Milestones and such

We have been having quite the experience now that we have Luke here. He is a good baby who is for the most part pretty patient. He eats well, he sleeps well and Kevin and Katie are thoroughly enjoying him. We have some milestones to boast of, they are as follows;Luke has learned how to smile at us. He first started about 2 weeks ago. One morning he just smiled without prompting from me. I thought it was a fluke, but later that day he smiled again at me. Daddy and the kids got to see it later too. Now he's the point that he will smile at all of us, not just the Mommy. His eyebrows give him away, when he is about to smile his eyebrows go up. When he is about to cry he furrows his brow. All of our kids have had these really expressive eyebrows. We love it. He has slept through the night several nights now and I feel like a new women.
Katie bugs is now potty trained. She has been peeing on and off on the potty for the last year or so just whenever she wanted to or right before bath time we would set her on there. She has been ready to potty train for at least 6 months but I was not ready. So I have attempted (halfway), to potty train her but 2 or 3 times before now, but threw in the towel very quickly because I was traumatized from Kevin's training experience.I decided to use pull ups to ease both of us into using the potty. This was AMAZING, because she learned how to poop in the potty instead of her diaper. She was still peeing in the pull up but every time she needed to do #2 she did in the potty (except for the one time that she was being watched by my friend... poor Emily)So I started on Monday the 23rd and she stayed dry in her nap, had a few accidents throughout the day but stayed dry all night. The next 3 naps she peed and slept right through it except the last time she woke up. But she hasn't had a night time accident at all since we started (which is really amazing, considering how full her diapers always were in the morning) we haven't had a nap time pee accident since Thursday, so I think she has it down.Kevin finished up preschool last week (his teacher had a baby two days ago, so she ended school early). He has been sounding out words and recognizing letters. I need to read with him more because he would probably catch on really quick. He has a talk in Primary this Sunday and since the grandparents will be in town for Luke's blessing, they will probably come watch him do so. He has been doing so well at riding his bigger bike. Next step is to teach him to ride without training wheels.Adam is trying for a step 12 at work and will be doing a mock interview tomorrow. He said it is more technical knowledge that will be asked in the interview so hopefully he will have the knowledge to answer the questions right. Pray for him please.I am really ready to dive into the exercising and might enlist my sisters to help motivate me and get me to my best self by the end of the year. I am now ending this post to go on a vigorous walk with my kids. Cya