Ty & Wes Time: Sitting Up, Peeing Standing Up, Warning Daddy, Trying to Crawl, Missing People, Mr. Fix-It, Formula vs. Breast Milk Test, Puts His Own Binky In & Night-Time Wetting (With Diapers On)

Wes: 29 Weeks Old

Ty: 2 Years, 7 Months & 3 Weeks Old

The blog will be on hiatus for 2+ weeks because we are going to Campmeeting for the whole week! Can’t wait!

Last Friday my Mom came and baby-sat for the 3^rd time that week because I had a 2 hour mandatory education session at work. I am so lucky that my Mom is near-by and willing to help me out! Of course it just happened to be that I was away at the class when Westin truly sat up for the first time by himself!!!! When I got home, Mom said, “You didn’t tell me that Westin could sit up!” And I said, “That’s because he hasn’t done it yet!” What a bummer to miss it! But he was very happy to show it to me again! He still topples over occasionally, but overall he really has it down! The other major thing of record on Friday was that Tyson is obsessed with peeing “like a big boy” now. He wants to pee standing up. The aiming thing is a bit of a problem and something that we will be working on!

His first real sit-up!

On Sabbath I worked 7am-7pm and the boys were on their own. I was SO proud of Heath. He took them to Sabbath School and church all by himself! That is something I begged him to do when it was just Tyson, but he didn’t feel comfortable. But now that he is the proud father to two boys… I guess he has found his inner strength! He said it was a little hairy at times, but he got through it! We’ll see if he does it again…but the good news is that he won’t have to do it alone very much! That weekend was the last weekend I have to work for 5 weekends! I am just trying to work 1 weekend every 6 weeks. This will be a very nice change! Not only did Heath take the boys to church, but he took them to the park by himself too! They had a good day and it was gorgeous weather.

What a great father! Not sure why they are both so serious!

Reading stories at bedtime

On Sunday I was working 3pm-3am, so I got to have time with all my boys before I left. Well, not that I saw Heath much…he was able to mow the lawn, trim the shrubs etc… while I watched the boys in the AM. One thing was really cute with Tyson. He was standing at the window, watching Heath mow the lawn, when he burst out, “Daddy, watch out! Cars…road…boom…owie…owie!” Heath was mowing right by the road and Ty was worried that he was too close to the road! It was so cute! And I’m so glad that he is nervous about the road! I hate where we live, just because of our busy road. The thing that you overlook when you buy a house because you don’t have kids and you can’t comprehend it…becomes the thing that you can’t stand. After our late gourmet breakfast together, we went to Dairy Queen before I left for work. I abstained from the ice-cream because of Wes and had an Orange Julius (there is probably some vanilla ice-cream in that, but I didn’t push the issue) and Heath & Ty shared a sundae. Something Ty said at DQ was really cute. Heath had asked Ty if he wanted Reeses Pieces on the sundae and Ty got a weird look on his face. He said, “Reeses home.” He thought Heath was talking about our dog!!!! In Ty’s defense, we do call her “Reeses Pieces” all the time! So we took 2 cars to DQ and I left for work and the boys went on errands. It was really nice to spend some time with them before I left. That is what I just love about this schedule. I never see them at all if I work 7am-7pm, since because of my commute I get there just in time to put them to bed. This way I get to have time with them in the AM, and since I am up until 3 AM normally…it works out well. Unfortunately, because of my commute…I don’t get to bed until 4:30 AM (after a shower), but I can do that one day a week without a problem. The shift differential is much better too!

Anticipating a bite!

Wes happy at DQ - even though he couldn't have any!

On Monday I was dragging a bit because of my 3 ½ hours of sleep, but we still made it to the pharmacies! As we were going to the pharmacies, Tyson must have been thinking about Finley. When we were driving to Rite Aid, he said, “Finley come too” and then he noticed the binky she uses at CVS and said, “Finley’s binky.” Glad to know he loves his cousin! On the Westin front, he is really trying to crawl! He gets right on his belly, and is bending his knees and everything - reaching for things in front of him! Very exciting. Monday afternoon I had quite the exchange with Ty. For background, he had made this wooden lion’s mask at Sabbath School and had been playing with it, when the mask broke off the stick it was glued to.

