Stephen's Sayings - Cabela's and shopping

A couple days ago Stephen saw the socks Shoji was wearing and said, "Hey Mom those are the socks that Dad and I got for you at Cabela's... Cabela's, Cabela's hey that rythmes!"

Stephen Takes Charge - Potty

We were hoping we would be diaper free by the New Year. However, Stephen has taken matters into “his own hands” and we need to rescind him from our Top 8 List of 2008. Over the vacation time Stephen, after some significant success with going potty, decided that he was going to take some control by consistently soiling his pull-ups. After a few serious conversations between Ryan and me, we decided that we will pull away and give Stephen a week off from asking him to go potty. He is back in diapers and we do not remind him. We decided to go the Kevin Leman way and let it go and let Stephen decide what he wants to do. However, we would no longer clean up the mess – Stephen would. This week Stephen spent on average 30 minutes 3x a day in the bathtub, cleaning himself often with a great attitude and very agreeable – “OK! Like this?” he would ask in a cheery voice. As I helped him get dressed today for the 3rd time he says, “I love it, Mommy. I love cleaning myself!”

GOXED

One other note, during our trip to Seattle we went up on the roof top to watch the new year's fireworks. While in the elevator on the way up some new year's partiers got in the elevator and we got Goxed. I thought Shoji and Ashley were going to die.

Check out Gox in the scrabble dictionary...

Christmas 2008 - Seattle

We had a great Christmas visiting Uncle Alan & Shiji-mama in Seattle. We did lots of fun things.
Priya loved taking the bus around and Stephen loved the mono-rail. Shoji and I got to go to the "Nutcracker". We went to the Science Museum, We got to help Ashley move! We help Alan take down the Christmas Tree, needles everywhere- LOL. We went to the Christmas Eve candlelight service at University Pres. Church. We got to see Mary Sahli, Shoji's counseling buddy. We played lots of scrabble.

We dodged the snow storms got free 1st class upgrades on the flight (thanks to uncle Alan), the kids were great!