I'm a Big Boy Now

We have a big boy in our house now. Yes, Tyson is pottytrained. I had originally planned to start the pottytraining process in January when he would be three and after the holidays. Also, I was so not excited about pottytraining cause I heard it was so hard and boys were especially challenging. Well that was not my experience. I felt (keep in mind this was my first child pottytraining) that it wasn't too bad. Tyson took about a week to be pottytrained. The first couple days I would have him go about every 30 minutes. Now I ask him about every hour and if he tells me no I trust him (that has backfired on me a few times) then I just take him 5 or 10 mintues later just in case. Whenever I took him out I would put him in a pull up cause I was scared of him having an accident but then I decided that was not a good idea so I then decided it didn't matter and from then on he would just wear underwear. He tells us he has to go half the time, sometimes he just runs on his own, but he still has to be prodded to go about every hour. Smarties treats were a good incentive for him as well. He still has a few small accidents here and there but he is doing REALLY well and has caught on quickly. I am so glad I tried it out and did not wait until January. He still wears a diaper at night, we will work on that as time goes on. But I can handle one diaper a night. Yay for Tyson.

Some September Fun

We have played with toys in the house.


Eliza has gotten into Tyson's left over cookie. We actually call her our little vacuum cause she constantly is finding things on the ground to put in her mouth. Her favorite spot is under Tysons chair at the dinner table. She can find all kind of good leftovers there.


Eliza chowing on some chicken nuggets for lunch.


Tyson stood her up in this position.

Tyson helping dad make pancakes. He loves to help us cook and if we are in the kitchen doing so Tyson will pull up a chair and see what he can do to help cook.

And Mike doing homework. The oh so fun of school.

10 Months

My baby girl is 10 months. She is such a good little baby. She is crawling, pulling herself up on things, can stand by herself for a few seconds, and can get from a tummy position to sitting up position. She loves to eat real food, loves books, baths, her binkie, attention, and pulling on moms hair. She is our sweet little thing. We sure love her.

Happy Birthday

I turned 26 today. We actually celebrated my birthday on Labor Day, Monday, September 5th because Mike would be at work and school on my actual birthday. So Monday night we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. We ended up having cake on my birthday the 6th inbetween Mike getting home from work and going to school. He even made me my cake. What a sweet husband. Mike gave me some clothes which I happened to have to return and got double the amount he got me for the same price. Even though my actual birthday was filled with normal everyday things it was still fun going out to dinner with my cute little family and having cake.

Eliza is Crawling!

Eliza has been scooting for a little while and half crawling half scooting. She is getting the crawling thing down though. My sweet baby is growing up.

7 Peaks

We had fun at 7 Peaks with my family. Mike and I have taken the kids throughout the summer with the Pass of all Passes but this was our last time to go for the summer. We had a lot of fun, spent all day there, and by the end we were all completely exhausted and in bed by 9:00 that night.

9 Months

Our beautiful Eliza is 9 months old today.
-She weighs 15 pounds (1st percentile) and is 26 1/2 inches (18th percentile).
-She is so close to crawling but not all the way yet. She has taken 2-3 crawls but then just falls down.
-She loves attention.
-Loves her bath and swimming. Loves the water.
-Has two bottom teeth.
-Has beautiful eyes and long lashes. (I get SO many completments about them)
-When she gets excited she waves her arms and legs really fast.
-Still wears 3-6 month clothes
-Loves her brother and laughs at him all the time even though he pesters her SO much.
-Loves books and the remote control
-Has been camping twice
-Is a mommys girl
-Hates baby food so she eats what we have to eat and loves it. Loves to feed herself.
-Drinks 6 oz of formula 4-5 times a day
-Sleeps all night and takes 2 naps
-She is a very happy and good natured baby and we all love her so much.

Ty and Lucy

I got to babysit Lucy one day while Cassy moved. We had a lot of fun. She came over right before lunch and so we had nuggets, apples and popsicles for lunch. Then I turned on Sesame Street on for them and the fell asleep (yes both sucking their thumbs). The both took a nap then we went on a walk to Albertson's to get some bread for dinner. We came back and played in the sandbox. They had a lot of fun together copying each other. However, Tyson is a little bully pestering her and stealing her bear and laughing and picking on her. She took it quite well having two brothers of her own.

Miss Eliza

Just wanted to share a few pics of Eliza over the last couple of weeks. The curse has struck me I know that I get my camera out far less with Eliza than I did Tyson but here are a few fun ones.


Eliza fell asleep in this position. So tired!


When Eliza gets really excited she will move her arms and legs really fast and laugh real hard. When I was taking this picture Tyson was running up and down the hall and jumping over her, I was scared he was going to jump on her but she was laughing so hard at him.



Our cute Eliza scooting all over, but not crawling yet. Very soon I a sure of it.

Eliza does this all the time when she is trying to move. She gets up on her tipy toes and then falls back down.

I made banana bread and gave Tyson a slice which he ended up taking in the living room and leaving it on the floor. I went in the living room and found this. I now remember that I need to be really careful about small toys and needing to vacuum more often because Eliza is picking up everything and putting it in her mouth.

Eppich Family Campout

For the last few summers we have got together as a family and gone up the canyon to go camping. We had a lot of fun like always. We did lots of playing, eating, and relaxing. We played at the playground, played in the creek, roasted marshmellows, and the older kids gathered and painted rocks. The last picture is of our tent. It is known as the castle. We just bought it before summer because our little four man was too small for our family to fit in comfortably so we invested in an 8 man tent. Hope it lasts us a good long while.

We have a BIG problem

It seems that we now have a thumb sucker in our family. Tyson just started sucking his thumb. He always liked sucking a binkie until we broke him of it at 18 months. Now he is notorious for stealing Eliza's binkie. I can't get him to stop. I have tried everything and nothing bothers him. He still steals her binkie constantly. Somedays I get to the point that I say I don't care suck on the binkie. It is so frustrating. We say all the time we are just going to toss them, that is until Eliza has a crying spell then we immediatley say "where's the binkie." But within the last week or so Tyson has started sucking his thumb. His cousin sucks her thumb and ever since he was over there being babysat he sucks his thumb now. He is 2 1/2 and is NOW starting to suck his thumb. What to do? So not only do we have a binkie stealer but also a thumb sucker. BIG PROBLEM.

New Hobby

So I have picked up a new hobby: couponing. I don't know how extreme I will get but it is fun saving money. I get really excited when I do a shopping trip and be able to come home and tell Mike how much money I would have spent and how much I saved. I don't know that I will take pictures of all my shopping trips that I have saved on but this was my first one. I spent about $12 dollars on this purchase below and saved $14. I am excited to learn how to save even more. it is fun to save so much money. Kind of addicting.

(3 packs of pens, 1 pack of sharpies, 2 packages of guacamole mix, 1 pack of tape, 1 toddlers graduates dinner, 1 can of graduates puffs, 1 can of graduates lil' crunchies, and 3 boxes of pop tarts. Total cost $12.)