So glad we got a few inches of the fluffy stuff last week!
Carter cleaning off the bushes...
Ben's snowball...
Carter making snow angels...
Ben looking cute...
More pictures in the February album...
February 27, 2012
SNOW!!!
We were very well prepared for snow this year. Both boys have snow pants that fit. We have sleds. We have waterproof gloves. We were only missing one thing. SNOW!
So glad we got a few inches of the fluffy stuff last week!
Carter cleaning off the bushes...
Ben's snowball...
Carter making snow angels...
Ben looking cute...
More pictures in the February album...
So glad we got a few inches of the fluffy stuff last week!
Carter cleaning off the bushes...
Ben's snowball...
Carter making snow angels...
Ben looking cute...
More pictures in the February album...
February 15, 2012
One of those Weeks
For once I was glad to see Monday this week. And more specifically I was glad it was not last Monday! Last week was just one of those weeks. Here is a run down day by day:
Monday:
Kept Ben home from school because he was feverish and coughing.
Pick Carter up from school and come home for lunch.
While I am in the kitchen and both boys are in the dining room I hear a VERY loud crash. Run to the dining room and Ben is on the floor in his high chair. He was strapped into the chair and his head was on the floor. The story I got from Carter is that he was climbing on the chair to tell Ben something when it fell over.
I try to comfort Ben for 10 minutes or so and he just sobs. Poor guy. I was on the fence about taking him to the dr. for his cold, so I definitely call now.
Ben is acting fairly normal and never lost consciousness, so they tell me to bring him in later that afternoon. Well, just before we get off the phone, I lift Ben's head off of my shoulder (was rocking him) and I notice he has spit up on my shirt.
That changed everything. They tell me to take him to the ER to get everything checked out.
Cue the flood of tears. I called Adam with tears streaming down my cheeks fearing the worst. He heads home and we head to ER.
After a 1 1/2 hour wait...I was feeling ok about Ben. Well, truthfully, I was worried about his cold. But he was acting normal and there was no swelling on his head so I was hopeful the chair took the brunt of the fall.
The dr. confirmed all seemed to be ok and we headed back home.
Monday night was a bit of a blur. Ben woke up just about every 45 minutes, but I think it was more cold related instead of fall related.
Tuesday:
We take Ben to the dr. first thing in the morning after the long night and they confirm he has a nasty cold. His ears looked ok, but they went ahead and gave us some amoxicillan to fight off the very start of an ear infection. The rest of that day he battled a 102+ fever. I never got it below 101 even with Tylenol.
Wednesday:We continue to fight the cold and the fever. Ben is puny and fussy. That afternoon we switch to Motrin and the fever FINALLY responds! His fever actually started last Saturday so he had been battling it for 5 days!
Thursday:
I wake up with a pretty bad case of laryngitis. Pretty tough to chase around 2 toddlers and get them to listen to you when your loudest yell is a whisper! Although a couple of times Carter did whisper back...which was cute. Thankfully Adam stayed home that day to help care for the boys. Not sure I would have made it without his help.
Friday:
I can creak out a few words. Carter heads to school and Ben and I stay home for the fussiest morning I can remember. He had a full out tantrum! At 17 months. He layed on the floor. Screamed. Threw pacis. Threw Milk. Kicked his legs. Screamed some more. We went on a walk outside to try to distract him from the tantrum and it did help. Until we got a a corner and mommy decided to go a way different than the way Ben wanted to go. Cue another meltdown where he just turns to spaghetti when I try to pick him up. Whew. What a morning.
Carter ends up with a fever that night before bed. Lovely. Here we go again.
Saturday:
Carter is feverish but acts fairly cheerful. Ben has another full fledged tantrum. At this point I start worrying that it is due to the fall from Monday. So we call the dr. and they tell me he is just irritable from the virus. I wasn't convinced but was willing to give it another day or two. The dr. encourages us to ignore it if we can and just make sure he is in a safe place to vent. She told me the more we respond to his actions the more he will continue. I must admit, we were responding to the tantrum because I was just concerned something else was wrong.
