Jaron 2 1/2 update

I guess it's time for a Jaron update.  Mostly because over Christmas he was potty trained!  WHAT?!? I know, I still don't believe it either.  Everyone told me boys potty train later and so I was so not mentally ready for this.  But yep, he was ready.  He started telling me when he was pooping and then every night before bed he started peeing in the toilet.  When we went to Florida he would throw a fit when I would take him to the bathroom in public places to change his diaper and wouldn't let him sit on the toilet (dude, we paid a lot of money to be at Disneyland, I am not sitting in the bathroom while you think you can sit on a toilet for fun.)

So when we got home we got him underwear and I geared up only now he refused to wear the underwear.  So I thought I was off the hook.  Well a couple weeks later he started refusing diapers so I put on the underwear and that was it.  We had a couple accidents the first day or 2 but we started on a Thursday and by Sunday I took him to church in underwear because he was doing so good.  He wears pull ups to bed at night but I'm not worrying about that at this point.  It's nice to be out of diapers and he does really well.  We still have a small accident here and there but it's nothing compared to potty training my girls. 

A few more things about Jaron.  He is a blabber mouth.  He talks non stop.  Especially when we're in the car and when the girls are at pre-school.  He cracks me up.  He has been asking questions for about a month or two 'I come mom?' or 'When my turn?'  but a couple weeks ago he started asking Why.  Like if I tell him to sit up for lunch. 'Why?'  or lately 'Why I take nap mom?" in his sweet, whiny, sad voice.  The answer 'because you're 2!' Everything is followed by Why now.

Some other cute sayings of his:
'You wake up me mom' when he wants to make sure I walk into his room in the morning and not dad.
'No thanks' when I'm holding his hand and he doesn't want to hold it anymore.
'I kiss you. That make you happy.'  Yes it does!
'Yeah, that my plan.' about anything he wants to play with and go do.
How old are you? 'um...thirty five!'

He is a goof ball and so wild and crazy.  He will do anything to get a laugh or reaction out of us.  He still keeps up with his sisters on most things and does not like to be helped if he thinks he can do it himself.  He loves to help me make lunch or dinner.  He also goes to bed at 8 and wakes up between 8 and 8:30...his naps are about 1 1/2 hours right now and so I'm happy with all the sleep he's getting.  But he's totally fine to skip a nap here and there when needed.  He's pretty adaptable with his sleep which I love.

I love this little guy of ours.  He has my whole heart.

Christmas 2015

Christmas is always such a fun day.  I love that the girls came running into our room yelling 'Happy Christmas' in their sweet cute voices.  And it was 7:30 not some ridiculous early hour.  I love that they are genuinely excited and grateful to receive gifts.  But even more I love that they were sooo excited to give each other their gifts.  Even if the secret of what they were getting each other had been spoiled for many days.  I wish I had it on video how their faces lit up as they opened their gift from their brother and/or sisters and I wish I had a picture of the face of each one as they watched them open the gift they had so happily picked out from the dollar store.  Genuine hugs, thank you's and smiles were in abundance.  It was seriously the highlight of the whole Christmas season for me.  It was that moment that I realized that they might just understand the spirit of giving.

We acted out the nativity on Christmas Eve at my parents house.  My girls only wanted to be a donkey (Aria) and a Canimal (Camel...Siena).  We talked Jaron into being a shepherd and he was all for that when he saw his stick he got to carry.

Christmas late morning we had Grandma Glover and Aunt Margene over for lunch and to visit and then we headed back over to my parents for a yummy Turkey dinner and dessert.  It was a fun day and now I realize I didn't really take that many pictures of the day.  I guess it's good just to live in the moment sometimes.

 They had to spread their reindeer food they made in pre-school to make sure they reindeer and Santa could find our house!

This might have been their all time favorite gift...well at least the gift they played with the most.  They've played Rudolph the whole week after Christmas and wore these around all. day. long.

Christmas Activities

We had such a fun Christmas season this year.  The kids are at the perfect age of being so excited about everything.  I can't possibly blog about all the activities I did, so here is a quick summary.

We went to Grand America and saw their Christmas display windows and huge gingerbread house.  And then we ate dinner and saw the lights at temple square.  My friend Konstantina from high school was here so it was fun to show her around as well.  It started to rain as we walked around and so we didn't last super long.  We got a few pictures and called it good.  Although this guy asked me film him proposing to his girlfriend which was kind of random and fun.

We hit up Gardner Village with Holland, Tagg and Brigitte.  Once again we didn't last long because it was windy and freezing!!  The best part was the donut and cookies we ate at the bakery.

We met Santa at Cabela's one morning.  And of course we had to write and mail letters to Santa.

 

 

There is this house by us that coordinates lights to music on the radio.  We've been by the last few years and the girls were totally bored by it (it's amazing). Well this year they all of the sudden thought it was the coolest thing ever.  They loved it and asked to go just about every night the month of December.  So we hit up this house a lot.  They were convinced it was the North Pole and the rest of the month called it Santa's house because of the santa head that talks to Rudolph between songs.

Draper City does an amazing job with their lights, we usually just drive by but this year we actually got out and walked up to the 'Tree of Life' as everyone calls it.  It really is so bright and amazing to look at.

I took the girls to their first Nutcracker performance.  We went with Holland, Bostyn and Kate from dance and their moms.  The performance was fun and good but the girls didn't quite get the excitement of it.  We had fun but they were a little antsy.  The best part was dinner at Café Rio afterwards where the girls had their own table and laughed their heads off.  We might have made a scene (ok we did) when they started playing duck duck goose on the floor before we left.  gross... :)

We decorated a gingerbread house this year.  The kids loved that they each got to design their own side of the house.

We went to the sing along at the Delta...er...Energy solutions...er...Vivint Arena.  Margene goes every year and we finally felt like the kids were old enough to enjoy it.  It was so fun.  We had a huge snow storm that day so we weren't sure how the roads were going to be.  It ended up being fun.  The girls even got shown on the big screen singing to Rudolph.  We had popcorn and donuts and had a fun time.

 

 

We went to the annual Candy Cane hunt Draper puts on each year.  It was the same day as the huge storm so the crowds were minimal, but the snow was deep.  As Aria ran with Shane to get a candy cane her boot fell off.  Luckily I saw it and grabbed it.  They all got prizes and we even got to meet Santa.  The best part was this elf they had there.  We took a picture and then Siena turned to me and asked 'Mom, why is there a window in the hat with a guys head sticking out.'  Ha ha, I hadn't even noticed it...now when I look at it, it's kind of freaky looking.

We got a ton of snow the whole month of December.  So we went sledding a few times.  Once was just at a park close by our house.  The other time we went with all the cousins on the golf course behind Jennifer's house.  It was freezing but it's so fun with the big hills.  Siena made her own Glover family of snowmen.

And of course what would Christmas be if we didn't have Grandma Glover come stay with us.  She's so good to play and read to the kids all day long.  Even if their screaming and loud voices hurt her ears.  We love having her and she's good to listen to all their stories and watch their shows with them.