22 Months & 1 Week
Last Friday we had a near catastrophe. Tyson fell off our bed. He has been upping the ante from crawling
across our bed to wanting to walk across it.
I have been able to thwart him every time until that day. I was getting dressed when Ty climbed up onto
the bed. Then he stood right up. I told him, “No!” and tried to reach him, but
he just considered this a game of chase and started to run across the bed! Well, he got too close to the edge and fell
right off. Thank goodness he landed on a
few decorative pillows and right on his back – so no further injuries to his
arms/shoulders/clavicles. He barely
cried and was up running around immediately.
But my heart had stopped. It was
one of the scariest moments for me.
Thank you Jesus that he is OK!
After that incident, we had a morning full of errands. We went to the grocery store and
Valvoline. We were at Valvoline for an
hour or so since the Accord needed an oil change, tire rotation, and state
inspection. Unfortunately it failed
inspection – no shocker since it is 10 years old - but Heath has to just fix
the exhaust and then it will pass!
Shannon & Fin came over to hang in the afternoon and then we had
dinner with them that night. Shannon was
doing the “single mother thing” since Sean was camping with his brother for the
weekend in NY. One funny thing that happened
was while we were cooking supper. I didn’t
think that Ty had tried raw peppers before, so I gave him a small piece to
try. In true Ty fashion, he didn’t even
try it and walked right to the trashcan and put it in! He made his Daddy proud, since Heath hates
peppers. Ty is absolutely obsessed with
putting anything and everything in the trash.
We have to be on alert at all times!
On Friday Ty had about 4 big episodes of diarrhea, so I warned Heath to
be diligent about the diaper changes. I
don’t know what it is, but whenever he has been on an antibiotic and gets
diarrhea… the poop doesn’t smell. At
all. So weird.
Having snacks while passing the time @ Valvoline
Watching cars go by @ Valvoline
Trying to escape Valvoline (=
Rolling around with Finley
It's hard to see, but he crunched up about 6 perfectly good paper cups & threw them away!
On Sabbath I worked and Heath & Ty went to
Sabbath School in Laconia and then headed to the Edwards for lunch. Heath, Adam & Keith went 4 wheeling in
the afternoon and Sonia spent time with Ty.
They were very diligent with his diaper changes, but he still had a bad
diaper rash when he got home. He was not
acting himself at all and wouldn’t go to sleep in his crib by himself (very
unlike him), so Heath & I laid down with him until he fell asleep. Poor guy.
On Sunday I worked again and Heath & Ty had a
relaxing day at home. Ty really relaxed
and took a 3 ½ hour nap! Oh my
word! He really wasn’t feeling himself
at all. A couple of incidents happened
while I was gone. I came home to find
Heath & Ty reading bedtime stories on our bed. Heath said, “Ty, tell Mama what happened.” It was so cute, Ty went, “Oh…” and pointed to
his scraped right knee. He had tripped
over a rake and fell in the driveway.
Then Heath said, “Tell Mama about the dogs.” Of course, he really didn’t launch into the
details, but Heath did. Heath had walked
in the family room and Reeses was screeching.
Ty was pinching her, grabbing handfuls of her skin. My poor little sweet dog, who wouldn’t hurt a
fly and will never hurt Ty no matter what he does (Snickers is another story)
was in agony. Heath said that Ty got
quite a spanking for that altercation! I
did really well at the pharmacies on the way home. I made $2 on an Icy-Hot type of cream, got a
free natural sleep aid, a free jar of restless leg cream, and got 5 bottles of
Dove shampoo/conditioner for $0.80 each!
Another great deal was at CVS. I got
two 12 packs of Bounty paper towels (usually $14.99) for $3.74 each! Amazing.
Ty showing me another boo-boo (barely a scratch and yes, that's lipstick all over his face)
On Monday, we picked up after the weekend and then
had a day at home. We were picking up in
our bedroom, when Ty got his hands on this electric razor and started to bang
it against the radiator. Then he decided
to hit it against the wall pretty hard. I got there and took it away, and then showed
him that he had made a ding on the wall.
I told him that he had done that and that we were going to have to show
Daddy when he got home. He was
completely solemn and then kept pointing at the gouge and saying, “Uh oh. Uh oh.”
He started to become obsessed with it, like the scratch on the kitchen
floor! He took a 2 hour and 45 minute
nap in the AM/early afternoon, not quite the 3 ½ hours, but quite a long time
for him! Shannon & Fin came over in
the afternoon and Shannon can be my witness for this one. Tyson was carrying around his maraca, when he
saw a spider on the kitchen floor. For
whatever reason, he went right over to it and started to hit it with the
maraca. Well, he didn’t stop with a few
hits – he went crazy and pulverized the thing, until there was just pieces of
it everywhere. I had to say, “Tyson, you
got him! Stop! You got him!”
Now please, this is my first child, but I just don’t think that this is
normal. I know that Heath has stepped on
and killed ants & spiders in front of Ty, so I’m sure that is where he has
learned this, but… this is just a bit disturbing. If I can find a positive point, I have to say
that I was impressed with his hand-eye coordination, since the spider was
pretty small.
Having fun while Mama picked up
He initially liked the lipstick and then he started crying to get me to take it off
The spider-killing episode
On Tuesday a couple of funny of things happened in
the morning. I had brought Ty downstairs
to the kitchen when he woke up to have breakfast. I had forgotten to take out his binky. We leave it in the crib, so he just has it
for sleeping. Anyways, I said, “Tyson,
you don’t need a binky!” To that, he
took it right out of his mouth and threw it on top of the stove! It was so cute. It’s like he was saying, “You are right, Mom!” I know I’ve got to take it away at some
point, I just don’t feel ready for that.