Ty: “Oh no. Broken. Ty sad.”

Me: “Maybe Daddy can fix it when he gets home.” (then I was looking at the stick and it was buckled in the middle and I was trying to bend it back when it snapped)

Ty: “Mama broke it. Dead now. No Daddy fix.” (looking very sad)

I felt so bad and I hugged him and said how sorry I was and the response I got was Tyson sighing and rolling his eyes! How does he know the term “dead” anyway?

Playing around at the house on Monday AM - love how he groups the blocks into colors!

Trying to crawl!

On Tuesday Wes took a 3 hour nap and I was in heaven! Ty almost followed suit with a 2 ½ hour nap. I went and got Ty up from his nap and I remarked that he had slept a long time. To that he said, “Yes! 5 minutes!” That really made me chuckle! Then a couple other things to mention with Ty. First of all, his dexterity never ceases to amaze me! A wheel had come off this metal, antique tractor that my mother had given Ty. What did he do? He grabbed one of Heath’s screwdrivers, put the screw into the wheel and screwed it back on tight all by himself!!!! I watched him do it – it was amazing! I really hope that he ends up having the mechanical know-how and is another Mr. Fix-It like his father. Then the second thing I wanted to mention was similar to the day before with Finley…he must just think of people randomly. Tuesday it was Nanny and Papa!

Ty: “Nanny, come Ty’s house.”

Me: “Ty, who would come with Nanny?”

Ty: “Papa! Yes, Papa come too!”

Another thing Ty did - flipped all his toys upside down to "fix them" - see the screwdrivers and hammers there?

Then back to using his saw on the playdough

"Let me show you how to use that hammer, Wes"

"Give me that hammer back, Ty!"

Success!

On Wednesday I worked and my mother had her last “shift” with the boys for the rest of the summer! Sonia is going to watch the boys for me since she is off for the summer and will get to spend more time with them. And this gives my mother a break too! On Wednesday I did a test with Westin to see if it would help Wes sleep for Heath. Instead of mixing breast milk and formula, I had my mom and Heath give Westin just formula. Since Wes has been having this dairy intolerance, who knows what is in my frozen breast milk from 2 months ago. It is probably loaded with dairy and so Westin has major colic for Heath and keeps Heath up all night. Not a great scenario. My hypothesis worked and with Westin getting just the formula, he slept like an angel and didn’t give Heath any trouble at all. I hate to think that my hard work with pumping all the time was for naught, but whatever is best for both my boys is all I care about.

Insisting on eating his breakfast in the Bumbo. Just a tad small for you, Ty.

"Being colic-free is great!"

Thursday morning I had had it. Both boys had woken up for the 3^rd morning in a row having wet the bed…WITH DIAPERS ON! Neither one of them seems like they need to go up a size, they just pee a ton at night. Tyson is in 2T-3T night-time pull-ups, but they have seemed tight. I decided to try the 3T-4T pull-ups, which seemed ridiculous since Ty is only in 24 months – 2T for pants. Westin never, ever has any blow-outs during the day, so I really don’t think he needs to go up from a size 2. So my solution is to put 2 diapers on Wes at night. So far both of these things have been working. But what the heck? Another pee-related issue occurred with Tyson standing up to pee. He has been having me aim his winkie, but on Thursday he decided that he wanted to do it himself. Forget any aiming problems, we started right off with doing what he has been doing for so long. He stood up, grabbed his winkie, and pointed it down – like he does when he is sitting on the potty seat. That made for some wet underwear and pants, prompting a full change. Oh my. I have to also take a moment just to vent about kids’ pickiness. Tyson loves black olives. He will eat them by the handful. But if he sees one black olive anywhere near his pizza, he screams, “Yucky!” and will not have anything to do with it! What in the world? Something very exciting with Westin has developed. He has totally mastered putting his own binky in his mouth! I don’t remember when Tyson did this, but this seems really early to me! It is so cute. He will usually start with it completely backwards going into his mouth and then he works at it, turns it around, and eventually finds the sweet spot! So cute! We ended our “week” at, where else…the Mexican restaurant with Adam for a good time.