Potty Time!! But it's NO party!

I thought it might be a good idea to potty train Cambree before I had the baby so that I could relieve some stress when the baby came. I also heard it was easier to potty train girls than boys and I potty trained Ethan at 2 years old and he did great so I thought I was good to go because Cambree was now two years old. Yaaah......I was wrong! It has been quite the struggle!! She did great at first and loved wearing her new "pincess big grirls"!! Shortly after she started to really get the hang of it, she started having a lot of accidents. It was so bad she was having like 7-10 accidents in one day! And the weird thing was that she would go at least that many times on the toilet too. She would go potty on the toilet and then five minutes later have an accident! Well this was getting a bit frustrating and I was about to give up when I was talking to a friend about my naughty daughter and she mentioned that one of her daughters got urinary tract infections quite frequently when they were potty training her. That very day Cambree was going potty and said "Owweeeee" and I knew that something was wrong! (Thanks McKenna!) So I took her to the doctor and sure enough she had an infection. We put her on an antibiotic and she seems to be doing better now and getting the hang of going potty again.

She then observed that everyone else uses the "big potty" and she thought she was big too like "Eshan" and wanted to go on the big potty. It took her awhile but she is a very determined little girl and stubborn like her mother and kept at it until she found a creative way to crawl up their "by self mommy" and amazingly does well. She definitely doesn't let anything get in her way of her goal.

Here Cambree is showing off in her "BIG GIRLS"!

(You notice it's a different pair than the picture above. That's because Cambree is the typical little girl that has to change her look several times a day!!)

Ethan turns 4

On July 9th Ethan had his fourth birthday!
For months and months leading up to his birthday all he requested all his friends to come over and he wanted a Thomas the Tank Engine cake! He didn't ask for one toy! Just friends and a Thomas cake! Easy enough. Of course he didn't mind at all when it came to be that he got to open presents. He especially loved that his friends each brought a present for him. Aunt Brandi and Uncle Jared and "big" Kayden came early to help put up streamers and decorate. Aunt Annie and "little" Kaden came as well as Grandma and Grandpa Barton.

All his friends came and we started playing pin the #1 on Thomas! Cambree ended up being the winner and got her #1 the closest!

We then went into the kitchen to sing Happy Birthday to Ethan and cut the cake. Uncle Jared decorated the cake and did such a great job as you can see! Thanks Jared!! Ethan was very happy with his Thomas cake. It was almost sad to cut into such a greatly decorated cake but we did. Everyone enjoyed the cake. Especailly Cambree. She loves cake!

We then went inside to open presents!! Todd had helped Cambree pick out a present for Ethan but when it was time for him to open it she was not happy that it was Ethan's. She thought that she got to keep it and was very sad to see it go.

Then it was back outside for a little game I like to call Thomas Treasure Hunt!!! Todd was the engine and all the kids were freight cars as Ethan insisted! They all had fun being a train as they hunted for the clues! It ended with the treasure

of goodie bags at the end and that was the que for all the kids to go home. All the friends went home as family stayed around to open a few more presents!

Todd and I got him a scooter which Ethan loved and now loves to ride it everywhere. He spent a good part of the rest of the day riding his scooter outside.

Battle wounds

Ethan and Cambree usually play well together. This day...not so much!
Ethan and Cambree were playing with their wooden blocks and they both wanted the same one. Ethan got it and decided to throw it at her face. (Cuz when you are 4, that seems like the logical thing to do.) So here is Cambree showing the aftermath of getting hit in the face with a wooden block!

But don't worry....Cambree does fight back and it came back to bite him (literally) a couple of weeks later when he was wrestling with her and she kept screaming for him to "GET OFF EESAN!' He kept at and at it until she decided to take matters into her own hands or rather her mouth and took a bite out of his little butt! He had a big bruise with teeth marks. Considering where the bite mark was I will spare you the pictures I took of his bruised bum.