When he is absolutely inconsolable, it helps so much!!!! What will you do at that point when there isn’t
a binky? I have to admit that the
thought is a bit terrifying. Another
thing that was funny was Tyson was trying to get into this side cabinet in the
kitchen. We have child locks on it, but
it is a lazy-susan type of corner cabinet and the locks don’t work that well on
it. Ty has now figured out
(unfortunately) that if you pull it fast & furious, it will open. So I had told him twice not to go near there…
and he did again. I gave him a spanking
and told him if he went there again, that I would give him another
spanking. Well, about 5 minutes later,
there he was trying to get into the cabinet again. I said, “Tyson. What did Mama say?” To that, he proceeded to stick his bum out
and patted his hand against his bum!!!!
Well, I just about died laughing.
I couldn’t help it. How are you
supposed to keep a straight face with that?
In the late morning, I headed over to Shannon’s apartment to meet her
& my mom. We were going to drive up
near Lebanon to look at property that Shannon & Sean are interested
in. We were going to all drive in
Shannon’s car. When we got there, I was
getting Ty out of the car seat and he wanted to hold the keys. I gave them to him and he started to press
all the buttons. Shannon needed to get
by my door, so I took Ty out and handed him to my mom, and then closed my door
(not all the way) so Shannon could get by.
I had closed it just enough that it had latched and my heart
stopped. I said to my mom, “Tell me
Tyson still has the keys. Please.” But he didn’t and the keys were now locked in
the car. I don’t have AAA or anything,
but thank goodness I remembered that we have a spare key at home. So my mom drove to our house, used her house
key, and grabbed our spare key to open the door! Talk about a delay in our start. We had picked this time so that Ty would take
his nap in the car. Of course he didn’t
sleep a wink on the way there. The
property is nice, but I’m not sure it is going to work out for various
reasons. We drove around Lebanon for
awhile (got a little lost in Hanover), had lunch at Taco Bell and then went
home. Ty did finally sleep for awhile on
the way home, but was so overdue for his nap it was crazy.
They love their Noni
On Wednesday I worked and then was so excited to
have another ultrasound with my friend since we were both back from our
vacations! She was really busy, but was
able to tell quickly that we are definitely having a boy! No question on that! But then she said, “Alison, I’m worried about
your fluid levels again.” Even I could
see that there was not any fluid around his head or his chest. We could only find fluid by his legs. She said that I was at 5 cm. With Tyson, I got put on bed rest at 5 cm,
then I dropped to 4 cm in 3 days and then I had a C-Section the next day. Let’s just say I was freaking out a
little. Because I was only 3 weeks early
with Ty – I am 3 MONTHS early with this no-named little one. So I went home, prayed, and tried to relax
(yeah right).
First thing Thursday AM, I called Dr. O’Connor. She called me back personally. She told me to try not to worry. Amniotic fluid levels are so variable with
each ultrasound scan that you do. She
said that I was probably a little dehydrated coming off of a 12 hour shift, and
we could have done the ultrasound right before the little guy was going to pee,
etc. etc. She wanted to make sure I wasn’t
working over the weekend (which I wasn’t), to try to be a “princess”, focus on
drinking a lot of fluids, to soak in a tub for an hour a day, and then have
another ultrasound on Monday. She is so
calm that she makes me calm too. Well,
almost. So at least we had a plan! Tune in next week to find out the results!
(= One thing I have to mention that we
had in full force last Thursday was our food bribery!!!! It sounds terrible, but I assure you, it is
for Ty's own good. Heath really came up
with this and we had done it a few times, but we are doing it all the time
now. Tyson’s eating habits have been
terrible, as I have mentioned many times in this blog. He won’t even try most foods and will live on
PB&J, grilled cheese, pizza & fruit.
Well, what we are doing now seems to be working. I will have something that he likes a lot (like
fruit, bread, crackers… etc) and I will give him a bite of those items AS LONG
as he takes a bite of whatever we are trying to feed him (casserole, vegetable
etc). It has been working like a
charm! I can’t believe it. I thought that he would just spit out the
stuff he doesn’t like, but he has been eating it – just to get to his “treats!” I am SO SO excited about this. He is finally eating a more balanced diet
again! The definite downside of this, is
that I have to sit there and feed him bite-by-bite food. Of course he has been very independent with
his eating for awhile, so this part definitely stinks, but it is totally worth
it! I tried to let him take a bite of
vegetable soup (to be able to have a strawberry), but he put the spoon in and
got the smallest amount of broth (only) possible and acted like he deserved the
strawberry!!!! It was funny, but I could
see that it was not going to work. Well,
we went out to the OG last Thursday night with Mom, Dad, Sonia & Adam. We also hit up Burlington Coat Factory and
Babies ‘R’ Us looking at double strollers and baby monitors (we are going to
get a new one since we need a second camera anyway and I kind of broke our
current camera). We mostly did research
and didn’t pull the trigger yet. But we
are close!
Tyson trying out the more fun items @ Babies 'R' Us
Of course he couldn't resist the pink one
Have a great week! Here are a few more random shots!
Ty put my glasses on! Doesn't he look like the kid from Jerry Maguire?
One of his dangerous little tricks
If you look really closely, Ty was looking at US Magazine and he pointed right to a pregnant Vanessa Lachey's belly!
He can climb onto the chair without any problems... but he decided to step on his 4 wheeler and then onto 2 chair cushions to make it interesting, I guess!
