Vacation from Blogging, Sort of

This week I have started potty training Jared. Without going into too many details, I think that it has been moderately successful so far (he's not putting up a fight or anything!) but I'm sort of paranoid about letting him go farther than 20 feet away from the bathroom. Thus, I have not been on the computer much. In fact, our computer, a laptop, has been in our kitchen so that we can watch DVD's upstairs close to the bathroom instead of downstairs. I'll post pictures of cute Jared sitting on the John someday when I can get around to it.

It's crazy how detached I feel when I don't get on the computer at all during the day!

Wish me luck for the next few days. . .weeks. . .months. . .

Edit: I just noticed my baby ticker says 50 days left! Holy cow!! Where has the time gone???

Anna

Today is the 10th anniversary of the day Alan's sister Anna passed away. To read a little bit more about Anna and my feelings about her death, see my post from two years ago.

All of Alan's family has an exciting weekend planned. We are going to have a family dinner tonight and tie quilts to donate to Primary Children's hospital. Tomorrow morning we are going to have a family excursion to the temple, have one of Alan's mom's famous brunches, and then visit Anna's gravesite. In addition, since it is the 10-year anniversary, we are compiling a time capsule about our family to open again in 10 years. What a fun way to remember Anna!

Big Boy Jared

Here are some cute pictures of Jared.

Bath time! He said "Take a picture of me, Mommy!" right before I took this.

"Helping" Daddy do the dishes. Jared is standing on a step stool.

This past week we moved Jared to his new "Big Boy" bed in his new "Big Boy" bedroom so that I can get the nursery all ready for our little girl (only 2 months left!! Aaauuugghhh!) I would like to get some cute wall decals for his new room, so it's still not finished, but here's basically how it looks now.

Since Jared is only a few months away from being 3 years old, we went straight to a twin bed instead of a toddler bed. We have a rail that we can attach, but we haven't needed to. Out of 8 nights sleeping in his new bed, he has only fallen out once, and that was on the second night. He is doing so well and loves his new bedroom and bed.

This is how we found Jared sleeping in the morning after his first night in his new bed.