Wyatt's Second Year Video

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Birthday Boy

Just before Wyatt's second birthday, he moved in to a big boy bed. I made him two Cars fitted sheets and pillow cases.  Here's the big man posing in his new bed.

Wyatt has done pretty well adjusting to the new sleeping situation, but one morning I found that he must have fallen out of bed.  At least he landed on the bean bag. He looks pretty comfy.

One day the kids decided they wanted to build a train track and play trains. Blake actually put most of the track together herself.  I just helped her fit in a few pieces here and there when she got frustrated.  Here's her masterpiece:

 Blake and Wy playing trains together.

 and just Blake

Wyatt's second birthday was on the 20th, and look what he got for his birthday!

 Wyatt ripping into a present

 Wyatt's birthday spread

I made him mini-cupcakes for his birthday.  The decorating was a little on the less-than-perfect side, but they were yummy!

Wyatt got a couple little Nerf-like dart guns for his birthday, too.  He is a wild man with these things, but both kids had a ton of fun shooting at the wall.

In fact, Wyatt shot one of the darts and it suction cupped to the wall up out of reach.  Wyatt was so excited that he finally got one to stick to the wall, not caring that he was going to have to wait for it to fall to be able to use it again.  Blake just looked at him and says dryly, "Nice shot, Genius."  Oh man, these two are going to keep my hands full for many years to come, I suspect.

 

After the birthday festivities, Blake and Wyatt finally got settled down in bed and immediately Wyatt started whining.  At first, I just thought he'd just had too much sugar, fun, etc.  But, we quickly realized that his right ear was really bothering him.  He went from laughing and giggling to kicking and screaming in no time flat.  Bob stayed at home with Blake while I took Wyatt to the ER at around 11 pm.  Wyatt screamed the whole way to the hospital (in Billings - about a 25 minute drive), and he was none too happy to be waiting on a doctor in the ER.  He kept opening the door of the room we were in and would scream out into the hallway, "Get medicine!  GO HOME!!!"  He was pretty ticked off, and he is so strong that I really couldn't hold him.  When the doctor finally saw him, he confirmed that it was an ear infection and gave me the prescriptions.  The nurse then came in to give him some medicine for the pain.  As soon as he heard her say she had medicine for him, he sat right next to her and gulped it down with no problem.  THEN, the little maniac did a 180 in about 15 minutes.  He went from completely miserable to bouncing off the walls.  I filled his prescriptions at the hospital pharmacy, and he was running up and down the hallways making new friends every where. Ahhhh...KIDS!!!  Needless to say, the ride home was much more peaceful.  What a crazy (and exhausting) birthday?!

 

Well, Wyatt is finally done with his antibiotics and seems fine.  I have been battling some sort of urinary tract infection since the end of October, so I haven't been feeling the greatest as of late and am headed to yet another specialist next week.  Here's hoping he can help me figure it out.  I swear, I have seen more doctors in the last two years than I thought I'd have to see in my entire life.  Anyway, I'm hoping to get Wyatt's birthday video finished and posted soon.  No promises, though.  Hope all is well with everyone!

Happy Puking New Year

Well, Chris & Katie left for Vegas at almost the exact time that Wyatt started puking on New Years Day morning. The plan was for Collier to head to Ponca with us for some fun with cousins, but we weren't really planning on sickness coming into play.  Poor, sick Wy-Guy...

Fortunately, we were able to make it from Edmond to Ponca without any major messes in the car.  Unfortunately, we were all about to get puking sick over the next few days.  Here's Blake trying to sleep off the bug...puke bucket ready.

We pulled a mattress out in the living room at my parents' house to let the kids watch some 'toons and get some rest. We were all very proud of the girls for doing so well. We could have had a major mess on our hands with three kiddos under 4 puking in the same house, but the girls pulled through for us keeping their puke buckets handy. Since this was Wyatt's first experience with being so sick, he made a bit more of a mess than the girls.  But all in all, they were all troopers.

Finally, near the end of our visit, everyone was feeling well enough to get outside. Here's a picture of Collier, Blake, Wyatt and Grandma dumping out some old popcorn for the birds to feed on in the back yard.

 Beautiful Blake

Blake, Collier and Grampy took a walk down to the bottoms (lower portion of my parents' back yard) pretending to fish, have a camp fire, and all sorts of other fun.  Here's a cute pic of Grampy and Blake.

 three little explorers

Well, it almost seemed a waste to go visit everyone and end up being sick the whole time, but if you ask me, I was glad to get the sickness done and over with since there was plenty of help nearby :) I've done the whole everyone-in-the-house-is-sick-but-Mom-still-has-to-care-for-everyone routine, and I was SO happy for all the help from my mom and dad.  We sort of took turns taking care of the kids as we each got sick.  Somehow my dad was the only one to dodge the bullet, but he did have a pretty bad cough most of the time.  Fun, fun, fun...right?!

