April Harvey Family Birthdays

We had the Harvey Birthday party for April up at my mom's house.  So Jake stayed home to work on Austins Project. And I headed up there. Got there close to 11:30 AM. Brunch was just about served. Good thing cause the kids and I were hungry. Waffles and fruit toppings, and of course syrup and whipped cream and bacon was the food this time. And man was it tasty. Lizzy had like 4 to 5 waffles (they weren't big, but they weren't mini either). Jason and Tami brought up their new dog, so the kids had fun petting her and chasing her around. After breakfast was done and cleaned up it was time to do birthdays. They had gifts for William, because apparently they hadn't given him his presents from February. He got a shirt, and a pajama outfit, and a big car, and a pack of cars from my aunts/uncles. Then it was time for Scott. He turned the big 50 and so Julie had all the fun things for him. The picture below with everyone in those funky glasses, was one of the gifts from Julie to Scott. They were "reading glasses for the (basically) blind :) ) After everyone left, the kids got on their suits and went "swimming". The water was really cold. We had stayed at my parents because that evening Shay had invited me, Sarah, Brayla, Katie, and Eric to go to this Sportz Comedy club down in Provo. It was really quite funny. 6 guys, on 2 teams. They audience gets to decide the topic and provide a few details (depending upon the game). So it got really silly to see how these guys could improv using the details from the audience. So the kids stayed with my parents, Sarah drove me down, and then dad drove the kids down in my car and Sarah took him and Shay back to my parents house.

Lizzy and Potty Training

Well As of the End of April I can say with 90% certainty that Lizzy is done with potty training!!!!
The other ten percent is because she still wets the bed. Not every night, But 1-2 times a week. She is getting better every day. Telling us while were out of the house when she needs to go potty. And She poops in the toilet with regular occurrence. But up until the end of February I was putting nightly pull-ups on her (she was mostly undies during the day (like 90% of the time unless we were going to be traveling long distances) and she would poop every night in those pull-ups. She also pooped during the day sometimes in her underwear and I would always throw them away. I couldn't stomach washing out the poop-it made me sick to my stomach thinking about it, and Jake didn't want to do it either. But after a month and a half of sleeping in her bed every night with underwear she has gotten really good about going potty before bed, and has had 0 accidents during the day. And by accidents i mean peeing her pants because she didn't try to go to the potty. She has peed her pants, but both times she did so in front of the toilet because she couldn't get on the potty in time. 

Jake and I are so proud of Lizzy. This potty training journey took us a whole year. It took so long because we did half jobs in the beginning of trying to potty training her but not actually trying. William was so young still and a lot of my energy was zapped by getting up with him in the nights. So YAY!!!! Elizabeth is potty trained. You have worked really hard baby girl, and daddy and I are so proud of all your efforts.

I know you were frustrated and daddy and I were frustrated and sometimes there was some yelling  (especially when you pooped your pants on my part) and I'm sorry. But it was all worth it to watch you run to the bathroom and go all by yourself.

2 kids down, 1 to go.

Easter

April 1st, 2018. Sunday Morning. Well since I helped William find his bucket he had a lot of time to go through everything. Elizabeth found her bucket through Sydney, who found it while searching for her own. Sydney whinned and cried about not finding hers. That she would never find it. And she wouldn't get a basket like William and Lizzy. So after 15 minutes of this Jake had her start opening each and every door and looking inside the room. Eventually she found it in the hallway coat closet. Much to her relief, the Easter bunny did not forget her.
I had planned to make a special Easter breakfast, but I forgot to buy a couple ingredients so we just had pancakes.