Summer Fun

Walk around the Green Belt in Idaho Falls with Friends

Trip to Jackson Hole with the Hendricks 

Jetskiing with the Bringhurst Family

Camping on the 4th of July in Lava with friends 

Potty Training

POTTY TRAINING
Kidding...but not kidding. Haha.
Day 1 was good. She was kinda starting to understand it all. Not a whole lot of crying involved.
Day 2-HORRIBLE.
Day 3-better.
We are now on week 2 1/2. She does really well, for the most part. We have good days and bad days. 2 accidents tops during the day. It's challenging and so far this is my least favorite "milestone".
You hear about all of these "Potty train your child in 3 days" crap and if you can do that, Seriously, good for you. I am not that kind of a patient person...so that whole hype of a thing...not for me. I could not sit in a bathroom for three days straight trying to entertain my child while she is sitting on the pot. Not for me.
So I will tell you how we have been doing it. I continually ask her (about every 30 minutes) if she "needs to go pee pee on the potty". I found that if she says "no". She doesn't need to go...BUT. If she doesn't respond...she does need to go. And about every hour I take her to go potty, whether or not she says "no". And she goes just about every time.
Rewards: we give her 1 M&M every time she "tries" to go on the potty and 2 or 3 M&Ms and a sticker for when she actually does go. We tried the whole sticker chart thing...but than she wanted to stick them on her shirt or some random place that I wouldn't find until a week later. So now I just give them to her and let her do what she wants with them....they are all over my house.

Big girl 

Raymie and Daddy-sitting on the Potty

She is too adorable 

Excited to get her new panties...she did not know what to do with them...

Raymie stays in her panties all day so that she can feel if she does pee her panties. She only wears a diaper at night and pull-ups for her nap (which are almost always dry when she wakes up). We do put her in pull-ups when we go grocery shopping, etc. Because grocery shopping already stresses me out. I don't want to have to deal with that nonsense. I put leg warmers on her while she wears her panties...so that if she does pee...it doesn't get on my carpet, plus they keep her legs warm, and they are adorable.
Raymie really has done a fantastic job at potty training and she is really starting to understand it all. She has a small pink ladybug potty that she can reach herself and she loves it. She likes to pull her pants and panties down all by herself.
Today we went to get the mail and she said she needed to go potty. So...I pulled her pants down right there and she went. Yes, I am teaching my DAUGHTER to go pee pee outside. So what?! She's going to need to learn sometime right? We go camping a lot. That's my excuse, or so I thought. Until tonight we were gathered around our apartments with a bunch of people and their children and all of a sudden someone says "Uh, your kid is stripping.". I look over and Raymie has her pants and pull-ups down and she is peeing right there on the sidewalk! There is a little 2 year old boy standing right next to her, looking at her like shes a weirdo and probably thinking...why doesn't she have a waggly tail. And I run up to her and tell her that she did a good job and pull her pants back up....but she said she needed to go potty and started to pull them down again...so we did...and she peed a little more. hahahahaha it was hilarious. Maybe I shouldn't let her pee wherever she wants?.........?

BABY BOY

I'm 23 weeks!
I feel like this pregnancy has been a breeze compared to Raymie. The only real problem is my belly is HUGE. You know what they say "once the balloon has already been blown up, it's easier to blow up the second time". So very very true. This little guy is sitting a lot lower than Raymie ever did (even though it doesn't look like it). Lets just say that my pregnancy pants and such are already tight to the point that I have to get bigger ones...and I'm already wearing the biggest ones I have.
I'm really hoping to keep the swelling down with this pregnancy. With Raymie I had 3+ pitting edema in my ankles...not kidding. So I'm doing a lot of propping me feet up and trying to drink more water (which I HATE). I am starting to try to do a little bit of working out too....because I feel fat. Like excessively fat.
This little guy enjoys kicking me in the bladder. I have had to pee way more often with this pregnancy than the last one...not that you needed to know that. I honestly feel like he is going to fall out any second. No bueno.
We had the ultrasound when I was 20 weeks along and unfortunately we couldn't get a picture of his little face. :( He was so squished in there. Poor little guy. The placenta was squishing one side and the uterus the other side. So we only got a little bit of a picture of his nose and mouth. He didn't mind showing off his goods though. Hahaha. He is definitely a BOY.

Poor little guy...so squished. 

Side view...fatty 

Fat belly-23 weeks

Raymie doesn't really understand the concept of it all yet. When we ask her where the baby is she pats my belly....or my breasts sometimes....I guess she doesn't understand the difference. Hahaha. Weirdo. We were with some friends that had a 2 week old and Raymie just adored him. She tried to pick him up and kept saying baby and giggling the entire time. She LOVED it. I'm hoping she will be ok with losing all of the attention though. That could get a little rough.