Sunday:
Carter's fever is all done! Whoo hoo!
Ben has a mini tantrum but we 'ignore' it and he calms down pretty quickly.
Ben starts to eat again and takes his first good nap in a week. I realize that almost a week of not eating and interrupted napping and sleeping are the main factors to my irritable Ben.
Monday:
Both boys at school! Yippee!
And if you made it this far...you deserve some pictures. :)
Here we are waiting to be seen by the dr. in the ER:
Daddy and Carter did some coloring...
Carter shared some pages and his crayons with a sweet 3 yr old boy in the waiting room who was waiting for stitched on his forehead.
Post ER ice cream!
Carter went to a bicycle birthday party last week so we had the helmet out and Ben asked to wear it several times every day. I thought it was fitting after his big tumble. If only he were wearing it when he actually fell!
PS - Grandparents...after last week we were late in getting our Valentine's to you in the mail. Here is a sneak peek of what is on the way...
Monday:
Kept Ben home from school because he was feverish and coughing.
Pick Carter up from school and come home for lunch.
While I am in the kitchen and both boys are in the dining room I hear a VERY loud crash. Run to the dining room and Ben is on the floor in his high chair. He was strapped into the chair and his head was on the floor. The story I got from Carter is that he was climbing on the chair to tell Ben something when it fell over.
I try to comfort Ben for 10 minutes or so and he just sobs. Poor guy. I was on the fence about taking him to the dr. for his cold, so I definitely call now.
Ben is acting fairly normal and never lost consciousness, so they tell me to bring him in later that afternoon. Well, just before we get off the phone, I lift Ben's head off of my shoulder (was rocking him) and I notice he has spit up on my shirt.
That changed everything. They tell me to take him to the ER to get everything checked out.
Cue the flood of tears. I called Adam with tears streaming down my cheeks fearing the worst. He heads home and we head to ER.
After a 1 1/2 hour wait...I was feeling ok about Ben. Well, truthfully, I was worried about his cold. But he was acting normal and there was no swelling on his head so I was hopeful the chair took the brunt of the fall.
The dr. confirmed all seemed to be ok and we headed back home.
Monday night was a bit of a blur. Ben woke up just about every 45 minutes, but I think it was more cold related instead of fall related.
Tuesday:
We take Ben to the dr. first thing in the morning after the long night and they confirm he has a nasty cold. His ears looked ok, but they went ahead and gave us some amoxicillan to fight off the very start of an ear infection. The rest of that day he battled a 102+ fever. I never got it below 101 even with Tylenol.
Wednesday:We continue to fight the cold and the fever. Ben is puny and fussy. That afternoon we switch to Motrin and the fever FINALLY responds! His fever actually started last Saturday so he had been battling it for 5 days!
Thursday:
I wake up with a pretty bad case of laryngitis. Pretty tough to chase around 2 toddlers and get them to listen to you when your loudest yell is a whisper! Although a couple of times Carter did whisper back...which was cute. Thankfully Adam stayed home that day to help care for the boys. Not sure I would have made it without his help.
Friday:
I can creak out a few words. Carter heads to school and Ben and I stay home for the fussiest morning I can remember. He had a full out tantrum! At 17 months. He layed on the floor. Screamed. Threw pacis. Threw Milk. Kicked his legs. Screamed some more. We went on a walk outside to try to distract him from the tantrum and it did help. Until we got a a corner and mommy decided to go a way different than the way Ben wanted to go. Cue another meltdown where he just turns to spaghetti when I try to pick him up. Whew. What a morning.
Carter ends up with a fever that night before bed. Lovely. Here we go again.
