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We've spent quite a bit of time at home lately. Mostly because I got my wisdom teeth out, then Rick was crazy busy translating for General Conference last week, and I've been busy starting to pack up boxes for when we move. 

So anyway, here are a few random pictures I've taken the past little while. They don't really have any rhyme or reason but I wanted to have them on the blog so they'll be included in our family journal/book thing. 

Kimbri practicing sitting on the toilet. She insisted
on having a wet wipe and she pretended to "wipe". Ha!

This was when it snowed the other morning... we made it a lazy morning
and Kimbri watched Charlotte's Web with a pig figurine on her lap.
How fitting since she was watching a movie about a pig! Haha :)

Wild hair after taking a bath. Her hair is finally starting to grow!

And here is our little munchkin with his adorable chubby cheeks.

Lately he has been way in to sucking on his hands :-)

Garrett likes to be propped up on the couch- then we
can  tickle his belly and play peek-a-boo!

More pictures of him eating his hands....

Kimbri and Garrett are such a joy in our lives. They bring us so much happiness! I'm so grateful that we get to be together forever. Oh how I love them so much!

Garrett ~ 3 Months

Garrett turned 3 months old yesterday! I feel like I say this all the time but it sure seems like time flies. He is growing so fast and I feel like he's changing and getting more grown up every day!

- He loves to be held facing outward. 

- His smiles melt my heart!

- The newest trick of his is laughing. I love to hear him laugh. Today I was tickling him on his belly and sides and he was laughing so hard! And it just made me so happy. 

- We weighed him today and he is already 14 lbs 8 oz! He's a big, chubby, squishy, handsome guy. I love those chubby rolly legs of his! And of course his chubby cheeks. I have to use the word chubby a lot when talking about Garrett. Haha :)

- He is wearing 3-6 month clothes right now and we are moving up to size 2 diapers. We need to be able to get the diaper around his fat bum and thighs!

 - Garrett does NOT like tummy time very much. He seems to enjoy it only a tiny bit more if I prop him up on a pillow. He's like Kimbri when she was a baby... she didn't enjoy tummy time either.

- He has been sleeping pretty good. Just within the past week he has seemed to get a schedule down, so hopefully it sticks! He goes to sleep around 9 ish, wakes up around 3am and again around 6:30 or 7am.  It's not always exactly those times but he usually does one pretty long stretch of sleep and then another shorter stretch before waking up again to eat. Hopefully he keeps up with this schedule... and hopefully his sleeping stretches start getting even longer and longer!!

Garrett was pulling some cute faces earlier so I whipped out the camera:

Potty Time & Dinner Time

Earlier this afternoon Rick had to head out the door for a shift in the ER at the Payson Hospital.... It is now 9:30pm and a lot has happened since then! 

We worked in Kimbri's room for a while. I'm starting to pack some things that we won't need between now and the time we move.  I propped Garrett up on my body pillow on the floor and put Kimbri in her crib with a bin of toys. I had to put her in the crib cause I didn't want her accidentally stepping or falling on Garrett!

After a while Garrett took a short nap so Kimbri and I read books together. I always have to take advantage of time that Garrett is asleep to give Kimbri some one-on-one time with mommy:) I enjoy it probably as much as she does. I love having her sit up on my lap and reading books with her. She definitely loves books! 

A while later, when Garrett woke up is when chaos began. Oh boy! Garrett started crying and of course he was probably hungry since he had just taken a nap and before that had spent time laying on the floor in Kimbri's room. By the time I went back to our bedroom to get Garrett from his nap, Kimbri was playing in the back part of the house, so I decided I would just sit on the end of our bed and nurse Garrett so I could keep an eye on Kimbri at the same time.

All of the sudden Kimbri came running around the corner and lifted the lid up to her little potty seat (we haven't officially started potty training yet but we have a potty sitting in the back hallway to get her used to it), anyway, she lifted the lid up and then came running into the bedroom, trying with all her might to get her shirt off. 

Side note: The few times that she has actually went to the bathroom in the potty, she for some reason likes to be in the nude.

Anyway, getting a shirt off a little girl one-handed is pretty easy. However then she ran back to the potty and was trying to get her pants and diaper off. I very quickly realized that she actually did need to go potty and that she herself was realizing it too! I hurried and set Garrett down, who was still nursing, so he was NOT happy about having his meal interrupted. I hurried to take off Kimbri's pants and diaper, because doing that one-handed is a lot more difficult, and she sat down on the toilet. 

