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I found the Potty Watch at Kid to Kid and Harmon's (in the diaper aisle). It is cheaper at Harmon's and the music sounds a lot better.

Good Luck to all you Potty Trainers!

The Potty Watch

The Potty Watch is awesome if you are trying to potty train. You can set the watch to go off 30, 60, or 90 mins. Every time it goes off it plays a song. (it has 3 different songs) When the song goes off we sing the "Potty song" and it is time to go potty. Cooper does pretty good for a couple of days and then doesn't want to anymore. We are still working on it though....slowly but surely. Someday it will happen! :) He loves to wear his potty watch and every time it goes off he sings and runs to the toilet so, I am excited about that. If anything it is getting his excited to go!

Here is Coop modeling his Potty Watch!

ChRiStMaS DaY

Christmas morning was so much fun! Cooper had fun checking out all his fun new toys. We had such a nice morning. Around 11:00 a.m. we headed over to Nick's mom for Christmas Brunch. It was nice to see the family. We stopped at Nick's Dad's on the way home and got to visit with him for a bit.We came back home and let Cooper play with his toys! My Dad & Mama Jo came and visited with us about 3:00 p.m. It was so fun to visit with them for a while before they headed to the next siblings house. Cooper showed Grandpa all his tools just like daddy's.

Coop & Daddy with his new tools

We were just getting ready to eat our dinner and the power went out! I realized how unprepared we were. In this house we haven't designated a place for our Emergency stuff yet. Good thing we had our cell phone lights to go out in garage and find our 72 hr. Box. After we got some light we enjoyed our "candlelight dinner." Cooper thought it was scary at first but, after a bit he started thinking it was fun and wanted to go camping! We had a wonderful Christmas and are so very blessed. We are so grateful for wonderful family and friends and for our best Christmas gift ever...Our Savior Jesus Christ. He has done so much for us and we are so lucky to have his example and to be able to serve those around us.

Christmas Eve

This year for Christmas Eve we got to spend it with my family. We did Nick's mom, Bryan, Andrea, Kinzie, and Emma join us too. It was so much fun! We get together every year and have a "Christmas Program". We have dinner, Children's Nativity and Talent. My mom came up with this idea in '98 and my niece and me stated putting it together. We would work on this months in advance. Mom was pretty sick but, would still help us with our little projects and give suggestions. Mom passed away that year two day before Christmas Eve. Our Program that year was so special. It is now our family tradition every year to have a Christmas Eve Program. For dinner this year we enjoyed yummy Ham, potatoes, salad, rolls and a variety of delicious cakes! After dinner we had a children's Nativity and story. Cooper was the wayward Shepard! He didn't want to stand there... of course. (stinker) Then my favorite part.....the talent. Most of the grand kids had come up with talent to share. All of the girls made up a cute dance. Kaylee and Brooke do such a great job organizing the whole program. We love it! We missed Kar this year at the program. She was in the ER getting hydrated. Poor Kar! We are glad her and the baby are doing good! After the program we headed home and Cooper wrote a letter to Santa and helped Dad set out Snickers and Cream Soda for Santa and Carrots for the Reindeer. (You can tell Cooper got to pick out what to give Santa) We opened up our Christmas jammies and got ready for bed. We had so much fun together as a family sharing talent, yummy food, and remembering our Savior Jesus Christ.

Snow Day

We had a fun Snow Day in December which NEVER happens in St. George!! It was so much fun to go out and build snowmen. The boys had fun having a snowball fight and played out in the snow a lot longer than I did. I love to see the snow but, brrr.. is it cold! Cooper had so much fun! I was amazed that my little daisy survived the snow. All of the other flowers died expect the one orange daisy.

It was such a fun experience to have all that snow!

More Messes.....

I don't know what it is but, when Cooper makes a mess it is a huge MESS!!! Last night we were playing a game with Nick's bro & sister-in-law and Cooper and Emma were playing in his room. They were getting ready to leave and so I went to get Cooper.....I almost died.... His room had toys all over the floor, he had pulled out all his pajamas, toilet paper ripped up into little pieces, and BUTTER ALL OVER EVERYWHERE!! He is a little sneak because we were standing in the living room and Cooper went passed us very quietly, got some tape, tiptoed passed us with the tape behind his back and then ran to his room! I am sure that is how he managed to get the butter to his room too since we were playing a game and weren't right there where we could see him... Oh, my child! So, they all left and Cooper had ANOTHER talk about sneaking, asking, and making messes. Do you think he got it this time?? Nick helped Cooper pick up his toys while I tried to get BUTTER out of his church pants and Comforter. Oh, I sure hope it worked! I sure do love my little Cooper but he makes HUGE MESSES!!

Nursery, Water, Potty, No clothes...

On Sunday I was sitting in R.S. and the nursery leader came to the door and motioned for me. I went out there and she said, "We have a problem...(she was kind of laughing so I was really confused)" She went on to tell me that Cooper told one of the nursery leaders that he needed to go potty so she asked him if he needed help and he insisted that he could do it himself. (They have a little kid sized potty which Cooper thinks is so cool!) So, they let him go in. He had went to the bathroom, washed his hands and was trying to get out when they realized he had locked the door and he was now locked in the bathroom. While they were trying to figure out how to get him out Cooper decided it would be fun to play in the water! They got the door unlocked and he was soaking wet!! I got to the nursery and he was laying on his stomach eating his snacks under the table...with no bottoms on. He still had his shirt on because it only got wet a little but, his pants, and socks were soaked. I took him into the bathroom put a diaper on him and had a talk about using the potty by himself. He told me he would never do it again...haha we will see. *We have been working on potty training for a while and he was doing so good for about a week and then totally regressed. We have just started more serious this week. We will see how it goes this time. I think he is more ready and he loves wearing the potty watch!

WOW!!

I really haven't posted for a long time! Things have been SO busy lately with all the holiday happenings! It is now all over and time to take down Christmas...I am definitely going to miss all the Christmas decor'. My tree is really dead and all the needles are falling off so..I guess it is time! :) I can't believe it really is 2009! Time flies so fast! Well, I will have pics to come soon! :)