La felicidad que se encuentra: Kyle, Jenny, Alexa, Tyler, Tad, Liam, Nathan, and Audrey

We have been waiting for Alexa to take interest in potty training, but gave up at 2 1/2 and did it on our own.  We did gangbuster potty training where the first day we had her try every 20 minutes, and it gradually got longer until it clicked after a few days--hurrah!  After that first week, she's only had 2 accidents in the last month and a half.  The first few days were rough, though.  I came home from work the first two days and Alexa was in a diaper because Kyle was about to lose his mind.  Some excerpts via text: 12:27pm "Alexa just pooped on the chair."  He said that she was sitting while eating lunch and suddenly pooped onto her foot and she immediately looked up in shock and started crying. 12:45pm "I put her on the toilet for a couple min then took her off and she peed on the floor." Her favorite potty rewards were painting her toenails (I started painting one each time she would go in the toilet and she got to choose the sparkly color) and eati...

Still happy after waiting in line at Best Buy for an hour!! I continue to be blown away by Alexa's imagination and creativity.  She also continues to get tons of comments on what a talker she is, not even 2 1/2 yet.  The other day she was reading a book, giggling and pretending the dog in the book was licking her hand.  She also had her first actual phone conversation (questions and answers back and forth) with Grandma and Grandpa Sweeny.  It was really neat to listen to them talk!   She got a cold and didn't sleep well a couple weeks ago, so she was sick and cranky in the morning.  I asked if she wanted to stay in bed.  No.  Do you want breakfast?  No.  Do you want to go chase Daddy and smack his bum?  Yes!  Jumped out of bed and went to find Daddy.  Hilarious child. Some additional Alexa quotes and stories this month: Alexa, while hitting herself with a play phone: "Hey, please stop it, phone. Th...

Kyle participated in the "Man Games" Decathlon at the beginning of the month, which was crazy and amazing!  They had the following events: Sprint Obstacle Course Sportsman Challenge (knife throwing, archery, etc) Cross Training Challenge All Sport Challenge (football hike, soccer kicks, etc.) Watersport Challenge (kayaking, paddle boarding, swimming) Flyboard (YouTube this if you don't know what it is!!) Human Slingshot Pig Wrestling Mounted Spear Throw (seriously!! Isn't this the coolest event you've ever heard of?!) Giant Rope Swing The workers asked Alexa if she wanted to ride a horse (really a mule in this case) as they were setting up the mounted spear throw The Man Games team  Alexa loved all the time to play with her favorite people Fly Board Alexa made a friend and they shared her striped umbrella  It was great to have Dad out here for a while this month as well!  We had lots of fun playing with Grandpa! ...