Thanksgiving break

Riley had the whole week off for Thanksgiving so, we drove to Dallas to see his family. We had a great time with them. Here is a photo journal of our trip! Just kidding. But you know me, I took too many pictures. I hate looking back and seeing that I didn't get one pic of Riley's dad Mark. Oops!! Sorry, and this one of Markee is the only one I got of her. I did get several of my favorite 2 year old.

During our trip Rhyaln:

Played with Markee all day long!

Snuggled with Gammy C

Played with her new Christmas present from Papa and Gammy C.

Watched Dora with Rosco.

Played dress-up with Markee. {She wore this dress 3 days in a row. It was a battle to get her to take it off to go to bed. It didn't help that papa said she could wear it to bed:)}

Tried out her new stroller on a walk.

Here are my two little Thanksgiving Pumpkins!

Gracin is so photogenic!! Look at that sweet face. He even had a special hair-do for his first Thanksgiving.
Gracin did his fair share of snuggling too.

Rice Cereal!!

Well Gracin had his first taste of rice cereal the other day. He just stares at our food during meal time and drools for every bite. So he turned 4 months on Sunday and we thought we would give it a whirl. He liked the first few bites (of course nothing actually went down his throat) but soon he just got mad and wanted a bottle!! Here are a few pics of his first bites!!!

P.S. We are having a great time in TX visiting Riley's mom and dad for Thanksgiving. I'll show you some pics of that later! (yes Riley is from Canada, his parents just moved here last summer)

Silly girls

These little girls are so silly. Rhylan got to spend the afternoon with one of her best friends. We went on a little walk and the girls loved playing all over these rocks. Rhyaln was pretty excited to show her all her favorite places.



And then Rhyaln put her to bed, here she is reading the bedtime story.

day 6 and day 7

Potty training is going GREAT!!
Yesterday (day 6) she only had 2 accidents. And both were pee trails to the bathroom. Then last night she woke up to use the potty at about 5 am and woke up later at 7:30ish and still had a dry diaper:)

Today (day 7) NO ACCIDENTS I repeat no accidents. We even went to Target for an hour and she stayed dry and used the potty when we got home. Then...this is the best part... about 10 min after we got home I was feeding Gracin when I hear "I need to go poo poo!" I tell her to go to the bathroom. She said "already did!" Sure enough she had gone poo poo in the Froggy potty ALL BY HERSELF. There was none in her panties none on the floor. This was the best day!!

Yeah Rhylan...Yeah Savannah!

Is there anything more cute...

...than babies in diapers (and kids in panties)

Gracin found his toes the other day!! I love this stage coming up, they are so fun and curious. Oh by the way that is a birth mark by his armpit, not anything dirty

Oh Rhylan...

My mom sent Rhylan a play Nativity set yesterday. I told her the Christmas story with the set and then let her play. She understood that the angel told the shepherd to go see Jesus. She started by having Baby Jesus all alone, and each person had to talk to the angel before they could so see the Baby! Here is what I heard:

Angel: "Do you wana see Baby Jesus?"
Shepherd: "Sure"
Angel: "He over there."
Shepherd: "I'm all done seeing Baby Jesus, I wana go the pet store"
Joseph: "I wana go pet store too"
Shepherd: "Wana go pet store, king?"

What did you do?

Potty training is not going well.

Yes she pee's in the potty... only when I put her there. And I put her there often every 30-40 min. She has only volunteered to go 3 times in the last 5 days!!! We go through wet panties like crazy, I'm talking 5-6 a day!! Every single time she has gone "poo poo" it has been in her panties. She does however go to the bathroom and sit on the potty after she poops? She loves her potty treats and stickers after she goes!

Tell me what you did to make this work for you. I am open to all tricks

Her winter dress!!

Here is my beautiful little girl. I really like these pictures I took of her.




I won a dress at our enrichment auction!! A sister in our ward made this winter princess dress for Rhylan! She LOVES it, she thinks she looks just like Cinderella.

a little conversation

"Stop the movie mommy!! I got to go potty."
I stop the movie, grab her hand and we jog to the froggy potty!
"Yeah! i got to go potty! I go potty i get a chocolate!"

a little bit of catch up

Rhylan has the flu and Gracin has an ear infection!

You too?!

It seems everyone has sick kids. So I haven't blogged in a while but here are some pictures of us lately.

Rhylan and I made this cute little turkey, she loves to make crafts... I wonder where she gets that from?

Gracin played in his exersauser, these smiles were because I was talking to him not because he loves that toy so much.


We went to a neighborhood fall fest, and Rhylan got to meet her first fire truck. It was pretty cool.







AND last but not lease I started potty training Rhylan. This will be day 2, wish me luck. I think she looks so cute in her panties. I just went in her room to get her up for the day and she had already taken the liberty to remove her diaper and put on panties!! I guess she likes them. Rhylan must think they have super powers to do these jumps!

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Another day at the ZOO

We made this Zoo one morning, it was so fun to play with. Rhylan had a blast "at the zoo". Its nice to not worry about parking!! J/K

Good news/bad news

Good news:

I only had to buy one size diapers yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad news:

It isn't because Rhylan is potty trained, it's because my 3 month old and my 2 year old now wear the same size diaper!!

Sometimes I feel like...

Does anybody else get excited about giant bugs and catch them in a jar for their little entomologist?

Before I had Rhylan I would have run screaming from this HUGE bug I caught for her yesterday. But now because she loves bugs I find myself not as afraid. In the last 3 days we have caught two bugs to keep for a little bit in jars! One was a spider! She loves looking at them and showing daddy what we did, when he gets home from school.

We remembered to let him go before he died.

Big sister Little brother

Here is a video of Gracin during tummy time. He is getting better at this little by little. And apparently he thinks his arm is delicious.

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