Kayla's Broken Arm

I can't believe this! BOTH bones :(

After it happened I could just tell it was broken, so I made her a quick appointment (cheaper than instacare, don't judge) and headed straight in. Then the whole time we were waiting I was watching her use her arm and grab stuff and try to open her baggie full of ice. . . I started thinking what an idiot I am for thinking it was broken, because clearly it hurts her a little, but no way is it broken. . .

She was a Rockstar getting her x-rays! They gave her some stickers to distract her and she named all the princesses by name and impressed everyone :) She didn't want to do what mommy said, but as soon as the tech sat next to her and helped her she calmed down and held still and I'm not joking when I say everyone was impressed. Then as we were leaving she turned and waved and yelled "Bye!" Such a sweetie. . .

Back upstairs to the doctor's office. . . again, I'm thinking no way is it broken. The doctor pulls up the images and bam- both bones, very broken. We were both shocked, cause Kayla was being so tough she had us tricked! And not only are the bones broken, they're broken so much the doctor had to refer us to an orthopedist. . . So back to the doctor again tomorrow :(

She was happy to be home, and happy to have an otter pop.

She's tough!!

Waiting for the Doctor

It seems like we don't spend nearly as much time at the doctor's office as we used to. I guess we don't since we aren't taking babies in every few months to be weighed and measured and checked anymore. . . And we don't have to take everyone since we can go while Jude and Lydia are in school. But I kinda miss the waiting room shenanigans sometimes. Today was fun. And Julia apparently grew 2 inches this year! She's still only 44" tall and 38 pounds (the 35th% and 20th% or something like that), but I was convinced she had stopped growing completely the way Talia has been catching up to her so quickly.

And yes, Julia pants are covered in Emojis, and she LOVES them.

Pout Pout Baby

My goodness can this kid throw a pout!

She was told that she absolutely could not choose another movie after just finishing one.

Potty-Trained!!!

Talia Megan is finally out of diapers! I bought this Mulan Barbie for her weeks ago and she asked for it every single day and *finally* decided to actually keep her diaper dry and earn it.

 

She's been in panties for three days now and is doing great! Not even wetting the bed (Lydia is the only one that struggled at night) and the best part of all of this:

KAYLA is potty-trained too! She isn't even two yet! She caught on to everything we were telling Talia and just went with it. Watching all 24 pounds of her climb onto the toilet is a bit of a joke, but she refuses to use the training toilet of course. And mostly she runs around stark naked now. But at least they're both out of diapers! I wasn't even planning to be completely diaper-free like this. It's pretty amazing and I never want to change another diaper again after 8+ years of it without a break!

Nothing to See Here

Kayla will NOT wear clothes lately.

So when we don't have anywhere to go I let her be free. And then someone will stop by unexpected and get a shock, but I just figure they should have called ahead.

She knows she's the baby and can get away with whatever she wants.

Fried Eggs and Messy Hair

Kayla LOVES fried eggs. Usually I just feed her bites of mine, but today I made her her very own and she wolfed down 2 whole eggs! Then came back for a banana about an hour later.

Muffins with Mom

Muffins with Mom at Lydia's school. This is before Kayla dumped the juice over of course.

Also, I was wearing pink too in case you haven't noticed that we live in a VERY pink world. Poor Jude can't see pink though! He thought my pink shirt was gray until I held my gray sweater up next to it. Apparently the only difference is that pink is darker. I find it very funny that Jude can't see the dominant color in his life. Perhaps his color-blindness is a defense mechanism to protect himself from pink over-taking his world too?

Park Day with Aunt Megan

Aunt Megan was in town today with her family so she suggested we go to the new All-Abilities park by Tonaquint. It was a lot of fun. CROWDED. But fun. The park is huge- I hardly saw Jude, Lydia, and Julia the whole time. But these two had plenty of fun on their own.

If you're wondering why I took so many pictures- Talia insisted I take a picture of everything she did of course. These two are pretty amazing climbers. It always cracks me up that Kayla has no concept that she's smaller than her siblings, she has an "if they can do it, I can do it" attitude about everything. It was especially fun watching her zip down the super-fast slide just like a big kid than run around to do it again and again. I like to watch the other parents watching her, they think she's as funny as I do.

Potty Training

We've been potty-training Talia lately (she's so STUBBORN)

But Kayla has jumped on board and takes care of herself for the most part. Which has been frustrating (she plays in the toilet as often as she potties in it), and hilarious all at the same time.

Today I walked in to find her sitting on the toilet completely naked, so I grabbed my camera just in time for her to fall in! She was a little shocked at first, but then she laughed and laughed!

Food Appreciation

I always like to document when my children actually eat something I make. Kayla is a big fan of rice so today we were late picking John up from work (while his car is in the shop), because I just couldn't pull her away from her dinner. I like her.

Snow!

Sorry for the picture overload here. I couldn't choose a favorite, I just love snow too much!

I loved that Julia tossed it in the air and let it snow down on top of her head. That smile of hers. . .

Talia was outside ALL morning. She would still be out there if she didn't need a diaper change and a drink of milk. She loves to be outside any day, but you add snow and it's a whole new love.

Her attempt at building a "frosty the snowman" was very short-lived. This snow was the famous Utah powder and was way too dry to build anything with.

Kayla lasted about 2 minutes before she wanted to come in. I made her tough it out for about 15 minutes though. She was more than happy to come inside when her forced playtime was over though.

Ugh- this kid is SO CUTE! She's the only one who will still actually say cheese for me.