Picture Update

Do you know how hard it is to get all three children to look at the camera and smile all at the same time. Not possible, but aren't they cute.

Skyler and cousin Tanner playing on the toy train at the park in Brigham City. Both boys love trains. It is an obsession.

My baby is so cute. He is smiling and giggling. I can't seem to keep him from growing. He is out growing everything.

Kaitlyn and cousin Brooklyn jumping on Grandma Erickson's trampoline. They were having so much fun. Kaitlyn adores her older cousin.

My beautiful daughter ready for bed.

Mommy and Skyler were playing with the leftover eggs from Easter.

Aaron is my first child to prefer his hand over a binkie. It has made life very interesting.

My first tulips that survived. Skyler got a "kick" out of destroying my flowers.

My Little Girl is Growing Up.

After a year and half of hard work, Kaitlyn is fully potty trained. Day trained and night time trained. Wonder how I did it. I got so tired of changing her diaper every time she needed to go number 2 that one day I told her no, that I was no longer going to baby her. I told her that she was a big girl. For a day we fought about diapers and the potty. Finally that night I sat in the bathroom with her and encouraged and praised, and helped her through this trying trial of hers. She went and now I have a big girl. As for the night time training we decide to let her try to go a night with out a diaper. Well for three weeks we haven't had any problems. I have heard her get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom. I am so proud of my Kaitlyn. Since fully potty training she has become more confident and she keeps telling me about her experiences in the bathroom. When we were potty training I told her she couldn't go to school until she potty trained, now she keeps asking about school. I tell her she is registered for school this fall but it is months away but she wants to go now. I will have to come up with ideas on how keep her entertained so she won't ask every single second of the day.

Oh I love my dear little Kaitlyn. She is my oldest and I can't believe how big she has gotten. I can't believe she will be going to preschool next year and how much her vocabulary has grown. She is a quick learner. Her cousins and Kaitlyn were playing at PBS kids one day and she didn't know how to work the mouse at all. A day or two later she was able to manage the mouse all on her own, a few days later she figured how to navigate around the website and now she knows how to login in from the start up window, to hitting google chrome (internet website) to getting to the actually website of PBS kids. She is going to know more about a computer then I do by the time she is ten. I was ready for my daughter to become more independent but now I am not so sure. Lucky for me she still wants me around. My son Skyler is even more independent then Kaitlyn and doesn't need me to help as much anymore. I am glad that my little girl still needs me.

Kaitlyn is my sweet, shy, and loveable little girl. I love how forgiving and sweet my daughter is. She is going to do amazing things as she gets older. I love her. She has taught me so much in the four years she has been apart of our family.