# 1 and # 2 All in the Same Week!

We haven't officially started potty training Spencer but we have started doing little things to get him interested in the toilet. For example, sometimes before a bath I'll sit him on the toilet. We also told him if he goes poop in the toilet he'll get a sticker. A few days ago he told me he needed to go poop, so I put him on the toilet and after a while he looked in and said there was poop in there. I looked and he was right. Then tonight as I was changing his diaper (diaper was already off) he said he needed to go potty. I didn't want to get squirted so I threw a wipe over him while I got the diaper ready. I then took it off to put his diaper on. He said he wanted to pee in the wipey and I said no. I then noticed a little dribble and asked him if he wanted to go on the toilet. He said he did and I told him to hold it and ran him to the toilet. Well, shortly there after he went potty in the toilet for the first time. I was pretty impressed. I was also impressed that he held the urine in from the changing table all the way to the toilet. Maybe toilet training is around the corner.

My Family's Got Talent!

At the beginning of the month we had a family talent show. My eight year old niece thought of the idea herself and put it together. We had it at my parent's church building and my mom decorated for the talent show. Spencer and I sung "I Love to See the Temple". Well, acutally, he wouldn't sing so I invited the audience to sing it with me.























































My sister and nephew told jokes.















Valerie was the mc and did a great job. She kept us laughing.











My brother and his wife did the Salsa for the talent show. They did an awesome job.











This picture is of my sister in law and her almost 10 month old son. He demonstrated his talent of walking with a walker.






Some other talents were, my 8 year old niece played a song on the piano that she had taught herself, she also sang a song with her mom, a trumpet player, my cousins' kids ages 2, 3, 5 dancing to the song "All the Single Girls" (not quite sure if that's the title), magic tricks, and building with legos. My mom and sister in law also used their talents in making desert. It was a fun night and I hope this becomes a tradition.

Hair gel?...No

     I know we're not very good about posting things here and we've got quite the backlog of pictures and stuff. I'm trying not to worry about getting things in order and just get some things posted, or nothing is ever going to get done. Anyway, here's a cute video from a few days ago. Some days, the hardest part of being a parent is not laughing...

Kids Say the Darndest Things

I've been keeping a journal for Spencer and the following is the entry I wrote for tonight. I thought it would be easy to just cut and paste instead of re-writing the whole thing again.

Dear Spencer,

Yes. I am going to write more about some of the cute things you say. Yesterday I was folding laundry telling you about people we know who are going to have babies. As I sometimes do I started to talk to you about having a baby come live with us. You said you wanted one and so I said we need to wait until Heavenly Father sends us one. You then said you wanted to ask Jesus for one. A little while later you said you wanted to talk to Jesus on the phone.

Today before your nap you wanted me to read you the children’s book we have about Joseph in Egypt. When we got to the picture of Joseph sitting in jail you asked why he was on time out. I explained to you in the best way I knew how by saying, “Potifer’s wife accused Joseph of trying to kiss her.” After we were done with the book you took it and started to “read it” yourself. I sat back and listened to you and this is what I heard:

“Why did Joseph get a time out? He tried to kiss him (I don’t think you quite know the difference between him and her).”

Turns the page, “Why did Joseph get a time out? He tried to kiss him.”

Turns the page, “Why did Joseph get a time out? He tried to kiss Joseph.”

Turns the page, “Why did Joseph get a time out? He tried to kiss Pharoh.”

I guess we still need to work on this story.

Church Water

Spencer says some of the cutest things. Today in Sacrament meeting he looked up from drinking out of his sippy cup and said, "I want church water". He was refering to water out of the church's drinking fountain. We've been trying to get him to be quiet during Sacrament meeting and today he did really well for most of it.

Today his nursurey teachers where doing a slide show on the creation and they said he was naming a lot of the animals.

Happy Birthday Spencer

Wow! Time flies. We can't believe our little boy is already 2. These past few years with Spencer have been wonderful. We couldn't have asked for a better baby boy. He is such a joy to our family. He is a little light.

He has learned so much in his short time here on earth. He can sing the alphabet song, recognizes red,blue,purple, can count to 13 by himself and to 20 with help