Wes: 10 Months & 3 Weeks Old
Ty: 2 Years, 11 Months & 3 Weeks Old
Last Friday it was so refreshing to not have to go
to the grocery store for a change! I
brought back “pajama day” to celebrate!
We puttered around, packing to go back up to Conway for a Latimer
Quarterly at the Fryeburg Fair. Ty did
some crazy things in his room on Friday.
#1) making a work of art out of hangers and #2) finding this lion vest
and taking about 50 selfies with my cell phone.
He certainly knows how to entertain himself. Westin has started doing something so cute. When I brush his teeth, he now says “aaahhh!” He does not miss anything! I always ask Tyson to say “ah,” so I can
brush his back and upper teeth (since he concentrates on the middle ones)! Smart boy.
Hanger art
His lion selfie
On Sabbath, we decided to bring the boys to Sabbath
School in Laconia and then drive to my parent’s house for lunch. We felt it was better for the boys to enjoy
their Sabbath School (which they love) instead of us just going to Conway for
church, which they get nothing out of.
It was a good call. I was hoping
that Ty would take a nap on the way there (it would be his only chance for the
day) but he didn’t. I don’t know if I
have mentioned it, but I do not even try to get him to nap if we aren’t at home
anymore. He just won’t do it. He still takes 2 hour naps every day at home,
though – which I love! The traffic going
into Conway was the worst we have ever seen, I am not exaggerating with
this. We sat in bumper to bumper traffic
for almost 30 minutes, not even close to the town! Finally, we made it to a road that we were
able to take a back way and probably missed 45 minutes more of traffic. It was unreal. We finally made it and beat everyone home from
church. We had a nice lunch with the
Conrads and Aunt Lori and celebrated my father’s birthday (the day before) and
Leigh’s birthday (that actual day). Then
all the family started trickling in and mostly everyone went to Diana’s Baths
for a walk while I stayed behind with Wes while he napped. Technically Diana’s Baths was closed down
because of the government shutdown… but let’s just say, they were not deterred. We had a nice time all together that night
visiting and then it was off to bed.
Somehow Westin did not get the memo.
He went down without any problem between 9 pm and 1:30 am. Of course he had to start screaming while I
was in the shower. I had totally jinxed
myself with this. Kelly had been talking
about how Caleb had been waking up during the middle of the night for the past
3 nights and I had said how I could not even remember the last time that Westin
woke up during the night. Cue the 1:30
am crying. What was funny was that as I
got out of the bathroom, I could hear Caleb in his room. He was up, but instead of the wailing that I
heard down the hall in my room…he was giggling and talking away. So Wes cried until 4 am, until I finally gave
up and told him that he was going to “cry it out” in his own pack ‘n’
play. After 5 more minutes of crying, he
went to sleep. I had tried
everything. Whenever I brought him into
our bed, he would stop crying, and climb all over us, giggling and excitedly
hitting us in the face. As soon as I
would lay him down in his crib, he would stand up and scream. I think it was because we were in the same
room. If it was at home, I would have
just left the room and he would have laid himself down to sleep. But he knew we were there! Major problem.
Westin wanted us to get going on lunch
Edwards photo shoot
The boys looked terrible but this came out well of us (too bad I'm leaning towards Westin)
Literally the best picture of the 2 boys
We can get decent ones of them by themselves
Caleb & the boys
The sign at Diana's Bath
@ Diana's Bath
Chillin' with Mia
Heath let Wes & I sleep in on Sunday until 9:30
am – which is unheard of on Fryeburg Fair Sunday. But after the night we had, he had pity. We arrived a bit late and didn’t even go to the
Pig Scramble, but we had gone the week before, so I didn’t feel too bad. We walked around with everyone through the
animals and then broke off into groups.
We went with Kelly & Steve down to the John Deere tractors and had
some photo ops with the boys. Then we
met up with Acadia, Camden, and Finley (and parents & grandparents) for
kiddie rides. This was, by far, the best
part of the day. Tyson had such a blast,
I can’t even tell you. He was in
heaven. There is truly nothing better in
life than to watch your child have fun.
It was priceless. After that, we
broke up again and just our little family of 4 walked around until the truck
pulls started. We found a prime seat in
the stands and watched for a couple of hours (which was great because it
started pouring). I was worried that it
was going to be too loud for Westin and scare him, but he shocked me on the
first pull. While the truck was halfway
down the track (the loudest part), he started clapping! No one else was clapping! It was so cute! I guess he is a redneck after all! We stayed until about 7 pm, then went back to
my parent’s to get the dogs and then headed home. I was disgusted to watch the Pats lose to the
Bengals during my midnight Patriots game showing at home that night. 6 whole points? Pathetic.
Excited ready for a day at the fair!
John Deere tractors
The "twins"
Look at Finley's face!
On Monday the boys & I woke up and we were all
sick with colds. It came out of nowhere. So that was a big bummer. So we didn’t venture out to the pharmacies,
but had Laundry Day instead. And, of
course, we unpacked from the weekend. I
also went through Ty’s clothes and put away all of his 24 month clothes, some
small 2T clothes, and got out his 3T clothes.
His pants, because he is so skinny, still has to be 2T…but his 3T shirts
fit him very well! Unfortunately, I have
not stocked up well at the thrift stores and I barely have any 3T clothes for
him at all! I have to hit up those
thrift stores! The boys might have been
under the weather, but they still played hard.
The boys destroyed all the Tupperware and when I told Tyson that he
needed to pick it up (later on)…he said, “No, Mama. Westy is having fun.” Now he looks out for his brother? And then get this. Westin pulled off the outlet protector!!! Twice.
I can not believe he has the dexterity and smartst he to do that. It is really hard to take off – I struggle to
do it. Now I can’t even trust that he is
safe with those things!
Horsing around with Daddy on Monday night
Horsing around with Daddy on Monday night
On Tuesday we hit up the pharmacies and Tyson was in
rare form. In Walgreens, I was letting
him walk beside our cart but he was touching absolutely everything, so after a
warning, I put him inside the cart. I
was busy shopping and not paying attention to what he was doing. To my horror, he had taken one of my hand
soaps and squirted soap all over his pants, the cart, and our shopping
items. Mama got the last laugh,
though. He hated all the sticky soap on
his hands! When we got home from the
stores, we had supper. Heath had a business
dinner and did not get home until 9 PM, so we were on our own. I was completely disgusted with Tyson at the
supper table, when he zoned out, looked me in the eyes and said, “Ty pee pants.” He peed himself right at the table. What the heck? The most frustrating thing is that with two
whole weekends in Conway, at the fair etc… he never had 1 accident!!! He gets home and he literally does not care
at all. He does 100% better away from
home than at home! It doesn’t make
sense! Does he realize he has a closet
full of pants and a drawer full of underwear, but he doesn’t have that same
comfort when he is on the road? Whatever the reason, it is annoying.
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Posing outside Friendly's
Fin tasting straight-up juice for the first time (she was a fan)
Their faces when their ice-creams came
FInley insisting on pushing the stroller at the mall
Then Ty insisting on holding onto Fin's strap
Thursday I worked and there were clues of our
sicknesses all around. Mom said that
Westin would not eat hardly anything for her and Ty took a 3 ½ hour nap! I had a pretty good shift, but was not on my
A-game. The worst thing was that I had
to keep leaving patient’s rooms because I would start a coughing fit and tears would
be running down my face. That is so
embarrassing! Hopefully we are better
next week! Have a good one!
RANDOM PICS
1 comment:
Hahaha! Finley's face looks just like a mini Toni with her mouth wide open :) Good times!
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