Wes: 1 Year, 4 Months & 2-3 Weeks Old
Ty: 3 Years, 5 Months & 2-3 Weeks Old
A month behind again…I had 2 big projects due for my class (including
a PowerPoint presentation with audio that I had never done before), so I just
couldn’t get a blog out. I’m going to
really try to get caught up now!
March 28- April 4
- Friday March 28, Ty’s
first day of being in his big boy bed/no binky and I was sure that he wouldn’t
nap and just run around his room…but I was pleasantly surprised when he went to
sleep after about 15 minutes (fluke).
His second night without his binky in his new big boy bed took 1 ½ hours
to fall asleep. Yikes.
- Sabbath we headed
up to Conway church & the Edwards’ house for maple sugaring. We had potluck at church and the boys were
really cute with their friends, the Blakeneys.
The Blakeneys have 3 girls (ages 7, 3, and 1). It was very cute to me how both boys seem to
be sweet on the older girls. Ty ran and
chased around the 7 year old and Westin followed around the 3 year old (who
hugs and kisses him nonstop). It was
adorable. Then they were playing a game
where Ty was “in jail” and the 7 year old was the guard, making sure that he
didn’t escape…(Ty would try to escape and then wrestling would ensue) and
Westin was Ty’s son that Ty was trying to rescue. Crazy how they can come up with this
stuff. We went to visit Norma after church
and then spent the night at the Edwards.
Westin holding hands, running around with Brooke Blakeney
Ty & Wes playing in Norma's pellet box
- Sunday we were
supposed to do maple sugaring, but it was pouring hard all day. So we went to Portland instead. Went to IHOP, Goodwill (for the girls while
the guys went to Harbor Freight) and then we all went to Mardens. Something funny happened with Westin. Ty had gone to Harbor Freight & Wes had
stayed with me at Goodwill. We picked up
Ty from Harbor Freight (since we had the car seat) and Ty seemed very excited
to see Wes. So I said, “Wes, did you
miss Ty?” Right on cue, he said, “No!” We got a good laugh at that. We got back in the late afternoon to the
Edwards and it had stopped raining and there was a ton of sap in the buckets,
so they started boiling. Fast forward to
a few hours later…we didn’t get home until after 10 PM. But before we got home, Sonia had given the
boys a bath and during the bath…Ty had gotten mad at Westin because of taking a
toy that Ty wanted etc.. and Ty had pushed Westin down and Wes had gone under
the water. Sonia instinctively spanked
Ty (I have always told her that she is allowed to spank him if he is out of
line) and Ty was absolutely devastated (she was too). First spanking from Grammy. He definitely deserved it.
Reading stories waiting for Daddy to finish with the sap...getting over the spanking from Grammy!
- Monday was laundry
day and playing at home. When Heath got
home that night, he used the turkey fryer on the porch to boil the last bit of
the sap from the Edwards’ house and we got maple syrup! 3 ½ pints!
It was a beautiful sight! The
boys loved to watch him…it was a long process and I had to put them to bed
before it was over…but Heath was so excited that he woke up Ty to taste the
syrup (since Ty had helped collect the sap)!
That goodness Ty went back to sleep, despite the sugar!
Getting started...
The boys watching Heath work... Westin "Yes, is this the news station? Get a crew over here! My dad is making maple syrup!"
Success!
After waking up, eyeing the syrup
Loving the taste
- Tuesday I worked,
but Shannon & kids came for a quick visit in the morning before I
left. Westin and Griffin just love each
other and Westin is constantly laying on him or trying to sit on him, which is his
equivalent of a hug! Ty figured out how
to go to sleep at night without his binky and he is going right to sleep now –
which is great! It did take a few days
though!
A "Westin hug"
- Wednesday was my
chill day after work, but we had to get out of our PJ’s since we were going out
to eat on Wednesday instead of Thursday this week. We went to the Mexican restaurant with my
parents & Adam. Adam played a few
games with the boys while we were waiting for Heath to get home. Wednesday night we introduced Adam to
Monopoly Deal, which we had bought, after playing at the Cape with the Conrads,
Cases & Walls. Adam & Heath are
both hooked, so we have been playing a couple of hands after going out to eat
for a few weeks now. Love it!
Game time with Uncle Adam
Salsa time!
- Thursday was
Grocery Day…and playing some more at home.
Wes did something that was so cute.
I had taken all the dog’s blankets/dog bed and put them in the washing
machine. Well, Westin was so concerned. He saw me take the blankets and put them in…and
he kept touching the washing machine door saying, “Puppies. Puppies.”
He thought they were being washed too!
When I unloaded it when the wash was done, he came right over again
saying, “Puppies” and still expected them to come out of the washing
machine. It was really cute.
Sword fighting with yard sticks!
