Bathroom Humor

We found the kids in the bathroom one night before getting in bed doing this...



Silly kids...

Port Aransas 2009

From August 11-14 we headed down to Port Aransas with my sister and her family, and my mom. We had a long drive down there, stopping frequently for Finley to use the potty, but we finally made it! We rented a great house while we were down there, and we spent most of our days at the beach. The kids all had a great time, as well as the adults! We can't wait to go back next year :)

Sea World

On August 3rd I took Bryson to Sea World after dropping Finley off at Granna's house. I have been wanting to take him by himself so we could enjoy the whole day and use the water park too! Finley had a great time, and so did we!!

Watching a movie on the way down with his dog, Wags.

Waiting for the sea lions to come out!

Leaving the park after having so much fun!

Siblings

I see the resemblance....do you??!!

Saving Money

A while back Bryson was given a coke can piggy bank from my Aunt Laura and Uncle Jim. He loves it, and we tried to give him spare change here and there whenever we have had some laying around. Recently we started giving him a quarter to help with small jobs around the house like picking up and bringing in the trash can with us. He was asking me for some toy that we got a friend for his birthday, and so we counted his money to see if he had enough to buy it himself. Otherwise he would have to wait. He had just enough, so we bagged it up and took it to Target to purchase a toy with his very own money for the very first time. He was sooooo excited and proud of himself!

Coke can piggy bank.

Money all bagged up!

Bryson with his Batman helicopter.

So happy!

Eisley's 1st Birthday Party!

On July 30th our niece, Eisley, turned 1!! This past year has flown by! My mom aka Granna, also celebrated her birthday that day, but I'll spare her age here :) Eisley had her first birthday party ever that following Saturday at her house in the backyard. There was a ton of fun things to do!

Finley in the sandbox that Uncle Nick, his brother Eric, and his dad Mitch built.

Bryson and Finley eating cupcakes with Daddy

Eisley digging into her cake head first. Girl knew just what to do!

Cutie pie with Granna!

Cousins playing in the sand/water table.

Later that night we met up for dinner at Chuy's to celebrate Granna's birthday. It was a great day!!

Baking Cookies

One afternoon Bryson and I baked some cookie goodness! I got some cute pictures of him in the process...

My Birthday

On July 12th I celebrated my 28th birthday. That Sunday my family had us over for some dinner, swimming and play time. We had a great time!

Potty Training

Over the past few months Finley has been telling me when she pees or poops in her diaper, and one Friday after coming home from school, as I was trying to put on a new diaper she started screaming 'potty!' and fighting me to not put a new diaper on. That was the weekend of July 12th, and we ended up staying home and working on potty training with her. I felt she was giving me a lot of signs to say she was ready, so we've been working on it, and she has got it down at home. She prefers to go naked at home and hardly ever has an accident here. If we are out in public, I can get her to sit on the potty, but she won't go. She'll just ask over and over again to go, and then sit for a few seconds and get off. She is definitely dedicated to her own little potty and her potty seat at home. She just recently started going on the big potty at home with the seat. I have her in pull ups during the day since she can't really go to school in underwear. If I put underwear on her she occasionally starts to go before getting to the potty. Anyway, we've made significant progress, and she has definitely been easier than Bryson was on this issue. It sure is nice to save a *little* money on buying diapers that get changed multiple times per day :) I'm guessing it'll be a long process with her to transition her to being comfortable going on any potty we come across, and to solely wearing her panties. In the meantime, we take the little potty most everywhere we go. So, if you see us on the side of the road going potty in the trunk, just honk! ;)

Finley's First Movie

Every summer in Austin they have free movies on T, W, and Th for kids at 10 a.m. I thought I'd try taking both kids this year. Bryson is good sitting in movies, but Finley is a bit on the young side. She made it about an hour into the movie though, so that was pretty good. We went to see Whorton Hears a Who. I forgot that we had seen that one before, until we were in the movie already. Since we had to leave early because of Finley I was able to leave Finley with Aunt Courtney for a few hours a few weeks later, and took Bryson to see a movie by himself. He loves the movies!