No More Dirty Diapers!

I am so proud of Jake. Jake just turned 2 and has been using the potty on his own. This is really exciting for me because boys are so much harder to potty train than girls. In fact many of my 3 and 4 year old boys who come to my daycare are still in diapers. The doctor told me to not even try until he turns 3 but I decided that it couldn't hurt. While having my daycare I have found out what works and what doesn't. Actually while I was typing this he started to cry and I found him outside with poop on his shoe. I just started about 5 days ago so I am sure their are going to be more accidents.

Aiden is still crawling and moving all over the place. He will finally take a bottle which makes me so happy. He has also been pulling on my heart strings at night so I am back where I started. I really need to start using some tough love.

Jacobish and HFMD

Sorry it has been so long since I have updated my blog. I will try to keep everybody up to date on what is new with us. Jacob has really started to talk in his special language we call Jacobish. He loves to jiberjaber in sentences. He has made his own words for certain items. For example his little toy truck and trailer is call "isis a swars". War War - water, Mom and dad is still called Teresa. Banana-nana, Apple-bable. He has said Aiden but only once. He also loves it when I push Aiden on the toy tractor and chase him. Aiden likes it too but not as much as Jake.

I think that Aiden got hand foot mouth disease from a kid in my daycare. He had some blisters on his but and I just thought it was from a diaper rash. One of the moms called me and said her son had it and it is very contagious. Latter that day one of the babies I watch broke out in blisters on his legs. So by time I found out it was to late and everyone in my daycare had been exposed to it. The symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, fever, blisters on hands, butt, feet, mouth. Jake had the diarrhea and one night of vomiting but no blisters thank goodness. Their is no treatment. We have just had to wait it out. None of the older kids in my daycare got it just the little ones. So I am glad that this is almost over.

owners had but they did such a terrible job I really wanted to fix it. So I have been I am in the process of painting the inside of my house. I really liked the color the previousmuding small holes, dents, and all the imperfections that are in the drywall. I have also had to scrape paint off the kitchen cabinets. Yes they didn't bother to put up tape so it got all over the cabinets, the light fixtures, light switches you name it. Also their are places that they didn't paint that they should of. It is really frustrating that they did such a crappy job. So I bought some pant to match the previous color and the color is the same but the gloss is different, so it looks like I will be painting the entire upstairs. It is taking me forever. I only can do it when my daycare kids are sleeping or after they go home. Also I have been trying to clean our carpets. Vaylene has lent me her carpet cleaner and it has been so nice. It is amazing how much dirt it can pull up.

Comparison

So a lot of people have told me that Aiden looks just like me. Here is my baby picture I think taken when I was 6 months old. Aiden is 8 months old.

Big News

Click on picture to check out his hair style
So I have some great news for you all. Last night was the first night in ages that I was able to sleep through the night without any kids crying. No crying babies, and no getting up to do personal business!. It has been over two years or before Jake was born since this has happened. Jake was terrible at sleeping through the night. I don't know how many times I put him in the basement to do the "cry it out" thing. He would get the hint and then I would move his crib back upstairs when about two days later he would start crying for his bottle again. His room was right next to my room I always cave and just give him his bottle. Matt would say just leave him but I can't sleep through the crying. So then I would have to start over again because you have to be consistent.I hate being such a light sleeper. And then when I got pregnant with Aiden I was up at least once to use the bathroom.

So a couple of days ago I got mentally prepared for a hard night and I put him in a portable crib downstais in the laundry room. The first time he cried for about a hour. Then he woke up again about two hours later and cried for about 3o minutes. The next night he cried for about 30 minutes. And last night I didn't hear a peep. I feel so good. I am not tired and I have so much more energy. I just hope that he keeps sleeping and when I move him into his crib he doesn't do what Jake did and start crying again.

