Winkie Fixation, Snow storm, "You tickle Ty, Ty run," Newport 2013, Worst Behaved Day, Kissing Cousins & Drinking From a Straw

Wes:  1 Year & 1 Month Old

Ty:  3 Years & 2 Months Old

Last Friday it was official.  Tyson is completely and utterly obsessed with his winkie.  This is to the point of unhealthiness.  I don't want to get into too much detail here, but I can walk into a room and find him with his pants around his ankles.  All the time.  I'm not really sure what to do about this.  But he is not even just obsessed with his own.  Ty was playing with his doctor kit and it was the funniest thing.  He always likes to have Westin be his patient.  Ty always gives Westin shots with the play syringe (it really has a plunger that pushes down) and he always says, "Sorry Westy.  Sorry.  Ty has to give you shot."  Well, at one point, he was trying to give Westin shots up his nose and in his mouth.  I told him that he needed to avoid Westin's entire head and to focus on the arms and legs.  Then Ty took it to a whole other level when he said, "Shots in Westy's winkie?"  Are you kidding me?!!!  Friday night we finally got our Christmas tree all decorated!  It is gorgeous.  Not bad for a $25 tree at Tractor Supply.  I don’t think we have ever spent more than $25 for a tree – I hope we can keep that tradition up!

Westin eating ornaments instead of decorating

Poor lighting...but

This is with the lights on - you can't even tell that the Christmas lights are on

On Sabbath we went to Sabbath School and church in Laconia.  We stayed for potluck and both boys did not eat very well.  I'm never surprised with Tyson, but Westin is usually my good eater!  Well, unless there is pasta.  He will not eat pasta.  Crazy.  How do you have a non-pasta-eating vegetarian?  Unheard of.  We went home and Westin took a nap.  Saturday night our first big snow storm started.  We bunkered down for the night with a movie after the boys got to bed.  

Crazy hat hair - winter is tough 

Sunday morning we were greeted with about 14 inches of fresh snow.  After some snow removal, the boys went to Home Depot and then after the Patriots horrible loss to the Dolphins, Wes & I went to the pharmacies.  He surprised me by taking a nap while I was shopping – he hasn’t done that in awhile!  I can’t remember too much more of what went on, but I have to mention a new favorite phrase of Tyson’s.  He will go up to Heath and say, “You tickle Ty, Ty run!”  And Ty will run around the house, begging Heath to chase him and tickle him!  It is so cute, but he says it over and over continuosly!  And he tires us (and himself) out wicked bad! 

Helping Mama water the plants

I gave Westy his own bowl of snacks for the first time

He was so excited

The 2 boys eating their snacks together 

Monday I worked early and Noni & Nanny came to babysit.  I had a class at 12p-3p and then I worked on the floor 3p-11p.  The class was MOAB – Management of Aggressive Behavior.  It is a fun class.  You get to learn self-defense techniques and take your coworkers down to practice!  I’m glad the class was fresh in my mind when I worked in the psych area in the ER that night.  A patient tried to hang herself on the stretcher by putting her head in the side rail, and had her blanket over her head so I couldn’t tell what she was doing.  I really shouldn’t say any more about the subject, but it was a terrible night.    

Tuesday we had more bad weather so Heath took the Outback and we were stuck at home.  I actually was going to leave the house for change and get my oil changed, but it had to wait.  I worked hard at packing to go to Newport for 3 days for a Latimer family reunion.  My aunt Lori has a timeshare and is able to get enough rooms for all of us (we had 20+ people there), but could only get rooms during the week and not on the weekend – so Heath couldn’t go, which we were bummed about.

Running around 

On Wednesday, the boys & I left for Newport with my father at about 2:30 PM (after he had finished work).  Westin did not fall asleep for almost 2 hours and I was shocked about that!  But he wasn’t cranky, so I couldn’t complain.  We did have to stop and change Westin’s diaper about 45 minutes into the trip, since he was stinking up the whole car!  When we got there, we unloaded our gear into our 3 bedroom timeshare that we were sharing with Shannon & Devin and Leigh.  Then we headed over to the Case’s unit, which is where we ate all our meals.  There were tons of kids running around and it was pretty chaotic, but a great time.  What wasn’t a great time was trying to get the boys to sleep that night.  After we had Googletalked with Heath, I tried to put the boys down.  When we are in a new place for the first night, they have a hard time sometimes.  And this time both of them were freaking out.  I laid down in the room with them and Westin gave in pretty easily, but Ty did not fall asleep before midnight.  Not good.

