Hospital Tour

Merced's new hospital had tours today and lots of activities on site so we took the boys to check it out. What a beautiful hospital! I'm sad we aren't having any more babies, because the maternity ward was awesome. Dave was sure to get me out of there before I got any ideas!

Medi-flight was on site allowing the kids to check out the helicopter. I hope this is the only time our boys will sit in one of these. Unless of course they are flying it or one of the staff members in the future.

Ready for a ride

We Have Bugs!

Aunt Shannon brought the boys a live butterfly garden kit on her last visit. So a few weeks later I got on the computer and placed our order for the caterpillars and their food. I know, I ordered bugs, amazing! A few days later they were delivered.

I read the directions and we were set to grow our bugs. Because there isn't much change (to Garrett) this has become my little project. It has been fun to watch them grow and change. Garrett will be excited when the butterflies hatch.

April 3rd - lots of little caterpillars (larval stage)
April 18th - 5 chrysalides (pupal stage)

Moved to their Garden to hatch.

Potty Update

After a LONG week last week I would say we are successfully pee pee potty trained. Yes, poop is still a challenge, but we'll get there! We do still do a diaper at night also and that will go away in the near future also. Garrett went to school all week with his big boy underwear on and did quiet well. He did have accidents after nap often or they would put a diaper on him. Waiting for the toilet with 10-12 other kids that need it would be a challenge even for me! So the potty is now out of the living room, stickers are now an after, and he no longer take 2 hours to potty! He willingly picks his underwear everyday, tells us when he needs to potty, and hasn't had one accident with us. Not even when we are out and about. I am still fully prepared for an accident when we are on the go, we are back to carrying a change of clothes for Garrett. He has used the potty at his gym class and even the one at Daddy's work. The toilet at Daddy's work is automatic flushing and that did make him jump, I guess it caught him off guard a little!

He reminds us constantly that he is a Big Boy! We are very proud of our little potty boy.

Potty Training

Holy Mollie is all I can say!

We tried potty training about a month ago for a couple of days and ended with a screaming fight for a diaper. I decided we would wait a few weeks and try again. Well this week we tried again. I thought having Dave home would make it easier to focus on Garrett and the toilet since last time every time we went to the potty Gannon was crawling all over the bathroom and poor Garrett. We did a little more research on training a stubborn 3 year old and so far it's working. We have had a few accidents, but 90% of the business is in the toilet, so progress. We at least know he knows exactly when he needs to go and will sit on the potty for a while before he really goes. At this point I really hope there's no turning back! We'll have him home through the weekend to add progress and then he will use the big boy chair at school.

I did take a picture of the first poo in the toilet, but Dave said I really shouldn't post that! I guess I'll spare you the poo ball!!!

Good job Garrett!

Water Baby

The weather is finally getting warm enough to release the monkeys to the backyard. Garrett saw his water table in the garage a month or so ago and really wanted to take it into the backyard, so we did, without water. Gannon had no clue what it was for so he never messed with it. Garrett was so excited today when I cleaned it up and added water. WOW look out he comes Gannon. He LOVES water! Garrett loves to fill his cups from the spout and transfer from one to the other, he never tries to drink the water. Gannon on the other hand started first think trying to get water in his mouth. You would swear he is dehydrated or something by the way he was trying every maneuver to get a drink.

SERIOUS adult supervision with this toy!

Playing nice

Step 1: I just put water on my hand and hit my mouth

Step 2: Maybe if I dunk my head in the water I'll get more

Trying so hard to get a mouth full

Step 3: The water spout.

Garrett you better move your cup you're brother is crazy

He's a Monkey I Swear

Gannon continues to be a little climber and these are the two pictures I caught in the last two days! As you can see he has a bump on his head and I really surprised he's not a big bruise! He tries to climb in, on, and up onto anything and everything.

Daddy was on the computer so Gannon made his way into this basket to sit with him.

I was doing laundry the other day (I know big surprise, right) and I went into our bedroom to grab another load. When I came back down the hallway this is what I found waiting for me. Crazy kid!