Today is Matt's Birthday. I just want to wish him a Happy Birthday and let him know that we love him so much. You are a great husband and a wonderful daddy. Thanks for all you do to take care of us.
Love Teresa, Jake and Aiden

Survey

1. What is his name? Matt Paul Davidson
2. Who eats more? He does
3. Who said I love you first? Matt
4. Who is taller? Matt
5. Who is smarter? Matt
6. Who is more sensitive? Me
7. Who does the laundry? Me
8. Who pays the bills? Matt, automatic billing on Internet
9. Who mows the lawn? Most of the time Matt does
10. Who cooks more? Only me
11. Who is more stubborn? Me
12. Who is the first to admit they are wrong? Depends on situation, I mess up all of the time so that would be me I guess.
13. Who is more clean? I do the cleaning, But Matt is more pickier than I am
14. Who has more siblings? Same
15. Who wears the pants in the relationship? We both let each of us do what we want to. Their isn't any control issues at all.
16. What do you like to do together? Kayak, ski, work outside on yard.
17. Who has more friends? Mmmm don't know Matt does have a lot of friends, but since we got married most of them have gone their separate ways
18. How did you meet? Snow College western swing
19. Who kissed who first? Long story, I say he did, he says I did, let just say when I turned my head his lips were next to mine.
20. Who proposed? He did
21. His best features? He is very handsome, fun to be around
22. What is his greatest quality? He is a great dad, husband, very hard worker, and tried to be very patient with me when I do dumb things.

Jake

Aiden has discovered that his binky isn't such a bad thing after all. I have been trying to get him to take it ever since he was born. But every time he spits it out. I decided to give it another try and wa la he kept it in. It is nice because it makes him quiet. He has a tendency to say mmmmm a lot and it drives me crazy.

As for Jacob he had a little accident. A couple days ago Jake wanted to be pushed on the swings. Matt was trying to mow the lawn and went to give him a great big push so that he could finish before it got dark. While this is all happening I had just gotton off the phone and decided to grab a jacket before I go out. I walk out the door and see Jake going "too high." As I yell at Matt "he's going too high" the next moment Jake is air born. Jake got a small cut above his eye and lost half his eyelashes. I am confused what took them out. The only thing I can think of is we applied some "new skin" to his cut and maybe he rubbed his eye and they pulled them out. Ouch!

Kayak Trip on San Rafael River

Last Saturday the kids spend the day at Vaylene and Jordans place so we could go with Matt's Uncle Charles and cousins (Quinn and Clarice) on a kayak trip down to the San Rafael river. We thought we would only be gone for the afternoon but the trip took much longer than we anticipated. We didn't get back to Provo until 1:00 a.m. The entire trip ended up being 17 miles of flat water! After the first 3 hours floating down the river I was getting worried because I didn't know if I was capable of patting the entire 17 mile stretch. And once you are on the river you can't just bail and get out. You are committed to the river because you are seriously in the middle of nowhere. I was very thankful that his cousin wanted to try kayaking so I was able to rest in the canoe the last half of the trip. Our boats are made for white water, so taking them on flat water took a lot of upper body work. The water was also very slow and very shallow. Our boats kept scrapping the bottom of the river on rocks, and it wasn't deep enough to roll (as if we would get flipped):) The deepest it got was about 2 feet. It was a beautiful nice day to be outside though and it was nice to have a break from the kids. As you can see from the pictures the cliffs were amazing.
















Aiden has learned how to crawl. Actually its more like scooting but the same concept. A few weeks ago we were visiting Matts family and Aiden was lying on his belly. A few minutes went by and all of a sudden he was sitting. I couldn't figure out how he did that because I have never seen him sit on his own. Well I have discovered his little trick. Basically he get up on his toes and then scoots his little bootee underneath him. I think it is so cleaver. He has mastered the army crawl and basically can get to anywhere he wants. So poor mommy has to be on the look out. Aiden also has his first two bottom teeth. He has also said his first word. Ma Ma! I love it when he saids it. Mabey he will call me ma ma instead of Teresa. For those who don't know Jake calls me Teresa (my daycare kids call me that so Jake picked it up from them) and he calls Matt Ma Ma. I think it is very funny.