We're still alive!

But our computer isn't. I haven't been able to upload pictures for a while and we just got the blue screen of death...

Quick update on the Hains'...

Jared just took a new job with the EP group in the Utah Heart Clinic. There are 5 cardioloists and Jared is now the 5th PA. He is super busy and loving it!

I am loving mommyhood in the summertime! We have spent many hours in the swimming pool here at our apartment complex--both of our girls are little fish! I just picked up road biking with my friend rochelle and I love it!

Kaylee is taking swim lessons and is doing really well. It's so fun to see her cute little head bobbing up and down in the pool with the other little girls! She is potty trained now and she puts herself to sleep at night; jared and I feel so spoiled!! She says the funniest things...I really need to start putting them up on the blog.

Ellie is still the sweetest, easiest baby on the planet. She is crawling a little bit, and she wants to get her hands on everything she can. She waves a lot and smiles and talks to everyone. Between both of our social girls we have the noisy bench at church--I always try to sit in the back so there are less people looking at us from behind to tempt them. Ellie also says yi-yi when I try to get her to say bye-bye!

I have lots of pictures to put up, so keep posted!!

Kaylee said...

Kaylee was just sitting in the middle of the stairs, hungry and sucking her thumb. I finally got her to agree to eat some mandarin oranges. So I opened a container of them and went to take them up the stairs to her. I tripped on all the laundry at the bottom of the stairs and clumsily landed at Kaylees feet--successfully not spilling the oranges. Kaylee giggled and said, "You cute!" I laughed and told her that she was the cute one and she said, "No, you cute, Mommy. You cute."

Potty training

I haven't been in a hurry to potty train Kaylee because I don't want to have to clean pee out of carpet or worry about finding bathrooms while out running errands. Yeah, I know that's lame. But Kaylee started saying, "Potty toilet" and then she'd run to the little potty chair we have in the downstairs bathroom. She loves to flush the potty down the toilet and wave bye-bye. A few days ago I caught her sitting on the bottom stair taking her diaper off. She stood up, leaving her diaper laying on the stairs. Lovely. I told her that she needed her diaper so she didn't get pee on the floor. She said, "No, I go potty in the toilet. Okay!" and took off running down the hallway with her darling, bare bum cheeks to her potty chair.

I have got to be the luckiest mom in the world!! Of course, I shouldn't congratulate myself on my luckiness yet...there's still a lot of time for it to backfire:) And knowing Kaylee and her love for making messes, it's very likely to!

Snowfamily!

One night up at my parents house Uncle Jay, Kaylee, and I went to play in the snow. We decided to make a little family of snowmen. We had lots of fun, but in the morning the falling snow had covered all but the head of the tiny guy and made the rest of them look deformed. Sad day!!

Photos from Alicia

We had my cousin Alicia come down from Rexburg to take some baby and family pics for us. We love them!

Here are some family pics:






Here are some Ellie pics:



We pulled the plug and went from content...





...to angry!












Kaylee and her Daddy!



Thank you Alicia!!!

Kaylee said...

A couple weeks ago I tried checking Kaylee's diaper because someone was leaking some smells. When I tried to pull the top of the diaper out Kaylee ran away and said, "No, Mommy, that's my toilet!"