Wes: 1 Year, 5 Months, 2 & 3 Weeks Old
Ty: 3 Years, 6 Months, 2 & 3 Weeks Old
OK
– now after this 2 week recap…I will finally be caught up and able to do just
the 1 week recaps again! Just in time
for my next class to start! (=
April 25 – May 1
Friday
We got an early start on the day and
headed to Shannon & Sean’s house.
The kids had a blast playing outside together. Shannon made us lunch and then the boys and I
headed to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and met Heath. Westin had an appointment with a Pediatric
Urologist. I thought for sure that he
was going to tell us that Westin needed surgery, but thankfully, he does
not. We thought that he had undescended
testicles, but they are actually called “retractile testicles.” The difference is that Westin’s testicles
pull up frequently into his groin, but they can and do come down
occasionally. Even though some people
haven’t even heard of this, it is completely normal. Westin’s muscles are just super
active/flexed, so they work a little overtime and pull up his testicles
frequently. The doctor said that as he
got older, his muscles would relax, and then they would come down normally all
the time. I can not tell you the relief
that Heath & I felt when we heard this.
We were completely expecting that we would have to set a date for
surgery and I was going to freak out a little bit about my baby going under the
knife. But thankfully, that did not need
to happen! Praise the Lord! After the appointment, Heath showed us around
at his work. It was nice to be able to
see the places that he tells me about instead of imagining them! After that, we went back to the Frosts and we
had supper together. Shannon made
Eggplant Parmesan (amazing) and I did contribute with a Caesar salad and some
bread. We had a nice time and lamented
how we never get together anymore. I
think that will be changing when we finally move, whenever that will be.
"Ty give me back my stroller!"
Looks like they are about to kiss!
They love each other! I think they are going to be very close!
After getting the good news at the doctors!
Finley loved her spaghetti!
Reading a story before we left
Sabbath
Even
though we had gotten back late the night before, we got ourselves moving and
made it to Conway church for the church service. The school kids (led out by Sonia) were
having the church service, so we thought it would be good to go and support
Sonia. They did a great job and they were
adorable. Westin’s attention still would
not be held, even with the kids putting on church. So we hung out in the mother’s room with my
friend, Stephanie Blakeney. So, so, so
psyched for her! She had called me the day
before to tell me that they are having a boy!!!!! She is pregnant with her 4th child
– they have 3 girls and they finally will have their boy! I had told her to search online about doing
as much as you can to try to get the sex you want – and she did everything they
suggested – and it worked! I know it is
50-50, but at least you can feel like you did as much as you could! We stayed for potluck and then we went
home. Heath wanted some “chill time” at
home and we did just that! The kids
played hard, including Tyson using his bowling balls to hit seltzer bottles. He lined them up like bowling pins! It is crazy the things he comes up with, but
I was impressed with this one! They do
look like pins!
His bowling lane
Sunday
We
hung around the house most of the day.
Heath did yard work and Ty was outside with him almost the whole
day. Westin came out before and after
his 4 hour nap. They had a blast playing
in the dirt! I did sneak to the
pharmacies with Westin first thing in the AM.
I can’t remember anything else of great importance that happened.
The remote control car looks bigger than him!
Heath is getting ready to plant grass in our old garden...and the boys placed all these pieces of wood on his handiwork!
"Let's go get some gas!"
Monday
I
worked and Noni babysat. One thing I
have to mention is that Tyson has started to “give in to me” on occasion. Whatever I ask him to do, he will always fuss
and say, “I don’t want to” and a battle would ensue. But I have worked on cutting that baloney out,
and unfortunately, it is by threatening
time-outs and spankings. But it seems to
be working because he is now saying, “All right. All right” (in this defeated voice) and goes
to do what I have asked him to do. Progress! But I love to hear that “all right” phrase!
Tuesday
Laundry
Day was our big highlight of the day.
While I was loading the washing machine, I heard the boys giggling in
the next room. When I came out of our
laundry room, I was not prepared to find Westin’s face covered from a
highlighter!!!! Just the previous week,
I had taken all of our sharpies and permanent markers and put them on top of
our hutch in the kitchen so they couldn’t get their hands on them. Well, I forgot about the highlighter that was
in one of our drawers. It comes right
off with water, though – which I didn’t know!
Ty was not torturing Wes – Westin thought it was great and was laughing
and laughing. Those two! I never post anything on Facebook, but I
couldn’t resist posting the picture I used at the very beginning of the blog. So sweet.
