Tim has started helping Tyler figure out walking, and Timmy jumped right in to help as well. So while I sit on posts about Tyler's 10 month and our 7 Year Anniversary until I have pictures I like, enjoy this video of last nights entertainment!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Five for Friday
I haven't tried the blog-world's "Five for Friday" format before, but I have several little snippets that are getting older and older in my "to blog about" file, so I thought I'd give it a try.
1. Skype - Timmy's best friend from preschool last year, Francis, went to Kenya a few weeks after the start of this school year to meet his Grandparents. Francis, his dad, and little brother ended up staying in Kenya through what was originally supposed to be Christmas, which turned into May, and now may be for another whole year (with Mom joining them). Francis's mom had updated us with some pictures and stories about Francis' life there and we discussed the possibility of them skyping several times. We finally connected with him at the end of January. Timmy was sooo excited to see his friend! The boys spent most of the time just smiling at each other, there wasn't a whole lot of talking! We are planning to try again soon, hoping the boys will be chattier next time around!
3. Disney, Virtual and Real - For Christmas we got the Xbox Kinect game for Disney Land. It is amazing, your avatar walks around the Magic Kingdom and every single thing that is there in real life is in the game. You run into character's, take their pictures and ask for their autographs. You buy clothes and souvenirs in the stores. When you enter the rides you play interactive games instead of going on the actual ride, but they are all in the correct spots! Timmy is able to play by himself which is nice but I do enjoy playing it with him. The game allows one or two players and you can jump in and out when you want, so while he's walking around the park it's just him, but when he plays the games sometimes he asks me to help. I haven't been able to get a great video yet, but these will give you the general idea. We are hoping to be heading to Disney World for real, next month!
4. The baby in the mirror - Tyler and I were home alone one evening and I was trying to get laundry put away, so I stood Tyler up next to my mirror to see if that would entertain him. It did, but it entertained me just as much! Tyler was giving the baby lots of high five's and kisses!
5. Still lacking on sleep - The boys gave me a few rough nights of sleep again this week. It's mostly Tyler, but Timmy will occasionally wake up to pee and then try to sneak into our bed, so I'll have to get up and go put him back in his! Sometimes he'll wake up after he pees, which is even more fun... Tyler is still regularly waking up for two bottles a night, at about 1:30 and again around 5:30. Some nights he wakes up every hour or so though! He hasn't had any new teeth come in, and he doesn't need his diaper changed, I have no idea what's waking him up. We are trying everything we can think of: he has a humidifier to help with winter congestion, a space heater because his room gets ridiculously cold at night, and I have recently added a fan as well, hoping that the white noise will help drown out anything he might be hearing from outside! On the worst of one of these nights a few weeks ago I wondered if he secretly hates me and is trying to kill me off... this week I came up with a more probable answer though, I think he's trying to get me fired so I can be a stay at home mom! ;)
1. Skype - Timmy's best friend from preschool last year, Francis, went to Kenya a few weeks after the start of this school year to meet his Grandparents. Francis, his dad, and little brother ended up staying in Kenya through what was originally supposed to be Christmas, which turned into May, and now may be for another whole year (with Mom joining them). Francis's mom had updated us with some pictures and stories about Francis' life there and we discussed the possibility of them skyping several times. We finally connected with him at the end of January. Timmy was sooo excited to see his friend! The boys spent most of the time just smiling at each other, there wasn't a whole lot of talking! We are planning to try again soon, hoping the boys will be chattier next time around!
2. Soccer - Tim signed Timmy up for his first two sports, which will start sometime this month! He will be playing soccer in a league by our house, and he will be playing "Blast Ball" (a step below t-ball, the kids only have to run to first base to score, and only have to raise the ball above their head to get an out) in Reston. The day after Tim did the registrations, we started receiving a lot of amazon boxes! By the end of the week Timmy was fully equipped for both sports. Every evening he begs us to play soccer with him, I really think he's going to be good, if he can manage to get the ball away from the other "magnets" in this age group, and if he doesn't get thrown out of every game for pushing! He gets a little rough, especially when playing with Daddy! He is very good at watching out for Tyler when Tyler's playing defense though!
