Ty & Wes Time: Easter Hunt, "I Love You", Blowing & "Eye"Poking

17 Months & 3 Weeks

Enjoy reading the Tyson stories because the blog will be on hiatus again for the next 2 weeks! The reason this time is because we are leaving for our cruise this Friday! We can not wait! I think this year will even be better with Tyson. He will just love all the new experiences! I can see him right now smiling at everyone on the boat... it will be so much fun!

Well, I pretty much recapped what happened last weekend with Paul's service and everything... but I didn't mention Sunday. On Saturday night, we packed up everything at my parent's house and headed to the Edwards' house for Saturday night to spend some more time with Amanda. We crashed pretty hard and spent most of Sunday just lounging around at the Edwards. We were all so beat from the entire weekend, we didn't feel like doing anything. Tyson went room to room, leaving destruction in his path... he is just non-stop. I have to say that I looked around the living room on Sunday afternoon and had to laugh. Keith was on his Touchpad, Sonia on her laptop, Heath on his Galaxypad, Adam on his Asus tablet, Amanda with her Kindle, and I was on my Ipad - all at the same time! Isn't it just amazing how technology just consumes our lives now? In the afternoon, we managed to muster up enough energy to give Tyson an Easter egg hunt! We put his puffs, yogurt melts, Cheerios, and a couple matchbox cars into the eggs. It was so cute - it took him a little while, but he got the hang of it and loved picking up the eggs and putting them into this cute turtle basket that Sonia had gotten him. What he liked even more was shaking the basket furiously and watching all the eggs fall out of the basket onto the ground. He's such a boy. On Sunday night, we headed home and planned to go out to eat with the Edwards. Well, we kind of forgotten that it was Easter and our first 6 choices for restaurants were closed. So we ended up at an old favorite, that we had stopped going to because it was pretty expensive... but lo and behold, they had changed the menu and the prices were much more reasonable. Guess it will be our regular favorite now! Ty chowed down on an Eggplant Parmesan sandwich, I wasn't sure if he would like it, but he went crazy for it.

On Monday, Ty and I spent most of the day getting our house in order and unpacking. In the past 11 days, we had spent 9 days in Conway and living out of suitcases. It was so good to be home. Ty was so tuckered out from all of this, that he took a 2.5 hour nap. I felt terrible, but I had to wake him up - so who knows how long he would have slept. I would normally never do this, but we were on a time-crunch. We had to get to the grocery store (since we didn't have any food in the house) and get back because Heath and I were having a date night. I really felt like being at home and not doing anything, but my parents were leaving for Florida for 2 weeks the next day (which means no baby-sitter) ... so we jumped at the chance. We HAD to go see Titanic in 3D!!!!! My favorite movie of all time. I had forgotten how good it was. Unfortunately, I didn't think the 3D effects were all that spectacular, but you have to forgive them, since the original movie was not made in 3D, so it's not like they tailor-made it to have all those effects. But you did forget a lot of the time that it actually was in 3D. Regardless, we had a great time and I was actually able to eat a salad and some bites of a brownie sundae. My nausea is still horrible and I can't even look at most food. I'm taking ginger, saltines, Preggy pop drops, seltzer and I just can't eat. This is very hard for me because I love to eat so much! Anyways, while Heath and I were living it up, Ty was living it up too and went out to eat at the OG with Noni and Poppy. They said he was very well-behaved, ate a ton, and went right to sleep like a champ. It's nice to know that he doesn't give them a problem, it makes it easier to us for us to go our to know that! Noni and Poppy tried to get Ty to say, "I love you".... by repeating it probably a bazillion times... they swear that he actually said it a few times, but I have not heard it myself. I heard him attempt to say it... but not quite.

While unpacking, Ty took his portable high chair and climbed into it!

Ty trying on my shoes!!!!

On Tuesday, Ty did a couple cute things. First of all, I had made blueberry muffins for breakfast and they came out pretty hot. So I was breaking them up and blowing on the pieces before giving them to Ty. Well, that kid doesn't miss anything! Right away, he would not eat a piece of muffin until he had thoroughly blown on it! (= It was so cute. He is definitely imitating us so well now. Words seem to be coming a bit better too. We had gotten him this giant blue ball at Walmart up in Conway and when he was playing with it - he started saying, "Baw, baw." I think that's pretty close! Then, when I was brushing my teeth, Ty was playing in his room. I walked into his room to check on him and he had his rectal thermometer in his mouth!!!!! I couldn't help but laugh, but poor guy. It was in a plastic container that was inside a small ziplock bag, inside a large ziplock bag... he really had to work to get it out! But he got it! So Tuesday we worked on laundry all day and then brought my parents to the airport in the afternoon. My mom had been watching Finley (Shannon was working) so I took over. After dropping them off, I had to pull over at one of the exits because Finley was freaking me out. She was sleeping, but leaning completely forward in her car seat with her chin on her chest. I unbuckled my seat belt and tried to get her head to go back, but she would just slump over again. I had heard of kids cutting off their airways by doing this, so I pulled over and moved her in the car seat. Of course she was fine and of course I woke her up, but it was worth it! That was scary. We had a nice couple of hours together (Ty, Fin, and I) and then Sean came to pick her up. Heath had a business dinner on Tuesday night, so Ty and I were on our own. I gave him his bath, which is now hazardous to both of our healths - Ty is a crazy man in the tub right now. He won't just sit there and splash anymore... he stands right up and "dances" in the tub and then crawls around (getting a mouthful of bath water sometimes) and nearly falls all the time! It was exhausting trying to keep him safe!

Blowing on the muffin

On Wednesday I had to work and Shannon had double duty with the kids. She said that everything went fine. Something exciting happened! Tyson said, "eye"... the unfortunate part was that he said it when he tried to poke Finley in the eye!!!! He really does seem to love Finley (and vice versa) but his love is a tough love, let me tell you. Wednesday night it was nice to head home immediately and not stop at the dumpster. Just for everyone's information... there will be no dumpster-diving while I am pregnant. I have had too many close calls with falling out of the dumpster, that it's just not worth the risk. Unfortunately, I will be thinking of all the deals I will missing out on because I won't have those coupons!!!! Oh well... the baby is definitely worth it!

On Thursday it was my turn for double duty all day with the 2 munchkins, since Shannon had to work. It went very well, all three of us got dressed and didn't stay in our pajamas all day, so I consider that a success! On Thursday night, it was just Ty, Heath, and I that headed to the OG. And we did stop at Burlington Coat Factory and got a suit for Heath (killer deal), a suit-outfit for Ty, and a bathing suit for me for the cruise. We are getting ready!