MY BIG KIDS

my little princess with her princesses

ryan's cool dinosaur he drew

i really can't believe how fast ryan and emily are growing up! i know i say that a lot, but seriously it's crazy that ryan is going to be 4 in a few weeks, and em will be 2 in a few months! my little baby girl just wants to grow up too fast. last night when i put her to bed, she said "bed mommy" and pointed to the big bed in her room. i decided to give it a try, and she did great. it's kind of high so i was afraid she might fall out, or get up all night long, but she stayed in her bed all night long. tonight she also went right to bed, and stayed. so far, so good. i really am not ready for her to be so grown up! we took the high chair down a few weeks ago, and darrel has been wanting to take the crib down. i didn't want to ruin a good thing we had with the crib, so i was against it. until last night any way. she just wants to do everything ryan does. she also tells me every time she needs to go potty. i might even try training her in the next few days. she will go potty on the toilet when i let her. i have to admit it will be nice to have the extra space in her bedroom, and to not have to change (or buy) any more diapers. i will leave the crib up for a while just to make sure this whole bed thing is really going to work out.

ryan has been loving his little classes so much! i am so impressed with his drawings. i really don't think i could do much better. maybe he is taking after his uncle john. a few weeks ago they split our ward, and created a brand new ward for us. i am sad to be leaving some of my friends, but excited to make new ones at the same time. this is really hard for ryan because he loves his sunbeam teacher sooooo much! they haven't called anyone to any of the callings yet so people have just been volunteering to teach the different classes. it took me a few minutes to convince ryan to go to primary, but he did and was fine, until i guess the last 5 mins or so. when i went to get him out of class i could tell he had been crying. the teacher said it got kind of crazy -there are probably 8 sunbeams or so and she had them all in her class - so you can just imagine. she didn't know why he got so upset. i asked him what was wrong and he said he just needed something to make him happy, and started crying again. this broke my heart and made me cry. on the way home he kept saying the kids were fighting and they needed to zip up their lips, turn the key, and throw it away. they will definitely need 2 sunbeam classes. the other night i told ryan to come and help me clean up his blocks and he said "no mommy i just need to cheer you on." i know i have never said this to him, but it cracked me up. where do they come up with this stuff?