Winter Days

During the winter, we pretty much stay indoors.  I don't really like being cold, and since there is no snow to play in this year, all we really do is go to the library for music and story time, go to my mom's house for dinners, and go to a playplace or inflatable bounce place on the weekends.  That's pretty much our life right now.  I need to live somewhere warmer!

John & Keri's Visit

My brother, John, and his family came to Utah to visit over Christmas.  It was really fun to see them!  We sure miss them!  Since it was cold, and there wasn't really snow to play in, we went to a few indoor places to have fun. We went to the Discovery Gateway with them and to a trampoline jumping place called Xtreme Air.  We also drove through the Spanish Fork Festival of Lights with popcorn, and played games at my parent's house.  Jimmer had a great time visiting with his cousins that he doesn't see as often.  It was too bad Katie and Ryan headed to Idaho this year, but we did get to be all together for a day or two before they left!

Potty Training

 Jimmer camped out on the potty. This was not my idea, but I just went with it since Jimmer didn't want to get down...

Hiding his underwear

Doing the "Potty Dance" with a bare bum and a guitar

I had planned to start potty training Jimmer on the Monday after my girl's night away.  I knew I'd have nothing going on for a while, but I REALLY didn't want to do it!  I almost decided not to do it since I feared the worst.  But we went for it and it went okay!  By day 4 Jimmer had no accidents (other than in diapers at nap and bedtime)!  He's been doing really well going pee on the potty throughout the day, but still poops in his diaper at nap or bedtime.  I'm not sure what to do to get him to poop on the potty!  I guess it will come with time.  Potty training is a fun process with so many steps that I didn't think about.  Like getting Jimmer to actually wear the underwear, going potty other places, getting him to tell us he has to go when he's busy with friends/cousins, etc.  Good times.         

Girl's Night!

L to R: me, Elke, Amanda, Sara, Janae

L to R: Elke, me, Sara, Amanda, Janae

At the beginning of January, I was able to get away for a night and meet up in Salt Lake to stay at the Grand Hotel with some of my BYU roommates!  A few of us live here in Utah and Sara came from Australia to visit some of her family (and us, of course :) and Elke came in from Washington.  We missed a few girls who couldn't make it this time.  It was so fun to talk and laugh!  I was seriously laughing at things that were not even that funny.  It's just that much fun to hang out with good friends!  We enjoyed a great dinner at The Melting Pot, then talked most of the night, slept in and had Nutella and strawberries on croissants for brunch!  I wish it could have been a longer visit!

*And thanks for the pictures Janae and Elke...'cause guess who didn't bring a camera?  (BTW, I look freaky in both of these pictures, but oh well!)

A few pictures (and I mean a few)

I never get out our camera and take pictures anymore!  Ahhhh!!  So my blog has suffered pretty bad for a while now.  I have been taking a few pictures with my iPod, but I haven't been good about taking pictures in general at all.  The pictures above are from when we picked out our Christmas tree, the two pictures I took on Christmas day :(, and then some snow pictures from today.  Sad!  I guess I'll have to get the pictures off my iPod so I have something!

If I Were Rich...

I would open up a Discovery Center for kids in Utah County.  I absolutely love these types of places and we don't have anything like this in our area.  I may or may not like the place so much because of all of the miniature things.  Not saying.  But, I'm pretty sure the Utah County residents wouldn't pay the $8.50 /per person over 1 to come!  

Last weekend James had to work at a volleyball match at the University of Utah in the afternoon, so Jimmer and I tagged along and James dropped us off at Discovery Gateway to play and then met us up there afterwards.  Jimmer played for three straight hours during his normal nap time and didn't make one unhappy sound.  When James came, we took a break for dinner and then James played with Jimmer for an hour or more while I shopped at the Gateway Mall and then I came back and we pretty much closed the place out at 8pm.  It was much more fun to play from about 6 to 8pm rather than 1 to 3pm when it was so crowded.

  I had been wanting to take Jimmer here, but never wanted to make the drive up just for it.  However, we definitely could spend a whole day there. Jimmer could drop those ball pit balls down tubes ALL DAY LONG if we let him.  So we got our chance to go and Jimmer (and I) had a blast.  The only disappointment is that Jimmer and I don't enjoy the same areas of the center.  I wanted to play inside the miniature house, farm or market, and Jimmer wanted to play in the ball zone and the water zone.  So the pictures above don't show how cute the place really is since Jimmer wants nothing to do with the cute stuff. :)  He would not step foot in the tiny little market area. Come on Jimmer....teeny tiny shopping carts!!  Ugh!

Happy Halloween!

Jimmer was the Very Hungry Caterpillar this Halloween.  We chose this costume since the "Big Fat Caterpillar" is one of Jimmer's favorite books right now (Thanks for giving us the book Angela!).  Jimmer actually wore his costume on Halloween and he was happy!!  He had a great time trick-or-treating!  I couldn't believe it and I was pretty thrilled!  We were, however, prepared for the worst since I tried to put his costume on him about a week earlier and he completely freaked out.  I mean it was a BIG freak-out!  I figured the only way he was going to wear this costume was to cut the (hand-sewn) seam along the right side of his costume and make it so he could put it on like a coat and velcro it up instead of pulling it over his head.  So his costume definitely did not look as good as when it was hand-sewn, when you couldn't see any velcro, when the sides were more even, and when I would have had the time I was planning on to make the caterpillar feet, etc. But he wore it and that's all we're happy about.  The day after Halloween, Jimmer said "I love trick-or-treats."