Close up
Wednesday
We
hit up the thrift stores in our area with Shannon, kids & Noni. We always feel like we have been through a
war when we are finished (and that is just going to 2 thrift stores)!!!! We debated even going out for lunch, but we
decided to go to Friendly’s since it was Wednesday and the kids’ meals are
$1.99 instead of like $5.75. Since they
get a drink, meal & ice-cream…it is a great deal. My mom had announced she was going to treat
us, so that was a bonus! I ended up
getting both boys a meal since it was only $1.99 and Ty declared that he wanted
the mac ‘n’ cheese and Westin won’t touch it…so I got Westin a grilled
cheese. Wouldn’t you know, Westin
refused to eat one bite of the grilled cheese (I could have eaten his and not
ordered one for myself) and only ate a few french fries, but just mostly ate a whole
container of honey mustard dressing (by licking it off a french fry). The kicker was when the bill came and it was
over $50!!!!! Yeah, in case any of you
don’t know…Friendly’s changed their policy on the Wednesday Kids special. It is now only from 4 pm and it is $2.99
instead of $1.99!!!! We missed the teeny
tiny sign up at the front door that announced this. I think a little FYI from our waitress would
have been great, but that is just asking for too much, I know! My poor mom, she wouldn’t back out of her
offer! She is too good to us! This was just the beginning of Westin’s
eating problems. For the last 2 weeks,
he is hardly eating. I don’t know what is wrong with him. I mean, he has always been horribly picky,
but he is refusing to eat some of his staples that he has always loved. Grilled cheese, french toast, certain soups
that he has always loved, even PB&J sometimes…and the list could go on and
on. It has been so bad that I have
actually said out loud, “Could he have gotten some type of worm or parasite?” Heath thinks I am being crazy, but I am
really glad that he has a doctor’s appointment for his 18 month check next
week. I know they always say that you
should never freak out if your kid isn’t eating well, that they will eat when
they are hungry. But I can’t tell you
how many nights he has gone to bed with only eating some bread and a sippy
fruit/vege pouch. He just won’t eat, no
matter what I do.
Walking into the thrift store
Riding a pony at the store
Trying to balance frisbees on their heads at Friendly's
Finley lasted the longest!
He did eat ice-cream though!
Thursday
Thursday
was a big day. Tyson started swimming lessons
at the YMCA. Shannon was going to have
Finley go with Ty too, but he was in an age 3-5 class, so they would be in
different classes and she would be in the baby class – which seemed like a
waste of money…so they didn’t come with us.
Next year though! They had a 5:30
– 6:00 PM class that I would have never considered before, but Heath can make
the lessons! He comes right from work
and meets us there. It was great to have
him since I knew Tyson was going to need a lot of support on the first class
and I definitely have my hands full with Westin, making sure he doesn’t jump
into the pool! There were 6 kids there
the first class and they had 2 instructors working with the kids. Almost all the kids did not want to get into
the water at all and most of them were sobbing.
Ty was the first kid to overcome his fear and learned how to enter the
pool the correct way – on his belly backward.
We were so proud of him! And all the
kids eventually went in! They were so
cute! The teachers really want us to
stay on the sidelines and let the kids focus on them, which is so good for
Tyson. But it is crazy for me to let go
a little bit – I wanted to be right in there!
He was really cute because he kept going back and forth when I would ask
him about the lesson…some of the time he said that he loved it and was excited
to go again…and then he would get scared and say that he didn’t want to go
back! It’s probably a normal
response. After swimming, we booked it
up to the Mexican restaurant and met my parents and Adam. Adam’s birthday had been on Tuesday, so we
told the waiters there and they sang to him and put the giant sombrero on him –
which the boys loved. Then Adam came
back to visit and we played our weekly Monopoly Deal and Heath won again. He has won every single hand that we have played
with Adam. Sickening.
Ty not too sure of himself and Daddy giving him a pep talk
Happy birthday!
May 2 – 8
Friday
Another
Grocery Day…I am going back to Fridays as Grocery Day while Ty is in swimming
lessons. The lessons are on Thursday and
our whole schedule gets altered because we have to leave by 4:45pm and Wes is
usually sleeps until 6 pm. So we eat
lunch earlier and Wes goes down for his nap earlier. It would be too tight to get the groceries in
the AM (because the kids get up so late) and I would be stressing to keep our
new “Thursday” schedule so Westin gets a decent nap. Anyways, can’t remember anything else
important that happened.
Sabbath
I
worked 7a-7p. I was so bummed. Mia’s dance recital was this Saturday night
and I couldn’t go! I couldn’t believe
it. What are the odds? I only work 1 weekend every 6 weeks and it
just happened to fall on this weekend. I
was so disappointed. Mia has worked her
tail off and I wanted to see her dance so badly. I heard from my mom & Shannon that she
was fantastic, as I knew she would be.
