Hop on Pop

This weekend, we had the pleasure of spending lots of time with Great Pop!

Making for some very happy little fish :-)

Since Barbie Gramma and Grandpa were off with friends, and Uncle Z was busy,

we got to spend the weekend with Great Pop and we had a blast doing it!

 As soon as Daddy got home from work on Friday, we headed over to his place for pizza and playing.

 The kiddos were having such a great time that they went to sleep pretty late.

Of course, as soon as they got up, they immediately headed down to see Pop.

In fact, every time we went looking for the boys, we usually found them snuggled up with Pop!

It was beyond precious and we are thrilled they have this time with their Great Pop.

Sunday afternoon, we took the kiddos to Wild Waves for rides and swimming.

All three munchkins had fun on the rides.

 And loved when they could all ride together :-)

 While Alli and Daddy went on the ferris wheel, the boys rode space ships.

I couldn't believe they were both big enough to go alone and didn't want/need Mommy.

It was a hoot watching Lukey up there, who was always a bit higher than his big bro.

He was waving and grinning nonstop!

After exhausting the rides, it was off to the pools where the kiddos had fun swimming and splashing.

The wave pool was the biggest hit but given that both boys had colds, we decided to head home early.

Back to have dinner and play with Pop so no complaints out the little fish :-)

What a fun weekend with special memories.

Diapers are a thing of the past!!!

This incredibly adorable little man is now a proud member of the big boy undies club!

Although he is still two, Lukey desperately wants to go to preschool in the Fall just like big brother.

Eli's school agreed to put him in the 3's class despite not being 3 because they saw how ready he was this year as he begged to stay in school with his big bro each day BUT the caveat was that he had to be fully potty trained.  I truly thought this would be a deal breaker but we explained to Luke that if he wanted to go to school (he does!), he had to go big boy potty.

I planned to start it in August but the Wednesday (July 23rd) after we got home from Disneyland, 

I got the crazy idea that I might as well just give it a try then so on went the undies.

So I couldn't turn back, I had Eli take all of our diapers down to our neighbor for her little guy.

We decided to use the 3 Day Potty Training method with Luke since we had a deadline.

It definitely took longer than three days but in less than a week, he figured it out!

We tried M-n-Ms as the potty prizes with little excitement but he was all over stickers.

A friend had given us a bunch of Toy Story Stickers and Luke found them July 28th.

When he asked if he could have one, I said sure when he went potty.

Well he was all over that!

Beginning that morning, he would come running to tell me when he had to go potty.

He is even staying dry all night now :-)

Who knew that printing out a picture of Buzz Lightyear and putting stickers on it could be so cool?!?!

The ultimate potty prize was a big Buzz Lightyear toy just like Eli's from Disneyland.

Lukey finally earned that this week and the boys LOVE playing "big Buzz" together.

Although it is hard to believe we are done with this "baby" stage, the diapers will NOT be missed.

We are all so proud of our big boy!!!

Fishing with Uncle Danny and Cousin Kyle

This little man was so excited to go fishing with his Uncle Danny today,

even better was that cousin Kyle was going too!!!

The trip was made even better by Uncle Danny getting him his very own Spiderman fishing pole!

The pole worked great at catching little fish and only had to be fished out of the lake once itself ;-)

Last year, after seeing the little fish cooked up, Eli was convinced Uncle Danny stole his fish,

so this year, Uncle Danny suggested they clean the fish together {at our house!} so Eli could see how small they really are after being cleaned and cut.  Eli loved the idea so I agreed ~ yuck!

But there was NO way I could refuse this sweet little face!

So my kitchen smells fishy and scales everywhere since Eli was in charge of scaling the fish.

He took his job so seriously and was beyond excited to be one of the big guys.

What fun!

Little brother was none too impressed that he was not invited this year . . . perhaps next year.

Uncle Danny is such a great uncle and these kiddos are so lucky to have him!!!