She thinks she is HILARIOUS, she'll do something and just laugh at herself.
   She LOVES her siblings and thinks they are even funnier than herself.
   She loves to eat, but she needs to feed herself or she'll just take out whatever you put in her mouth look at it and put it back in. 
   She can walk across a room but because she wants to run she falls within a few feet :)
    She can say 'mama' 
    She 'calls' for Lucy and Cole.
    Loves to play peek-a-boo and hide and seek.
    Gets UBER excited whenever we go outside....we should probably go outside more.....
    because this post is already incredibly long I'll end there.

 Parking it up

We still love going to the parks around here. 

 Kids found a lady bug

 This is one of the coolest things at the park. They climb to the top, 

 or climb upside down.

 Cole is finally going down slides!!! He went down by himself for a few months, but it seems like FOREVER since he would go down by himself. He still wants me to go down some of them with him but he is getting so much better.

I don't know what these are called but Lucy LOVES them. Now that we wear long sleeves more often she is constantly asking to go to the park so that she can go down this.

That is our October in a not-so-small nutshell :)