sledding festivities

2 weekends ago Kami and Erik came up and my parents wanted to do something fun together. So it was decided that we would go sledding up the GREAT TRENTON HILL! WAHOO :)

Please ignore my double chin :)

We all had a great time. The snow was SUPER HARD and crusty. Cortney brought a "friend" Julie to meet us and they decided to take the first run. Honestly, the rest of us were probably a little bit scared because it looked so steep and there was a jump at the end. So by the time Cort and Julie got to the end where the jump was they totally biffed. It looked really funny, but Julie got all cut up from the snow, so not as funny after that. So after that we decided to move over a little bit where there wasn't as much of a jump. Glad they were the guinea pigs. Kami and Heidi also crashed (2 separate incidents) and got their faces scratched up too! The picture is so light you can't really see their cut marks, but they were there I PROMISE!

We decided that we would just bring the 4-wheelers up with us and they could help with the trek back up the hill. Ty and Kace LOVED it. I think dad spent more time on the 4-wheeler than he did going down. It was a workout to get back up though.

It was fun that my kids got to go do something fun that I liked to do when I was a kid. Although when I was little I don't remember when it started being hard to climb back up the hill.

We finished the day off playing apples to apples and a nice clam chowder meal. It was a great family day! I hope we didn't scare Julie off, we can be pretty interesting sometimes :)

Our little (big) Ty "the guy"

I can't believe our Ty the GUY is almost two (tomorrow). We were SO EXCITED to find out we were going to have another baby, especially after we waited so long to get him :) After I found out I would almost try to convince myself that it wasn't real so that I wouldn't be up for a let down. But he is for SURE "really real" (that is for Heidi and Ed Smart)

I had an easy pregnancy (now that it is two years later anyway!) and I knew we were going to get started on January 12, but NO, the doctor was sick, so we rescheduled to that Monday January 15. He was born just before 8:00 PM so it was a long day of watching EVERY back to the future movie ever made.

Before he was born we were thinking that he would be big, at least bigger than Kace (who was 8 1/2 lbs), because I was bigger this time, but then I didn't know if I was just bigger because it was my second. We asked the doc what she thought and she thought he would be in the 8 lb range. I knew I could do that so I wasn't too worried. However, after he was born Dr Craig, "Okay, who wants to put their guess in on how big this baby is?" I said, "Why? Is he big?" She said, "Oh, YES, I am guessing about 10 lbs" Sure enough he was 9 lbs 15 oz. And the recovery was WAY easier than with Kace. Thank goodness :)

Ty looked like the baby I thought I would have when I had Kace. He was fair skinned and had a little bit of hair which fell out and came back in super blonde. He had a round, chubby face and BIG, BIG hands and feet.

Ty was a really good baby. He always ate really good, which was so nice for me! He slept well, hardly ever spit-up, hardly ever cried, etc. Then at about 2 months we noticed he was swallowing his spit-up. He would cry because it stung on the way down, but after many trips to the doctor he finally started to do better on some medicines. At about one year he was off all the medication and is doing great. So besides the reflux, he has had stitches on his nose, and the wart thing. It could be MUCH WORSE :)

He still likes to eat, just not always the foods that are the best for you. I think his favorite word, (besides no), is TREAT!

He loves to tease, throw the ball, tickle, read and do whatever his brother is doing. I am constantly reminding Kace that Tydon is always watching him and what he does.

Ty loves to help me make cookies and 'dump' all the ingredients, he loves to go places in the car and ADORES his blanket. It is definitely his security, along with his sippy. He LOVES milk (he supports his grandpa big TIME) and probably drinks 1 gallon every 4 days.

He likes to race, LOVES his trucks, tractors and trains. He LOVES LOVES LOVES 4-wheelers, big tractors and snowmobiles. He has this awesome excited dance he does (he wiggles side to side really fast) when you turn on the 'big boy toy.'

He loves to go outside, make animal sounds and watch cartoons (although his attention span still isn't very long), his favorite is Thomas or "choo choo".

Tydon is getting very good at throwing his little temper tantrums. Nate says he got this from me, but I do NOT think so :) He screams this really ugly fake scream and jumps up and down, waving his arms up and down. You have to try hard not to laugh.

We are so glad to have Tydon in our family and home. He makes life fun and exciting :) He always has a big smile for everyone. We love him so much!

