kansas city memories

here are some things that still make me smile as i reflect on my fun trip to kansas city this past weekend to visit lauri and her two girls...

*playing with ella at the park

-ella encouraging me to do a back flip 'you can do it kim, you can' i think it really helped me!

-ella telling her 'friends about her halloween socks 'my socks have let-turs on them.' so cute!

-after climbing down from the large monkey gym, lauri saying to me, 'you know, it has never crossed my mind to climb that...never!'

*ella's potty training day

-since i'm from the outside, i think i can tell lauri an idea about how to help ella get potty trained. i think, so just put her in panties instead of the pull up, and that way eventually she'll start going the potty...right?!

-so i'm watching the girls saturday morning while lauri and rob are at work and on call, and i chose to put ella in her panties. we start off in her cute blue shorts. oops...forgot to remind her to go potty before going to the park.

-so worries, i find some cute jean shorts that actually go better with the outfit. so lauri comes home and then the girls go down for a nap. i actually napped too! so we wake up to ella at her door. i open it and she says, 'the peepee went on the floor.' hmmmm...it went on the floor because of the poopoo in the diaper had filled it up. so i clean her up (yes i love her very much!)

-so i then ella is wearing the khaki shorts, which look really cute too, by the way. but i looked at lauri and said, 'i think we should put her in a pull up this time. lauri just smiled. guess ella will do it when she's ready. and not a day sooner! (lauri even got her a toy and she walks by it and says, 'that's my toy...i get to open in when i put the poopoo in the potty')

*samantha...

-samantha is always giggling...and it makes you smile. she's such a happy baby

-she was crying and when we asked ella why (they were playing) ella told us 'i put pitas in time out.' ella shortened samantha's name to 'mantas' and then to 'pitas'...it's really cute but confuses other people when we call her pitas too.

-samantha said her first sentence while i was there...she had buckled herself and said clear as day, 'i did it!' made her seem a lot older.

guess i had better finish that cross-stitch soon...lauri is pregnant and due in april with her 3rd baby. i think she's going to have another girl. we will see soon enough!! i miss you girls already!!!