Ty & Wes Time: Protecting Wes, Mother's Day, Wrestling, Probiotic Test, Fishing, Playing With Matches, Teething, Sawing Wes & Asking For a Time-Out

Wes: 25 Weeks Old

Ty: 2 Years, 6 Weeks & 3 Weeks Old

Last Friday was a fun day. During the day, the boys & I did our usual thing and went grocery shopping for the week. One thing was really cute that happened at the grocery store. Every time we go, I strap Ty in the seat and Wes is strapped into his car seat attached to the shopping cart and I play with them. I run from the car to the grocery store and vice versa saying, “Wee! Runaway Ty & Wes! Wee!” Ty absolutely loves it! Before I do it, he always says, “Mama, go fast!” I had done it on the way into the store and as we were leaving the store, I was getting ready to “go fast” again when Ty started having a bird. “Mama! No! No go fast! Westy asleep. Westy wake up!” It was the cutest thing that Ty was looking out for his little brother and did not want to wake him up! I thought that was great – I was so proud of him! After Heath got home, we headed up to the Fairway for a surprise Mother’s Day get-together for my mother. I was so excited about it! I had talked to Mom and asked if we could come for supper & swimming on Friday night. I told her that because I was working on Mother’s Day and I wouldn’t be able to see her on the actual day, I wanted to bring her supper for Mother’s Day. So she was expecting us, but she wasn’t expecting Devin & Leigh and Shannon & Sean to come too! She was surprised and it was so fun. Everyone was able to be there, except Mia, who had an important dance rehearsal (her recital is coming up soon). We had a delicious BBQ and Shannon made Mom’s favorite dessert…chocolate cake! The 3 older cousins (minus Wes) were very cute together. Ty & Bode hadn’t seen each other in awhile but they went right to playing like crazy. And I mean crazy. They just started wrestling each other. Out of nowhere. They were giggling and laughing and rolling around on the floor. Is this ingrained in boy’s DNA to do that, or something? We had a nice party but we didn’t get home until almost 10 PM. Late night for sure. But Noni is worth it.

The best pic I could get of the 3 of them

Licking the whipped cream

I think they should have another one!!!!

Messing around

Bode & Wes eyeing each other

Wrestling

Bode does this "Oh" face all the time!

Wrestling with Noni

Messing around on Poppy

On Sabbath I headed to work and the boys headed…nowhere. Well, that’s not true. They stayed home from church, but went back to the Fairway in the afternoon to go swimming. We were supposed to swim the night before at Noni’s party, but it had gotten too late to go. I had been talking to Ty about going swimming on Friday during the day and he did NOT let us forget the fact that he still wanted to go! Heath said he woke up in the AM and said, “Go swimming!” So they did. Noni & Poppy met them there and both boys just loved the water! They were back home when I got home from work and I snuck into the house without Tyson noticing me. I came up behind him and said, “Hi Ty!” He whipped right around with the biggest smile ever and said, “Oh! Mama home!” It was very sweet. I started a probiotic on Saturday night, after talking to one of my friends at work. I had been telling her about Westin’s weird colic attacks and she said that her daughter had been terribly colicky and that her pediatrician had told her to take a probiotic. The babies are too young to take one themselves but they get just enough through the breast milk that it can help their digestive issues! I figured I had nothing to lose, since Wes had been up screaming for at least 2+ hours in the middle of the night EVERY night for a few weeks.

How could this angelic face scream most of the night?

On Sunday, Mother’s Day, I headed back to work and the boys had a big day planned. 2 of Heath’s cousins were getting baptized that day and they went to the baptism and a party afterwards. I was so bummed that I missed it. Pretty soon I’m not going to have to miss these things when I finally go per diem! They went to the Edwards in the late afternoon and Grampy had really wanted to take Tyson fishing for the first time. Ty loved that too! It was so cute! Ty had this great fishing story to tell me when he got home.

Heath: “Ty, tell Mama what you did with Grampy”

Ty: “Fishing!”

Heath: “What did Grampy catch?”

Ty: “Big fish!”

Heath: “What did Tyson catch?”

Ty: “Big fish!”

Heath: “What did Daddy catch?”
Ty: “Little fish!”

He would just laugh and laugh at the “little fish!” He went through this whole story the next day for me a couple of times, so it’s not like Heath had coached him on it! It was so cute! We had decided to go out for Mother’s Day on Monday, so I was not surprised when the boys rolled in at about 10 PM. That was fine with me because I got to go to the pharmacies alone! Ty was very cute when he got home. He gave me a bouquet of flowers, a card, and did say, “Happy Mother’s Day!” That part was coached by Heath! (= It was adorable. He was so excited to give those things to me! Westy gave me big smiles and I felt loved for sure! Great Mother’s Day, even though I had to work!

