kozy contest

So Kosy 106.5 is doing a contest, well I'm not sure if they are doing it anymore; but You submit a picture of your "prince" or "princess" and people vote on the cutest pictures.  The prizes were tickets to the disney on ice tickets, and the grand prize winner was a free trip to Disneyland!  I haven't been on a vacation in more than 2 years, so I was so excited to win this contest!  I dressed up Jackson and Katelyn, and sat them down to take pictures to enter.  They were so cute.  Jackson wrapped his arms around Katelyn and she smiled, they were adorable.  I took them upstairs to submit them, but our computer wouldn't pull up the link to do it.  We have tried 4 other computers and can't enter our picture!  So my photos were never entered =( but I couldn't let them go to waste, so I am putting them on here so that someone can see how cute my kids look!

The Zoo

Last week my mom and I took our kids to the zoo.  It was perfect weather for it!  I actually liked going in the colder weather than in the middle of the summer!  The animals were all out and put on some pretty good shows!

They had a lot of babies there!  A new elephant, giraffe, tiger cubs, & monkeys.  The baby elephant was way cute.  She would stand under her mom, but then when she got in her mom's way, the mom would kick her out from underneath her.  We saw her get kicked out three times!

  I love this picture because once when I was there with Kirt he stood next to the picture of the Male Gorilla and his arms were just as long as the picture!  The sign next to it said that there are few humans with an arm spand as long as a gorilla's.  A couple of Chinese people even walked up and asked if they could take his picture!  Got to love Chinese photographers!Interesting fact about camels!  See how the one camel's hump is hanging over?  Guess why?  During mating season, camels burn a excess amount of calories!  Their humps are full of fat and druing this particular time of fun, they lose a lot of the fat!  Funny!Katelyn was so funny!  I didn't think she would really enjoy the trip at all, on the contrary she loved the animals!  She would make monkey gestures and hit the windows!  She loved the zoo!  When we got home and told Kirt about our trip she started making her monkey gestures again!  I have never had a baby who even cared we were at the zoo.This monkey was so funny!  When we first walked over to them ,this one was holding a baby!  Another monkey ran up to it and grabbed the baby!  It took off with it, but the baby was upside down!  The grown monkey started spakning the monkey on the butt!  This monkey got mad and tried to take the monkey back, but the other one took off up the tree with it.  The poor baby would look between the legs of the older one and had this look of, "what's going on!" on its face!  This one sat in the corner and sulked after that!

The tigers were gorgeous. The mom was just laying there asleep. A lot of people were trying to make her move, but she wouldn't budge. Then Jackson walked up to the fence and said hi to the tiger. It lifted it's head up and looked straight at him! Not kidding! I took this picture of the tiger stareing at him. I wish I could have got Jackson in it too, they stared eachother down for a couple of seconds then the tiger laid back down and went back to sleep!

Potty Training

Well I wrote this once, but it didn't work, so I will try again.  This last week we have started potty training Jackson.  It is my first time potty training anyone, because Brayden was taught by Kirt's mom.  I went into labor with Jackson, sent Brayden to Denise's house for three days, and he came home in red underwear!  I loved it!  This time Denise is in Jerusalem so I am doing in on my own. 
The first day went really well.  He went peepee toilet all day with no accidents, but he couldn't get down the poop thing.  So I cleaned out two pair of underwear (This thanksgiving I am going to be thankful that I didn't live in the clothe diaper era!) and we tried again the next day.  Same story, could do the #1 but not #2.  Well I gave up for a couple of days because I wasn't going to be at home to take him potty every 30 minutes.  Well when we tried again I watched him better.  I saw him in the corner making that "face", you know the concentrating hard face!  I ran him into the bathroom where he proceeded to poop!  I was so excited! (This was one of those moments where I realized you absolutely had to be a mom to be cheering on poop!)  I pointed into the toilet and said, "Look Jackson you did it!"  He looked at me and looked down in the toilet and got really excited!  He then turned to me and pointed at the poop and said, "Look Mom, a fish!"  I about died laughing because he pushed out another piece and said, "Look Mom, another fish!"  After we wiped and washed his hands, Jackson ran out to tell everyone what he had just done.  He ran into the front room and yelled, "I pooped a fish!" 
That was two days ago and now everytime he needs to go #2 he tells me he needs to poop a fish! 

Potty Training

First Day of School!

Isn't it funny how you wait and wait for things to happen, then when they do you sit there and wonder, where in the world did time go? That happened to me today. I woke my baby up this morning, watched him get himself ready, fed him breakfast, handed him his brand new backpack, and watched as he jumped into the car and started bouncing up and down. I drove to West Jordan high school, the location of Brayden's first ever preschool. I waited for him to get nervous and cry for mom, but of course he did not. As soon as the high school boy opened the door, Brayden jumped out yelled by and slammed the door. He practically pulled the boy into the preschool room! I laughed when Kirt said I would cry at this, but of course as soon as he went inside and I turned the car, the tears came a rolling. My baby is 5! I am definitly not old enough to have a 5 year old. I couldn't wait for this day to come. Kirt and I considered putting Brayden in kindergarten early, he only missed the deadline by three days. He can read, write, add, subtract, count to 219 (we aren't sure yet why he can't get passed that number), but he will be so tall and I wanted to send him to school with the most self confidence he could acquire by then. But keeping him home meant I had three babies at home for another year, and I have to say it is like running a marathon from sun up to sun down. I couldn't wait for these five hours a week when I would only have 2 kids. What is funny is I spent the whole time wondering what Brayden could be doing. Of course he had a blast and is asking why preschool can't be "More days a month", but it was still hard for me to send my baby. I am glad I didn't send him to school, I definitly could not have handled that quit yet.