Potty trained

On February 17th, this little boy decided that he was going to now use the big boy potty. We have tried many differet things in the past to try to encourage him to use the potty but none of them worked. One day he decided to sit on the potty and actually went. I naturally rewarded him with lots of candy and made a huge deal out of it and ever since he has been going on the potty. We have had a few accidents but for the most part he remembers to go all by himself and even goes #2 on the potty. It took him a few days to figure that one out but he was so excited when he finally did. He went into the potty and closed the door and told Ben that it was going to get stinky. A few seconds later he screamed "I just went poop!" Such a proud moment. So even if his fashion skills are still in the works (as pictures below...this is how he dressed himself one day all by himself) he is now officialy potty trained!

4 Months Old

This little sunshine turned 4 months old on February 4th. At her 4 month appointment she weighed in at 12 lbs 14 oz (50th percentile) and was 25.5 inches long (95th percentile).

She learned to roll over from her back to her tummy on February 15th and has been doing it non stop since. She now spends a lot of her time on her tummy trying to figure out how to make herself go. She has in the past few weeks (closer to 5 months) been able to get her legs under her but can't figure out how then to move. I am thinking within a month that this little girl will be crawling. She loves to be moving.

She also is now quite intrested in the remotes, phones and table food. She loves to grab your glass and take a sip of your water. We haven't introducted her to solids yet but will in another month.

One of her favorite things to do recently is sit in her bumbo and play with toys. Think she likes the different perspective.


Lastly, this girl is all smiles and just loves to smile at everyone. She has brought so much joy to our life. She continues to sleep 10-12 hours at night which also brings us more joy!

Logan continues to love his little sister so very much. He always says that he is going to protect her. Sure hope he keeps up that promise!

Happy Halloween

Due to our Hawaii trip, last year we never made it over to our local pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins. This year, although we just had a little one, we decided to make a trip over to pick out our pumpkins. Logan loved walking around the pumpkin patch and decided that he wanted a little pumpkin. He also enjoyed running through a maze that they had. Once we had our pumpkins we got together with some neighbors to take on pumpkin carving. I always somewhat dread this task but am always glad that we do it. We kept it pretty simple this year and only carved two pumpkins. I carved the happy traditional pumpkin and Ben carved the other one. Logan was very interested to see what was inside the pumpkins but when he saw it was slimy seeds he bailed and went and played with his friend and let his daddy finish the yucky job. Taylor spent the whole night in the swing. Even though we put forth the effort to carve our pumpkins this year we still forgot on Halloween night to put a candel in them. Oops.
On Halloween night, we invited my parents and sister and her husband over for some dinner, cookie making and trick or treating. Logan told us this year that he wanted to be an elephant because he loved the baby Zuri at the Hogle Zoo. Thankfully Ben's sister had a wonderful elephant costume that she let us borrow. At first, I thought it looked huge but really it fit him perfectly. I love these pictures of him and just smile every time I look at them. Taylor was a black cat. We dressed her up in this cute little outfit that I found. I loved the hat and the kitty on her bum.
The weather was a little wet this year so we waited until the rain stopped before we headed out that night to trick-or-treat. It was cold but it wasn't raining on us. For some reason, Logan didn't want to wear his elephant hat that night but regardless he still looked cute and the costume kept him super warm.


Due to the weather, we opted to leave Taylor at home with my family while we went out with Logan. When we were done trick-or-treating we came home and made some of these yummy sugar cookies.

Then on Sunday night we headed over to the Ellis home and had our traditional Ellis Family Halloween party. This year I made some mummy hot dogs that the kids really seemed to like. Ben was Al from Home Improvement (last minute idea) and I was a witch. The party was fun but the kids seemed to be a little more energized since we did it after Halloween instead of before. Nevertheless, we enjoyed our time playing games and eating yummy food.

Christmas 2009

So I know I am a little late (ok more than a little) but still want to have this documented. We spent Christmas Eve up at my parents house and had dinner with our friends. We never see each other expect for this event and its always fun to catch up. Logan loved playing with their girls and was hamming it up big time. We had them all sit and Logan just kept saying "cheese" as loudly and as silly as he could.

He also got a special visit from Santa that evening. He hadn't met the jolly man yet and was definitely unsure as every 2 year old is. He did warm up to him after Santa revealed his candy cane treats.

Hanging out with his favorite Aunt Roo! Ben and I have started a tradition of giving eachother pajamas on Christmas Eve so that we have new jamies to wear on Christmas morning. Here is a picture of Logan opening his pajamas from the Christmas Elves. My favorite part was that he held the shirt up to himself and said cute without any help from us.

One of my other favorite traditions is Ben gets Logan and I a Christmas tree ornament each year. This year he gave me one with a graduation cap to symbolize both of us being all done with school in 2009. He gave Logan a Snoopy camping ornament since he just loves Snoopy and camping.

I then went to the Christmas Eve service at my parents church while Ben stayed home with Logan. We stayed the nights at my parents house this year and woke up in the morning to open up our stockings. I think some of Logan's favorite toys came from his stocking including his nemo phone....
and a Thomas the train engine named Ben.....
When we were done with stockings we went to see what Santa brought us. Logan got a basketball hoop and a little table (that we didn't give him till the next day since he got so spoiled). Ben got a smoker and I got a sewing machine. We decided this year to give eachother a much needed new camera. We purchased a Canon XS20 IS which is a glorified digital camera with some SLR functions. Our old camera wouldn't stay charged so it has been nice to have a camera to capture moments and one of my resolutions for 2010 is to be better at taking pictures.

Here is Logan helping his daddy open presents. He definitely lost interest after awhile and just wanted to go play with some of the toys he had opened.
I love this picture of him playing with his puppets!
After we were done with presents, Logan and Cayman both crashed before we headed down to Ben's family for more festivities.

We hung out with Ben's family for part of the afternoon. Logan loved seeing all of his cousins and their cool toys including this cool toy....

We got him to sit still to catch a few shots of us with him. We then went back up to Ogden to enjoy Christmas dinner and more presents with the cousins.

Logan was so wired by this point. I couldn't get him to hold still for a picture. He loved helping with paper control and just running around. This is the best shot I could get of him and its still a bit mid action.

When we finally made it home after all the festivities Logan cuddeled up with my mom's new cat Mike. He was so excited that Mike would sit next to him. He is such a sweet cat.

The day after Christmas we took it easy and just played with all of our toys. Logan broke out his playdough and opened some gifts that we didn't open on Chritmas.

We are so grateful to all of our wonderful family. We had such a wonderful Christmas. I know the day can be crazy but we enjoy getting to see everyone.