"I Pooped"

A week ago Moses woke up crying after his nap, which is perfectly normal. As I got closer to the door I realized something wasn't right. All I could hear was,"Pooped! Pooped!" I opened the door to see Moses with his diaper off and his pajamas off one leg. He was holding his hands in the air, as I got closer I could see they were covered in poop. I asked him where he put his diaper and he took me to the corner and showed me where he stashed it. I took him into the bathroom to clean him up but realized he probably hadn't finished pooping, so I stuck him on the toilet. After a little pushing, he pooped in the toilet for the first time. I was super excited, but because of the lead up I thought it was more of an accident then anything.

Yesterday I was sitting in the living room and I heard Moses yelling my name. As I started walking through the house I found him in the bathroom with his pants down. He was pointing to the potty and wanted up. I lifted him on to the toilet and a couple seconds later he pooped in the potty! We celebrated by giving him a chocolate chip cookie.

The little bugger is so smart. This morning I found him on the potty. After sitting there for awhile, and not going potty, he got up and said, "Cookie." We explained to him that he only got at treat if he went pee or poop on the potty, so hopefully he will continue to do so with some work.

Missing my Family

Last night was the first night that I ever stayed away from my babies. It was so wonderful to actually sit down and enjoy a meal from start to finish and to sleep through the entire night. With that being said, I miss my family, so I thought that I would update everyone on the babies.

Moses is now twenty-one months old and is still a ball full of energy. It never ceases to amaze me at how quickly he picks up on things. Recently, he stuck the right key in the door and unlocked it. We thought that he did it by accident, but he continued to do it over and over again. He still loves his sister immensely and regularly refers to her as Mimi instead of baby. Moses has transitioned fully from a crib into a toddler bed and it makes me so sad sometimes because he really isn't a baby anymore. He absolutely adores Cars (especially Lightning McQueen), Nemo (which he refers to as fishies), and Toy Story

which he refers to Woody as Woo-Woo). A couple of days after Halloween we were at Target and they had left over costumes on sale and as we walked by Moses yelled "Melmo." We ended up purchasing him an Elmo costume that is near impossible to get him to take off.

Emery will be six months old in a week. She is such a content baby and smiles most of the time. She has pretty much mastered sitting up. Em is teething really bad right now though and she doesn't seem to handle it as well as Moses did.

Emery loves playing in her jumperoo and loves it

when you sing to her.

Looking Back

I have not been able to blog in so long and I miss it! We moved into a new house about a month ago and we love it, but we can't get internet there, so it is kind of hard to blog on a regular basis.

Our lives are drastically different then they were even two months ago. I had been without a job for over a year, we didn't know where we were going to live, and things were just hard. I remember having a conversation with a friend who was kind of in the same situation. We both said that in a short time we would look back at the convesation and laugh about how much we worried because God was going to work everything out. At that point and time I had pretty much lost all hope, but God is so good and everything truly does work out in His perfect timing.

I am so happy that I had to wait over a year to get a job, because now I have the perfect job! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am about my new role. I am able to use so many of my passions and strengths. Later this week I get to go down to the Fashion District in Los Angeles to purchase some clothing! For those who know me really well, this is a big deal. The best part of my job though is knowing that I am working in a place that is Kingdom Building.

I have so much I want to say, but I have to wake up at 5:30 am tomorrow for a trip, so I must get some sleep.