Our New House is Coming Along

As many of you know, we are buying a house in Eagle Mountain.  We are just in the construction phase, but it is very exciting!  We go out and visit the site at least once a week, and we were ecstatic when they finally dug the hole for the house.  Then we were even more excited when we discovered that they had poured the foundation the next week.  When we visited on Tuesday of this week we were thrilled to see that they had put up the walls!  I will continue to publish photos so everyone can see them.

Makayla is Potty Training!

Today is a great milestone in Makayla's life. She has successfully used the potty several times today. Not only that, but she has told us each time that she needs to go, and she does! We have been working on this for a while, and she is finally starting to understand it fully! We are so proud of her, and she is such a little cutie.

She also knows quite a bit of letters. She was surprising us when Heidi was showing her some flash cards with letters on them. Makayla was naming most of the letters, while also signing the signs for them in sign language! She is learning so quickly :)

What I Have Learned

So I don't know who is aware of this, but the last two Thanksgivings, Christmases, New Years, and Valentines I have been pregnent. Now, I am not getting pregnent again...  for awhile. But I thought I would share some of what I have learned being preggers around the holidays. To start off, it was great. I ate and ate and ate, rested, then ate again...  Hey the baby needed food too. Really, out of all times thoughout the year this is the time to be pregnent. However this year I am not preggers and I noticing a lot of people talking about dieting around the hoildays. I think this is the worst time to diet. you have at lest 10 other months thoughout the year to not diet, but develop healthy eating habits. So if you aren't as lucky and can't pig out this time of year, you can at lest keep it under control and not engorge yourself, but at the same time not go on a diet. And if you have gained a couple extra pounds over the season you have 10 more months to work it off and develop good eating habits then you won't have to worry next season.

Family Pictures

We got our family pictures taken last month and I wanted to share them with you.


Also, my sister Sarah mentioned that one of Makayla's pictures was magazine cover worthy, so I went to MagMyPic.com and made a magazine cover of it :) Thanks for the idea sis!

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

It's potty time...

I have been waiting for this for a long time. Makayla is ready to be potty trained. We have a little potty for little kids, that Makayla can sit on. It all started Wednesday night. After baths, I set her on the potty. She sat there for awhile then she went! I was so excited. The the past couple mornings I have let her sit on it and she has used it. She loves it. She hates getting her diaper changed so this is a nice change. But I am not sure really where to go from here. How do I get her "fully" potty trained? Any suggestions would be nice.

Makayla's Bellybutton

Makayla's New Bed

Makayla has gotten used to her toddler bed faster than we thought. From day one she has not had any problems falling asleep in her new bed. However, at times, her leg(s) will get stuck in between some of the sidebars, but other than that she doesn't really seem phased about the new sleep arrangement. She still doesn't know how to, or doesn't dare to try, get off the bed on her own. So some mornings we will check on her and she'll just be sitting there on her bed, head down, just waiting for us. Haha, she is so funny. Here is a video I took of her in the morning after her first night in the toddler bed:

She has tossed the blankets around a bit, and her head ended up facing the opposite way we put her in, but she seemed happy.