I ran back into the bedroom and picked up Garrett and went back to the hallway with Kimbri, sat down on the floor and started nursing Garrett, while keeping an eye on Kimbri, this time while she just sat on the toilet. 

Well, she for some reason decided to stand up. I peeked inside the potty thinking that she must've gone since she stood up. Nope. So, I put her back down on the toilet, not wanting her to have an accident on the floor. Then it starting going through my mind that maybe she didn't need to go potty, because her diaper was pretty wet when I took it off. 

So right after sitting her back down on the toilet, she decided to get back up. I again tried to get her to sit back down on the toilet, while still trying to nurse Garrett. Well this time she obviously had another plan in mind. She squatted right next to the potty and started peeing!!!!  I tried so hard to get her back to the potty but the damage was already done. Wouldn't sitting on the pot be soooo much easier than squatting next to it?? Ha. I guess not for a 20 month old. 

After finishing her business... on the floor... she stood back up, turned around, and stared at the pee on the floor. Meanwhile I was panicking because I could read her mind on what her next move would be... to stick her hands in it and splash it all around. And it was not just a few drops, it was like a full on puddle! I had to stop Garrett from nursing, again. Poor guy! And I gently plopped him on the floor in our bedroom and ran into the kitchen to get some paper towels, all the while trying to get Kimbri to not touch the puddle of pee. Surprisingly after the first try touching it, she didn't try again. She just stood there, watching me act all panicked, running from one room to the other. Garrett was crying so hard, so I ran back into the bedroom with the clean paper towels in hand, picked him up and went back to the hallway. I bent over trying to clean up the pee, while holding a baby, Kimbri watching. Then all the sudden she decided she wants to help clean it up! And of course she grabs the soaking wet paper towel full of pee, trying to help. Haha. By this point I had to just set poor Garrett down again and get the pee cleaned up and get a diaper on Kimbri. 

Wow.

By this point I'm just laughing in disbelief at what had just happened in such a short amount of time. (I feel like it just took me forever to explain what happened... but really if only took a few minutes for this to all happen).

I got it all cleaned up, washed my hands, picked Garrett back up and walked into the front room, where Kimbri wandered off to, in only a diaper, and I sat down on the couch and continued to nurse Garrett. 

Then I just had to laugh out loud again, thinking to myself how this will be funny to look back on. It will be a fun memory of being a mother of two young children, sitting on the floor nursing a baby, while trying to help the toddler to pee in her little potty.  

Even though it's hard sometimes, I love making memories like these, with my precious little kids. They are such a joy in my life and I'm so grateful I get to be their mommy!

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The rest of the night has been just a tad bit calmer. By the time I got done feeding Garrett, Kimbri was ready to eat. How did I know? She was off to the kitchen and getting what she pleased out of the refrigerator. 

Strawberries and pickles.

I gave her some strawberries but decided to save the pickles for another day. Oh how that girl loves her pickles! She hadn't finished her yogurt from earlier so I gave her that and some crackers. Lately I've been trying to let her be more independent while eating, instead of just feeding her myself. So, since she  only had a diaper on, from the incident earlier, I put a bib on her, handed her a spoon and the cup of blueberry yogurt, and let her go to town. 

She loved it... but after a while she decided to plop her whole hand into the yogurt cup and shook her hand, flinging yogurt all over the place. Ha Ha Ha... I'm getting good at cleaning up messes :)

At least she was enjoying herself!

Wisdom Teeth

No. There will be absolutely NO pictures on this post because I don't want to remember the event of my wisdom teeth getting ripped out. Ok, so I don't remember them actually getting ripped out, they put me to sleep, but I have definitely felt the effects of it! 

The oral surgeon said that it's best to get your wisdom teeth out when you're about 16 or 17 years old. Well I'm almost 24. Blah. Well, my left side wisdom teeth came in while I was pregnant with Kimbri and they gave me issues while I was pregnant with Garrett. So I finally decided I should probably get them out.

 I got them removed on Friday, March 29 and it seems like it's taking forever to recover from it! Today I feel soooo much better! I've finally graduated from mashed potatoes, crushed up ramen, and Cream of Wheat to macaroni and cheese! I just wish that I could eat normal already! 

Anyway, my follow up appointment is tomorrow. Hopefully everything looks good. I've been sooooo scared of getting an infection or dry socket or whatever so hopefully it's uphill from here! 

Also, today, April 4, is Garrett's 3 month birthday!! Yay!

Kimbri ~ 20 Months

Time flies. I feel like time didn't used to fly. Like back when I was a little kid... school years seemed to take forever! Even in high school each school year seemed so long. But since getting married and having kids, wow, time really does fly! 

