Kimby's potty training

Kimby is potty trained!! A couple of weeks ago something just clicked and she started peeing and pooping in the potty all the time! She has a couple of accidents here or there, but that is to be expected. I still had her in a pull-up at night because I was afraid she would have accidents. She always woke up with a wet pull-up so I just figured she wasn't ready yet. Well, last weekend when we were in Lava at Spencer's parent's house, Kimby had an accident in her pull-up before she went to bed. I had only brought one pull-up for her, so my only choice was to let her sleep in her panties and hope that she would stay dry. And she did!! She has slept in panties every night for the past week and has only had one accident. Yay!!

Chris and Mira's wedding

Last weekend, my brother-in-law Chris got remarried. He met his wife, Mira, while he lived over in the Phillipines. She is a really sweet girl and Kimby (and Katherine) just LOVE her!! She is kind of quiet, so hopefully she doesn't get too overwhelmed in the Mangelson family! =) It was nice to be able to go up to Idaho Falls to see them get married. Spencer's brother Sean who lives in Texas was able to come up, too, so that was nice. It was good to be able to spend time with him. We don't get to see him too often. (We missed Anna and the kids, though and can't wait to see them this summer). That night, we went down to Lava to spend the night at Spencer's parent's house and spend a little more time with Sharon (Spencer's sister) and Sean. Chris and Mira came down the next day to go to church with us and then we all had a family dinner before everyone had to leave. It was really fun.

Ashley's Graduation!

My little (okay, younger) sister graduated from ISU a couple of weekends ago!! She graduated in Psychology (Wow! I could never do that!). I can't believe she has her bachelor's degree. She worked so hard and did really well. I am really proud of her. This graduation was a lot better than most of the graduations that we've been to over the years. I think most of it was because mom hired a couple of babysitters for all of the grandkids, so we didn't have to worry about our restless, noisy kids. I feel bad that Ashley was a little disappointed about some of the things that were missing from this graduation that they have had at previous graduations, but at least she's done!! It was nice to spend time with Ashley and my brothers and their families that weekend.

I feel kind of dumb that everyone in my family (my parents, Ashley, and all of my brothers) has a bachelor's degree except me. I just have to keep remembering that I am doing exactly what I was supposed to do with my life. I have followed the promptings of the Spirit and if I had stayed at Ricks (BYU-Idaho) to get my bachelor's degree I would never have worked at Kids Korner and gotten invaluable experience working with kids and I might have never met Spencer and had my two beautiful little girls. The Lord really knows what we need and when we need it. I really want to go back and get my bachelor's degree someday, though. I guess the Lord will let me know when it's time.

Catching Up

Malorie (my sister-in-law) and I have been trying to get together about once a week to let our kids play together. Kimby and Jay have a lot of fun together and I'm sure Katherine and Becky will be really good friends when they are a little older, too. We went to McKee's Pet store a few weeks ago and let the kids see all the animals and play on the little playground there. My favorite were the little baby goats. They also had tiny little pigs that were pretty cute too. After that, we went to Arctic Circle to get ice cream. It was a lot of fun!


Last week, we both packed up lunches and went to the park by our house. All of the kids liked having a picnic at the park- mainly because they got to play right after they were done. They had fun going down slides and running across the little bridge they have at the park. We didn't get to play too long because a school group came to have a picnic at the park, too, and all the big kids came over to play on the playground when they were done eating. We decided to go back to our apartment to play in the yard with the T-ball set and slide that Kimby has. I'm glad that Jamie and Malorie are back in Pocatello so we can do things like that this summer.

Funny, funny!

Here are just a few of the funny things Kimberley has said and done in the past few days.

As we were leaving church on Sunday, we told Kimberley that she needed to hurry so we can go to grandma's house for dinner. She got really excited, put her hands in the air and exclaimed, "I can't believe it!"

Lately Kimberley has really enjoyed coloring. She will color any paper she can get her hands on. She always says, "I'm doing my job" or "Look at my job that I drew." I didn't understand why she kept calling her coloring her job until yesterday when it finally hit me. A lot of times when she colors, she will show it to us and we'll say, "Wow! Good Job!"

Yesterday we were at Walmart and I was talking to Kimberley about something. She did a little dance and said, "I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"

This morning we went to go visit mom at Poky High and Ashley came with us. On our way back, Kimberley was talking to Ashley and said, "Do you remember my dad?" Ashley started laughing and said, "Uh, yeah." Then Kimberley asked, "Do you like him?" It took her a long time to respond because we were both laughing so hard!


This is on one of our trips to Utah.
(and yes, that is a Twizzler in her nose!)

What a funny girl

Kimby did some pretty funny things yesterday.

First of all, I went into the bathroom with her because I knew she had been playing in there, so I went to check out the damage. Things seemed normal, besides the fact that there was a puddle of water next to the toilet. I didn't really think much of it until I saw her pants in the bathtub, soaking wet. I asked her why her pants were all wet and she told me, "I washed them!" Wait a second! I didn't hear the water running and there wasn't any water in the bathtub. Then it hit me. I asked her how she washed her pants and she happily replied, "In the toilet!" Okay, so that's gross. But kind of funny, too.

The other thing she did was while we were at a Regional Missionary Training meeting (Spencer's Ward Mission Leader and I'm a Ward Missionary). We got there a little late, so we were sitting in the gym on hard chairs. Anyway, a little while into the meeting Kimby told us that she had to go potty (YAY!), so Spencer took her to go potty. On her way back through the gym, she very loudly and excitedly declared, "I PEED!" Those gyms echo. Enough said. If that wasn't enough, a little while later, she said that she had to go potty again, so I took her. She actually pooped in the potty! So, you guessed it, on her way back to sit down again, she said (again, very loudly), "I POOPED IN THE POTTY!!" I guess we need to teach her there are times when we don't tell people those kinds of things. Oh well, the people around us got a kick out of it.

Okay, it's official!

I have the best husband in the world!! I was watching Disney Channel this afternoon with Kimberley when the doorbell rang. Usually Spencer rings the doorbell when he gets home to let Kimby know he's home, because she gets really excited and runs to greet him. Since I was expecting him to come home early, I didn't get up because I just figured it was him that rang the doorbell. When he didn't open the door, I decided maybe it wasn't him and I probably better go answer it. When I opened it, I saw a guy there holding these!



He had some flowers delivered to me with a really sweet card! That totally made my day! On top of it all, daisies are my favorite flowers. Between cleaning my kitchen yesterday and the flowers today, I briefly wondered if maybe he had done something wrong that I didn't know about. =) But I decided he is just a really great guy! I love him so much!

Another Yay and a What the Heck?!

Kimberley stayed dry and peed in the potty ALL DAY yesterday! I can't say how excited I am! She has been doing really well lately (knock on wood). She tells me when she needs to go or she just goes in and goes by herself! Hopefully we are coming to the end of this unbelievably frustrating time. Potty training is definitely challenging!

I just wanted to say that I have the best husband ever!! After dinner last night, he cleaned my entire kitchen- dishes, wiped counters and stove, and even swept the floor! He knows that I hate to clean the kitchen so that was very thoughtful of him to clean it without any prodding! I sure got a great guy. I am very blessed to have him.

This morning when we woke up, there was snow on the ground! What the heck?! That is ridiculous. It is the first of May, there shouldn't even be snow in the mountains! Oh well- it doesn't bother me that there was snow as much as it bothers me that it's COLD enough to snow! Just last week the temperature was in the 70's. I want it to be SPRING. I am ready to be warm again!