Why can't I get a picture of both of them looking at the same time?

Cleaning up after supper

On Thursday we laid low in the AM.  Westin took a good nap and then we went to Panera for lunch, with most of the 20+ gang.  Westin ate a whole cup of tomato soup and baguette!  He is such a good eater!  After lunch we all headed to the pool and the kids had a blast!  Westin was not sure at first, but then started splashing away!  I was worried about being in the pool with both boys without any help (my mother couldn’t go in the pool because of her surgery), but it ended up being fine.  They had about 3 levels of stairs into the pool, so Ty just stayed on the stairs running back and forth and had a great time!  There was drama getting him out of the pool, however.  Ty just hadn’t gotten enough sleep and had melt-down after melt-down this day.  He was horrible.  One of the worst behaved days I can ever remember.  At dinner that night, he just kept crying and screaming non-stop and wouldn’t even take a picture with all the cousins together.  Something funny that happened during the picture, was that Westin was a little upset and Bode decided to kiss him to make him feel better!  And that would be open-mouthed kisses right on the mouth!  They kept kissing and it was so cute!  We made a quick exit after the picture-taking and I got the boys to bed a little early, after talking to Heath again.  It was so cute – Heath asked Ty, “Where are you?”  Ty’s response was “Ova Scotia!”  So cute!  It definitely must have felt like we were in Nova Scotia with all the cousins together!  Thank goodness both boys went right to sleep without a peep this night.

Vegging out in the AM

Getting bundled up for our walk to Panera

Finley was choking Ty by grabbing his sweatshirt

One is really bundled up and Dad is not at all!

Big group swimming - no one is looking but me! 

Cousins pic without Ty (adding friend Hannah)

The kiss

On Friday we got up and packed quickly to get out by our 10 AM checkout.  Then we booked it home.  We went to Chipotle for lunch and then Dad had to take one of the cars home because he was on-call at 2 PM.  Mom, Nanny, and us went to a few stores shopping and then went home.  We got home around 5 PM or so – just in time to make supper!  We were happy to be home – the boys love to be reunited with their toys and then overjoyed to be reunited with Daddy when he got home!  Westin had a big milestone on Friday night – he figured out how to suck through a straw!  I’m so proud!  What a big boy!

"Maybe if we hide in the fridge, we won't have to leave!"

 Packing up

That’s about it!  Of course this blog was late!  Merry Christmas!

Close Call, Christmas Parade, Lime Juice in Eyes & "Resting" in Strange Spots

Wes:  1 Year & 3 Weeks Old

Ty:  3 Years, 1 Month & 3 Weeks Old

Last Friday we chilled at home and Tyson almost had a big fall.  I had gone upstairs to put Westin down for a nap, and Tyson stayed downstairs.  Then I heard him cry, “Mama!  Help!”  Now for some Mamas that might mean they go into a dead run, but Tyson’s Mama knows better.  Usually this cry for help means that he can not get a toy to line up perfectly with another toy…or he is trying to get a blanket perfectly placed over him…or any number of non-emergent things.  So to this I responded, “I can’t come right now Ty.  I am putting Westin to sleep.”  Ty got a bit hysterical on his end, which again…might not mean anything.  I have a pretty dramatic child.  But I did sense a certain “realness” to his hysteria, so I decided to go check it out.  I placed Westin on the floor in his room and ran to the top of the stairs.  There was Tyson, HALF-WAY up the stairs, walking up the bottom of the banister!!!!  He was holding onto the top of the banister for dear life and his feet were slipping on the bottom.  He had to be about 5 feet off the ground.  I freaked out, but as I went flying down the stairs, I stopped and realized that Westin had followed me and was at the top of the stairs.  In my panic, I didn’t stop to lock the gate (obviously).  So what do I do?  Do I rescue Ty, but let Westin fall down the stairs?  What if I go to Westin and Tyson falls?  He could easily break something, falling onto hardwood floors.  I made a split second decision, yelled, “Hold on Tyson!  Don’t move!” as I raced up the stairs, reaching the top, and literally, pushed Westin down to the floor so I could lock the gate.  Then flew back down the stairs and pulled Tyson up over the banister.  It was so scary!  But praise God that they were both fine.  Boys.  No wonder I am going grey so fast.

Another crazy thing he did - I run into the room when I hear a loud bang.  He had pushed the end table over!  Then he took our old keyboard, made a bridge with it so his cars could go across!  I have to give it to him...he is creative, but - oh, the messes! 

