Potty Training, Rolling Over, and Movie Stars

Some exciting things are going down in the Hall household! Since we chose Gateway Academy for Bianca to attend this fall, we figured we need to start potty training her ASAP (they help with that too, which is great). So far she's doing alright. Bobby's job was a blessing, because since he's gone for a few hours a couple days a week, we're not tempted to always be out and about beach bummin' it. Since we're home more now, that means potty training time! At first Bianca didn't care about having wet underwear. Then we took the underwear off and let her go around bottomless. Well when she had an accident on the floor, she cared! Scared the crap out of her. Now she pees in the toilet pretty regularly, woohoo! She can poop too, but we're working up to that. She gets one Skittle when she goes, and she could not be more excited for her treat (those are her favorite candy). And here is how she eats said Skittle LOL

Second big thing that's been happening is CAMERON IS ROLLING OVER NOW!!! He finally got this whole gravity thing all figured out. :) He's too cute when we does it, watch!

 And the third most exciting moment we have going on here is that our movie, The Perfect Summer, premeired on the UP channel! AND WE WERE IN IT!!! Not many of us extras that day could be seen, but we could, that's how awesome we are, haha, or just how lucky that they decided to use that specific clip. ;)

Here's the actual clip!!! Go Mommy and Bianca, following that dog (that did not make it into the scene)

Let's Go to the Park (Oh baby)

Since Bobby started his job, we haven't been able to go to the beach like every day. We do go at least once a week, which is still fine with us! We have been taking them out to the park more often though, which they both love, even though Cam can't crawl or do much on it yet. On with the picture show (captions underneath important pictures)

                                                        There's my awesome bandage lol

                                                       This is how she'd dress herself if I let her...

                                                         Our after shower routine!

CAM IS GETTING HIS FIRST TOOTH IN!!! And of course I can't get a good picture of it, but here are a few of my attempts at it.

 

Independence Day 2013: Wilmington Style

For the 4th of July this year, we just stayed close to home. First, we had some exciting per-Indepencence Day happenings. Cameron learned to give kisses, which is beyond adorable!!! Then I was cutting up a grapple (which was disappointing to learn is just an apple soaked in grape juice, I thought there was a cooler explanation than that) for breakfast when my silly plastic handled apple cutter BROKE...AND STABBED ME IN THE HAND!!! I had to go to the urgent care place nearby and get stitches. I shall never eat a grapple again.

On the 4th of July, our ward had a breakfast (way too) early that morning, but it was nice to go to! Bianca had the most fun running around with the kids. Then we hung out until later, when we traveled downtown for the fireworks!! We thought that we were smart by parking up high in a garage, because obviously we'd be able to get right out, right? Answer shall come later. So we walked around, grabbed a cupcake, then went to one of the food trucks to get some dinner. Yeah. It took us an hour to get overly priced hotdogs and nachos. It's not like the line had THAT many people either. Meh. We survived and ate. We decided to find a spot to sit on a hill where tons of people were sitting, which seemed like a great spot.

And it was, for a while. Then when the fireworks started, there were building in our way!! Everyone around us got up and started moving, including us, which was annoying with 2 little ones. But we went to a really good spot and didn't miss much. Cameron loved these fireworks, but fell asleep by the end of them (LOL only our kid...). 

Getting home was crazy, even though we live like 10 minutes away. Apparently our logic did not work here because everyone below us was being nice and letting everyone else go. Guess we don't live in NY anymore. It took us over an hour to get home, nevermind get out of the garage with screaming baby in the backseat. But it was fun overall!

The next day we forgot about our popper things, so we went out that night and popped them. Bianca wasn't sure about them at first, but then she got the hang of it. The video is super dark, but you can see the light from her popper toward the end. Happy 4th of July, yall!