Saturday:
Carter is feverish but acts fairly cheerful. Ben has another full fledged tantrum. At this point I start worrying that it is due to the fall from Monday. So we call the dr. and they tell me he is just irritable from the virus. I wasn't convinced but was willing to give it another day or two. The dr. encourages us to ignore it if we can and just make sure he is in a safe place to vent. She told me the more we respond to his actions the more he will continue. I must admit, we were responding to the tantrum because I was just concerned something else was wrong.
Sunday:
Carter's fever is all done! Whoo hoo!
Ben has a mini tantrum but we 'ignore' it and he calms down pretty quickly.
Ben starts to eat again and takes his first good nap in a week. I realize that almost a week of not eating and interrupted napping and sleeping are the main factors to my irritable Ben.
Monday:
Both boys at school! Yippee!
And if you made it this far...you deserve some pictures. :)
Here we are waiting to be seen by the dr. in the ER:
Daddy and Carter did some coloring...
Carter shared some pages and his crayons with a sweet 3 yr old boy in the waiting room who was waiting for stitched on his forehead.
Post ER ice cream!
Carter went to a bicycle birthday party last week so we had the helmet out and Ben asked to wear it several times every day. I thought it was fitting after his big tumble. If only he were wearing it when he actually fell!
PS - Grandparents...after last week we were late in getting our Valentine's to you in the mail. Here is a sneak peek of what is on the way...
February 14, 2012
You've Got Mail
The boys have been opening Valentine's for two full weeks now and they have loved every single envelope they have opened. Big thanks to Gram, Mimi, Granddaddy, GG, Poppa, Nana, Gramma, Granddaddy Bowen, Mama Juju & Uncle Steve for filling Carter's & Ben's mailboxes every day several times a day!!!
A little history to our Valentine mail project...
A few months ago on a Saturday morning, I was working in my office with the door closed while Adam and the boys played right outsiide in the playroom. It was nearing Ben's naptime, so I slipped a little note under the door reminding Adam to start winding things down for naptime. Well, Carter thought that was the most fun game ever. He immediately went to his table and started making "mail" for Mama and would slide it under my door. Then
he started making mail for Dada every day when he got home from work. And so on.
His interest in mail has really persisted, so when I found some small red mailboxes in the dollar section at Target I knew we had to have them. I e-mailed all of our loving grandparents and asked them to help fill the mailboxes for the couple of weeks leading up to Valentines. I figured I would make several and that I could fill in a few days with one or two cards from the grandparents. Well, turns out I didn't make one card for the boys. And the grandparents got pretty creative too!
Check out all of the sweet cards the boys opened!
Here are the boys discovering their mailboxes for the first time...
Carter didn't want to give up either box. :)
He finally decided to let Ben open his.
I think those pictures were taken just before bedtime. Well, the next morning, the first thing Carter said when he woke up was - "let's go see if we got any mail!" So we groggily encouraged him to go bring the mailboxes upstairs and they enjoyed opening some new mail while we rested a few minutes more. Every minute counts in the morning!
And here are the boys' Valentine morning goodies...
The Dollar Store is one of my most favorite stores! Got all of their Valentine treats - including 2 helium balloons - for $7.00!
Ben loved his teddy bear balloon. After this hug he proceeded to punch the balloon to the ground as many times as possible. Gotta love the entertainment of helium!
Thanks again grandparents! You truly filled these boys' hearts (and mailboxes!) with love!
(PS - please excuse all of the blurry pictures this time around...lots of cell phone shots!)
A little history to our Valentine mail project...
A few months ago on a Saturday morning, I was working in my office with the door closed while Adam and the boys played right outsiide in the playroom. It was nearing Ben's naptime, so I slipped a little note under the door reminding Adam to start winding things down for naptime. Well, Carter thought that was the most fun game ever. He immediately went to his table and started making "mail" for Mama and would slide it under my door. Then
he started making mail for Dada every day when he got home from work. And so on.