Sabbath I had to work 7a-7p and Sonia met the boys at Laconia church.  She came over for lunch and they made a gingerbread house in the afternoon.  Ty had been dying to do this since he saw the gingerbread house at the grocery store.  They did a great job, but I have to keep taking it away because Tyson keeps sneaking candy off of it.  Most of the time he gives himself away.  I have actually caught him in the act a few times, but most of the time, he just looks pointedly at me, with a Cheshire cat grin.  And then I know.  He has gotten into it again!  The other day he was hiding behind the slide in the family room and he came out saying, “I just ate Santa Claus!”  Anyways, I had called Heath while I was at work to let him know that when I had driven past Walgreens on the way to work, it was advertising that Tilton was having a Christmas parade at 4:00 PM.  I told him if they were feeling ambitious, then maybe they would want to check it out, since the sun is setting at about 4:15 PM.  They went, and saw a little of the parade, but they had incredible fireworks and had cocoa and cookies.  The boys had a blast, despite the cold.  I was so glad that I saw the sign or else we would have had no idea.  I have to be better at reading the local happenings in our paper!  I’m sure there are plenty of things that we miss!  I picked up some Thai take-out on the way home and we were happy to see that the prices at our Thai restaurant have gone down!  Score!

Their masterpiece

On Sunday I worked 3p-3a, so we had a nice breakfast before I went to work.  We had another near-disaster with Ty on Sunday morning.  After breakfast, Heath & Ty went to Home Depot and when they came back...Ty was taking off his jacket, when he got his arm stuck.  He was trying to get his arm out, when he lost his balance, and fell forward and could not protect his face when he fell.  He fell straight down on his face onto the hardwood floor.  It was a very loud bang.  He got dazed again and his eyes started to roll back, but he did not go completely out this time.  Thank goodness!  He was a pitiful sight for awhile and his chin bruised up immediately, but thank goodness he didn't pass out again, cut himself, or broke his jaw.  This child is going to kill me!  So after that, I had to go to work and the boys had a good rest of the day.  They did some manly errands, like Home Depot (yes, again), Lowe's & Tractor Supply.  They did pick up our Christmas tree, which I asked them to do.  I didn't care about not being there for that, I just wanted to be there when we decorated it!  I didn't hear about any specific stories from Heath, but I know they always have a great time together!

How does he come up with this stuff?  He got into my yard sale label stickers and put one over his mouth.  Then he put one over his baby's mouth!  (hopefully he will not be a future kidnapper!)

Yes, he was coming for me too!

Monday I recovered from my 3 hours of sleep and picked up after the boy's weekend.  Heath has gotten better at this over the years and does actually attempt to pick up, but it is nothing compared to my OCD picking-up-behavior.  I thought for sure that we were going to put up the  Christmas tree that night, but Heath was exhausted when he got home from work, so we didn't.  He has remarked that the boys tire him out so much when he has them on the weekends!  He has laughed at me when I tell him that it is a vacation for me when I go to work, but it is true!  Yes, I take care of other people...but it is definitely different than a 3 year old and a 1 year old!  My mom also says that, even after her 4 hour shift at my house, she crashes hard at night!  Well, I guess that is a way to help her insomnia!  I guess Wes was tired from the weekend too, because he took a 3 ½ hour nap that day!   A horrible thing happened on Monday night.  I was cooking supper when I heard shrieking coming from Westin.  I ran into the family room and found him in serious pain, screaming.  I noticed right away that his hair/face was wet and I asked Ty what he sprayed on him.  I freaked thinking that he had gotten his hands on the Fantastik at the sink, but it wasn’t that.  Then I remembered Heath saying that Ty had gotten one of our water spray bottles and had been spraying the TV the day before, so I thought it was water…but Wes was crying too hard for that.  Then Tyson grabbed the weapon that had caused my boy such pain.  It was a lime that I was cooking with.  He had swiped the lime off the counter and squeezed it right in Westin’s face.  Can you imagine getting lime juice in your eyes?  I flushed out his eyes with some water (he was not happy) and he calmed right now.  But I was so sad for him and mad at Ty.  Another time out.

Feeding each other at supper

I can't even remember why I was videoing him, but I love the look he gave me-"help me, Mama!"

Banging on the door to go in the basement since Heath & Ty went down there.  He is really starting to notice that he gets left out sometimes!  It's so sad!  Just a little bit longer buddy!

