2 Year Photos

We took Nathan to get his 2 year photos today.  His birthday is technically tomorrow, so here's to hoping that he doesn't change too terribly much in the next 24 hours! :)

He was pretty uncooperative, so I used jelly beans to try and entice him to smile.  Unfortunately I think that it made matters worse because he was not down with the "if you smile I will give you a jelly bean" thing, he had his own idea which was more like "I will kick and scream until you give me that jelly bean"  Here he is after he won the battle of the jelly bean:

This is the one we ended up buying, but as you can see it was so hard to choose just one!  I am just too much of a cheapskate to buy anymore though.

No these arent clouds

This wild fire is getting a LITTLE too out of control for my taste.  I walked out into my backyard to this scene this afternoon.  I suppose the windy day we are having is not quite what the firefighters were hoping for.

I have seen pictures from friends who live about 10 miles closer to the fire and they practically have flames in their backyard. Crazy!

Kaylee's Pictures

I decided to take Kaylee to get her pictures taken every month since I am for some reason terrible at remembering to take pictures on my own.  Time is flying by way too fast and I don't have much to document it by.  I figured at least this way I will have one good picture of her at each milestone.  I also want to be able to send monthly pictures to my sister who is on her mission, so I thought that this would be a good way to remember to do that.  Thanks to my friend Randi (who did monthly pictures of her little one) I am now in with the manager at sears and so she is able to swing a free portait for my wall, as well as mix discounts so I am only paying a few bucks for tons of pictures each time. Anywho, here are my Kaylee girls photos from last month and this month.  She doesn't last too terribly long during the sessions so we dont get too many shots, but we have been able to come up with at least 1 good one each time.

3 Months Old

4 Months Old

Another potty adventure

Once again Nathan BEGGED me to take him potty.  He pulled down his shorts and screamed until we gave in.  I know that he still has ZERO concept of what is actually supposed to be going into the toilet, so I figured that I would make him sit there until he peed so that I could show him what the potty was used for.  I thought it might be tough to make him sit for so long but boy was I wrong.  Here he is just chillin on the potty after about 10 minutes:

(I was not doing anything to make him laugh, he was just laughing on his own the goofball)

He spent the time making up lots of songs and trying to sing his ABC's (W is my favorite but I didn't get it on camera...it sounds something like du-be-dah). After about 15 minutes I decided to try and speed up the process by having him drink something.  I knew I had a big water bottle just down the hall so I ran to get it.  When I came back I saw that the toilet seat was a bit wet.  I CAN'T BELIEVE HE WAITED UNTIL THAT VERY MOMENT TO PEE!!  I tried pointing out what had just happened and gave him all sorts of praise, but I think he was totally clueless.  Oh well.  Hopefully he wont ask to go again until he is ready!