His interest in mail has really persisted, so when I found some small red mailboxes in the dollar section at Target I knew we had to have them. I e-mailed all of our loving grandparents and asked them to help fill the mailboxes for the couple of weeks leading up to Valentines. I figured I would make several and that I could fill in a few days with one or two cards from the grandparents. Well, turns out I didn't make one card for the boys. And the grandparents got pretty creative too!
Check out all of the sweet cards the boys opened!
Here are the boys discovering their mailboxes for the first time...
Carter didn't want to give up either box. :)
He finally decided to let Ben open his.
I think those pictures were taken just before bedtime. Well, the next morning, the first thing Carter said when he woke up was - "let's go see if we got any mail!" So we groggily encouraged him to go bring the mailboxes upstairs and they enjoyed opening some new mail while we rested a few minutes more. Every minute counts in the morning!
And here are the boys' Valentine morning goodies...
The Dollar Store is one of my most favorite stores! Got all of their Valentine treats - including 2 helium balloons - for $7.00!
Ben loved his teddy bear balloon. After this hug he proceeded to punch the balloon to the ground as many times as possible. Gotta love the entertainment of helium!
Thanks again grandparents! You truly filled these boys' hearts (and mailboxes!) with love!
(PS - please excuse all of the blurry pictures this time around...lots of cell phone shots!)
February 6, 2012
Celebrating Daddy!
We enjoyed celebrating Daddy's birthday this weekend. It was really fun to see Carter get excited about Daddy's birthday...every morning he would ask "Is today Daddy's birthday?" And leading up to the big day he did a lot of work!
Check out this "Happy Birthday Dada" banner he made. I drew the letters on paper. Carter colored them in. Then cut them out. Then strung them on ribbon. He even made 2 balloons to go in between the words. It took 2 full afternoons. But he stuck with it and I think really enjoyed it. We hung it on the mantle for daddy to see when he got home from work on Friday.
Carter also helped me bake this really yummy cake! We went for pink strawberry icing and robot and rocketship decorations, of course. :)
Ben did his part in preparing for the celebrations too. Check out his painting skills.
When it came down to it, we just couldn't wait until the actual day to celebrate. That is just how much we love our daddy! So we had cake and presents when Adam got home from work.
(Ben really enjoyed whatever was for dinner that night)
We love you Adam and hope you had a great birthday (and birthday eve!)
Check out this "Happy Birthday Dada" banner he made. I drew the letters on paper. Carter colored them in. Then cut them out. Then strung them on ribbon. He even made 2 balloons to go in between the words. It took 2 full afternoons. But he stuck with it and I think really enjoyed it. We hung it on the mantle for daddy to see when he got home from work on Friday.
Carter also helped me bake this really yummy cake! We went for pink strawberry icing and robot and rocketship decorations, of course. :)
Ben did his part in preparing for the celebrations too. Check out his painting skills.
When it came down to it, we just couldn't wait until the actual day to celebrate. That is just how much we love our daddy! So we had cake and presents when Adam got home from work.
(Ben really enjoyed whatever was for dinner that night)
We love you Adam and hope you had a great birthday (and birthday eve!)
February 2, 2012
Cell Phone Picture Dump
Just a few pictures from my phone camera from last week...
Friday mornings are mommy and Ben time while big brother is at school. We have enjoyed going to the Children's Museum and letting Ben set the agenda!
Here is his first attempt at painting...
Our sweet across the street neighbors come over pretty regularly to get their Ben and Carter fix.
Bubbles at story time at the library...
Playing outside with some more beautiful "winter" weather...
Daddy's Home!!! Everybody's favorite time of the day. :)
Friday mornings are mommy and Ben time while big brother is at school. We have enjoyed going to the Children's Museum and letting Ben set the agenda!
Here is his first attempt at painting...
Our sweet across the street neighbors come over pretty regularly to get their Ben and Carter fix.
Bubbles at story time at the library...
Playing outside with some more beautiful "winter" weather...
Daddy's Home!!! Everybody's favorite time of the day. :)
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