Last Minute Trip

We ended up getting a good deal on last minute tickets to Oklahoma over New Years.  We got the tickets on a Friday and flew out the very next Sunday.  We got to spend a night at Chris & Katie's house in Edmond before Grandma & Grampy drove down to pick us up and head back to Ponca.

My professional travelers in the Denver airport waiting for our second flight.

Collier, Blake and Wyatt watching cartoons in front of the fire.

Uncle Chris took the girls out to get manicures and pedicures, so Wyatt and I did a little exploring outside. Ooooo...a fire hydrant ;)

 Wyatt had a blast trying out Collier's tricycle, too.

I had to include this picture of Jax (Chris & Katie's chocolate lab) cuddling with Blake's blanket. Ever since we got home, Blake tends to find ways to include "Jaxie-dog" in on stories and play time.

 Awwww...Collier and Blake hugging

 Wy-Guy playing with Grandma

 Roasting marshmallows for s'mores with Grampy

 Sharing a s'more with Grandma

 A happy, messy boy

 An obligatory cousin picture...don't they all look thrilled :)

Obviously, I'm still playing catch up here.  So, I'll soon be posting pics from the rest of our trip and Wyatt's birthday.  Stay tuned.

Christmas

We spent Christmas in Laurel this year.  As you can imagine, the kids were pretty excited to see if Santa was going to make a stop at our house.  They even baked him some cookies :)  Here's the two goobers with their stashes.  What lucky kiddos?!

Blake got some dry erase crayons in her stocking, so she and Wyatt just had to try them out.

 posing in their new jammies

 my crazy and excited Wy-Guy

 Paddleball, anyone?!

Blake got a Merida doll (Brave movie), Angus plush (again...Brave movie) and a bow and arrow set like Merida has in Brave along with quite a few fun little stocking stuffers.  Wyatt got some Transformer Rescue Bots, an Eeyore plush and, of course, all the fun stocking stuffers.  We wish you all a VERY late Merry Christmas!

Sew Busy

I got a serger as an early Christmas present, so I have been sewing quite a bit lately.  Here are a few of my newest creations:

a long sleeve shirt made out of old t-shirts for Blake (sorry, Blake doesn't like wearing pants around the house)

 a pair of jeans for Blake made out of an old pair of my jeans

 a new pair of pants for Blake made out of an old pair of Daddy's slacks

 another long sleeve shirt for Blake made out of old t-shirts

 pajama pants for both Blake & Wyatt

Fun with Advent

I'm going to start this post off with a few quick stories from November and December:

One evening I was cooking dinner.  While boiling some water on the stove, I accidentally splashed myself with a little bit of the water (for the second time in a short period).  I yelled, "Son of a gun!!!" Blake asked, "Are you ok?" Me: "Yeah, I just keep burning myself." Blake: "Well, I think we're just going to have to have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner tomorrow."  She's got her father's sense of humor.

Most mornings Blake and I talk about our dreams from the night before. Hers  one day: "Mom, I had a dream that Santa brought me a Brave toy! But, I didn't get to play with it because it got out of my head. Maybe I can dream about it again tonight and play with it."

Blake was enthusiastically telling me the story of Baby Jesus one day as I picked her up from preschool...quizzing, in fact. "Mom, there was Mary & Joseph and who else? J-j (giving me a hint)." "Jesus," I say. She replied, "Yep, and he was a cute little guy." Don't think I ever learned that last part :)

Blake has a bad habit of waking me up way too early in the mornings, so I setup a clock/night light for her that turns from yellow to green when it's ok to get out of bed. The first morning we used it she yells, "It's green!" and got up. It was still too early, though. After further investigation, I found that she had changed the time to make it turn green early.  The good news is that after I told her she could not mess with the controls on the back, she hasn't done it since.  I think she's going to be my rule-follower.  Now, on to the pics...

Wyatt LOVES his daddy's barbecued ribs!!!

I made an Advent calendar for the kids this year.  I filled the days mostly with activities and a few treats.  We had a ton of fun with it.  Here are some pics from a few of the activities...

Making paper snowflakes

 Making/decorating Dr. Pepper bottle Christmas trees

 Decorating cheese cake squares

Watching Wreck It Ralph at the movie theatre with Daddy

Eating (or decorating) Rice Krispie Christmas trees

Visiting Santa at Cabela's

BUSTED!!!  Wyatt trying to get some candy for breakfast after I told him no to fruit snacks.

 A cute pic of the kids watching cartoons together 

Blake has been working on writing her letters and even doing some spelling.  Here are the Christmas cards to her teachers that she wrote all by herself.  I did help her with the spelling ;)