Ty wishing me a Happy Mother's Day

On Monday we had a “girl’s day out” (sorry Ty & Wes) in Manchester. Heath needed some service done on his Passat, so he asked me to take it. I found this very funny. I told him, “I guess I’ve proven that I can drive a stick, huh?” For the first time that he needed service done, he took it in himself early before work – I know this was because he didn’t trust me!!!! By finally showing him that I can drive it (on our Florida trip), I guess I am trust-worthy now. Unfortunately, that means waiting around a car dealership waiting room with 2 kids, so I kind of like our prior arrangement! Well, I didn’t have to do that this time because my mom & Shannon went with me! We went to Goodwill and were there for 2+ hours! And then we rushed to Chipotle for a late lunch. Then we had just enough time to drop my mother off with the boys at Lots 4 Tots thrift store, while Shannon helped me leave the car at the dealership. Then she brought me back and then I went back to the thrift store and picked up Mom & the kids. Mom was a saint to do all this. We had a good day, but the kids were DONE by the end of the it and both boys napped on the way home! When we got home, we had just enough time to let the dogs out and then Heath got home and we went to Chili’s for Mother’s Day. Ty had a major milestone at Chili’s. He used the urinal for the first time! Obviously I didn’t get to witness this, but Ty was so proud! I have to say that it was very ironic that we were there on Mother’s Day, because the last time I was at that Chili’s was the day that Newtown happened (we found out there). I couldn’t help of thinking of all the mothers who lost children that day. I am so blessed to have the two boys in my life that I do. I was especially blessed that night, as a belated Mother’s Day present, Westin slept through the night! Could it be the probiotic?

Trying on boots at Goodwill

Rocking the stilettos

Ty dancing at Chili's

He didn't finish his mac 'n' cheese at Chili's, but started eating it cold when we got home!

On Tuesday we laid low after a busy Monday. Ty got into some mischief on Tuesday. Noni had gotten him a little basketball hoop at Goodwill and he was trying to find the perfect spot to hang it. He had it balancing on the old trunk in our family room (that holds our DVD player etc…) and wanted tape. I had run upstairs to get Westin, after he had woken up from his nap, and when I came back downstairs, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Ty had a box of matches in his hand and he was playing with them!!!! Thank goodness he was just throwing them on the floor and not doing the striking-motion, but, oh my! I told Ty, “No! You do not touch these!” His response was making an excuse saying, “Tape! Tape!” He was looking for the tape to hang up his basketball hoop and ran across the matches. I can’t even believe that he knew the tape was in that drawer! On Tuesday it became very apparent that Westin is teething. I can’t really see any coming in immediately (but it is nearly impossible to see…he fights me so hard and his tongue won’t get out of the way!), but they will be coming! His drooling is out of control and he is chewing on everything. He takes his binky and just gnaws on it – instead of sucking it. He also has been pulling at his ears some too, which I know is a sign. Ty didn’t get his first tooth until 11 months, so Westin will mostly likely be way ahead of him in that department. Update on Ty’s peeing “accidents”, he was accident-free all week up to this point with the threat of time-outs if he had an accident (without even trying to get to the bathroom). I felt hopeful. One thing he said to me on Tuesday was just precious. This is how our exchange went.

Me: “Ty, I have to go to work tomorrow. Is that OK?”

Ty: “No. Home stay.”

Me: “But I have to go to work.”

Ty: “Work gone. Gone. Home stay. Yeah, yeah. Home stay.”

I was really asking the question, just as a rhetorical question, because nearly every question you ask…he responds with “yes!” So I found it very endearing that he wanted me to stay home! Westin slept the whole night again that night and I was in heaven!

Ty working out in the garden with Heath on Tuesday night

Wes found a new toy that he loves

Despite Ty’s pleas, I headed to work on Wednesday. I don’t remember anything that was reported to me from Noni that day. I’m sure they had a great day, as they normally do. Westin slept all night again, for the 3^rd night in a row, so I had to believe that the probiotic was working (since it is the only thing that I changed). I’m going to keep it up!

On Thursday we puttered around the house in the AM. One thing that was crazy happened while I had just stepped into the bathroom for a quick second. I had left the boys in Westin’s room and after literally 10 seconds, I walked back into Westin’s room. There was Westin lying down on the floor getting sawed in half by Tyson!!!! Tyson has this electric toy saw, that saws back and forth and he was running it over Westin’s stomach!!!! I just about died. It wasn’t something that would actually hurt Wes, but what in the world was running through Ty’s head for him to do that? Ty had been doing so good with his pee episodes, but he took a step back in the afternoon. It had been just over an hour since he had last peed, so I asked him if he needed to go. He said, “No!” Flash-forward to exactly 5 minutes later, Ty was sitting in his booster seat, eating lunch…when he got a funny look on his face and then he looked down. He was peeing himself right in his seat, without even asking to go to the bathroom!!!! I was so mad. I think Ty realized how mad I was because he said, “No spanks! ‘Mout chair!” (translation: “I don’t want a spanking. Time-out in the chair!”) He shouldn’t have said that. I had been planning to give him a time-out, but when he asked for that exact punishment – it’s not really a punishment, is it? So spanking it was. It seemed to sink in – I hope it sticks! We went to the OG that night with Sonia & Adam. It was delicious eating, as usual. Ty had been asking for pizza all day long and wouldn’t take a bite when it arrived! Why does that always happen?