My big kid!

Well, it's official. Jonathan is potty trained!!!!!!! Hooray!!! We have been trying to potty train him for months, but he never wanted to do it. Thankfully my sister Jacki decided to potty train her son Jacob around the same time, which has helped things quite a bit. Jonathan always says he wants to wear big boy underwear like Jacob! We're so excited to be done with pull ups and diapers(although we still have Emily, but changing 1 is better than 2!) I love this picture of Jonathan. He refuses to wear his underwear the right way. He wants to be able to see the picture, so he wears them backwards. I think it's just hilarious! We are so proud of our big boy!!

Dress up and cookies!

I found a couple costumes at a garage sale a while ago, and we sure had a fun time trying them on! Jonathan tried on the cat, but didn't like it and refused to try on anything else. But Emily really enjoyed putting on the different costumes!



After dress up we decided to make cookies. I've never let Jonathan make them by himself, so he was super excited. Aside from the finger licking, he did a great job with only a little help from me! Emily wasn't very happy that she couldn't help, but she enjoyed the cookies once they were done!

Vacation

Ok, so I'm about a month behind in posting this, but I blame it on my busy schedule......and my lack of motivation to put these pictures up.
Trevor and I took a week off in the beginning of July to take a vacation. We decided to go camping with my sister Jacki and her family for a couple days. I haven't been camping since I was a kid, so this was a little rough for me! My kids were soooooo dirty!! It took so much self restraint to just let my kids play in the dirt! We ended up camping in Carmel, which is about 15 minutes from Monterey. The campsite wasn't what we were expecting, but we did enjoy the playground for the kids, the basketball hoop, and the pool. The kids had such a fun time playing with their cousins.


Everyone ended up getting dirty.........

...but nobody was as dirty as Emily!


I fought the urge to puke when Emily ate some mushy eggs off the ground that had been stepped on and were covered in dirt. Ughhhh....I'm feeling sick just thinking about it!

The next day we packed up camp and headed to the Monterey Aquarium. Jonathan loved seeing all the different fish, and enjoyed it even more since he was with his cousins. Emily wasn't very fond of sitting in the stroller the whole time, but she enjoyed when she got to get out and play. They had a fun area for toddlers, and Jonathan and Emily had so much fun playing with the toys and getting soaked in the water. There was a lady walking around with an otter puppet that Emily couldn't get enough of. We ended up buying her one of her own since she loved it so much.

We had a wonderful vacation, and I'm so glad we were able to go with the Ropers! Hopefully this is the first of many vacations with them!