Mother's Day, Aiden's 4 Month Appointment, Memorial Day Weekend & Potty Training

Mother's Day, the one day a year that I ask for a day off.  Kyle tried very hard to pull that off.  He was a total champ!  Every Sunday Kyle has to go to church meetings starting at 7 AM...so that leaves me to get myself, two boys and a diaper bag ready for church in the morning.  But for Mother's Day the meetings were canceled and Kyle got the boy's ready and I just had to worry about myself.  By the time we got to church, Kyle was sweating. haha When we came home Kyle had made an awesome dinner and cleaned it all up too!  I'm so grateful for a man like Kyle who really does appreciate me as a wife and mother.  His dream, as much as mine is for me to be a stay at home wife and mom.  He works so hard for that to happen. I truly am so grateful for him.  The other day at work he said he was having a conversation about how Mormon Men don't let women reach their full potential, because they want all the women at home and raising babies and taking care of the house.  Never have I felt more like I'm reaching my potential as when I am at home with my boys.  I am proud to say I stay at home and raise two boys.  I love my calling as a wife and mother, and I truly do feel like I could have no great effect on the world then right here in my own home.  I am trying to raise half decent beings, who will grow up and change the world by being good, hard working, kind men.
  

Right around the time Aiden turned 4 months, I got mastitis.  Never have I ever felt so terrible!  It was a serious hell.  I was too sick to take Aiden to his 4 month appointment so Kyle got to take him.  HE weighed 14 lbs and is 25 inches tall.  He's growing like a bean.  He's already scooting around the place and rolling over.  We started to feed him cereal and bananas.  Next is carrots.  When we feed him, Camden sits right next to me and tells Aiden to open his mouth, and then claps for him when he takes a bite! haha I think Camden thinks it's natural to clap for someone when they eat their food.  That is what happens I guess when your the oldest child and the only grandchild/nephew!
   

Memorial Day was so awesome!  My baby sisters graduated High School the Wednesday before Memorial Day.  So we all went home to celebrate her.  I'm so proud of her..she really is such a beautiful girl, inside and out!  She's going to conquer whatever comes her way!

   


The next day most of my sisters and I went to Boise to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Soul to Soul concert! Oh my gosh!  It was amazing! I mean they are classic country, what I grew up listening to!  I was so excited to see Tim McGraw  and he was good, but Faith!  She was amazing!! She sounds just as good live as she does recorded!  And she as all over the stage. I was amazed by her energy.  It was so fun! My sisters got to hold touch Faith's Hand.  One of their last songs they went through the crowd and they went right by Erica, Staci and Holli.
    

For the rest of the weekend, we striped by dad's roof.  I thought, okay, this will be hard...umm..I had no idea how hard it would be.  My dad hired all of us kids, and two local folks to take it all off...it took two days to strip that roof.  It was double layered.  It was some serious manual labor!  And I don't think there is an easier way to get it done. It is some serious labor!  I learned only buy a house with a new roof.  Kyle started on Thursday morning and worked all day, Friday at about 6AM I hear my mom and dad running around and I roll over to Kyle and said, "my dad is on the roof! can you go help him?" Kyle's eyes go wide open and he jumps out of bed and says, "IT'S RAINING" Long story short...my parents house was leaking majorly where Kyle had stripped the roof already. They hurried and put tarp and plastic down, but the damage had been done.  My parent's storage room was flooded!  Luckily it was just the storage room and not like the kitchen or a bedroom.  It was a crazy morning!  The roof got finished and it looks great!  Hopefully my parent's won't have to ever worry about it again!

So, for a few weeks.  Camden would wake up in the morning, ask to go potty, and then we'd get on the potty .5 seconds later...he would declare that he was done.  Having done nothing in the potty.  So, we get back from Memorial Day weekend, and I decide it was go time! I was seriously about to quit after two hours.  I didn't know that my toddler peed so frequently! He just peed all the time, all the time!! Being niave...only bought one pair of unders....and we went through all of them by noon! haha When people said potty training was hard...I just didn't get why!  But now I do!  Two weeks later, I think we have finally gotten it down.  I am so proud of him!  It took about a week for him to understand what we were really doing, but lately...He's been telling me every time he needs to go potty...even #2!!!  HaPpY DaNcE!!!!!

Cheetos For going #2!!!! Every last crumb!

This last weekend Kyle and Camden went on their first father/son campout!  I was so excited for Kyle and Camden to be able to go! Camden didn't know what we were getting ready for, but when they got there Kyle said they had so much fun!  I was nervous about Camden going because he hasn't quite got #2 down, but I told Kyle he had to stay in unders because I didn't want him to regress. So Kyle got up to the campsite and started getting everything set up when he realized that Camden had yet to go potty since before we left.  So Kyle pulls down his pants and teaches him how to stand and hold "it" while trying to pee.  Camden only wanted to squat while he peed.  Which makes me laugh because Kyle always says that Camden needs more boys in his life, and this was a good example as to why that is true.   Kyle finally got Camden to do go to the bathroom and they made it the whole weekend.  They both loved it and had a great time.  They had hot dogs for dinner and then pancakes for breakfast.