Kindergarten Registration

On March 14, 2012 I took Erica to Enoch Elementary for Kindergarten Registration.  CRAZY!  She isn't big enough for kindergarten.  I can't believe that she is 5 now.  I'm so excited for her.  She can't wait to start going to school.  We always drive by the school while taking her to preschool and she proudly starts I'm going to go there someday, or that's going to be my new school.  I must admit that I'm also excited.  After having three kids at home all day I'm ready to start onto a new phase of my life.  Mom and Dad are so excited for you Erica to start school.  Can't wait for you to learn new things and make life long friends.  Love you baby girl.

Potty Trained

Jackson had now been officially potty trained for about three weeks now.  It has been so weird for me to not have to change two kids diapers.  After having to do it for so long I get worried when I think that I have forgotten to change Jackson's diaper and then realize that I don't have to anymore.  This experience has been so much nicer for me.  After going though this with Erica (who I feel I pushed to hard to be potty trained) this was a breeze.  He just decided to do it.  He would tell me that he need to go and so he went.  After about a week of this we finally gave him his big boy underwear and he has done great.  We have had a few accidents but nothing to major.  Congratulation's Jackson.  Mom and Dad are so proud of you. 

15 Months

Weight:  23lbs 4oz  Height:  30 3/4 inches

Head circumference:  18 1/4 inches

In February Derek turned 15 months.  He has finally started going down the stairs on his own.  He turns at the top of  the stairs and slides down on his tummy.  He has recently started scooting down the stairs on his bum.  He can say ball and tickle tickle.  He has three molars and the fourth is on its way.  He also loves to kiss his Mom and Dad.  We will ask for a kiss and he will just place his lips on our cheek or lips.  Then he will pull back with a big smile.  Derek is very interested in books.  He loves to sit on our laps at night when we read stories for bed time.  He will pick books to bring to us, and is very good at siting to listen to the story.  He is still such a happy little boy.  People are always asking me if he is all ways so happy and smiley.  I say, yes unless he wants something.  I love my baby so much.  It makes me sad to think that he wont be a baby for that much longer.

February Happenings

Erica and Jackson's Nana sent them these cute dress-ups for Valentine's Day.  (Erica is wearing her new swim suit under the outfit.)

 

Erica had such a great time taking care of her patients on the coach behind them.

At one point she had be go and take care of her patient and told me to give them purple medicine and salt because the patient likes salt.

Erica taking care of Derek while Grandma Kenney holds him.

I found Derek hanging out while the kids were watching a movie.

I love those Blue eyes.

Cute toothy grin.

Erica hanging out on the top of the coach.  She wanted me to take pictures of her after I had taken some of Derek on the pink coach.

 At the end of January we started having trouble with our computer.  While I was looking something up the computer got a really bad virus that recked the whole computer.  We were so glad that our hard drive was safe with all of our pictures and video.  We decided to get a new computer since ours was 6-8 years old.  We had heard really good things about Apple so we took a family trip down to St. George.  We had a fun time taking the kids to the temple visitor center and then having a little dinner picnic across the street.  We then went to the Apple store and bought a computer.  We were very excited about it.  After a couple of days we discovered we did not like the computer.  Brent hooked it all up and when it was time to hook the hard drive up the computer incripted all of the files.  We had lost all of our pictures and family video just because of that computer.  I took it back to St. George with the kids and was refunded.  We later bought and HP laptop and love it.  After being in such a scare and saying a lot of prayers Brent's friend from work was able to uncover all of our info and pictures on our hard drive.  Thank goodness.  I was feeling so sick for about two weeks.

 Jackson wanted to help dad with shoveling the walks after a big snow storm.

 Love the flip flops.

This little guy is Brent's big helper.  He loves to do everything with his dad.

Farewell Rapunzal

Yesterday Jackson flushed Erica's tiny Rapunzal doll down the toilet. I had a hard time explaining to Erica were she went (where do you think she went?) She spent the rest of the day telling everyone she could that Rapunzal went where the poop goes. Lol

Valentines

Today I have been thinking a lot about my family and how much I love them.  This morning when I went in to get Derek out of bed I just couldn't resit smiling and just loving this cute little boy.  I love it when he hurries to stand up in bed and gets so excited to see you.  Erica has been a little sweet heart today.  She and Jackson have been covering each other with heart stickers all morning.  I made pink waffles for the family and while we were sitting at the table Jackson was taking all his stickers and covering his Dad with them.  Brent was so sweet to give me an Amazon gift card for Valentines so the I could buy a book for my new ipad.  I'm so grateful for Brent.  He does so much for our family.  He provides for us so the I can stay home with the kids, and he is so loving and fun with the kids.  I'm so grateful for my cute little family.

All Our Pictures are Gone

We got a really bad virus on our computer this last week.  We had all of our pictures on an external hard drive and when we hucked it up to our new computer it did something and now all our info is gone.  I was hoping that if anyone has pictures of our family if they would email them too me.  Thanks so much. 

carolkdavis@gmail.com

Happy 3rd Birthday Jackson

On Thursday Feb. 2nd Jackson turned 3 years old.  Can't believe how fast this last year went.

He has learned so much this past year while going to Early Intervention.  His speech has improved by leaps and bounds.  Well on to the birthday stuff.  We had the family Birthday Party Wednesday evening so that all our family here in Cedar could be there.  He was so excited for his Birthday cake.  He told be that he would like a Dora and Diego cake but I only had Dora so that was out for a Birthday Boy.  So he excitedly decided on a Basketball cake with mint chocolate ice cream.

He received so many wonderful gifts.

G&G Dunnell: Alphabet coloring book, balloons, and a shirt.

G&G Kenney:  4 sets of new PJ's.

Walsers:  A power ranger with a motorcycle.

Erica and Derek: Blue Lego Mater from the movie "Cars 2"

Mom and Dad: Yellow Lego car from the movie "Cars 2"

He was so excited about all of his gifts.  It is so much fun to watch his excitement that he has when opening his gifts.  All of the cousins played for a little while longer and then we said goodnight to family.

On his Birthday Jackson when and played with Grandma Kenney in the morning while I took Erica to dance class.  He had tons of fruit snacks and played games with Grandma.

In the evening we had pizza for dinner and then got ready to go swimming as a family.

The Walser's watched Derek for us while the rest of us went swimming.  Jackson was brave and went down some slides.  He doesn't like being in deep water though.  He has fallen in a couple of times and gets really nervous.  He loved the fish slide and the bubbling water.  Erica was lots of fun too, she is now putting her head under the water.

On Friday we skyped Nana and she was able to watch Jackson open his gift from them.  He received some cute doctor scrubs and a cowboy shirt that his Nana made for him.  He loves to dress up.

Thanks for all the family in making Jackson's Birthday a great success.