Wednesday

Mom-- "Carley, What kind of hot cereal would you like?"

Carley-- A dramatic sigh that I thought only teens were capable of, she is 2. "I don't like hot cereal."

Mom-- "Since when?"

Carley-- "Wednesday."

Good thing tomorrow is Thursday, maybe she will like it again.

CARLEY

My Sweet Little Helper

Carley is my sweet little helper. Regardless of what I am doing she always wants to be a part of it. Whenever I say that I have to go do something she always follows me saying, "I hep you Mommy, I hep you." She especially loves to do the laundry. I think this is because she gets to push buttons. I have to put the washer and dryer on child lock after we get them started so she doesn't mess up the cycles. I love having a little shadow so willing to be beside me and be my little helper. I hope she never grows out of it. She melts my heart. Tender moments!!!

Cute Piggies

Sometime during Christmas break, when we were all sick and stuck at home, I decided to see if Carley's hair was long enough to put into piggies. We were REALLY bored!! Well it was long enough and here are the cute picts. to prove it. She was so cute, but oh so sick.

Wish Me luck!!

I am trying to potty train Carley this week. On Friday she came to me and said "potty." I thought ya right, but why not. So I took her in the bathroom, took off her diaper, and put her on the potty. Much to my surprise and excitement she went!!! I threw a party. We did the potty dance, sang the potty song, had everyone clap and cheer for her, called Daddy at work, an of course gave her a potty treat. She has gone four time since then. This morning we put the panties on and are really excited to be on the verge of no one in diapers.

NO MORE DIAPERS, NO MORE PINS, AND MOMMY IS ALL FULL OF GRINS!!

Carley, Carley, Carley

The other day we were working on a chain to count down the days until we move. Each of the kids had a few strips of paper they were to color. Carley was sitting on my lap coloring, or so I thought, while I was stapling the strips together. Ryan looked up from his strip and said "Look at your daughter!!" I looked down at Carley and saw that she had gotten a black marker and thought it would be better to eat it than to color with it. Good thing it is supposedly non-toxic. As usual she thought she was pretty funny. Our chain turned out pretty cute and now I don't have to continually tell the kids how long it will be until we move.

What comes out must go in?

We thought Carley had finished her new tricks for a while, but she is always full of surprises. The other night we finished scripture reading and were getting ready for family prayers when we realized we were missing one child. Ryan started back to her room to look for her when we heard, "WHEEE!" Ryan called us all back to see. Carley had decided she wanted in her crib and started climbing. She would get up on the mattress and start bouncing. Where did this girl learn to climb??? I don't remember any of my other kids trying to climb into their cribs. She is going to keep me on my toes.

Wasn't it nice of her to reenact the whole thing for us. Carley is all about attention.

Carley's New Trick

I have known for a while that if Carley tried she would be able to crawl out of her crib onto the dresser. Knowing this I intended to move her mattress down to the lowest notch. Every morning when I got her out of her crib I would think, "I need to do that today", and every night when I would put her back to bed I would think, "I need to do that tomorrow."

Well on Friday my procrastination caught up with me. I was in my room doing something with the other girls when we heard these funny plopping noises in the girls room. I asked Hailey to quietly go and see what the noise was. Quietly because Carley was supposed to be sleeping. Next thing I know Hailey is screaming that I need to come quick. Thinking something was really wrong I rushed to the room. When I walked in and saw Carley all I could do was shake my head and laugh. Oh, and tell Hailey to run and get the camera. What else was there to do but document Carley's new trick. She was sitting on the dresser looking at books and dropping them on the floor. She was quite pleased with herself too. You would think I would immediately fix the problem and adjust the mattress so she could no longer climb out. If you did, thank you for giving me undeserved credit. It is still where it was. Maybe I'll get to it on Monday. Hee Hee!!

1. "Hi Mommy, Look What I can do!!"
2. "I am SO proud of myself!"



That pretty much says it all.

Beauty Sleep

Last night Carley decided beauty sleep was more important than dinner. I put her in her seat (because she was hanging on my legs) and finished getting dinner on the table. When I started calling everyone in to come eat I looked over at Carley and she had fallen asleep. My first mistake may have been allowing her to keep her blankie with her. The second was probably not realizing that the hanging on the legs was saying, "I'm tired" instead of "I'm hungry". --It got lost in translation.-- Maybe it was her way of trying to get out of eating my cooking. --Is it that bad?-- Well if it is, her ploy didn't work anyway. When everyone else was done eating I woke her up and fed her. Then it was bed time, but Carley (after her 20 min nap) was ready to play. She didn't end up falling asleep until about 9:30. A full hour and a half after bed time. Beauty sleep is over rated after all.