Just for Laughs

My friend recently moved from the city to help take care of her in-laws farm. She has created a blog about her adventures and they are hilarious, plus educational! (although some of the stuff I would rather not know) So for a good laugh check it out www.fromcondostocows.blogspot.com.

Happy Day

"Happy Day" is what Corbin calls your birthday. So this post is for Colby's Happy Day. For his birthday Colby's parents and I surprised him with a golf trip to St. George. It was so much fun! We just stayed two nights, but it was nice to get away, especailly since we left Corbin with the grandparents. Colby golfed at The Ledges and at Coral Canyon. I was his caddie. :)



Happy Day Colby! I love you!

This picture is of Corbin on Colby's birthday. It was suppose to be his Easter outfit, but I didn't realize Easter was on Conference, so I had him wear it a week early. This is Corbin's first tie...I think he looks like a stud!

Potty Training

A couple of weeks ago we decided to embark on the big adventure of potty training. I had been preparing myself for this by buying Corbin a potty seat and "cool" underwear. I also took up every bodies advice on what works best. I should mention what sparked this "training" was that Corbin had learned to take off his diaper and one night we found him in his crib with his diaper of saying "mommy go potty" and he had peed in his bed! We were not too happy and realized that maybe he is ready for potty training.

We got stickers, starbursts (which he calls "squares"), and capri suns for rewards when he went potty. I was told you want to keep rewarding them with fluid so that they keep going, this worked really well. We spent all day at home for the first 2 days and it wasn't too bad. He had several accidents the first day and then only a couple the 2nd day. After trying to get him to go to the potty every 15-20 minutes it started becoming a challenge to get him on the potty so I did what I thought was pure genius. I brought the laptop in and turned on one of his favorite shows and he was content. Who needs magazines!? The laptop strategy also worked with helping relax him so he could poop. I am proud to say that after a couple of weeks Corbin is doing really good. He caught on really fast and there haven't been a overwhelming number of accidents. Call me the Potty Training Pro! Corbin has also started cheering for us after we go to the bathroom. He jumps up and down and claps his hands a yells, "Yeah! Good job mom/dad!" It's nice being cheered for the simple things in life! :)

It's a Boy!

Yup! We are so excited to be having another boy!

Corbin and the Snake

We went to visit my friend and her little brother has a ball python. Corbin loves animals (which is amazing since his parents don't) so we thought it would be fun to show him the snake in the tank. Well when we were done looking Corbin was not satisfied so they took the snake out of the tank for Corbin to see. I was totally freaked out, but of course I couldn't leave the room with my child holding a snake! So I was forced to watch as Corbin carelessly handled the snake. Here are some of the pictures of Corbin the snake handler.

Snow

Yay for Snow! We took Corbin outside to play in the snow for the first time. He liked it, except he had a hard time walking at first and it kind of reminded me of the kid on A Christmas Story. :) When we first got out side we tried to show him how to make a snow angel...that didn't go over so well, I don't think he liked the snow falling in his face. He recovered though and had a wonderful time in the snow and later was laying down in it with no problem.

Update

I am so far behind with my blog so I will just add a picture for each big event...
This is at the Pumpkin Patch, where the Pumpkins were called "balls."

Halloween: Corbin was a Train Conductor. He was successful at Trick-or-Treating and insisted on walking the whole time.

Corbin's 2nd Birthday: Got lots of great presents! I can't believe he is already 2!

Here is our family of 3...

And why do Colby and I look so happy? Because we will soon be a family of 4!