1st Spanking from Noni, Eyebrow Injury, Wes Loves the Slide, "Tee-Tee," Great Super Bowl, Wanting to Feed Himself, Ate Pasta & "Nona & Papa"

Wes:  1 Year, 2 Months & 3 Weeks Old

Ty:  3 Years, 3 Months & 3 Weeks Old 

FRIDAY

- We woke up to no heat in our house.  Our oil had run out, which has never happened before.  Thank goodness they were able to come and fill us by the afternoon.  It didn’t get below 60 degrees, at least. 

-  Shannon & the kids came over in the AM before I had to leave for a mandatory staff meeting.  Mom was coming to babysit again.  Mom told me that Tyson’s behavior was terrible.  He got multiple time-outs and she actually spanked him for the first time.  I can’t believe that one.  I can’t remember what he did, but it had to be pretty bad for that to happen. 

- While I was cooking supper, Ty was “cooking” with his kitchen set.  He had pulled it away from the wall and was messing around, when it pitched forward…hitting him and pushing him into our end table.  He just missed hitting his right eye directly, which could have been really bad.  But he hit his eyebrow hard and it swelled and bruised up right away.  I should have gotten a picture of it, but I didn’t.  I knew he was OK when I was holding him, comforting him, and he looked up at me and said, “Mama, Ty need to watch ‘Frosty the Snowman.’  That will make me eye feel better.”  Even though it was Friday night, I put it on for a little bit (we have it on our DVR) and it calmed him right down.

My mom had a headache Friday afternoon...so I had to forgive her when she said, "Yeah, sorry about the mess!"

Wes discovered his love of the slide on Friday night.  I had to move the slide against the chair since Wes has fallen backwards off the back of it a couple of times!  

SABBATH

-  We went to Laconia church, otherwise we didn’t do much all day.

-  Wes is calling Ty “Tee.”  It is so cute!  And if we call him, “Ty-Ty” then Wes calls him “Tee-tee!”  It just cracks me up!

He was still obsessed with the slide on Sabbath

SUNDAY

-  Heath & Ty went ice-fishing in Maine with Keith, Sonia & Joel.  Ty had a blast as usual.  He got exhausted in the afternoon since he had gotten up to leave at 5 AM.  Heath laid him down on a chair in the ice house and he passed right out!  Unfortunately, he slept so hard that he peed…and was super upset about that when he woke up.  But Heath came prepared and got him all changed up.

-  While the older boys fished, my younger boy and I shopped.  We went to a record 11 stores (pharmacies, grocery store, Kohl’s, Walmart, some outlet stores, etc).  Wes was such a trooper.  We got home 5 minutes after the Super Bowl had started and my parents were already there.  They came for most of the game – left at the beginning of the 4^th quarter.  I heard the now infamous missed snap on the radio and thought maybe, just maybe, the game would go the way I wanted.  And did it ever!  I did feel bad for Peyton, but at the end of the day, Brady has 3 rings and Peyton only has 1.  Priceless. 

They caught a ton of fish and Ty pulled them all out himself!

Exhausted!

I love that you can hear Peyton's interception on this video!  Well, my dad's play-by-play that is!

MONDAY

-  I couldn’t understand why Westin was screaming at me during lunch, until I figured out it was because he wanted to eat his corn dog pieces with a fork.  And he insisted on feeding himself.  This is becoming a regular occurrence now.  He is doing very well with it!

-  A more exciting event happened at supper in my opinion.  Westin ate pasta!!!!  I had made American Chop Suey and Wes devoured it.  I have always continued to offer pasta to him and it finally paid off!  Hopefully it is not a fluke, but we haven’t had pasta again, so I’m not sure.

"I think I can..."

"Almost there..."

"Made it!"

Very happy with himself

Pasta all over his face!

TUESDAY

-  My morning on Tuesday was ridiculous.  It was like a movie, but you can’t write stuff like this.  Just a background…I was trying to get the kids out the door to meet Shannon & my parents in Concord for some shopping.  We were just about all ready to go, so I let the dogs outside to do their business, while I heated up Westin’s milk and put it in a thermos.  For some reason, I didn’t have the top on right and I leaked milk all over the place from my kitchen to my front door, where I was going to check on the dogs.  So that was great – I had to clean up all of that.  Then Reeses did not come back.  Literally she has never done this before.  She was outside for like 15 minutes and no matter what I did and how much I called her, she would not come in.  I had to go out in the snow, walking in the woods calling for her.  I started freaking out because Heath said that he had seen coyote tracks behind our house again, so I thought the coyote had gotten her…because she never does this!  But she finally waltzed over the snow bank and came in.  So I was about ready to kill her.  Then all we had left to do was put Ty’s shoes on, but we could only find 1 shoe.  Then I had to search the whole house looking for his sneaker (he literally has 1 pair of shoes that fit him right now) and finally found it, hidden underneath the dresser in my room (Westin must have hid it).  As I finally put the shoe on Ty’s foot, and had my back turned…Westin dumped the dog water out on the floor!!!!  He got soaked so I had to give him a complete outfit change.  Are you kidding me? 

-  Fun shopping at the mall, Burger King for lunch, and then Goodwill.  Westin started saying his versions of my parents names – “Nona” and “Papa.”  Super cute.

In heaven with their Noni!

Holding hands in the store

Taking a break at the shoe store - Westin reached out to hold Noni's hand!

Griffy chilling & modeling Shannon's new double stroller, courtesy of Craig's List

Trying hard not to touch the ferret (Fin actually touched it with her foot - thinking that didn't count!)

 

Sharing a seat on our double stroller

WEDNESDAY

-  Big snow storm all day – we got about a foot of snow.  When Heath got home we went to the Mexican restaurant, just the 4 of us and then to our brand new Super Walmart.  Late night and the boys didn’t get to bed until about 10:30 PM. 

Looking at the snow & our new trailer 

Heath's pride & joy

Ty started doing this all himself 

Yes, Ty was actually trying to ride his bike in the snow!

THURSDAY

-  I worked and didn’t get home until after 5 AM, after a busy, draining shift.  The boys had a great day with Noni and then had a great night with Adam & Sonia, who came over to visit.  They got Chinese food take-out.  Lucky ducks.  Another very late bedtime. 

Have a great week!