4. The baby in the mirror - Tyler and I were home alone one evening and I was trying to get laundry put away, so I stood Tyler up next to my mirror to see if that would entertain him. It did, but it entertained me just as much! Tyler was giving the baby lots of high five's and kisses!
5. Still lacking on sleep - The boys gave me a few rough nights of sleep again this week. It's mostly Tyler, but Timmy will occasionally wake up to pee and then try to sneak into our bed, so I'll have to get up and go put him back in his! Sometimes he'll wake up after he pees, which is even more fun... Tyler is still regularly waking up for two bottles a night, at about 1:30 and again around 5:30. Some nights he wakes up every hour or so though! He hasn't had any new teeth come in, and he doesn't need his diaper changed, I have no idea what's waking him up. We are trying everything we can think of: he has a humidifier to help with winter congestion, a space heater because his room gets ridiculously cold at night, and I have recently added a fan as well, hoping that the white noise will help drown out anything he might be hearing from outside! On the worst of one of these nights a few weeks ago I wondered if he secretly hates me and is trying to kill me off... this week I came up with a more probable answer though, I think he's trying to get me fired so I can be a stay at home mom! ;)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Timmy's Church Choir Debut
Timmy's Sunday School class got to sing for the congregation this Sunday. They all did a great job, and Timmy was much more involved in this song then I have ever seen him be at preschool. He knew all of the words and all of the motions! He is on the far right of the first row, in the green sweater vest.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Timmy's First trip to the Dentist
I am so proud of my Timmy, he had his first trip to the dentist yesterday and he acted like a pro! I've been slowly preparing (apparently myself, not Timmy) for this visit for over a year. Mom and I scheduled back to back dentist appointments several times so one of us could sit with Timmy to watch the other get their teeth cleaned. He would show interest for about two minutes and then want to go back to the waiting area with the toys. Tim does a wonderful job of brushing Timmy's teeth with the electric tooth brush, they call it "tickling" his teeth, and then Timmy will help brush Tim's teeth too! At the beginning of the month I saw on the preschool class calendar that they would be spending this whole week talking about healthy teeth and decided that would be the perfect time to make his first appointment! On Tuesday they used tooth brushes to paint with, on Wednesday they set up a dentist chair and played dentist, and yesterday we went to the real one. I am curious if he will tell Mrs. B. about it today, and what today's activity will be. The technician was great with him, she showed him all of her tools including Mr. Bumpy (the round spiny thing that does the cleaning) and Mr. Thirsty (the spit sucker) before even looking at his teeth. Timmy's face fell the first time he closed his mouth around Mr. Thirsty, but he kept his mouth closed until he was asked to open it. He said he didn't like it, but when she asked to use it again he let her and he ended up playing with it, opening and closing his mouth several times. She was able to do a full cleaning without any problem. The dentist also gave Timmy good marks, said there is no decay at all and his teeth have good spacing for when the grown up teeth start coming in. I'm not ready to think about him losing his baby teeth and having grown up teeth yet! I'm pretty sure that's still a few years away though!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Timmy 3 Years 8 Months & Disney on Ice!
Timmy is another month older, and both boys birthdays seem to be starting to sneak up on us! Timmy is really growing up on me. We took our big boy to Disney on Ice last Thursday and we all had a great time. We got there a little early and Timmy waited very patiently for the show to start. He also showed that he's growing up when he did not throw any fits even though we didn't buy him the sword he wanted, or the shaved ice he wanted (we weren't being mean, but shave ice is not something we will ever pay for again!) We did get him Mickey Ears with cotton candy and had brought some of his favorite snacks instead.
The show was really good, it kind of alternated between abbreviated versions of some of the movies and doing single songs from some of the movies. It kept Timmy's interest the whole time, even the movies that he didn't really know.
