Our kids are growing up

I'm sure many of you remember the stage your children were in at the age of ours. You're probably saying that it's no big deal. Well right now, it's a big deal to us that our children have reached a couple of small milestones.

From Luke

We just started Luke with potty training this past week. We've got a stash of stickers to give him when he uses the potty. He gets 1 sticker for #1 and 2 for #2. He's usually does #2 in his pull-up, but there has been once he has done a #2 in the potty. On the other hand, he has done very well with #1. About the only time we need to throw away a wet pull-up is after he has been sleeping a while.

We have a sticker board for Luke that we have taped on the wall. When Luke gets a sticker, he has to show it to all of the babies and then he sticks it on his board. It's getting pretty full now.



Mark and Becky have started to crawl. Becky's the fastest, but Mark is getting there. Jared is doing the rocking thing, so it won't be long before he starts crawling. Becky is also able to sit up on her own.

From Becky

Also, we have a picture we just had to share. Robert has already shared it on Facebook, but some who follow this blog don't get onto Facebook much if at all. After mommy and daddy got done with their corn-on-cob one evening, we decided to break it up and let the babies gnaw on them. The totally loved it.

From Triplets

Southern Utah Vacation

We took the latter half of July to escape the heat of Arizona and visit family in Southern Utah. We mostly stayed in Cannonville at Robert's Parents' home. We had a very enjoyable time there. It was good to see everyone and we had a lot of help taking care of the triplets and Luke also.

Our kids had a lot of fun playing outside:

From Becky

From Mark

From Jared

We helped out with the water station at Robert's Parents':









That same day, we went to Willis Creek as part of the Fletcher reunion:

From Luke

The next week, we went to the Pioneer celebration in Tropic. Luke had a really good time, and a really good sunburn:

From Luke

We don't have a whole lot more pictures than that. Many others were much better at taking pictures than we were. We were too busy with babies to take any at the Broderick reunion on July 30, but we had a really good time there too.

We have made it back home and are now trying to get back to our normal schedules. It is taking a while, but we're getting there.