A Peek-a-boo Game

Eliza loves to play this little peek-a-boo game with Porter when he's in his high chair. She has to scoot the high chair across the whole kitchen first before they can start their game, so that is why they are next to the pantry... that is not where I feed him. It is fun to see your kids get to the stage where they play together.

Random Pictures from last week

Walking along Columbia River - Memorial Weekend

Porter chillin' outside

My Handsome Boys

We're Falling In Love

I'm in love with these kids...
(Mother's Day Pic)

Eliza's fallen in love with the phone...
(she is talking to Mimi)

Porter has fallen in love with dirt...

Eliza has fallen in love with Barbies...

They have fallen in love with Mom and Dad's bed in the morning hours...

A little young to be falling in love this way...

Daniel put her arm around Tanner to be funny, but she kept it there a little while. She got a few weird looks from Tanner.

This oughta hold ya

Having a hard time finding {making} time to go through the process of:
-Downloading pics onto Dan's laptop (when and if he brings it home)
-Then putting them on a memory stick
-Then from the memory stick, downloading them on our home computer.
Writing it down makes me feel that it shouldn't be that hard, so why is it?
So I promise I've been taking pictures and will post them soon... Maybe...
In the mean time this oughta hold ya over {Mimi}.

EFG

This video is EFG (Especially For Grandma's)
Eliza is getting to the fun stage of pretending and playing with Barbies, and any stuffed animal or doll and pretending they can talk. We even have pretty good conversations with my hands (this started when she was in the beginning stages of potty training and boredom struck as we were sitting on the toilet all day). I know I am probably the only one who can understand Elizanese, but subtitles weren't an option with this video. Enjoy.

We've been doing {this} a lot:

{Playing at the Park}

{Watching movies}

Last Saturday Daniel decided we should have an Outside movie night. It was so fun as we all cuddled together to watch our favorite Horton movie!

This is Eliza being the mean kangaroo that goes "Humph".

Our Peterson friends watching Jonah (Veggie Tales).

{Falling Asleep}
Porter has started falling asleep all over the place. His little body is getting worn out from all that crawling!

{Taking Baths}
Lots of dirt when we play outside all day!

{Falling Down}
Brought Porter to bed with me after a rough night of teething and he moves so much now, he fell off the bed onto our night stand and the bottom drawer was open, OUCH! He looks a lot better now.

Confessions of a Potty Trainer

Potty training Eliza has really not been too bad. I mean, it definitely could be worse (knock on wood because we have only been doing it over 2 weeks). I’m just happy I don’t have 2 kids in size 4 diapers anymore! There are some journal worthy stories that must be documented, and I confess that maybe it was me that needed Potty Training training. This experience has not been without accidents! We went to the park last Tuesday and Eliza had an accident. I knew she would, but she wouldn’t go before we left for anything and in the rush out the door I didn’t bring anything but our picnic lunch. Eliza wouldn’t keep her wet panties and shorts on so I carried her home on my hip while pushing Porter in the stroller. I was a sight to see and it was the longest walk home from the park EVER! I hope someone got a good laugh over it. A nice friend called me after and said, “I’ve been there!” Thanks!!
But the best story so far is definitely our Easter Sunday. We all woke up excited and ate breakfast and got dressed so we could start our “Eggcellent Easter Scripture Hunt”. I let Eliza play outside for a minute while I curled my hair and she came running in saying “potty toilet”. I put her on the toilet only to find that the deed had already been done and there was “stuff” all over her and her dress. “That’s fine, it happens” I told myself and Daniel and I cleaned up the mess and put her in a bath and Daniel fixed the clogged up toilet while I threw her dress in the wash, I was determined she wear her new Easter dress on Easter! Finally, her dress was washed and dried so we started our hunt. All was well, she was finding the eggs and eating the candy. Then again the cry came “potty toilet”, this time the mess was a little more watered down, if you know what I mean, and yes, it was all over her dress. I looked at my watch and I still had enough time to wash and dry it again before church, so we did. She finished the egg hunt in a pull-up and she had it on for the rest of the day and did not have another accident! Eliza had a really hard time at church too, I don’t know why she hates it, even Nursery now. Any suggestions would be wonderful! But it may go down in our family history as the “worst Easters I ever had” :) (I hope there are some Nacho Libre fans out there).

This dress had been washed and dried twice before this picture!