the joys of motherhood

Lincoln pooped out of his diaper ALL over his clothes (which he does not do real often, thankfully). I was getting him all cleaned up and Isabel is telling Ansel to stop pushing buttons on the laptop. I get up real quick to close it, but notice that all the images on the screen are completely upside down. As I'm staring in shock for a few seconds, I look over at Lincoln and see a rainbow of pee getting all over the carpet. NICE. It's these wonderful times that you just have to laugh.

I called Joseph to give him a good laugh at work. He googles instructions on how to fix our upside down screen and tells me some command function to try and it worked!! So, I got things cleaned up and fixed.

Here is a picture isabel took of lincoln. Also, i have a picture of the kids flying the airplanes they made out of candy. we got the kits at a school open house/parents night for prospective students. They wanted to eat the candy before they made the planes. It was hard to convince them to wait.

under contract

Our house is finally under contract! It was quite an emotional roller coaster. We actually accepted the 4th offer we got on our house. Just as one offer was falling through our agent was presented with another offer. It was pretty amazing. It is scheduled to close on March 25th. Hopefully things will go smoother from here on out. (I know it is unlikely...i can be optimistic though.) When we bought our house it was so stressful and a roller coaster. I had hoped that selling a house might be less so. I guess we'll see.

Lincoln and I will probably be the ones to make our final trip to Utah and supervise the movers. I think it will be great for Joseph to have a lot of time to spend with Isabel and Ansel. It will also be nice to be able to give Lincoln all my attention AND I will be able to eat out every day I'm there. (Which many of you know, is my dream come true.)

So, that's the latest news and we'll keep you updated on how things progress.

the bumbo chair

Here is Lincoln in his little chair that my sister Tamra gave us. We didn't originally bring it to Kansas because it was so big. Lincoln seemed like he's been wanting to sit up more and watch his siblings play, so I was wishing we had it. Well, I had my friend get some things for us to mail and she said she had a box the chair would fit in. So, I was super excited to get it.

Isabel and Ansel had each forgotten a toy we were planning on bringing: her lunchbox and his little basketball. They are both thrilled to have their special toys. Ansel was running and throwing it saying: i'm so excited we found my basketball again!

As I was writing this post and downloading the photos I looked over and saw that Isabel was playing with Lincoln.....or Lincoln was playing with Isabel's horses and ponies. So, I stopped to take some more pictures. Lincoln just spit up on one of her horses (a tiny bit) and Isabel said, "Lincoln, that's gross. I'm not going to let you play with all my horses anymore. Here you can only have this one." I suggested she get his toys and she thought that was a great idea.

Speaking of Lincoln spitting up on Isabel. One day, she was carrying him over her shoulder and she got a tiny spot of spit up on her shirt. She had to change into something else. But the first time she got something on her was at church. She was feeding Lincoln a bottle during Sacrament Meeting. Isabel said, "ew, gross. i got some on my arm." The people behind us laughed so hard...and so did we.

Isabel's photography

I've already shown you what Ansel takes pictures of so here is what Isabel does. She will actually set things up and take pictures of it. It's pretty funny to watch her do this.

Lincoln

Well, here is another attempt to get lincoln smiling. We have a hard time catching our boys smiling. This is pretty good, but he will smile SO big and open his mouth and it's just so cute! I guess you'll just have to meet him/see him in real life to get the full effect.

puzzles

So, my sister sent us these puzzles from Japan for Christmas and they are really cool. Both kids enjoy them a lot. But, we were surprised how good Ansel is at them. The hardest one is brown and has 20 pieces and he can totally do it. One day I overheard Isabel asking Ansel for help with the brown puzzle! I was thinking....isn't this backwards? Ansel will spend a lot of time concentrating on his puzzles and practicing, I guess that's why he's so good at them. I certainly enjoy the time they spend with the puzzles too!

ansel's feet

So, Ansel likes to take pictures with the camera. I think he learned this from Isabel. He has only learned how to take pictures of his feet. We try to teach him to aim the camera away from him, but it's just so much easier for him to push the button holding the camera backwards and downward.