So proud of her – she is in the elite group now – she is so
talented! I can not miss the next
one! While I was working, Heath took the
boys to Sabbath school & church by himself.
He kind of regretted it. I’m not
sure if I would be able to handle it.
They are crazy animals.
Having a snack together after church
Wes always shares with Reeses
Sunday
I
worked 3p-3a. The boys all left early to
go to the Edwards’ house to see their brand new chickens! They got 12 baby chicks and Tyson had been
dying to go see them. Heath & I have
been talking about getting chickens.
Heath had them a lot while growing up and they are pretty low
maintenance. They would be free range,
but we would have a chicken coop that we would pen them up at night. I’m just concerned that we are gone a lot,
but Heath assures me that they are fine by themselves for the weekend (the
chicken coop has this large fenced-in pen surrounding it), so they can still roam
but that wild animals can’t get in (or that is the idea). When we go away to Nova Scotia, we could
bring them to his parents’ house, but when we have the weeklong Edwards’
vacation…we will have to figure that out.
I have agreed to get the chickens, but Heath is well aware that this is
his deal. I am not mucking out the
coop. That is all him. But it will be great to have fresh eggs (even
though we have been eating mostly Eggbeaters for Heath’s cholesterol). I guess I will have to become an expert at
separating egg whites! (= Anyways, the
boys fell in love with the chicks.
Westin would pet them and would “peep” back at them! So cute!
I was psyched that they had an early start since that left a few hours
to myself. I had grandiose plans of
hitting a bunch of shops, but instead…I took 2 hours to clean my house because
it was trashed (and I knew I would be exhausted on Monday to do it) and just left
enough time to go to the pharmacies.
Good times.
The baby chicks
Monday
Yes,
I was exhausted. We didn’t do a darn
thing, but puttered around the house. I
had gotten us all dressed though, and I had put on these drawstring jeans on
Tyson that he had never worn before. Now
he has been going to the bathroom by himself, can turn on the light, pull down
his pants etc. But I still have to button and zip his jeans – he definitely
does not have that skill yet. Well, he
came flying out of the bathroom after his first potty break of the day and
screamed, “Mama! I don’t need you to
button my pants! That’s awesome!” That cracked me up so much. I didn’t even know he knew the word ‘awesome!’ A big milestone happened for Westin on this
day. I started putting his sleep sack on
backward. Thank you, Shannon, for this
brilliant idea. Wes had been taking
awhile to go to sleep because he would sit up in his bed and be obsessed with
unzipping his sleep sack and putting his binky in the sack…and getting out of
it…etc. So I was done with it! It totally works like a charm! He goes right to sleep again!
One thing that I didn't mention is that Wes had another blocked tear duct over the weekend and Heath had scrubbed off some goop that was caked under his eye Sunday night, but had no idea that he scratched him so badly! I was horrified when I saw him and texted Heath, "what did you do to my baby?!!!"
Tuesday
I worked
again and I was pretty tired from working all weekend (I am not used to this
much working, you know)!!!! But I kept
my chin up since I would be off for almost 2 weeks (my parents are on a 2 week
vacation). Noni came for her last shift
for awhile and all went well.
Wednesday
Another
tired day after working. We had stayed
in our pajamas all day, but then at the last minute we decided to go out to eat
that night instead of Thursday. So I
quickly got us all dressed. We went to
the Thai restaurant with my parents & Adam.
The big highlight of the night was that Heath’s reign of champion of
Monopoly Deal came to an end, when I finally won. Justice is served.
Making a fort
Look at the form! I have no idea what inspired him to do this!
Some other crazy thing Ty came up with that day
Thursday
Ty
had his second swimming lesson and his inexperience showed this time. Some of the kids could actually doggy-paddle,
but Ty can’t do that yet. He worked on
floating and kicking his feet and he did great again. I didn't get a good picture of swimming - I am trying to take pictures discreetly because I don't want some parents thinking I am posting their kid's face on Facebook! After swimming lessons, we went to eat at
Taco Bell, but it was shut down for a mechanical problem. We had just gone to eat the night before, so
we wanted something cheap and relatively fast.
We ended up at Pizza Hut and the boys were happy, but you can add pizza
onto the list of things Westin won’t eat now.
Thank goodness we had ordered waffle fries to go with the pizza, since
that is the only thing that he would eat (and a sippy). What is wrong with him?
OK! That is it!
Have a great week!
RANDOM PICS/VIDEOS
He is addicted to watching the "Frozen" songs on the iPad. He always says "bam!" at the end of "Let It Go", which is when Elsa slams the door. So cute.
Brotherly Lovin'
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