An update

I know it has been forever since I have written anything, life has just been busy I guess.  Early September Jason's brother came and lived with us for two weeks.  He was starting a new job here in Utah and needed a place to stay till he could get moved into his own place.  The first week I got to take care of his daughter, my niece, Lyhia.  She didn't know me very well, so it was kind of a long week, but good.  The kids all loved being together.  If it wasn't quite so crazy maybe I would have gotten some cute pictures of them playing together. The next week Lyhia was able to spend time with Mommy and that weekend Jason went up to Idaho Falls to help them pack up and move.  Between that and school he has been really busy.  I have been trying to keep my house up and get ready for birthdays.  Jason turned 31 on the first and had two test to take that weekend. So I went to Idaho Falls to see my cousin with the kids so that Jason could study.  Since I was going to be gone ON his birthday the weekend before I took him to Texas Roadhouse and a movie.  We had a great time and then on Sat. we were able to go to the BYU game.  It was fun, even though we lost again. Just isn't going to be our year. 

Anyway, that is only some of what has been going on.  I have taken pictures though, so here are some pictures of the children.  We are still working with Kiera on potty training her, she just doesn't seem to want to.  Evey few days we spend time on the potty while drinking tons of juice.  But once we put the underwear on of diaper, she just goes in the diaper or underwear.  I ask her if she needs to go, she says no and then 10 min later she's wet.  She gets excited for the idea of it, loves her panties, but just can't or won't communicate when she needs to pee or go on her own.  Hopefully we make a break through soon.  Other than that she is doing great!  She keeps us all on our toes.  Rylan is also doing pretty good. He really has gotten into the climbing thing.  He will try to imitate sounds like Meow or Roar.  He even has 'words' that he says, though I'm not sure how many 'real' words he has in his vocab.  We continue to work with him.  Him and Kiera continue to have a power struggle.  I've already have seen some of the tendencies of Rylan believing he deserves everything he wants, I try really hard to make sure I'm punishing the right kid and the kid that the toy first is getting it.  I know I don't always get it right though.  Well, here are some pictures.  They both love the camera.  I was trying to get a picture of them together, but they have problems sometimes sharing the spotlight :-) 

 Here is one of the times I was trying to get both of them.

Here Rylan stole my Ipod and then cuddled up with his Daddy!

It was so cute!

I was trying to get a cute picture of Kiera, but she kept looking over at the TV instead.

Kiera was put into time out and was really upset. Rylan went over and hugged her to help comfort her. It was one of the cutest things I've seen.  I love it when they have those sweet sibling moments.