I was surprised afterwards when he told us his favorite part was Pinocchio and how they escaped the whale! It was really a fun evening. The next morning I got a text from Tim that said, "Last night was fun. We are good parents." I happen to agree. ;)
The show was really good, it kind of alternated between abbreviated versions of some of the movies and doing single songs from some of the movies. It kept Timmy's interest the whole time, even the movies that he didn't really know.
I was surprised afterwards when he told us his favorite part was Pinocchio and how they escaped the whale! It was really a fun evening. The next morning I got a text from Tim that said, "Last night was fun. We are good parents." I happen to agree. ;)
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Valentine's Day, a little late!
Happy Belated Valentine's Day! I had a little me time a few weeks ago so I made the boys some Valentine's Day shirts. Timmy helped me design them on the computer, telling me where I should place the hearts. He picked the dump truck for his shirt and said that Tyler would like the train. Then he told me, "When I am bigger, I will make you a shirt for Valentine's Day!" He's so sweet! I was glad that he was excited about the shirts and he was even happy to try it on for a photo shoot!
On Valentine's Day I got to go to Timmy's school for a while to help with activity time, snack time, and play on the playground. I had another chance to see first hand how amazing his teacher is, Patty has a few students that are really a handful, but she handles them wonderfully without ever dropping attention from the class as a whole.
On the playground Timmy asked me to slide with him and play chase, then I watched him and his friends run around and even roll down the little hill together. Finally Timmy was ready to swing, which we hear he has been enjoying almost as much as running lately. While we were waiting for his turn, he told me, "I will swing on one swing and you can swing on the other one." I said, "Well, I can push you and we can let someone else swing on the other swing." He hesitated for a moment before saying, "Uhm, Mrs. Gordon can push me, and you can push the other person." (!) Apparently Mrs. Gordon is an excellent pusher!
That evening I arrived home to find a dozen roses from Tim and a bouquet of daisy's from the boys.
We all exchanged cards and gifts, I had planned to take more pictures of this, but Timmy helped himself to the gift we had told him was his, before I could go get the camera, claiming he was 'too excited' to wait! We got him an Angry Birds piggy, in hopes that it can be his Angry Birds new target, instead of us! Tim made us a delicious dinner to wrap up the evening.
A few days later we got this wonderful letter in the mail!
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| Timmy and his Best Buddy, Nate |
That evening I arrived home to find a dozen roses from Tim and a bouquet of daisy's from the boys.
We all exchanged cards and gifts, I had planned to take more pictures of this, but Timmy helped himself to the gift we had told him was his, before I could go get the camera, claiming he was 'too excited' to wait! We got him an Angry Birds piggy, in hopes that it can be his Angry Birds new target, instead of us! Tim made us a delicious dinner to wrap up the evening.
A few days later we got this wonderful letter in the mail!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Ahhhh 9 Months Old
My sweet baby is 9 months old now. He is really so much closer to "toddler" then "baby" now, and he has been out in the World for as long as he was in me... I have a hard time with 9 Months.
Tyler has added all kinds of new tricks this month. His first two teeth came in on January 8th and 19th, the bottom middle ones. He does not like to let us see them, touch them, or check for new teeth!
Somewhere along the line in the last month he started being able to sit himself up, from both his belly and his back, he does this like it's a breeze now! He is also crawling up on his hands and knees about half of the time now, but still army crawling a lot. He's managed to get himself into some unusual spots too!
Last week, on the 26th, Tyler pulled up to stand for the first time. First he did it using Tim, who was laying on the floor, and pulled himself right up Daddy's belly to get to a toy. Later in the evening he climbed up my arm while I was sitting with him on the floor. Finally he did it a few times on the ottoman. He has done it a few times since, but is not making a regular habit out of it quite yet. Possibly because he has not figured out how to get back down easily! When we first started standing him up against things he would eventually kind of melt back down to the ground. Recently he looks more like a tree being cut down!
On the 28th Tyler crawled up the one step from our basement to the entry landing. Again, his decent was not smooth, he came down face first! On the 1st he made it up Mom's two steps from the family room to the breakfast nook. She's in trouble now that he can get out of that room!