Tuesday I worked again.  This was a bad stretch for me.  Since it was my 1 weekend to work in 6 weekends, I had worked Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday.  4 shifts in 6 days!  Unheard of!  But I would have the next 6 days off, so that was something to keep me going!  Another stair incident happened on Tuesday that disturbed me.  While I was eating breakfast, Tyson opened the gate for Westin and both of the boys headed up the stairs.  Are you kidding me?  Time out again for Ty.  He knows Westin can’t do the stairs without an adult!  Does anyone else notice that time outs do not seem to help?  Noni & Nanny came to babysit and they had a fun time.  Ty & Noni went and played outside in the snow (we had gotten a couple inches).  And Westin is almost running now!  He is such a mover!  So cute.  Thank goodness I got home to both children sleeping peacefully at 4 AM!  I didn't want a repeat from last week.

Wednesday was a big day for my mother.  She had a procedure to get a basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer) removed from her forehead.  Everything went well and they are sure that they got it all.  She calls it her bullet wound and it did, oddly enough, look like someone shot her in the head.  I think it will heal great - if not - she will just have to get some bangs like me!  We can be twins!  She went super early, like at 7:30 AM, or something like that, and there was no way we could go with her after I had worked until 3 AM the night before, even though I wanted to.  Instead she came over (with Nanny & Dad) in the afternoon, after they had gone out to lunch.  We had a nice little visit and we decided on a place to rent while we are in Florida in February for Papa's memorial. The other big thing that we did on Wednesday was to start a full cleaning on the house.  Westin really got into the feather duster this time around and tried to dust everything!  And he loves the vacuum so much!  It becomes hard to vacuum, because he is always right in front of it!  Wednesday night, Heath & Ty brought the tree inside and we put the lights on it at least!  It is a project!  Ty was in heaven, just with that.  I was so worried that Westin would be a real pain with the tree, but it is weird…he literally ignores it.  He has not gone over there once.  He can see, can’t he?

Headlamp on, going outside with Daddy to get the tree!

Starting to go through the Christmas decorations 

On Thursday we finished cleaning the house and went grocery shopping.  I don’t think I had written about it, but Tyson was the biggest pain last week at the grocery store.  How could I forget…with him throwing garlic across the aisle, kicking his shoes off on the floor, and knocking over a display?  I was livid.  This week was SO much better, but he was pretty tired.  He will not take a nap anymore but late afternoon, he needs to!  He usually gets his blanket and pillow and camps out in weird spots, like underneath our kitchen table.  He doesn’t fall asleep, but he rests!  Well, at the grocery store, he wanted a resting spot…so I made him a “pillow” in the front seat of the cart and he went through the whole store with his head down on a bag of egg noodles! (=  Pretty cute.  It definitely helped the devilish behavior.  Thursday night, we went to the Mexican restaurant with Adam and then went to look at some Christmas lights in Laconia.  Ty got excited, but I don’t think poor Westin could see anything since he is still rear-facing.  We were supposed to finish our tree on Thursday night, but with all of that…the boys were exhausted and we got them right to bed.

His "pillow"

His resting spot under the table

One of the lit up houses

That’s it!  Have a great week!  Merry Christmas!   

Boys Sleep Well Together, Wes Can't Stay in Church, Making Applesauce, Done With Naps, Westin's Afternoon Nap Drama, 1 Year Stats & Stopped the Inhaler (For Now)

Wes:  1 Year & 2 Weeks Old

Ty:  3 Years, 1 Month & 2 Weeks Old 

Last Friday, Heath got up and was going to sneak out of the bedroom at my parent’s house to go to a few Black Friday deals, but he couldn't get past Tyson!  Ty heard him and started to freak out that Daddy was leaving, so Heath ended up taking him.  They went to Lowe's, Home Depot, and then braved Walmart.  Heath said it wasn't bad at all (we were in North Conway, after all – not some big city), so that was good.  We had some breakfast at my parents and then we packed up and left.  Wes & I went right to the Edwards' house and Heath & Ty went to a couple more stores in the Ossipee area.  It was fun to show off Westin's walking skills to the Edwards - they were so surprised.  He is just so cute and he wants to walk all the time now.  We had a leftover Thanksgiving feast Friday night and it was delicious.  I didn't mention in the last blog that since we had been at my parent’s house for almost a week, we had all been sleeping in 1 room together and the boys had been great!  Tyson's baloney at bedtime was drastically better.  I think the guilt trip of "you can't cry and keep Westin awake" really worked!  And it was the cutest thing, one of the nights at my parent's...I had put Westin down in the pack 'n' play after giving him a bottle (and Ty was already in bed) and Westin started to fuss a little.  I stayed at the top of the stairs and listened.  Ty reassured Westin by saying, "It's OK, Westy. It's OK."  Westin stopped crying and Ty went right to sleep too!  So that had been working so well that I put both boys together in Amanda's room at the Edwards and Heath & I were in Heath's old room. It worked like a charm again.  They both went right to sleep without a peep on Friday night.  I was dumbfounded!  I think it is comforting to both of them that they are together and not alone and it helps Ty to behave himself!  I started thinking that maybe I should move both of them into the same room now.  I don't know.  I was thinking I would do it in another year - when they were 2 & 4, but maybe sooner?  I don't know – it would be easier to fit bunk beds and they are a few years away from that...I'm just not sure if I can fit 2 cribs comfortably in one of the rooms.  Well, we'll see what happens, I'm just rolling the idea around as a possibility.

