Updates

I know I am terrible at keeping up to date with this blog. I promise I have big plans every day, and then I'm just so tired at the end of the day that I forget. So here are a few of the things I've been meaning to add.

First, ALYSSON IS FINALLY POTTY TRAINED! Three cheers to saving $40 a month on her diapers. I have never met a more stubborn child. She has known how to use a potty for over a year now, but she has chosen not to use it until about a little over week ago. We have not had one accident in 6 days!!! Now I just need to get her to get up and go by herself and not come get me every time to go with her.

So, I was reading in my Parenting magazine, and there were quotes from readers about what their kids had taught them. One woman said her kids had taught her that things aren't as obvious as we may think they are. This is so apparent to me right now because Alysson is so full of questions it tries my patience. She asks me who, what, where, when, why and how of everything. But every once in a while she'll ask something so thoughtful, it makes me pause. The other day, we were driving home from Provo as the sun was setting. As the sun finally set all the way and it became full-blown night she asked, "What color is the dark?" I had no answer and turned the question over to Scott who made up something that seemed to satisfy her, but I had to marvel at how her little mind works.

And finally, speaking of how her mind works, Alysson is now a story teller. I'm so excited because I'm just sure she is going to be some famous and brilliant novelist. Here is her latest story:

"Yoshi was a bad dog and had to go outside. It was windy and he blew away. Carson turned into a super-baby and flew to save Yoshi."