2 Years & 2 Weeks
I think this will be my last blog for a couple weeks
or so. We are having the baby (still
unnamed) next Monday, 11/19 and I think I will need a couple of weeks to
breathe before I get going on the blog again.
I don't want to wait too long because I hate to do really long recaps...
so we'll see how it goes.
Last Friday Ty & I laid low all day because I
was fully down for the count with my cold.
I really felt miserable. I
mustered up enough strength to go to the grocery store, though, so I
accomplished something! Tyson is getting
too smart for his own good. He has been
obsessed with our bar stools and has been dragging them all over the kitchen,
climbing on them and doing various things.
For example, he will drag it over to our kitchen TV, turn on the TV, and
start a movie in the DVD player. Then he
will drag the stool over to one of the drawers and empty out all the dish towels
and pot holders. But he really showed his brilliance when he
dragged it over to the candy cabinet. He
climbed up, turned the lock on the jelly cabinet to open it, then got down,
dragged the stool away from the door, then opened the door and started to help
himself to all the candy! Oh my
goodness! My little rascal.
Having a great time with his drum
Trying to get the candy cabinet open
Success!
On Sabbath Heath & I felt just horrible, so we
didn't go to church. I was happy, though
for two reasons. One, I was happy that
Tyson seemed to be fine with his cold...Heath & I just got it so much
worse. But two, I was really happy that
we were getting sick 2 weeks out from the baby being born. It would really stink to be this sick and
expose your newborn to it. So it really
was a blessing! I have been in major
cleaning/nesting mode and getting things accomplished every day, so it was very
weird to have a day that I did absolutely nothing. And I didn't.
Heath & Ty took naps in the afternoon and I just laid in bed and
surfed the internet. It was great! You have to love Sabbaths! One thing that was weird was that it took
Tyson about an hour to fall asleep for his nap.
He goes down so easily, usually, but for some reason - he just wouldn't
go to sleep. He wasn't crying, he was
just playing with his pillow and animals in his crib, and just not going to
sleep. But finally he just laid down and
went out! Then he slept for about 2.5
hours, but since it took him an hour to go to sleep - we were Tyson-free for a
long time! Heath was kind of disturbed
by this. He said, "I think I'm
going to wake him up." I just about
tackled him when he said that and he didn't – but I mean, what was he
thinking? Saturday night Heath & I
figured out what color to paint the walls in the bathroom. He actually made the color by mixing paints
together. We had gotten a couple of
samples to try but we hated them both, but after mixing with some white and
made it lighter... we got to a color we liked.
So we painted it on a stick to have Home Depot match it.
Since Heath & I were down & out, Ty played with Reeses
Ty was throwing this ball for Reeses but never letting her get it, of course!
Ty's new thing is never looking at the camera when I ask him to!
Sunday was a busy day. We got up at about 8 AM (which was actually 7
AM, thanks to the time change) and Ty slept until that time as well (maybe for
the last time). Heath got right going on
the bathroom and he got so much accomplished - I was so proud of him. He got the tile sealed, caulking around the
tub done, a coat of primer, and a coat of paint on the walls. The color came out perfect, so we were happy
with that. He also managed to mow the
lawn and finish up the leaves too, as coats of primer/paint were drying. He worked hard, despite his cold. We brought Ty outside in the leaves with his
tractor and he was in heaven - filling up his trailer with leaves and
"helping" Dad dump them! Heath
put Ty in the giant pile of leaves that he drags on a huge tarp to the
woods. At first he was scared, but then
he loved it! It was so cute! So for the
day, I was in charge of Ty, of course, while Heath got all these things done
and a few major things happened. First
of all, he is officially refusing to sleep in his sleep sack now. If I put him in it, he will spend the first
10-15 minutes of him going down struggling to unzip it and get it off his arms,
whining the whole time. So, it's just
not worth it. Unfortunately, since he
won't keep his blankets on him during the night (he is a restless sleeper), he
gets cold. So he has been waking up
usually once a night and I have to cover him again with his blanket. I really wish he would wear the sleep sack,
but I don't want to make him stressed every night, so you pick your
battles. The other big thing on Sunday
is that he is totally saying, "Poop, poop" and pointing to his butt
all the time now! It is actually
purposeful and it is when he poops! I
feel like this is terrible timing, since he is probably ready for
potty-training, but I can't start it with the new baby coming right now. It's just not going to work, but at least he
is really getting ready, so that is good news!