Kimbri isn't a baby anymore. Sometimes she likes to be... like when she crawls into Garrett's bassinet (that also used to be Nolan's bassinet and on down). I was out in the front room with Garrett, holding and cuddling him, trying to kepp him happy. Usually if Kimbri leaves she goes and gets a toy or something and brings it back out to the front room. She hadn't come back and it had been a couple minutes so I stood up and went to check on her. 

This is how I found her! In the bassinet. 

At first it startled me, then scared me because I thought about all the possible ways she could've hurt herself trying to get in it, and then I laughed! And then I laughed again and ran to get my camera because I thought it was soooo hilarious. She was just hanging out, laying in the baby's bassinet! Ha! And apparently totally relaxed and enjoying the moment ;)

And yes, she has no clothes on. That is because so often when I get her up in the morning to change her diaper, I take her jammies off and get a clean diaper on and then she's had enough of laying on the changing table. So yes, I sometimes let her run around the house in only a diaper. She loves it so why not?! 

Anyway, I just can't believe that Kimbri is already 20 months. She'll be turning 2 years old this summer! 

Some things that Kimbri loves to do:

-Reading! She loves to look at books and I love to read to her. She's learning so much everyday and I think reading books has really helped her to learn different things. 

-She can make the sounds of soooo many different animals now. I don't think I could even list them all. 

-Kimbri is obsessed with the letter "B". My mom got her a DVD of several different shows and one of them is called Little Bill. On this particular episode Little Bill goes to school and learns about the letter "B". It totally messed up our practicing her ABC's. Haha! We had been practicing the letters A, B, and C. Now she thinks every single letter is "B". Oh well. She'll figure it out soon enough :)

-Kimbri also loves Dora the Explorer. That's what she likes to watch in the morning when we all get up and I'm having to feed both kids at the same time. However, Garrett obviously takes more of my attention when it comes to feeding. So I usually let Kimbri eat breakfast while she watches Dora so I can get Garrett fed and happy. She has learned several words from that show including: Dora, map, backpack (she says bapa), Boots (Dora's friend), and she knows who Swiper is (the fox). Anyway, my mom got Kimbri a pink Dora shirt and Kimbri is totally in love with it. I was dressing her this morning and went to put a shirt on her but when she saw her Dora shirt, that she wore yesterday, she went "uh!" and pointed to it. So she is wearing the same shirt two days in a row! Who cares?! I sure don't. I'm happy that she likes it so much. Haha!

-Some of Kimbri's favorite foods right now are bananas (of course - this has always been one of her favorites), peas, green beans, canned peaches and pears that Grandpa gives her, string cheese and turkey (the deli kind of turkey meat). She also likes crackers and pasta!

-Kimbri loves being outside. I'm excited that the weather is starting to get nicer so we can start going back to the park. She loved going to the park last summer/fall but she and I have both missed going on our daily walks to the park! 

-She loves bubbles. And both Grandma Stone and Grandma Haycock do bubbles with Kimbri. She loves it!

-Kimbri totally enjoys nursery. I think I've mentioned this little fact before on the blog but really... she is obsessed with nursery! And I'm glad that she loves going so much. It's good for her to interact with other kids her age, and the nursery leaders always tell us how good she does! I think she is especially good friends with one of the leaders, Sierra. After I picked her up from nursery yesterday we met up with Rick and Garrett and were walking out to the car when Kimbri saw Sierra walking across the same side of the parking lot and pointed toward her and belted out a very excited "Ah!" I'm grateful for fun, loving nursery leaders that take care of all those precious little children!

-And last but not least, Kimbri loves her little brother! She is so sweet to him and loves to give him kisses on his head. She's such a great big sister!

I LOVE YOU, KIMBRI!!!

Daddy & Garrett

Oh how I love these two boys! 

Sibling Love

Today we were in the car a long time since we all drove up to the airport as a family to drop Zach off and send him on his way to Africa. So Garrett was in the carseat for about 3 hours! When we got home I took him out of his carseat, fed him and changed his diaper, leaving his pants off cause it was pretty warm. I lay him down on the floor to stretch for a while since he'd been in the carseat for so long and Kimbri ran over and lied down beside him. 

This picture turned out kind of blurry...oops! 

Garrett was happy to be out of his carseat!

This is the onsie Olivia got for Garrett

Then Kimbri started giving Garrett kisses on his head...

...and then she smacked him right on the lips! Haha! Oh how she loves that little boy:) And I love both those little kiddos. They are such a joy in my life!