St. George

Last week we took a 4 day weekend trip to St..George! Friday to Monday. It was so nice to be off of work and to just be away and relax and have a good time! Connor didn't sleep the whole drive down but he was so good! I put a pull up on him for the drive down figuring he would need one, it's a 4 hour drive. We stopped in Fillmore for me to go to the bathroom and I asked him if he needed to go and if he wanted to come with me and he said no. 5 minutes later when we are 20 miles till the next rest stop he says I need to potty. Billy told him to just go in his pull up that it was ok. He says no mommy said that I can't! I told him it's ok right now in the car you can just go. He starts crying saying he can't and then starts saying owie owie owie because he is holding it. We stop at the next gas station 20 miles later and I take him into the bathroom. His pull up is dry from that whole ride and he goes! I was impressed! He did very good in St.George. He thinks it is exciting now to go to the bathroom at new places. Today we were talking about St. George and he's like yeah my favorite place I pottyed was at the temple! He is going to remember this trip as a potty trip lol. The weather was pretty nice. Saturday was BEAUTIFUL and Sunday it rained a little but was still in the 50's. We were able to still go to the park by the temple and it didn't rain while we were there. We went swimming twice too but sorry folks I have no pictures of that. Both times we had the pool all to ourselves which was sooo nice!

Noooo Mommy!

Don't take my picture!

Swing me!

This boy loves

to swing!

Wish he was looking at me in these pictures!

In front of the temple doors.

Family picture #1

Famiy pic #2

Just being the silly boy that he is!

Well we are doing good other than that! My pregnancy is still going good. Jack is moving and kicking all the time. He likes to in the middle of the night for like an hour straight. He is going to be a handful lol. Today due to a friend's reccomendation I found a pre school in the price range I was looking for for Connor and I got him signed up for the fall! I am so excited! He loves to learn and I think he will love it.

When I was picking up Connor a couple weeks ago from nursery one of the nursery workers said to me I just have to ask. How did you teach him how to read? I told him I really didn't do much. He just has loved letters since before he was 2 and pretty much taught himself (Which is the truth) He then said we were all blown away by his reading today.

I decided that

Connor ='s

Don't worry Billy and I are NOTHING like her parents and definitely have done more than they have just by getting apps on my iphone, leap frog games, and finding him computer games. We do this though because he LOVES them. We have never done anything to push him to read. I would never be the type of mom to try and make my (then 2 year old) read. It really was just one day in church Billy opened a book and pointed to the words and he read every single one. Now he reads books that say they are at a Stage 3. He does this website starfall.com which is learn to read with phonics. It has 4 levels the last one being I'm reading and he does them all. I am not trying to brag or boast or throw it anyones face TRUST ME. I am more so saying this for my memory and journaling purposes, and also because people ask and wonder how in the heck did you get him to read. The answer is he is like Matilda and taught himself lol. He has some kind of photographic memory. He knows every song and who sings it on my i phone. There are songs on the radio that I don't even know that he tells me what they are. He is so smart I worry I don't know what to do with him, and it is beyond me how in the heck he is so smart! Well I guess if he is like Matilda I better watch out for some super powers and moving things with his finger LOL jk!

This kid cracks me up every day. He says that his name is Connor "Action" Dahle. He gave this name to himself. I will say Connor your so silly and he will say no I'm Connor Action.

Yesterday he was making up "Once upon a time" stories and they went from Once upon a time their was a bubble and it popped The End. To long stories about moles in holes in the ground turning into jets and ponies meeting movie stars. LOVE his imagination!

I am so excited for him to be a big brother. Yes it will be a big adjustment. Yes he will probably act out and it will be hard at 1st. I know that he is going to be a good big brother though. The other day he said he wanted to watch Baby Einstein and then he said I can't wait for baby Jack to watch baby Einstein with me. He will love it!

Things like that just melt my heart and make me so excited!

He asks me all the time. What is Jack doing? so cute!

Ok well I will stop my rambling now. Can't wait for this yucky up and down spring teasing us with being warm and then it snowing to be over! So ready for just sunshine and playing outside! Connor and I got to a lot last week due to warm weather at the beginning of the week and then going to St.George. The 1st day we went out was last Monday and he was sooo excited to just do the simple things that he LOVES like coloring with sidewalk chalk, and throwing rocks in the water. It was so much fun to see him run around outside and get all his energy out. We are tired of being cooped up!