SO EXCITED!

I am so lucky to have such good friends like Amy and Amy!

These two girls are some of my best friends and I get to see them in 3 weeks! 

We're all meeting up in Chicago to have a fun filled weekend! 

We were even lucky enough to get Oprah tickets! 

I am so excited! :)

I like this.

This is a part of one of my favorite talks from General Conference. I tried to embed the whole thing, but couldn't figure it out. You can read, watch or listen to the whole talk here: http://lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/the-ministry-of-angels?lang=eng&media=video

Potty Training Progress

In my opinion, Brooke has been doing great! I almost lost my mind Wednesday afternoon, but other then that, we've been just working on getting Brooke to use that pink little potty!

We officially started having Brooke not wear any diapers on Tuesday. She peed on the potty once and had 4 accidents. What a start! Ha! She did, however stay completely dry during her nap which I was more than thrilled about.

Wednesday, she had 2 accidents and peed on the potty twice. Still stayed dry through her nap.

Thursday {today} she's had only 1 accident and has peed on the potty once. I got brave and took her to the store and she stayed totally dry! Now she's down for her nap and I'm hoping she'll stay dry again.

If we keep her distracted by playing with her or having her watch elmo or mickey, then she is good about saying "pee pee" or "poo poo" and running over to her potty when she needs to use it. If she gets bored, then she says it for fun and then we take her a million times with nothing happening. Then when she says it for real, we don't take her fast enough because we think she's faking it and then she pees on the carpet. {At least that's what happened yesterday.} So, we're working on that still, but overall I think we're making good progress.

Update.

Gordon and I both went to the doctor yesterday.

I went first in the morning and felt utterly awful. After telling her my problems, she wanted to do a chest x-ray. But because I didn't have insurance she didn't do that. {She wanted the x-ray to rule out pneumonia.} So, instead of ruling it out, she said lets just assume you're young and healthy and that it's not pneumonia and gave me 3 prescriptions: a Z-pack, codeine cough syrup {sweet sweet elixir} and some hardcore Sudaphed {you can't buy this over the counter here because it's used for meth.}  If these don't work and I get a fever, then I get to go back for a chest x-ray and different meds because it's most likely pneumonia. Awesome, right? I know you're all jealous.

Gordon however doesn't have as severe a case as me, so he just got 1 prescription for a z-pack.

Brooke of course is fine and Gordon's parents are as healthy as can be. I have no clue why everyone else is immune to everything but us.

Healthy Jerks.

Just kidding.

This is lame.

Here's a fun little story for you. 

Gordon caught the flu from some of his co-workers. Last weekend, while I was away on a girls trip, he gave the nasty little virus to Brooke. I got home and they both gave it to me. They healed all nicely, but I somehow got the super strong drug-resistant flu bug in me that I can't get rid of. These last few days have been so awful that I can't remember a time where I've been healthy.

I hate being sick.

Also, Gordon had a job lined up in Yakima, WA. He had 3 wonderful interviews and was the only candidate. He would have been able to use his Portuguese too. Well, turns out the manager didn't check to see if there was enough funding to simply replace a person and guess what? There wasn't enough funding! SO, no job. Is it just me, or do we have the worst luck?! No matter how many candidates there are for whatever job, he just can't get one. NOTHING is working out for us! NOTHING! It's starting to get a little ridiculous. 

I think it's a conspiracy.

Potty Training

So far, Brooke has been making slow and steady progress with the potty. But I want her to pick it up faster and I've been reading online at different programs you can buy. One even goes so far as to say "your toddler will be potty trained in 3 days flat!" Do you believe that? I'm not sure that I do.

So I want to hear all your opinions and the different programs you've used.

Brooke likes to sit on the potty and actually asks to sit on the potty but only occasionally pees.

I'm thinking I just need to get rid of the diapers cold turkey and stay on her for a few days and see how that goes. Thoughts?

The bed

I wanted to show you all the bed Gordon made and the duvet cover I made a little better because I never really posted about it. So here it is! Please notice the two babies with Brooke. She has to have at least one to go to bed with. Sure beats the binky!

I sewed the two fabrics together and then hemmed the bottom so there would be a spot to sew in velcro. I liked this fabric because it was girly but not babyish. I made the pillow case too. The pillowcase fabric and the main bluish fabric you see here were manufactured by the same people and were sitting side by side at the store. Then I was on the hunt to find a different fabric for the back. I think it came out very nicely, considering this was my first real sewing project.

Brooke wanted me to take a picture of her baby, so she held her up for me.

And then it was the other baby's turn.

Here's a better shot of the headboard and the pillowcase.