Great friends and beautiful babies!

Thank you to my friends. My long time friend, Stacey took pictures of Cole for me. I asked her to help me fix a collage for his room. With Stacey's crazy schedule, 3 kids, a niece getting married and then my schedule and life, it has been interesting trying to orchestrate it. We finally did the pictures at Smallwood Park ,by my house, while all the other kids played. I think she did a fabulous job and I love looking at my sweet baby.

Carrie and I went to the park to do some pictures of all the kids to use for Fathers Day. We were going to go to the beach but due to cranky kids, overcast weather, and not wanting the sand in Carrie's freshly washed and vacuumed van, we changed to T-winkle Park. When we got there my camera had a dead battery and Carrie's camera was flashing low battery. It was really funny, so much for all our planning! It turned out great. We only needed to keep the kids clean for a few minutes as we did a really fast photo shoot. Then we got to spend the rest of the time playing on the toys and with the ducks.

Go Lakers!

To say that we are Laker fans is an understatement. Truth be known, Will and I met because of the Lakers. I love watching the games. I love hearing about the players. And I really love that the Lakers are doing so well this year. This picture was taken on Thursday, June 4, the day of the first game of the NBA Finals.
I say it loud and I say it proud "GO LAKERS!!!!"

Funny Everett

The reason this blog came about was because I was telling Carrie how funny Everett is these days. She told me I had better start writing down the things he says or I would forget them. So this entry is all about Everett.

1) When you ask Everett what my name is, it's "Debi", when you ask what Will's name is, it's "Babe".

2) Everett loves to run up and say "I need a hug right now!"

3) Whenever Everett gets hurt he comes to Will or I to "kiss it better". The other day while he was sitting on the potty he told me "My penis is owie, kiss it better". I quickly told him that no one gets to kiss his penis better. I kissed his head for it to spread through his body.

4) When the singing begins in sacrament meeting Everett likes to sing full-throttle. He doesn't let not knowing how to read quiet him down, he just sings a song he knows like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" or "Bah-Bah Black Sheep" to whatever hymn is being sung.

5) Potty training. Everett goes from standing at the toilet saying "I don't like it." to watching me change Cole's diaper saying "yucky diaper."

6) Today Everett brought Will his Nerf gun. The look on Everett's face as Will was shooting at him was great. It was a mix of fear and excitement. Then when the gun was empty, Everett gathered all of the balls up and ran over to Will to do it again.

7) Everett came into the bathroom as I was getting out of the shower. It was right after I had Cole so I still had my stitches and everything from the C-section. Everett walks up to me and he is looking at me and says "It's broken." I laughed and said "yeah, Mommy is broken". Then I was looking at his eyes and ask him to point were I was broken. He pointed lower than my stitches and said "Mommy's penis is broken."

This post is going to be added upon as needed. Everett is almost 2 1/2 years old and is always making us laugh.

The start of a great Memorial Weekend

May 23, 2009
What a fun day. After spending most of this week tied to our apartment I was very antsy to get outside. We ended up at Huntington Beach State Park. It was a beautiful day. The sun was out but it wasn't too hot. We headed to the beach just for a walk along the boardwalk, however the water and sand were calling to us. Everett enjoyed playing in the water with Daddy and building sand castles with Mom. Cole enjoyed his first trip to the sand and was really very happy lying on his blanket. Since I wasn't planning to spend a lot of time there I didn't take sunscreen. Fortunately, while I am suffering my poor sunburned back, my boys are fine- must be that Samoan blood in them!

Sick Day

May 21, 2009
My poor sick Everett!
Everett has a fever. When I took it this morning it was 101.7. He has been lethargic all day and quite the cuddlier. Thankfully my Mom came and spent this afternoon with us. I can’t believe how hard it is when both kids want a part of you. I asked my Mom to take these pictures so I could document how I was able to hold both these boys at once!
Everett still asks to go to the bathroom but had only gone once. I have snuck on a diaper under his big-boy underwear and figure that since he really isn’t eating or drinking anything, it’s a hard day to force him to use the potty.

When Will got home from school Everett at least started to act like he had more energy. I'm not sure if that is the medicine working or Everett getting better. Tonight at 7pm Everett even begged to go nigh-night.

Still going strong

May 19, 2009
Yippee! Everett only used 6 underwear and had 8 successes. Who says potty training is hard? Just kidding... it is VERY messy and time consuming.

Potty Training

May 18, 2009
Today is the big day. I am going to potty train Everett. We started by going to Target and buying 3 packages of white underwear. I figure with the package Will bought that 26 big boy underpants should be enough to get started. Everett handled it really well. He got all the fluid (juice, milk and water) that he wanted. He used 20 underpants, went to the potty 16 times and I only had to do 2 loads of laundry.