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We tried to be tricky hiding the eggs, but Shelly outsmarted us...  :-)  (usually with help)

She's also potty training, and it's easier for her to use the potty if she's not wearing pants, so she's in her undies.  (We've started putting pants on her in just the last day or two - but it was not so on Easter)
She was so excited that there was nothing in the egg, she had to show the camera!  (we'd already taken all the goodies out of the eggs)

Pictures have been retrieitved

Here's some fun Easter pics.  

She made a mess with all her newly found and emptied eggs.  She sure had a blast 'cleaning up' though! :-)

Here she is pulling Doug on her bike.  She actually pulled him all the way across the bricks (it's not all that far, but it sounds good :-)

I almost forgot the best news!!

I found my wedding ring!!  It was in one of the storage thingys (wanna be glove boxes...) in my car!  I was going for a piece of candy, since that's mostly what's in that glove box, and found a surprise!  I didn't end up eating any candy, which was probably a good thing.  Anyways - good news!!

Jason keeps getting bigger!

Shelly wanted to go swimming today, and Jason managed to get filthy in the water and dirt (strange - I know) so I stripped him down and let him get in the pool. As I was watching them I saw him do an entirely new thing! He stood up! From sitting with nothing to hold onto! That boy seems to be doing everything backwards! He's supposed to be walking first, and then learn how to do that!!! He also earlier today was standing up (oh, he's been standing up all on his own for a while now) and I was trying to get him to take a step and he moved himself over about an inch! Both feet went up and then came back down. It sounds more impressing than it was to watch, but it was still fun!

Here's some random pictures that I thought were fun.

We went to the Getty with Becca while she was down the other day - there was a kids area where they could make their own masks. Shelly actually drew hers (not that you can tell in this picture)


The kids both like to think they can play the piano... It's more fun to watch than to listen too. :-)

Easter Hunting!

I need to steal some pictures from my mom. We hid all the eggs and bags that Mom Schofield sent over and we told everyone that they had 5 eggs and 1 bag to go find, but pretty much it was all Shelly. I'm pretty sure it turned out more like 1 egg for everyone else and 36 for Shelly (apparently the bags were harder to find and most people got their own). She finally caught on how to look for and find eggs. We had gone to a ward party earlier that week, and she was a little slow on the up-take, but by Sunday she had caught on rather well, and it was quite entertaining to watch. Jason was taking a nap, so he missed out on the fun.

Then on Monday we opened the balls that came with the eggs (there are usually small treats that go with Easter in the Schofield family - they put numbers in the eggs, and then whoever finds a number gets to pick a prize from the pile) and Shelly had fun letting Katie and me throw balls at her (not 'to her' - 'at her') She would retrieve the balls and then run a few steps away and turn and wait for us to pelt her. She found it quite entertaining. So did we, as long as we're being honest.

Shelly Sings

So, I'm sitting here listening to Shelly sing 'here is daddy, run away, run away, run away...' (the finger game with your thumbs - she struggles with the number of times to repeat) and it reminded me of the cutest story!

We had gone over to a friends house who lives in the ward (she happens to work in the nursery, but that's not part of the story) and on the way home Shelly was singing something that sounded like 'I am tired a lot' and we were thinking she was super tired to be making up a song about how tired she was, but when she didn't respond when we asked her if that's what she was singing, we got suspicious. So I listened more closely and realized she was singing 'I a child of God' (her words kind of slur together). After we got home Mom was looking at some pictures on her computer and Shelly would say 'that's a child of God, and that's a child of God' every time the picture changed.

Well, that's about it for that one

Bubbles

I tried to get one of Shelly reading a book to Katie, but apparently it was too big... So, instead here's one of Shelly, Jason and Mark chasing bubbles.

Lots of fun!

We've been having too much fun here! I keep trying to remember to put up pictures and video, but I always forget. Here's going to be my best try.


Here's Shelly, crashed on her floor. Not sure what prompted me to snap a shot, but it was funny!