On Sabbath we went back to Conway church.  We had a nice day, even though I had to stay almost the whole time in the mother's room with Wes, since he is way too loud right now in church.  It's going to be tough when we get back to Laconia since they don't have a mother's room and you have to hang out in the basement.  We stayed for pot luck, then went over to Heath's grandmother & aunt's house and visited there for awhile.  We had a little miscommunication with Sonia and she had gone right home, thinking we were not going to Norma & Sandy’s.  Both boys took cat naps on the way back to the Edwards and that is all the naps they got.  Saturday night our streak of easy bedtimes were over.  But amazingly, it was not Tyson giving us problems, but Westin.  He never says boo at bedtime.  Ever.  I think because of his lack of naps on Sabbath, he was overtired.  But he would not go to sleep and he would scream as soon as I would leave the room.  It was too bad because we were trying to watch a movie with the Edwards, but I had to keep getting up every 5 seconds for over 30 minutes.  But then he finally gave in and went to sleep.  He slept all night, so I don't know what the deal was.

Sunday was a vacation day for me!  A kid-free day that didn't involve me going to work!  I met up with Shannon (and Griffin) in Vermont at a baby shower for Chelsea Knowlton Nelson!  Her baby was born in October (on Ty's birthday) and they live in Michigan, but they were in Vermont for Thanksgiving, so her mom & sister (Kelly, my good friend) threw her the shower.  Her baby, Ella is beautiful and we had a nice time. It was so good to catch up with Kelly & Chelsea!  We had great food and great visiting.  Driving home was a little tough because it was snowing and the roads in Vermont weren't that great.  But after getting through the notch in Franconia, everything was fine.  It was so nice to have quiet time in the car alone and I played Christmas music the whole time.  Heath & the boys came home about an hour after I got home.  They had made applesauce at the Edwards that afternoon and the boys had a blast.  We now have 30 something jars of applesauce!  The boys love it and we make Layered Applesauce on Sunday
mornings quite a bit.

Me enjoying the view through Crawford Notch driving solo to Vermont

They had the shower in the basement of this gorgeous chapel

Miss Ella

The beautiful sign that Shannon made for Chelsea

The 4 of us (doing a kid swap)

I love this how she is resting her hand underneath her chin!

Love love love this picture!

Look at the tongue sticking out!

My crazy boy

"Yummy tummy!"

Monday was an unpacking & laundry day.  After being gone for 8 days, I can't tell you the mess that was in my house.  I didn't get everything in order until Tuesday night, either.  Westin's walking continued and I think Tyson would forget.  Because he would look over and see Westin walking and scream, "Mama!  Look!  Westy walking!"  He would say that over and over quite a bit!  Hopefully this is not a result of his concussion last weekend!  Tyson took a 3 hour nap on Monday, which might prove to be his last hurrah.

