Spring is here!

It has been a good Spring so far here in San Diego. The weather is always nice here but it has been going between cool and warm. A few weeks ago it was 80 this week its been in the lower 60's. It is normally sunny all the time. I think the having the sun out really makes a difference in how my day feels.

Mission Beach

Bella is growing like a weed and becoming a big girl! It is hard for me to think that she is 3 years old already. I don't know where the time has gone. She is my mini adult. :) She talks very well and is recently potty trained!!!!

This is a little potty at one of the malls in SD

We had been trying potty training off and on for a few months but she never really had an interest in going all the time. So, about a month ago we really started working on it. I would set a timer and every half an hour we would venture to the potty. Sometimes she would scream for 15 minutes before she would just give up and go potty. I did not use the pull ups. I think those are a waste of time. My mom sent me some training pants and plastic to put over them. That way if she pees on herself she really knows it. So, when we would get up in the mornings we would go potty and not put a diaper on until nap time or bedtime. After about a week of doing this one night she wouldn't let us put a diaper on her anymore. So we have been diaper free for about a month now and it is FANTASTIC!!!!! As much as I don't like potty training I'm hoping with future kids it will be this easy.

Bella really likes to dance and sing and when she does it is very loud. Her two song she sings are Twinkle Twinkle little star, and Itsy bitsy spider. Now, she does not know the whole song so she only sings the parts she knows and I think that makes it more hilarious. Dancing in her Tinkerbell costume

Bella singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider

We have made friends with one couple and they are great! They have 3 little girls. A set of twins that are a little younger than Bella and a 7 month old. We are with them a couple days a week. Mark and I babysat for them last night. It was fun to see how well the girls liked Mark. They were all just laying with him watching their movie. However, I think I will be lucky if I get more than 2 kids.

Kadence, Journey, Georgia and Bella

Mark starts back up with school at the end of the month and that will be about 4 or 5 months long. When he is finished with that we will know whether we are staying here or being moved somewhere else. I wouldn't mind staying here because of the weather but part of me would like to come back east just to be closer to family. But I guess whatever the military tells us to do we will do.

We are finally starting to do food storage. We go with our ward tomorrow night to the Cannery. It is a new thing for us and hopefully we will be able to start and keep it going.

Here are a few more pictures of Bella.