Shelly was swimming and wanted to sit in the pool. I snapped the shot before her dad made her take it out...

Now for some video!

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This is Shelly reading a book called David goes to School. Here are the words she's 'reading': (each line is a different page)
No David, no yelling, no pushing, no running in the halls
David, you're tardy
Sit down David
Don't chew gum in class
David, raise your hand
Keep your hands to yourself
Pay attention
Wait your turn David
I don't care who started it
David, recess is over
Shhhhh
Again?
That's it, Mister! you're staying after school
David, have you finished?
Good job David
Yes David, you can go home now.

Remember those teeth?

Well, so does Jason. He got a new one on Tuesday! The top right. Now he's just missing the bottom left to even out his mouth. His teeth look super funny. I'm hoping that they eventually grow in to look slightly normal...
I have tons of pictures and video to add - but I'm lazy and haven't taken them off the camera yet. maybe later today. I have a ton on things on my 'to-do' list, and somehow the things that aren't right in front of me end up getting farther down the list...

Shelly and Potty Training

Apparently it's been a while... Life has been pretty crazy. We had fun having Becca down for a short visit last weekend, and now Katie is coming down this weekend for a whole week! How exciting. On Saturday Shelly decided she wanted to be potty trained. She came and told us she was poopy, so we checked her diaper, but she wasn't poopy yet. Then a few minutes later - we believed her [stinky!]. I realized that she wasn't telling us that she was poopy, but that she was about to be poopy. So, when the same thing happened about 1/2 hour later - guess where we headed! Straight to the toilet. She sat on the toilet like a big girl and pooped in the toilet. It was the first time she'd ever actually used the toilet. She'd sat on it a few times here and there over the last several months, but mostly because she'd asked too, not because we were trying to get her to use it.
So, we spent the rest of Saturday working on potty training. She picked up the concept really well. We have a small potty that she can use without our help. She learned to pull her panties down, sit on the potty, pee in the potty, wipe, stand up and take the pot part of potty to the big toilet, empty the potty into the toilet (she can open doors now - it's actually been rather helpful with this), flush the toilet, put the pot back in the potty, and put her panties back on (we're working on having her not take them all the way off in the first place, but it's lower on the priority list). That was Saturday afternoon! She was on a roll!!
Then I went to go take a nap, and Mark took over with both kids, and Shelly - for all her progress - decided it was easier to mess her panties and then go pee in the potty... So, we took a step back that day. Then Sunday after church and a nap we started her in panties again. She went through several pairs of training panties that day... And the next... But today she's been doing fairly well at keeping them dry, and going potty before the panties get 'poopy' as she calls it. She gets way excited when she goes in the potty and yells 'I did it!' Once she got the concept down, and we knew she had the ability to go in the potty and clean up after herself, we stopped giving her treats unless her panties were still dry after she was done going potty. If she makes a mess, then she has to clean up the mess (I try to help as little as possible, but sometimes it's a must :-), finish going potty like a big girl, empty the pot, put her dirty panties in the 'dirty panty pile,' and put on her clean panties all by herself. She's to the point where she stops herself when she notices she's peeing in the wrong place, and finishes on the potty. It makes clean-up much easier because it's usually just a few drops in her panties. But she still doesn't get a treat... She's tried throwing fits, but once she starts whining she answer is a definite 'no', even if I was about to give her some (sometimes especially then!)
So far today, she's only gone through one pair of panties! Lets just hope this keeps up. I'm ok with accidents (at least I try to tell myself that), especially when they're small, and even more when they stop happening quite so often.
I'm looking forward to being able to put clothes on her again. She's been wearing just shirts and panties, and it's hard to leave the house... I'm waiting until she can stay dry for most of a day before we add pants to the equation. I hope that's not a mistake, but it's too late now. Hopefully that will be sometime later this week (maybe even before Katie gets here! :-)
She's asleep now, and I'm really hoping I don't have to eat these words after she wakes up...