Some fun we had on Monday night

Tuesday I finished getting my house in order and folded and put away the 7 loads of laundry that I had done.  Tuesday started Tyson's strike on naps and he has refused to go down for his nap for the rest of the week.  It's not like I wasn't trying.  I left him up there an hour and then when he was still not asleep (and he was usually carrying on) then I got him up.  "Ty not want to sleep."  I guess it's over.  I'm so sad about this, especially because he can start to melt down at night...but bedtimes have been easier because he is tired.  But I'm not going to keep trying.  It's done.  Sniff, sniff.  What is also weird is that Westin is giving me problems going to sleep (and I said he never does this) for his afternoon nap.  About 3 days this week, he wouldn't go to sleep.  What is going on?  I asked our pediatrician about this (he had an appointment on Thursday) and she agreed that this was a little early for him to be dropping that nap.  She said that usually they should be taking 2 naps up to 15-18 months and then they drop one of their naps.  What in the world?  I'm going to keep at Westin with this one.  He just seems more clingy at that time, I don't know why.  He goes right down at bedtime and at his morning nap, but as soon as I try to lie him down in the afternoon -  he freaks out.  He will fall asleep in my arms, but stands right up screaming as soon as I try to put him down.  Tuesday was an exciting day because we booked the cruise we are going to take in February with Sonia & Keith out of Houston.  Adam is on the fence about going, but we hope he comes!  It is going to be a bit crazy because we are going down to Florida for 5 days 2 weeks before we leave on vacation for Papa’s memorial service, but we did a thousand scenarios of cruising in April or staying in Florida for the next week in February and cruising there…but because of vacation week the plane tickets (and cruise tickets) were ridiculously high.  So it was cheaper this way.  Can’t wait! 

They do this themselves - I don't stage them this way 

Sorry about the cruise discussion in the background - my husband is loud!

I worked on Wednesday and Mom & Nanny came to babysit.  Tyson finally asked for Papa on this day.  When I told him that I had to go to work and they were coming and he said, "Papa too?"  It broke my heart.  He was trying to go down for his nap at that time (of course it didn't happen) so I didn't want to get into the discussion at that time.  So I said, "No.  Papa won't be here."  Ty drooped his shoulders and whined, "Oh!  No!"  He didn't ask anything more so I didn't offer anything more.  When I walked through the door at 4:00 AM that night/Thursday AM, I heard some crying from upstairs. There was Westin, standing up in the crib, softly crying.  He gave me the biggest smile, crinkled up nose and everything, and I thought that there was no way that he would go back to sleep.  But I cuddled him for a few minutes and he went right down without any problems.  I was not happy to walk through the door to a crying baby and a snoring husband.  Makes me cringe about how long he was actually fussing for.

In the morning upon hearing that we had booked the cruise with Grammy & Grampy - he said, "Omni too?"  So again, I did not stage this - he did this himself.  But I was able to catch part of it on video.  I guess he thinks that Adam doesn't like the water or something!  Not really sure what that is about!

On Thursday, Westin helped me out in a big way!  Ty woke up a little after 8 AM and I brought him to bed with me.  On the days after I work, I put on PBS (Curious George at that time) for Ty while I try to rest a little more until Westin gets up.  Westin slept until 9:15!  That was great.  We had Westin's 1 year appointment at 2 PM, so we booked down to Concord for that.  Westin is doing great!  His stats are:

Weight = 18 lbs 8 oz (10th percentile)
Height = 29 7/8 inches (50th percentile - highest for either one so far)
Head = 18 inches (45th percentile)

It was so funny she asked me if I had any concerns about Wes and I said, "No.  Not at all, but I have 2 things about Tyson."  I brought up the steroid daily inhaler for Tyson and his stuttering.  She assured me that the stuttering is completely developmentally normal, but that if it lasts for a long time and gets worse, then we would have to revisit it.  He will go a few days and not have a stutter and then he can have a couple days where the stuttering is terrible and he cries because he is so frustrated.  Oh, my heart aches for him when that happens.  I feel so helpless.  She agreed that we could stop the daily inhaler, but that if with his next cold he starts having a hint of a wheeze, we need to bring him back and he would probably need to go on it.  She is not rushing to an Asthma diagnosis yet, so there still is hope!  After the appointment, we went to the grocery store for our weekly run and then booked it home.  When Heath got home, we went to Supercuts to fix the hack job of a haircut that I had given Ty (really bad) and Heath got his haircut too.  Then we met Poppy at the Mexican restaurant.  Adam didn’t come because he was home sick and Noni & Nanny didn’t come because they had been in Vermont with Shannon to see Grammy Lyn, who is on vacation there.  We had a nice time, despite me having to take Tyson out to the car for a spanking because of horrible behavior.  He also ate next to nothing while Westin ate the entire quesadilla they were supposed to be sharing!  He is really giving us some problems right now.  But I guess that is what is supposed to happen in the “terrible 3’s.” 

Finishing our lunch outside the doctor's office

Grocery shopping - Ty kept throwing sippies on him

Wearing the hairdresser's pink necklace and loving it.  But he still said, "Daddy said 'no pink'!"

That’s all folks!  Have a good week!