- Friday was a big
day for Tyson. He got his first clock on
this day! It had been a bit of a problem
in the mornings, Ty sleeping in his big boy bed. Whenever he would stir first thing in the AM
in his crib, he would just roll over and go back to sleep. Well, whenever he would first stir now in his
bed, he would just get up…thinking it was time to get up. Well, the kid goes to sleep between 8:30-9:00
PM and usually will get up at 8 AM. But
since getting into the big bed, he had been coming downstairs at 6:45 AM. He was losing at least an hour of sleep and
that was not good (for anyone)!!!! We
bit the bullet and bought this “OK to Wake” alarm clock from Amazon. I set it for 7:55 AM and the little creature
glows green when he is allowed to get up!
He absolutely loves it – he talks about it all the time and shows it off
to everyone that comes to the house! It
has been working like a charm, so it was worth the $30.
APRIL 5 – 11
- Sabbath we were
supposed to be back at the Edwards to do maple sugaring, but Sonia got the flu,
so we stayed away. Instead I went to an Indonesian
SDA church in Dover for my school project, while Heath stayed at home with the
boys. I had learned about “Indonesian
time,” in which everything happens in a relaxed, laid-back way without any
concern about actual clock time. When I
arrived at 11:15 AM (when church was supposed to start according to their
website), opening prayer was being said and I thought I was there at the
perfect time…but they were starting Sabbath School!!!! Needless to say, church did not finish until
2 PM!!!!! Oh, and as soon I got to the
church, the pastor’s wife asked me if I would tell a children’s story. I did, but I hate public speaking…but it went
OK. It was great to learn about the culture
– it was fun. After I got home, we were going
to go to a park, but it turned very cold & windy – so we stayed home. Wes had been messing around on the couches and
ended up falling off the couch. He wasn’t
hurt, but scared. I hoped that it would
deter him from getting back up on the couches, but not so much. After sundown, we got some take-out and
called it a day.
Not just the couches - standing in the kitchen sink!
- On Sunday, Heath
braved the flu and went to the Edwards.
He stayed outside boiling the sap all day and did not go inside the
infected house. The boys & I stayed
home and went to the pharmacies. A cute
thing was that Westin started folding his hands during prayer! Sunday afternoon my parents came over to
watch “Frozen” with the boys & me and we had supper. We had all heard how good it was…we didn’t
realize that one of the characters has magical powers…but just about every kid’s
movie has some type of magic involved, so once you get over that…the movie was
really cute and the music was fantastic.
Ty absolutely loved it and it actually held Westin’s interest for most
of the movie.
Ty made a "picnic"
- Monday started my
week’s project of cleaning out my clothes closet. What an accomplishment! And I brought 5 garbage bags of clothes to
Goodwill! God saved my boys that
day. They were running between playing
in Ty and Westin’s room (I was in the closet in Westin’s room) when I heard the
biggest crash ever. Westin was in the closet
with me and I flew out the closet…not sure what I was going to find. Tyson was trying to reach a ball that had
fallen behind his dresser, and he pushed on the dresser trying to reach the
ball – and the dresser fell over!!!
Thank goodness Westin was with me, because he had been playing with Ty
in Ty’s room and the dresser could have killed him. Heath has now fixed it to the wall so that
won’t happen again. It was so scary and Ty
was scared too.
Dresser fallen over - 2 drawers got busted
This is what they were doing while I was in the closet...took the mattress off the bed, stacking toys on it, playing with the step ladder... crazy stuff.
- Tuesday I worked
and Ty wouldn’t nap for Noni. He didn’t
nap for me the day before either. I didn’t
like the way this was going.
- Wednesday, the day
after I worked, I had to get out of my PJ’s again. The boys had a birthday party. Zach Harlow, a friend from Laconia Sabbath
School, was turning 4. They had a Super
Heroes birthday party at a bouncy house center.
They have like 5 big bouncy houses & slides. The kids had an absolute blast – Westin &
Ty were crazy kids all over that place.
It was so fun.
Climbing up one of the slides at the party
Yes, he was kissing Spiderman!
- On Thursday Westin
had a breakthrough and said, “poop poo” and patted his bum as he was
pooping! I know what is going to
happen. I am bound and determined to not
potty-train Westin until he is 3 and here he is…going to start showing interest
way earlier. Not going to happen! In the afternoon, we went to Concord and met
Shannon & the kids, and my parents at a playground. The kids had a blast. Then my mom, kids & I went to
Goodwill. Then we met up with Heath
& my dad at the OG.
Griffin - getting so old!
At Goodwill
He got tired!
- On Friday, we
stayed at home. Westin is really becoming
a big boy! He had fallen or something
and was crying and then he pulled up his shirt and said, “boo-boo” and showed
me a red spot on his belly! I love it
how he can communicate so well now! In
the late afternoon, we met Heath at DQ (Westin got his first solo ice-cream cone), then met the guy that does our taxes to
sign our papers, and then ran to Market Basket before the sun set. Then the best thing happened during supper
that night. Westin ate spaghetti for the
first time! Yea!
First solo ice-cream cone!
Have a great week!
RANDOM PICS
Mechanics hard at work
"Lighting" a birthday cake
