POTTY TRAINING

Kolton is an awesome kid. He does things normal children don't do. LIKE...He asks to go to bed. I don't know why he does this but he always has. Its wonderful! ;) (There are time when I say its time to go to bed and he doesn't want to, but 6 out of 7 nights a week he asks to go to bed.) Sometimes I'll be folding laundry (like this day) and notice I haven't heard him for a while and I go searching and find him all tucked in his bed taking a mid morning nap.
Kolton loves to paint. He loves to paint pictures for his dad especially. We bought one of those books where when you get it wet it turns colors. Anyway, he loves to paint them for Brady and I love it too because it isn't messy at all.

Dun, dun, dun DUN! Look what we started Saturday, the 6th of November...

POTTY TRAINING Kolton!!

He's a big boy now with his super cool underwear! ;) I wasn't planning on starting on Saturday at all. It all started when Friday night our friends came over and brought some ice cream. It was such a surprise to see Shana and Kit! We were excited! ;) Anyway, I was talking to Shana about how I was planning on starting Kolton with potty training in a couple months. Then I kind of entertained the idea of starting the next week but wasn't sure. She gave me some tips and things that worked with Brigham. I got to thinking about Kolton and he really was showing TONS of signs that he was ready to be potty trained. I DID NOT want to start too early. I would rather have him in diapers for an extra few months then to have to clean up pee 8 times a day so I wanted to be sure it was going to be quick. So on Saturday we went and bought him 20 pairs of underwear. :)

Well, lucky for us he has done MARVELOUSLY! He was ready! He peed his pants on Saturday (expected) but he did not like that very much. He also has a strong desire for Brady and I to be happy with him so he doesn't like to disappoint. We are still working with going "number 2" on the toilet but he's holding strong with the peeing! ;) (When he has an accident in his pants going "number 2" he tends to pee with it but I ignore it and just talk to him about the other side...) I'm so proud with how well he has done! On day 1 of potty training he was already going to the bathroom by himself to go pee without even telling us he needed to go! So, I'd say it has been a success! It definitely pays to wait until they are ready!! SO much easier!!
At first he got treats when he went potty in the toilet (he doesn't anymore--only for going "number 2"). I know, he got big treats (like oreos and milk, pudding cup etc.) but I didn't have little candies so this is what worked. :) He's pretty excited about the huge bite he's about to take! ;)


Liz (Dalton's mom) invited us to the park last week and the weather was amazing! Kolton had such a fun time on the slides, swings, playing baseball, rolling down hills, eating a pizza lunchable (his first one).



Last Wednesday Kolton got a letter in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa Moffett. He was SO excited to open it and see what was inside.

MONEY!! He couldn't wait to go buy something with HIS money!

He carried the card around with him for 2 days straight. Everywhere he went (even just within the house) he wanted the card with him. It was a special treat to get a card in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa telling him how proud they were of him going potty on the toilet.

Thursday night I helped throw a shower for Shana. She's having a little girl the end of December. It was such a great shower! I'm so happy it turned out so well!! I made my first diaper cake to give her as my present. It was relatively easy, I thought! I rolled the inner diapers just in a roll and put a rubber band around them. Then the outer diapers and overlapped them and made them go around the inner layer so it looked more finished (in my opinion). Brittney helped me hold them all in place as we pinned the fabric around each layer so that they'd stay in place. I had bought several things to put on the cake as decoration but I just felt like it was too cluttered so I took them off. I liked the "cleaner" look better. I did keep a few things on (namely those ADORABLE little boots on top--LOVE them!). Brittney also made one of those flowers in to a hair clip so Graci can wear it when she's born.

Thursday I went down to Shana's house and met Mindy there and we three started making the rest of the food. (I know, Shana helped--LAME!) We made some awesome chicken tortilla soup with homemade tortilla chips and shredded rotisserie chicken with several toppings. There was also cornbread, a fruit platter, caramel and chocolate dipped pretzels, oreo truffles, wafer cookies, pink jelly beans, a banana cake, and punch. It was delicious!!


Here's the group! Shana had so many people there that love her! She got SO many wonderful things for her little girl!

Friday night Kolton went to a birthday party for his friend Kashton. It was a superhero party so they each got to make a superhero mask. I cut the eyes for Kolton but let him cut the rest. he also put the stickers on. He LOVED wearing it!