In the late afternoon, Ty & I ran to the pharmacies and got barely
anything. The one good thing is I got
was my gummy multivitamins for $2.50 each (they are usually $6.99), but that
was, seriously, the only great deal I got.
Helping Mama make muffins for breakfast
Helping Dad with the leaves
That little white speck in the leaves is Ty
Will NOT look at the camera
He looked at me when he had finally ripped his hat off - because he was so proud!
On Monday we didn’t do too much, but Ty had some
funny things that he did. What wasn’t
funny was that he woke up at 6 AM up for the day, but he ended up making up for
it with a 3 hour and 20 minute nap! I
don’t know if I would take that trade-off, though. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but when
Ty wakes up in the morning now, he says, “eat…eat....eat…” (he always says
words in threes)! A couple of weeks ago
it was “deat, deat, deat”… so we really are making progress. Well, during breakfast I was giving him a
raisin bagel, when he said, “Uh oh, uh oh…bee.”
He was pointing at the raisins and was convinced that the raisins were
some kind of bug!!! He has eaten raisins
plain before and loved them, but in his bagel he wouldn’t touch them! This same OCD behavior continued at lunch when
he was having his left-over pizza from the OG.
You know when pizza crust gets a little overdone and there can be a
couple black spots – same with the cheese… well, he wouldn’t put the pizza in
his mouth until he had picked all the black spots out! Update on his eating from last week’s post, I
have put my foot down with the wandering around during meal times and he is now
strapped back down in his booster seat and remains that way until he is
done! Monday night, he refused a lot of
supper and didn’t eat well but then tried to eat off of his tray once he was “freed”
from his seat. I told him in no
uncertain terms that this was over. If
he insisted on being done and getting out of his seat, he wasn’t going to keep
snacking and munching while running around.
He seemed to have gotten the hint and this week has been so much
better! Thank goodness!
He knows exactly how to turn the Ipad on and flick through pictures!
He just discovered the joys of pockets and loves to put his hands in his pockets!
Heath was talking with helium (from Ty's old b-day balloons) & Ty thought it was a riot
On Tuesday Ty had gotten up at 6:30, so I was hoping
that he would start moving his wake-up time back to his regular 7:30-8:00 by
half-hour increments. It makes it hard
when you go to bed at 2 AM, so I’ve tried to go to bed a bit earlier because of
that. Who came up with daylight savings
anyways? Shannon & Fin came over for
the day and Ty & Fin played together for awhile. Of course “playing” equals fighting over
toys, but they were cute. In the
afternoon, we hit up a couple of kid thrift stores around here and found a few
treasures. Tuesday night, surprisingly,
the bribing seems to be working again with his eating. I had made Brazilian Stroganoff and he was,
of course, refusing to try it. But all I
had to do was break out the homemade bread (my bread machine worked this week)
and he was taking the biggest bites of stroganoff ever!
Pt pulled the puppy's bed off the couch and loaded it up in his trailer. Poor dogs.
He loves bread
We got a case of newborn diapers from Amazon and Ty had fun making a tower with them
And also loading them up in his tractor!
Tyson slept for my mom until 8 AM on Wednesday! He had woken up at 7 AM, but I had convinced
him that it wasn’t “time to get up yet, honey” and he rolled over and went back
to sleep! Ty had been waiting for Noni
to come baby-sit him all week long!
Every time we go into his room, he points at his tent and says “tent…tent…
Noni… Noni…” It’s like he really knows
that Noni was the one who gave him his tent.
But then he gets focused on Noni and calls for her all the time! They had a good day together but Ty gave Noni
a scare. Ty took awhile to go down for
his nap again (he wasn’t crying, just not sleeping) and Noni looked at the
monitor to check on him and he was putting his leg over the crib
railing!!!! He has never, ever, done
this. It seems to have been a fluke,
because I have been watching like a hawk and he hasn’t done it again. But his days of being in the crib are
probably numbered.
"The" tent
On Thursday Ty was back to getting up at 6:15, and I
was quite discouraged at this! We bummed
around the house and then went out to eat at Mexican with Adam. Have a great week! 2 AM if fast approaching and I know Ty will
be up early again!
He didn't like to wear it around his neck at first, but now he is putting it on himself
