"Hi, Dad!"

Kaiana has been working on talking lately, and this morning she distinctly said, "Hi, Dad!" 7 or 8 times. She said it to Daniel, Caleb and me. So while she doesn't know who Dad is, she's excited to see him! And yes, we know that she's not really talking, but it she's getting good at repeating sounds anyway!

Kaiana is now really crawling, too. No more tummy scooting, she's on her way. She's also pulling up on furniture. Every once in a while she remembers how to get down without hurting herself, too.

Caleb is fully potty-trained now. He isn't even wetting the bed at night! We didn't let him sleep in underwear until we bought a plastic cover for his bed, but so far we haven't had to worry about it. We drove past Costco today and I said excitedly to Daniel, "Just think, we don't have to buy diapers there anymore!" (Since Kaiana is in cloth, of course.)

No accidents!

Woohoo! Caleb had no accidents yesterday, and he didn't wet his diaper during the night, either! We're doing a happy dance over here. So do you think I should make him this cake?

Okay, I'm not really serious about making him the cake, but we are excited anyway. :-)

Photo tag

I got this from Her Royal Highness's (One of my friends who would rather not share her real name online.) blog. Here's the instructions: Go to your pictures, open the fourth folder & post the fourth picture.

Here's mine:This is Kaiana in her blessing dress. My mom did an awesome job making it, didn't she?

And now, tag, you're it!

Playing Catch Up

Potty training has taken some good steps forward in the last few weeks. We've decided to go for the shameless bribery method, and it seems to be working. For every 5 times Caleb uses the toilet, he gets to blow bubbles, for every 10 times he gets an ice cream cone, 20 times he gets to buy a book, and at 40 he gets to go to the zoo. He just earned his first book today. The hard part is that if we spend time away from home, he has to wear a diaper because he's not reliable enough to go out in underwear yet, but being in a diaper makes him lazy. I guess we just need a solid week where we don't go anywhere, but I don't think that's likely to happen anytime soon.

I'm getting a job of sorts. A friend of a friend needs help with filing work, so she's hiring me to come over and do it. The nice thing is that she's really flexible, so I can come when it's convenient. I will probably do 2 evenings a week and Saturday afternoons. I don't know how much work she has for me, so we'll see how long-lasting this job is, but it should be fun. She sounds really nice. Tonight will be my first night of work. I'm kind of fretting over leaving Kaiana because she's been really clingy lately, but it will be good for her.

Nathan, Daniel's brother, just called with exciting news yesterday. He's engaged. His fiancee's name is Quincey. She sounds like a lot of fun. They're planning to be married March 27th, 2009 in the Boise, Idaho temple.