My cousin Aubrey and her hubby live in utah and are expecting a baby boy in a few weeks, they havent been out there for very long at all and had a shower but didnt get a whole lot, so she wanted to have a shower here in michigan too in her home ward but couldnt make it back before baby comes. So her mom hosted a shower for her anyway and we Skyped her in! lol it was awesome really, she was sittin in her livingroom in utah and participated the whole time! She got to see the presents being opened and see all she got and everyone got to talk to her. it was pretty awesome, almost like she was really there and not a million miles away!

On Saturday we all went down to Balloonfest! it was a blast, nothing better than food thats awful for u and rides that spin all over, i must be getting old because just walkin onto the grounds i got queasy lol

We were walking around deciding what we wanted to eat when we saw a sign for Deep fried Twinkies!!! lol, i couldnt believe my eyes, did i really want a $7 twinkie for dinner? no, not really, could i pass it up?? def not, i mean honestly, how often in ur lifetime are u going to get offered a twinkie wrapped in batter, deep fried to perfection, doused in powdered sugar and chocolate syrup?? lol

It was FABULOUS!!! im not even kidding, kind of like a doughnut, but..... better!!! i thought about googling how many calories was in that bad boy but i decided id rather not know..... :D

4 month check up

4 mo Well baby check

Weight - 18lbs! 100th percentile :)

Height - 27.25 inches 110th percentile (thats off the charts)

Head - 17.1 inches 75th percentile

She said that my 4 month old is about the same size as the average 9 month old...

LOL i love it!!! he is my lil cabbage patch doll :D

Coop sits in the bouncer chair with both legs sprawled over the bar and play and sucks on his toes all the time, this kid cracks me up, hes got monkey legs and toes, plays with the toys with his toes as much as he does with his hands lol

I am in such a funk right now! I cant wait to get my family here to get my mind off all the nonsense that is going on! But my mom and dad are coming for the 4th which will be tons of fun, apparently there are fireworks that go off over the lake that will be awesome, then then middle of next month my baby brother is leaving on a mission for the chuch, so i will be taking the kiddos up to wisconsin for a week to see him off, then at the end of august todd my other bro is getting married! n my bday is in there somewhere, im going to be 25!!! to quote jessica simpson Thats mid twenties which is almost late twenties which is almost 30s!!! aaahhh lol this summer is going to go real fast, but im achin for it to start!

Potty training!

Day three is today, and wil is doing awesome!! i can hardly believe how easy it is for him!!! He has slept in undies for 2 nights now, night number one he woke up dry and sat on the potty and went right away!! then later that morning he came in and i asked him if he had to go and he said "yes" so after sitting there for a while i was going to make him get up, went back in to see how he was doing and he says "i did it!!" i looked and there was a hugeantic #2~!!!!! holy cow this kid can do this!!! then he had a few little accidents yesterday but can stop himself and make it to the potty. Last night he woke up crying at about 130, he was dry so i asked him if he needed to go and he said yes again, and went alot!!! that was why he was crying! then went back to bed and woke up this morning dry again....... im so impressed, and no accidents yet today at all, we went to the library and i had him in a pullup just to be safe but when we got home it was still dry!!!! he has gone 3 times today, i think hes got it...... no wait hes deff got it!! This kid has made all this stuff way too easy on me :D
The pic of Coop is just cuz hes cute and his cheeks crack me up! :)

This IS going to happen!

Status as of right now..... no potty in the chair..... we got potty on the floor of the bathroom, have gone through 2 pairs of undies..... its soooo close..... now we are watchin Bolt. this IS going to happen!!!!!
maybe...... if not today, then tomorrow, if not tomorrow...... then I will eat the entire bag of m&m's and we will pick up in a few weeks.... lol

Beach!

Last week my in-laws had a beach put in the backyard!!! it was the coolest thing to watch. the back yard is sort of tyred so they dug up all the grass on the bottom tyre and put sand all in there then laid the tarp in the water and blasted truck loads of sand on top of it.

It took em a couple days to get all the dirt outta there you can see where all the water is in a puddle above the wall, thats all sand now, and the lake used to just drop off from the seawall and there would be immediately like 3 feet of water, now there is actually a beach, they brought in 4 semi trucks with 2 trailers each of sand that they blasted into the water, it was awesome. so i dont have to worry so much about wil falling off the sea wall and into the water, its shallow enough that he will just bonk his head. makes me feel better.

The day after it was sunny all afternoon until wil woke up from his nap, then the stupid clouds came in and it got a little chilly again. michigan is so dumb, but we wanted to go walk along the beach, well wil "accidentally" fell into the water...... so i just let him sit there and play till he turned blue and got the body shivers, then i pulled him out, he woulda stayed in there all day though , he doesnt care if he cant feel his fingers.....

im pretty sure thats how he got croup again this weekend, but whatever he had fun lol. If it ever gets warm here we might be able to break out the swim suits, but i doubt that will happen,..... stinkin michigan.....

anyways im totally stoked, we will be spending every day at the beach!!!!!! so if anyone needs me thats where ill be, no need to ever leave the property lol. feel free to come visit!!!! theres a beach in the backyard!!!!