Easter at Grandma's

This year we spent Easter with my family in Merced. Grandma and Papa have had a SERIOUS egg hunt for many years now. Before Dave and I had kids of our own we were the hiders for the other kids. Now that we have kids of our own we don't get there until this process is complete. And let me tell you, it's a process. There are a TON of eggs and the kids love it.

Gannon had is very own "little man area" with eggs scattered on the ground. He was very excited to collect his eggs and knew exactly what to do with them.

Garrett on the hunt. It was very cold this year, but Garrett of course didn't want a jacket so we settled for a hat. Grandma and Grandpa always hid other fun stuff around the yard, but Garrett would pass them right up because only eggs go in the basket. Duh!

Grandma and Papa got a new the Easter Thomas for Garrett and two of the trains came with stickers to create your own train.

Yum, Uncle Bob's ribs. Dave loves when Uncle Bob makes his ribs and as you can see Garrett was enjoying them too.

And so was Gannon. He also enjoyed the garlic bread.

My Little Shoppers

As I mentioned I ran out of vinegar and needed some to make my deviled eggs so after a quick visit to Daddy's work we stopped at the store for a few things. Garrett and Gannon were very excited to drive around the store! I'll have to check out if the Merced store has these cool carts, Gannon would love to shop in one of these every time since he is really into driving right now. He has the steering down!

Easter Basket's

The Easter Bunny delivered the boys baskets to Gannon's closet and since he was the last one up Garrett had to wait a bit for his basket. I'll sent a memo to the Easter Bunny next year! Garrett had no clue he was waiting for something so it really didn't matter. He was very excited when he saw the baskets on the coffee table. He look at us and said "wow, what's that?"

Garrett has been carrying around the little blue basket since Thursday when he came home form school with eggs. He of course wouldn't use the different basket so he has to transfer all his new eggs to the little basket. In his basket was a new movie, "Jungle Book" so we'll see how long it takes for him to want to watch the new movie.
Gannon was excited to get a new Gossie book and we were too! Something new to read.

Baskets and Garrett getting ready for the transfer of goods!

Gannon's News

Gannon has finally taken to drinking from a sippy cup - trick was that he wanted the same kind as his brother. No stupid starter cups here! So we have replaced the bottles for most of his drinks and will hopefully be all the way there soon. This guy really has to do things when he is ready as that has been his pattern since birth. Ate when he wanted to, a month after trying, stopped formula two months after trying, and the cup was about two months after trying. Whatever!

Gannon has always been quite the little eater, but now he will no longer eat food off his high chair tray. He needs a plate and silverware. Look out if you are sitting next to him. Flying food! If his food falls off his plate he will pick it up and put in on the plate for just a second then proceed to eating the same piece. Funny guy.

Sippy cup sighting

Gannon loves to go to Daddy's work because there are goats in the pole barn. He didn't even mind falling in the soiled dirt and proceeded to scoot on his knees closer to the goats. YUCK!

Gannon has caught on to talking on the phone so when he grabs it and I saw hello he quickly puts it up to his ear - or behind his head - same thing!

Coloring Eggs

Garrett was pretty excited to color eggs this year. I didn't have enough vinegar for each cup so I used a cider vinegar that I had and I don't think it worked as well. As you can see below our colors are very dull. Plus 3 minutes is a really long time for Garrett to wait to pull his eggs back out. It was fun. Next year Gannon will be dyeing eggs too. Look out!

All ready for Garrett to start

Garrett loading the eggs into the colors

Smile please - how's that!

All done.

Our Little Bookworm

In this past week Gannon has turned into quite the bookworm. Any time I sit indian style of the floor he grabs a book and brings it over to me, hands me the book, and turns around to sit in my lap so I can read it. Once the first book is done he quickly looks for another one and if there isn't one in reach he wants the same book again. Just keep reading! Gossie is his favorite, but also loves, Goodnight Moon, Are you my Mother, and The Nose Book. He is so smart I will ask him to bring a certain book and sure enough he picks the correct one and brings it over. We love to read at our house so lets hope this habit sticks!!!

Daddy reading to Gannon
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