Lessons learned

Yesterday while my sweet husband let me sleep in a little and was supposed to be watching the kids(probably passed out on the couch) Morgan once again got into some candy. This time it was the peppermint bark high up on the counter in a candy jar. She managed to scoot a chair on over and grab some out, not only for herself but she felt very obligated to share with Asher. No wonder why he loves his sister so much. Because she shares ALL of her food with him. Yesterday it was chocolate, Today it was eggs.(and chocolate) Which brings me to where my lesson has now been learned.
Last night Paul was gone working until about 2:30 in the morning and I sadly was sick in the bathroom for about 2 hours when he got home resulting in both of us not getting to bed until about 4:30. Well this morning I was feeling pretty dehydrated and just aching all over so Paul once again got up with the kids. He put on a movie and came back into bed since he was exhausted as well. I knew from past experience that you just can not leave those two little monkeys alone because they get into way too much trouble. Next thing we know Asher is knocking on the door and Paul goes to get him and there is Chocolate everywhere all over the door and walls. That little boy was so happy though and Morgan was very proud of herself for sharing with her brother. I have now learned my lesson that I can no longer have treats out in any sort of reach and I guess I should probably just stop buying them too. But Just look how cute my Chocolate covered little boy is. Don't you just wanna nibble him all up?!

CupCakes

Last night Morgan and I made some cupcakes to take to Pauls brother, his wife, and their girls. We loaded some up on a plate and took them over to the girls. Obviously I haven't learned my lesson about leaving stuff out in Morgans reach, because I left the cupcakes we didn't frost on the counter and when we came home and I was sitting here on the computer, I look over and there is cupcakes all over the carpet. And boy are they enjoying them. Of course I couldn't clean up the mess first without documenting their mischief so I can later show them in life what the little trouble makers they once were.

Temple Lights

Last Night I decided it would be fun to go as a family to go and see the Temple lights. The weather was so nice. Not too warm that it didn't feel like Christmas time, but not too cold that we were freezing our butts off and couldn't enjoy ourselves. Last year Morgan would get so excited to see lights anywhere we were and she would oooh and aaw over all of them. Paul and I were kind of hoping she would react the same way this year because it was so cute. I don't know if its because our kids are kind of sick and were both tired but we hardly got any reaction out of either of them. Morgan did get excited about some of the purple lights though. I think we will have to take them back again when they are feeling completely better and maybe they will enjoy it a little more.

The Pictures are backwards just fyi. Last night after Paul was working he decided that he wanted to have a fire and eat dinner outside. We went to his parents place to pick up some firewood from chopped up tree branches of theirs and came home and Paul and Morgan got to work on building the fire. The kids had fun and it was nice since it wasn't too cold outside. I am excited to roast hot dogs and marshmallows and tin foil dinners in our new fire pit sometime.

Potty Training

We stated potty training Morgan back in June and she was doing so good. After the first few days she got the hang of it and then we went on a camping trip and she kind of relapsed, but then we got her back on track. It has been like that for almost the past 5 months where she will do really good, and then she acts as though she never knew how to go to the potty in the first place.
I am feeling so frustrated right now since I have now changed her pants 3 times today and its only 1:10 in the afternoon. I just don't know what to do. We have tried rewarding her with treats, stickers, etc. Then she learned okay if I go potty I get what I want so then we were taking her potty every 5 min and obviously she wasnt going that often just so she could get a treat. I know she knows when she has to go potty because sometimes she tells us and other times she just stands there with her legs crossed saying no pee pee. Anywho, I am just so tired of this going on. I feel like after 6 months of no diapers during the day she would have the complete hang of it by now. And there is no way I am going back to putting her in diapers and starting this all over again. She is old enough now to be potty trained. Sometimes she tells me she wants to wear a diaper because Asher wears them. What am I to do?!

Asher is 9 Months

Asher is now 9 Months old and I can't believe it. The time has seriously just flown right past me and before I know it my little baby is going to be 1 and no longer my little boy but my big boy. He is such an awesome baby and we have been so blessed to have him as a part of the family. We all just love our little "buddy boys"! We went to the doctor today and got his stats which are

• Weight-19.12 pounds (60%)
• Height 28 inches (49%)
• Head Circumference 17 3/4 inches (50%)

I know I just did a little update on him not that long ago but he has started doing some new things have happened

• Asher first top tooth has just popped through and another one is on its way. He will very soon have 4 teeth.
• He can stand on his own with no hands for a good amount of time before falling
• Today I saw him pushing a toy around and walking with it while leaning on it. I have a feeling it won't be too long before he learns to walk. I give him 2 months.
• He is STILL NOT sleeping through the nights. Partly due to teething and being sick and his momma feels way too bad making him cry it out when I know he doesn't feel good.
  

I pulled out what Morgans 9 month stats were so I could compare the 2 and here they are

• Weight-20.2 pounds (75%)
• Height-29 inches (90%)
• Head Circumference-17 3/4 inches (75%)

Its fun to see how close together they are in the three areas. Its weird though because their head circumference was the exact same but they percentiles are different. Maybe the range is different in boys and girls.

Sprinkles, Sprinkles, EVERYWHERE!

I have come to the conclusion that I must put child locks on every cabinet door, protectors on every door knob, and keep everything out of reach. I was seriously in my room for 5 min when I come back out to find THIS! Morgan and Asher got into my cake decorating stuff and had the time of their lives playing and eating my sprinkles. Funny since I believe it was just yesterday that they were in M&Ms and Ashers face and clothes were covered in those. These two little kids are very mischievous.I better keep a closer eye on them or else I have a feeling I will be cleaning up many more messes like this one. And the one before.
Thank goodness for hard wood floor vacuums otherwise this would have been a horrible mess to clean up. Those round little sprinkles were just rolling around everywhere when you tried using the broom. The floors were seriously covered in sprinkles all over the kitchen. Its a little hard to get mad at them for getting into this huge mess when they just looked so darn cute. Especially Ashers face covered in sprinkles.