When we got home Brady and him went through the goodie bag and found some yummy treats!

Kolton shared his stickers with me!
Well, we are off to a Thunder game! Yay! Kind of a last minute thing but when you find SUPER cheap tickets you HAVE to jump on them...right?? ;)

the outdoors::

This is what he lives for. He loves it.
He begged for a couple of days to do this.

Yes, he rides with his arms up about half of the time.

This picture makes me laugh. I love Brady's face and I love that Kolton is up off of his seat flying.

Enjoying a nice ride through the neighborhood.

2010 Halloween Festivities

We had a fun Halloween week! On Tuesday night we carved our pumpkin. And by we I mean me. ;) Brady snapped a few pictures and Kolton sat and watched and told me how yucky it was over and over. I'm not one for carving fancy pumpkins but I did let him pick a picture of a pumpkin face he wanted me to carve the pumpkin like. I actually scraped out the pumpkin all by myself this year--I usually enlist Brady's help with it because I can't ever get it clean enough.
Kolton decided to color the back of the pumpkin for some extra decoration while I carved the front.

Here's our pumpkin in all its glowing glory.

And this was Kolton's artistic work. It might look like a bunch of nothing but there is a method to his madness. He concentrates really hard when he colors and works hard and slowly to make the designs he does.

Kolton dressed up as Spiderman this year for Halloween. And coincidentally London and Pierson dressed up as Batman and Robin, so that was kind of fun. Friday night we went to the annual Balkman Halloween party. I've never been before but decided to go this year. It was crazy! There was about 100-125 cars there for trunk or treating in their front yard. I'm not even kidding! (Ask Brady!) It was awesome! Kolton's bucket was full when we was done! I started to take him around while Brady sat at our car and passed out candy but about 10 cars in Kolton wanted his daddy to take him around so I went back to the car and we traded. He has become such a little daddy's buddy lately. I love it.

Checking out all his candy he got! He was excited!

In Moore trick or treating was moved to Saturday night instead of on Sunday so that was nice! I'm glad they did that so that Kolton could go trick or treating!

We met at the Foys at 7:15 for pictures and to get the kids ready to go.

Kolton was dying to go!!!

The Shipmans came with us too! Kade was a cowboy, Kolton was Spiderman and Dalton was a pirate.

We went down two streets and then decided to head back. I was a little disappointed in the trick or treating this year. There was hardly anyone passing out candy. The boys didn't care though! They had fun just the same!





Brady was carrying Kade on his shoulders for a good portion of the night and Kolton got a little jealous so when it was his turn to hop on daddy's shoulders he jumped at the gun.


As you can see his candy loot was quite a bit smaller than from the night before but he didn't care! We still have a massive amount of candy!! He did get some good candy, though! Who passes out theater size boxes of candy?? They never did that when I was a kid!! Lucky boy!
Proof that he's growing too big:
Brady took him to the mall the other day while I was crafting with friends and bought him a new pair of shoes because he outgrew his old ones. Guess what size my 2 1/2 year old wears??!! 11!! I can't believe he wears size 11! He must get his feet from my brothers...

Fall, Friends, H

We had preschool at our house last week and we learned about the letter "H." It was perfect because it was the Tuesday before Halloween so we did lots of Halloween activities. We made ghosts and pumpkins, colored pictures, made trick or treat bags, went trick or treating to all the "h"s I put up around the house, and made cupcakes and decorated them for our families.

We also learned about different hats and their meanings. I tried to make a chef's hat out of paper and let them each wear it. They took turns as we were making and decorating our cupcakes.

We went to our friends house the other day and took some pictures of Kolton with this cute fall setup. We were able to take a couple of pictures before he got too distracted with all the fun things that were there to play with.

Just look at that sweet face!!

Katee was nice to take a picture of all of us!

On Saturday we went to Josh Choate's birthday party at the Revell's house. It was a blast! The kids got to color their own wooden pictures (either a scary house or a monster).

Look at him! He's adorable!! ;)

These two boys crack me up! We were trying to take a picture of them together and they kept pulling each other down and laughing hysterically! They really are like brothers--they'll fight like no one's business but then the next minute are the best of friends.

We are totally in love with this little guy!