Here's A Few Updates:

The other day I was playing with some blocks with Kyri and Tanzi. They have letters and numbers on them. I was spelling some words with the blocks and Kyri was sounding them out.

SHE WAS READING!!

My baby is growing up!!

Remember my last post when I mentioned Gray going stinky in the potty and me hoping it was the start of him being completely potty trained?

Well, my wishes came true!!

He has been completely potty trained since that day!

(with a few random accidents...like he just can't pull his pants down fast enough)

YEA!!

A while ago we were in the car, late at night, and Gary and I were telling the kids to go to sleep since it was 2 hours past their bedtime.

Kyri piped up and said, "Mom, you better not fall asleep in the car!!"

For anyone who knows me this is next to IMPOSSIBLE.

I asked her, "Why?"

"Because then daddy would have to carry you inside!!"

Haha!

Maybe that's her nice way of telling me to lose weight?

Funny girl!!

Sometimes it's not easy being small :(

Tanzi had SO much fun watching (with envy) Kyri and Gray play in the snow

And that's because they were having SO much fun!!

I thought they would only last about 5 minutes, but they were out there for over thirty!

Yes, while it was STILL snowing....that was actually the best part, I think.

Tanzi has proved to be VERY different than her brother and sister in MANY ways.

Well, on this day she proved to be JUST like them with her love for avocados

One thing Tanzi loves doing...clapping

She will clap when anyone else claps.

She loves it!!

She also LOVES waving.

She waves "night-night" and bye.

She still has a fascination with her hands.

Another thing she has been doing lately is making the "kissing" noise. I don't think she's "blowing kisses" or anything, I think she just likes making the sound.

She also LOVES bending over in the tub to be able to drink the nasty bath water.

Loves it!

Grosses me out!

And if she can't quite get what she wants she will lay on her belly and drink the water.

Nasty!!

She thinks she's funny.

And as gross as I think it is, I must admit she is pretty stinkin' cute doing it.

There's just something about a naked baby!

And a cute one at that!!

I'm done nursing...as of today.

I've been nursing Tanzi just in the mornings and for a while she was still nursing REALLY good.

Well, the last few days she has NOT been nursing good and this morning she ate for about 2 minutes and then just cried....like she just wanted a bottle....so a bottle she will get from now on!

I still have some milk in the freezer, but with her taking so many bottle now we are going through it quite rapidly....not sure we'll make it last until she turns one...but I'm just happy I was able to nurse her at all.

A Second Christmas, Potty Training, and a 9 Month Old

It's been a while since we updated, so here is just a bunch of things we've been up to lately.

I didn't take a picture of this before Christmas because I was waiting until it actually had "ornaments" on it. This is the countdown calendar that Tammy gave us for Christmas last year.

And we LOVE it!!

The kids had so much fun putting an ornament on the tree every day.

Isn't it super cute?!

Gary's brother, Todd, and his family moved to Salt Lake the end of December.

We are SO excited to have them closer!!

(especially since they have a new little baby I have not yet seen)

So, that weekend we had some visitors.

Grandma and Grandpa from "Bunkerbill" came bearing gifts.

They recently returned from a cruise...and this is what they brought back for Gray.

LOVE it :)

Kyri got a bike with training wheels.

The next day she took it out to the driveway and was doing awesome pedalling, but couldn't stop and crashed and broke the cool little compartment.....but at least the bike still works :)

Gary and I got The Book of Mormon Made Easier and a Costco gift card.

We can't wait to use them

I didn't take a picture of it, but Tanzi got a stuffed animal that sings to her, spells and says her name...it's SO much fun and Tanzi LOVES it!

We got SO spoiled!!

Thanks for a special Christmas after Christmas :)

One night when we checked on the kids before we went to bed both Kyri and Gray were being crazy sleepers!

Graysen woke up right as I snapped the picture, but who sleeps with their foot on the floor?!

Him, obviously.

Haha!! This cracks me up!!

We recently started potty training Graysen.

The first few days were slightly stressful.

We decided we would not use diapers, pull-ups, or anything.

So, we spent a lot of time cleaning up accidents...even in the middle of the night.

But, we are happy to report that as of today Graysen is completely pee trained!! Even at night!!

YEA!!

However, he sort of rebels against going stinky in the toilet.

UGH!!

He knows he needs to go, will sit on the potty for about 2 seconds, and then say he doesn't need to go.

Sometime later in the day he will have an accident.

I would much rather clean up a pee accident.

Well, we decided to try reading Graysen some books while he worked on his business.

Kyri is such a great sister and really wanted to read him some books too!

It didn't make any difference....but we tried!

Well, today Gray actually went stinky in the potty....without even being bugged about it!!

We had absolutely NO accidents today!

HOORAY!!

I'm hoping this is the start to many more days of the same.

This is what happens when Tanzi and I go to the store to do major grocery shopping on the day it snows

They love their "Frosty"

And had the time of their lives making him!!

Thanks, Daddy!!

Tanzi has turned into such a HAPPY baby!!

She has gotten all the tummy ache issues worked out and is just happy the majority of the time. I can not believe the difference in her the last couple months.

She is like a different baby, but still just as cute as she's always been!

Here's a few pictures showing just how happy she usually is

She is ALWAYS doing this, grinding her teeth, driving Gary and I CRAZY! :)

Oh, how I love this baby.

I do not want her to grow up!!

But she is.....

clearly

Tanzi turned 9 months the end of December.

She weighed in at 14 lbs 5 oz (not even on the charts),

Her length was 26.7 inches (25%)

And her head was 16.7 (10%)

Even though she is little she is not losing weight, so the doctor isn't at all worried about our little fighter

Today I was going through some things and found this hat.

Take a look at Kyri when she was 9 months old, wearing the same hat

You can't tell me these two don't look alike :)

Tanzi was fascinated with the camera

Today I was going through Tanzi's clothes, boxing up the ones that no longer fit.

She can still fit into 3-6 month pants, but finally outgrew her 3-6 month shirts.

We have a TON of baby girl clothes, from Kyri. I have a hard time justifying buying new clothes.

However, Kyri and Tanzi were born in opposite seasons!

This poses a slight problem.

Luckily, it's only slight.

There are a few outfits Kyri was given, but rarely wore because they weren't for the right season, so Tanzi is now loving those. Then there are a few things we just put long sleeved onesies under.

It works.

But there's a few SUPER cute things that Kyri wore as a baby that Tanzi will just never be able to wear.

And that makes me kind of sad.