Wow how time flys

It's been quite awhile since I have posted anything on the blog so I will try and catch you up a bit. Well I have no internet at home so there won't be any pictures on this post because I am borrowing this computer. Lets see....Jonah had a birthday he turned one on October 2nd and lucky me I turn older too on the same day. I can't believe how fast time goes. Last year around this time we were in Michigan waiting for Jonah to get cleared from the hospital and now here we are and he is already one.

Jonah's adopted finalized in July and we were so happy. It took long enough, Michigan seems to like taking their time on stuff like this. There was one time I called our social worker just to see how much longer things would take and when we would get the order of adoption. She told me it's summer time and the judges and the clerks take vacation so it might take a little longer. It seems to me that everyone takes vacation all year long because that is how it was with Rozalyn too and we were there a different time of year. Go Michigan. All in all it's finished.
We decided to bless and seal Jonah in September which was nice to have that done with also and make him a part of the family forever. It was really nice to have family there also.

Well that about sums it up. We don't lead a fun life at the moment so it's a short post but hopefully next time I will be able to have pictures.

Hogle Zoo

this wasn't at the zoo but we stopped at a park on the way home.

Jonah liked the swing
I don't know, do you think he is
having fun?

Daddy and Rozalyn sitting on a alligator

This elephant spit water of of his nose

Rozalyn thought that was funny

So last Friday we went up to the Hogle Zoo because we thought Rozalyn would like it. It was a very hot day and being "black"and all I just absorbed the sun but it was fun anyway. Despite the fact that I have no pictures of Rozalyn by any real animals does not mean we didn't go. The few that I have of course she is not looking at the camera and it is always of the back of her head. She kept talking about all the animals she would see at the zoo three days before we went and then when we got there she only spent like two seconds there and then wanted to leave. I guess that's what you get from a 2 1/2 year old. Although he didn't say much Jonah had a good time too. It was nice to get out of town for a bit and spend time with my little family even though the kids hated their car seats and cried more the usual, I might do it again.

Cute kids!
Very rarely do I get both my kids together for a picture.
Rozalyn is always on the go.

Having fun in the rain.

Just chillin.

Rozalyn thought is was pretty cool to have an umbrella.

Mmm...Yummy

Rozalyn enjoying a good morning breakfast with her box of life and watching some cartoons.

Mmmm....so good!

Having some fun

I decided to give Jonah a pickle just to see if he liked it.
I think he liked it despite the face he is pulling.

What a cute little baseball player.

I think it's the hat that makes her look so cute.

She was pointing at plane

John decided to go and buy Rozalyn a tee ball set because she has been talking about baseball for awhile, so here's a little video of her. I think she is pretty good not to mention being so cute while doing it.

Trying the potty training thing

Yesterday I decided to try big girl underwear on Rozalyn hoping to maybe start potty training. We have every once in a while put Rozalyn on the potty to see what would happen and nothing became of it so I really didn't push it that much. So a few days ago I went and bought her underwear. I even let her pick them out, you know make her feel like a big girl. So Yesterday afternoon after nap time I decided to put them on her and let her run around in the backard. I kept telling her that if she needed to go potty to let me know. Well that didn't work so well because fifteen minutes she pooped in them. So I changed her and put new underwear on her and everyhour took into the bathroom and set her on the potty and she actually went. I was so excited for her that she went pee pee in the potty. I also told her each time she went in the potty she could have two m&m's so that was kind of an insentive. She did really well for about four hours and then she was sitting on John's lap outside and it was almost her bedtime so I was waiting to take her potty one last time. I guess i waited to long and john had asked me to take her before that but I didn't and she peed on John. A big pee pee. I just laughed because it was all down his side and got on his phone and on his big chair. He wasn't to thrilled that I was laughing at him but perhaps he deserved it. So maybe instead of big girl underwear right away I will get some pull-ups and try those first until she is completely potty trained. My baby girl is growing up to fast but at the same time I am ready for her to be out of diapers. Two kids in diapers kind of gets expensive.

The other day Rozalyn had found a dollar and was walking around with it saying "Jesus, Jesus." After I had laughed about it, I had to explain that George Washington was not Jesus. Perhaps she was confused a little by the hair because she sometimes confuses Santa with Jesus too. Oh well she's cute.

Growing up so fast

I thought this was cute and funny.

Rozalyn loves looking out the window especially if she see's cousin Jacob across the street.

She's just so cute.

Hats just makes all babies look adorable.

Yes, we styled his hair.

Kids just learn and grow up so fast. The other day Rozalyn was coloring and she has these crayons that are shaped like triangles so she picked one up and said "triangle" so I told her very good and that she was smart. Then she picked up a blue one and said " look mommy, red triangle." Hey, she can't be smart about everything just yet. Jonah is getting bigger all the time but the best part about him right now is that he sleeps 12 hours a night. Yea for me. He is pretty chunky these days so his new nick name is chunkers. That's part of what makes him so cute. It's hard to believe that Rozalyn is 2 and Jonah is already 5 months. Where does the time go?

bless the icecream

So John and I have been teaching Rozalyn to fold her arms while we say prayers. For awhile she was doing it thinking this is fun to fold my arms and to follow mom and dad. Now we have a hard time getting her to fold her arms. I think she thinks that if she folds her arms it means she has to go to bed which it does at night time but I think she thinks it's that way with all prayers. So today at dinner we tried again to get her to fold her arms but no luck. Later on I gave her some icecream and on her own she folded her arms and said "dear heavenly father". So she won't pray for dinner but she sure will bless that icecream she is eating. What cutie!

Oh Poop!

I 've heard stories from other people who've had experiences such as these and all I could think about was I hope that it never happens to me. Well I was wrong. Yesterday I put Rozalyn down for a nap at 2:30 and it usually takes her awhile to get to sleep. I kept checking on her every once on awhile telling her to lay down and try and go to sleep. At around 4:00 John came home and I told him to go get her up becuase I figured she wasn't going to nap and that I would just send her to bed early. Well John went in there a few minutes later and I heard him say poo poo. Oh you went poo poo, let me go get mommy. As soon as he said that I knew something was wrong because he's usually good about changing poopy diapers. So I went in there and Rozalyn had her hands up like she had something on them and sure enough she did. POOP. She also had it on her legs and arms. She didn't have here diaper off yet but she was trying to. She had also taken the garbage bag out of her trash that was sitting on her dresser, dumped that trash into the can and had the bag in the crib with her. I assumed she was trying to take the diaper off and put it in the trash bag becuase that's what we do with her diapers when we change her. So I took her into the bathroom holding her away from me as best I could and told her not to touch anything until I could get the bath water ready. After I put her in the tub I went and took all her bedding, her stuffed animals and threw them in the washer. What a fun experience..not, I hope that it never happens again but I won't hold my breath. Plus I have another child to do this.