On January 31st, after a week and a half of lots of waving at him, Tyler hesitantly waved "bye bye" to Daddy and Timmy when I was taking him to bed. I'm looking forward to lots more waving, and hopefully soon some true kisses!
Tyler is becoming more of a Mommy's boy, he will go to Tim of course, or whoever else, most of the time, but he doesn't like me to leave the room when someone else has him. Tim was hoping for a Daddy's boy this time around, but I'm happy to have them both picking me as their first choice for snuggling!
Last week Tyler decided to make me actually start putting him to sleep instead of just putting him in his crib and immediately walking out of the room. That was the only way I was spoiled with his sleeping patterns! Three nights ago, he sat himself up while protesting going to bed. I immediately had a flash back to what was really my first big regret with parenting Timmy: not teaching him to self-soothe for bedtime before-he-could-stand-up. He obviously wasn't going to fall asleep while he was standing! Crying-it-out took forever with Timmy! I almost had a panic attack when I realized I could be making the same mistake again! Tyler started crying-it-out right then and there! The first two nights took a lot of in and outs, but last night wasn't bad, he didn't cry long enough for me to even go back in once. I'm hoping for this to be a less painful process this time around!
I think that Tyler is going to be more serious then our little jokester, Timmy. It takes more energy to get Tyler to smile and laugh, but when you do he really lights up! He is hard-headed and persistent. He is so, so sweet. I think Tyler is more like my personality and Timmy is their dad's. I think it's a good mix for our household!
Tyler has added all kinds of new tricks this month. His first two teeth came in on January 8th and 19th, the bottom middle ones. He does not like to let us see them, touch them, or check for new teeth!
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| You can almost see his little teeth here, bottom center! |
Somewhere along the line in the last month he started being able to sit himself up, from both his belly and his back, he does this like it's a breeze now! He is also crawling up on his hands and knees about half of the time now, but still army crawling a lot. He's managed to get himself into some unusual spots too!
Last week, on the 26th, Tyler pulled up to stand for the first time. First he did it using Tim, who was laying on the floor, and pulled himself right up Daddy's belly to get to a toy. Later in the evening he climbed up my arm while I was sitting with him on the floor. Finally he did it a few times on the ottoman. He has done it a few times since, but is not making a regular habit out of it quite yet. Possibly because he has not figured out how to get back down easily! When we first started standing him up against things he would eventually kind of melt back down to the ground. Recently he looks more like a tree being cut down!
On the 28th Tyler crawled up the one step from our basement to the entry landing. Again, his decent was not smooth, he came down face first! On the 1st he made it up Mom's two steps from the family room to the breakfast nook. She's in trouble now that he can get out of that room!
On January 31st, after a week and a half of lots of waving at him, Tyler hesitantly waved "bye bye" to Daddy and Timmy when I was taking him to bed. I'm looking forward to lots more waving, and hopefully soon some true kisses!
Tyler is becoming more of a Mommy's boy, he will go to Tim of course, or whoever else, most of the time, but he doesn't like me to leave the room when someone else has him. Tim was hoping for a Daddy's boy this time around, but I'm happy to have them both picking me as their first choice for snuggling!
Last week Tyler decided to make me actually start putting him to sleep instead of just putting him in his crib and immediately walking out of the room. That was the only way I was spoiled with his sleeping patterns! Three nights ago, he sat himself up while protesting going to bed. I immediately had a flash back to what was really my first big regret with parenting Timmy: not teaching him to self-soothe for bedtime before-he-could-stand-up. He obviously wasn't going to fall asleep while he was standing! Crying-it-out took forever with Timmy! I almost had a panic attack when I realized I could be making the same mistake again! Tyler started crying-it-out right then and there! The first two nights took a lot of in and outs, but last night wasn't bad, he didn't cry long enough for me to even go back in once. I'm hoping for this to be a less painful process this time around!
I think that Tyler is going to be more serious then our little jokester, Timmy. It takes more energy to get Tyler to smile and laugh, but when you do he really lights up! He is hard-headed and persistent. He is so, so sweet. I think Tyler is more like my personality and Timmy is their dad's. I think it's a good mix for our household!
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