Potty Training

Our little girl is potty trained!

I think I can officially say that. We started charting all her "potties" on a sticker chart right after her Birthday in February. She was pretty good about going when we asked her but we were not that serious about it. With the new baby and our busy schedule Aubrey in diapers was just easier. Last week Friday Sept. 24th we decided to really do it. Every time she would go we would have a potty party with blow horns and a candle. She picked right up on it and has now been in big girl panties for a whole week. Poor little Aubrey got the flu this last week and I thought for sure the potty would be the last thing on her mind but I was wrong she keep up with it and did so good. I can't believe how fast she is growing. She talks so much now and is always asking questions. Aubrey still takes an afternoon nap 2pm-5pm and goes to bed at 7:30pm and wakes up at 8am. Her favorite dinner is homemade mac & cheese with hot dogs and her favorite dessert is ice cream which she calls "cream". She always puts a smile on our faces.

We love you so much Aubrey!

Fall Festival

Last weekend Titi came out to visit. We went to the fall festival in Atwater for the day. It sure didn't feel like fall that weekend I think it was around 95 degrees. All of last week was very hot but the fall is on it's way. This weekend we have had overcast skies and it's supposed to be in the 70's this week yay! Anyways we had a wonderful weekend spending time with Titi. The festival had lots of vendors, yummy food and a fun train that Aubrey loved!

We love you Titi!

Our Little Artist

Aubrey is such a little artist. She loves all kinds of crafts and art. She will color all day if we let her. I have been trying to think of some new ways to keep her busy. Titi gave us a great idea, saving cream art. Aubrey had a blast! (Check out her new hair do!)

When I was younger I use to play with Gack. So we made some and it has been an awesome activity that keeps Aubrey very busy.

End of the summer fun

Our awesome public library has so many fun activities. A few Fridays ago it was an apple themed day. Aubrey loved the apple snack. Later that week they had a puppet show we all went to.

A couple of weekends ago Aubrey, Carter and I went to Sonora to see how the house was coming along and to hang out with my parents. Spencer went fishing with his dad and brothers that day.

Aubrey loves helping dad wash the cars.

Enjoying the warm weather with Deuce.

Carter's 1st Solids

At Carter's 4 month appointment his doctor gave us the aok to start feeding him solids. We waited until we where home from vacation. Carter first tried rice cereal on Friday September 10th. He did great! He sure does love to eat.

Carter's schedule at 4 1/2 months:

Carter nurses every three hours in the day time. We usually give him a little food before we eat dinner. He has tried green beans and carrots. I will post those pictures soon. Carter takes lots of naps through out the day and then at night he takes a long nap from 7-10pm then I feed him and he is out until 7 in the morning. He is a great baby!

Our Watermelon

We have had a great garden this year. I should have taken more pictures of all the yummy stuff we have eaten. We had tons of lettuce, tomatoes, zucchini, and green onions. We also planted watermelons but had not seen any really growing until we got home from vacation and found this in our backyard.......

Can you believe it?

It was huge! and so so so yummy!

Family Vacation 2010

Our family vacation this year was AWESOME. Spencer took a whole week off of work and we did tons of great things. This was also Carter's first real trip. Our vacation started off in Aptos for our friends wedding and then we went on to Gilroy to the Gilroy Gardens and then to Monterey where we spent three nights.

Our first day at Gilroy Gardens. Nana and Papa came with us that day.

We all had a blast at Gilroy Gardens. We ended up getting season passes so we will hopefully be going a lot.

After Giroy we were off to Monterey. We stayed at the Portola hotel and it was beautiful! Spencer surprised me with a family suite. It was amazing and it was perfect for us. I loved it so much and I didn't want to leave.

Our hotel was a 2 min. walk to the Wharf. We went there for dinner two of the nights.

The hotel gave the kids these cute little seals when we checked in.

Relaxing with daddy.

Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Aubrey loved all the "rishies" We couldn't keep up with her. She wanted to see everything. It was a very fun day.

Cannery Row

For the last few weeks all we have heard Aubrey talk about is ducks. She loves feeding ducks so on our walk to the park we spotted ducks and since we didn't have bread with us we fed them her goldfish snacks. They loved it and so did she.

Dennis the Menace Park!

I love my boys!

Aubrey usually loves water fountains and this one was cool but kind of dirty (as you can see from her face).

After the park we had an afternoon at the pool. The pool was beautiful and it was heated so even better.

My Museum. It was a museum for toddlers where Aubrey got to play with lots of fun things.

We ended our awesome vacation feeding the ducks again. It was so much fun spending great quality time with our family. I can't wait until our next fun trip.

While we were on vacation Deuce was with our wonderful neighbors. It was a vacation for Deuce! He got to go to the dog park a couple times, went on a walk two times a day and had some time away from the kids.