Randomness...

I just wanted to share some pictures for those that are far away and those (mom) that have asked for a kiddie update!

What Happened? "I brote my clabacole."

We were shopping at Joann's and Kaia fell out of the shopping cart! Ronan was in the seat and Kaia was in the basket. I was going super slow (browsing speed) and she just fell head first out of the cart! I didn't even know it was happening until I saw a lady running toward my cart with her arms stretched out. Crazy! So after a trip to the local urgent care, then the E.R., we have a sling and an ace bandage. For FOUR WEEKS!!! I'm sure it will be fun.

Kaia's First Day of Ballet

Monday was Kaia's first day of dance class. I think she is a natural and I'm betting she will do well with it. She has a super sweet teacher and the school has the same feel as the school I went to so for so many years, which is nice. I'm looking forward to the recitals, costumes, and years of dance! We also went out to eat at TGIF's afterwards to mark the occasion. It was a special day for Kaia and mom and dad were hungry.

Kaia's First Day of Pre-school

Kaia started pre-school today! She was very excited this morning until she realized that she was still tired. Little does she know that there will be many, many, many more days like that in her future. LOL She is a part of a pre-school coop program with some other kids from church. All of the moms will take turns teaching and assisting the classes two times each week. Today, when we got home I asked her what she learned today and she was full of great information. They learned about the letter "C". I was amazed at what all she retained from her first day. She told me that "cat" and "car" were "C" words. She showed me how to make a little c and a big C with her fingers. She also told me how they sung Hickory Dickory Dock. She did a worksheet but we won't get to see that until after her second day of class. I'm really excited for her and think we'll have a good year, especially since we have 2 or 3 moms that are teachers in the group and I'm pretty sure the rest of us all have higher education degrees so the kids should do pretty well and learn a lot this year.

Kaia Conquered The Potty!!!

Yep, that's right! Kaia finally did it! She conquered her fear of pooping on the potty!!! We are so proud of her and so happy to finally be done with diapers, well... Kaia diapers anyway. She is now an official "Big Girl".

It was a long battle. We bought her a training potty when she turned two so... yes, that was an entire year ago. It's a talking Elmo potty and I hate it. If you don't already have a little potty stay away from that one cuz it will drive you crazy. Anyway, Elmo just sat and sat and sat EMPTY for the longest time. When we finally moved into our apartment we started with the potty again and she was doing great until she pooped. It freaked her out. I don't understand why so don't ask. Then Ronan was born and peeing on the potty went out the window as well. We decided the healthiest thing was not to push her and just wait until she was ready. She was very happy and content to go in her diaper and then come ask for a diaper change. Let me tell you how that got old fast.

She finally expressed and interest in going pee on the potty again so I started putting panties on her during the day. She did great! One night, almost two weeks ago, she said she needed a diaper so she could go poop. I had had it! I told her that if she knew she needed to go poop then she better go sit on the potty because she wasn't getting a diaper. She begged me for a diaper and I said nope. She begged some more, I held my ground, didn't give her the diaper, and walked away. She was mad, then sad, and then she relented and went and sat on the potty. She was so proud to show me what she had done. Then she tells me that she likes going poop on the potty now because she is a big girl and she wants a Barbie. We got her the Barbie and even an extra set of clothes but this is how Barbie spends most of her days...

Sunbathing in the nude???

All it took was a little tough love and the right incentive. I really, really, LOVE Barbie! Barbie has only gone into time-out twice for intentional pooping and hasn't been back in yet. OK... She's been in time-out another time but that's because Kaia thought it would be fun to gnaw on poor defenseless Barbie's foot.

Happy Birthday Kaia

Happy 3rd Birthday Sweetie!

*** Kaia's 1st Taste of Snow ***

Check back soon for completed post!

Kaia's First Big Movie Experience

Okay, it's finally time that we get caught up on what's been going on in our household these past few months. A while back we decided that we needed to take Kaia to go see a movie in the theater. It was about that time. So with Wall-E opening up, we thought that would be a good first movie.

We took her to see the movie on its opening day back on June 27th, and she has been talking about seeing Wall-E on the "big TV" ever since. She absolutely loved having popcorn and drinks, and sitting there with Mommy and Daddy. Who knows? Maybe we'll take her back again sometime.

Kaia's Antics

Kaia is growing up so fast and is becoming a very active little girl. She also has a very active imagination. Here are just a few pictures of her latest antics.

She got a pair of fake vampire teeth from Peter Piper Pizza, and that led to some interesting ideas:
The lighting here really does make her look like a pale Vampiress.

Look Mom! "I'm a lion!"

She still has a thing for wearing other people's shoes... And here she is in her best high leather (streetwalker) boots.

Finally, you know your daughter has too much on her plate when she has to talk on the phone while sitting on the potty.

How you know that your child is truly a Monson...

She is not even 2 and a half years old, and she is already quoting her favorite movies.

I must say that she has actually been doing this for a while. It's really quite funny (and cute) to watch certain movies with her, specifically Dinosaur (the Disney movie) and Enchanted. She will quote the words that she knows as the people are saying them in the movie. And as for Enchanted, she even does the same dance moves and motions as Giselle when she's singing Happy Working Song. It's hilarious to see.

I'm A Princess!

On Friday we went shopping for Kaia's flower girl dress for my brother's wedding. She was soooo.... excited to try on the dress as well as shoes. When Kaia had the dress on she kept saying, "Mommy, princess!" It was so cute and she is such a little diva already, especially about shoes. I was really hoping to walk out of the store with the dress but the 3T was just a bit to big so we had to order a 2T. I just hope a 2T will still fit her in August for the wedding!

Kaia's New Do

After the Johnson's Detangling Shampoo failed, their detangler spray ended up being not so great (although, it smelled really nice), and Kaia's cries during combing finally got to me, I decided it was time for a new hair-do. She actually sat for a big girl haircut too! Well... maybe the stylist gave her a Dum Dum but, it was unrecognizable as a sucker by the time her haircut was done as it was covered with hair. Yes, my daughter continued to lick it until I was to grossed out and had to take it away. So, here she is. To quote my friend Amy, don't these pictures just say, "Check me out!"?

Big Girl Bed Trials

She was so excited for her "big girl bed" but now she won't sleep in it unless it's nap time during the day. She has a nightlight and we leave the hall light on during the night so I don't think the dark is an issue. Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how to keep her in her bed. I'm contemplating duct tape... or I guess that maybe we can put the crib back together.

Kaia's 2nd Birthday

Still trying to get caught up...

We threw a little party for Kaia's second birthday on the 26th of January, and had a really good time. We had the party at Peter Piper Pizza (a pizza joint very much like Chuck. E. Cheese's), and invited some families to come too. It was just an informal party, so we told people that they didn't need to get her anything, just come and have fun. Several families from our ward came, had some pizza, and had a good ole time. Mommy and Daddy got Kaia a new slide, since we had to return the one that she got from Santa. However, the slide still hasn't arrived at Toys'R'Us, but hopefully it will soon. She also got a new outfit. We would have liked to have gotten her more, but we had to save some money for a different purchase.