Back to Christmas.........

I have been a bad bad bad blogger (heidi keeps reminding me). Christmas was so much fun. We had lots of parties and the boys (mostly Kace) was so excited. On Christmas Eve the Andrew family (all of my family) came over for a nice dinner and we exchanged gifts with Kami and Erik because we wouldn't see them the next day. Kace didn't understand why they got all the gifts and he only got one. That night Kace decided to type up a letter to Santa and tape it to a balloon and send it off up into the sky. He typed it all himself and did a pretty good job.

When Nate and I got married we decided that we would take a couple of traditions from each of our families and then create some of our own. We still do gifts to Christ with the Andrew family and read the scripture story (which we did on Christmas Eve). Nate really liked putting his presents into piles so we always do that right before we go to bed and we hide the pickle (his family always did this). The pickle is a pickle shaped ornament that we hide and whoever finds it gets the pickle present.

So that night after we (actually it was more Kace) put our presents in our piles, we told Kace that he had to stay in his room or Santa wouldn't come. If he needed us he would have to call us from his room (which he did a couple of times). So we all got to bed at a decent time :)

Nate and I waited and waited for the boys to wake up on Christmas morning. They woke up at about 7:45. We had a family prayer (I always remember we did this when I was a kid and my dad said the LONGEST prayer EVER) and then ran downstairs. It was so much fun! Kace got a basketball pop shot game, church clothes, battleship, etc and Ty got a train table and train set. They loved it :) kids sure make Christmas more fun. Nate surprised me with a new computer. I was shocked. I hadn't even mentioned it, so he did great all on his own.

We then were going to go up to Nate's parents for the big surprise of Mel and Jon coming (Nate's sis from PA), but it was snowing so bad and we were worried that we wouldn't even make it out of our driveway. We plowed through and made it.........Mel and Jon had to wait for us, but we made it. We had a great time up there and then headed to my parents. By then it was AWFUL, the snow that is. We ended up staying the night and went home the next morning.
We had a great Christmas!

PS Nate was SO excited (sarcasm) to sit on Santa's lap! hehe :)

ode to the tooth fairy

On Friday night (I was wondering what I was going to post about, thanks Kace for coming to the rescue!) Kace said how loose his tooth was. I went and felt it and sure enough it was really loose. He said he wanted to pull it out himself. So he wiggled and wiggled until it came out! He was so proud of it and whoever I was talking to on the phone he ran over and asked if I had told them about him pulling out his tooth!

He was so excited to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy to come and leave him money. I asked him if (since we were coming home late from Nate's dad's bday party) he was asleep when we got home if he wanted me to put it under his pillow for him OR if he wanted to do it himself then next night. He informed me that he would WAKE UP and do it himself. Sure enough, Nate carried him upstairs that night, 5 minutes later here comes Kace in asking where his tooth was. So he put it under his pillow.

I asked Nate if by chance he woke up in the night if he would PLEASE go play tooth fairy. He said sure, but I woke up (Ty woke me up, dang it!) and grabbed a handful of change (hoping there was something silver in there. I went to put it under his pillow and I COULDN'T FIND THE TOOTH! He wasn't even sleeping on his pillow so I picked it up and felt all around. NO TOOTH!

The next day I was outside and when I came back in Kace had just woken up and ran to me and said (matter of factly), "$1.36." WOW!! He was so excited! But then he said, "Um, the tooth fairy didn't get my tooth though, it's still there." CRAP! So I made up some story about how maybe the tooth fairy had already collected enough teeth for that night and didn't need his this time, but he should put it under his pillow the next night because she might come again.

All of this reminded me of when I lost my first tooth. (I told Kace the story!) I was so excited and my mom was across the street at my cousins for a baby shower or something like that, so I clutched my tooth in my hand and ran over to show her. Sure enough right in their gravel driveway I dropped it and was DEVASTATED! I looked and looked in those blasted rocks, but never found it. Another memory I have about losing teeth is that we would go next door to my grandparents and my grandpa Andrew would give me 50 cents for every tooth. Good times! :)

Poor little boy

Poor Ty has had a very rough week. Last week he and Kace woke up throwing up a couple of days before Thanksgiving. He STILL is having a hard time getting over it (he actually threw up at the church at tithing settlement :( . He doesn't have a fever or anything and seems to do this every time he is getting a tooth, so this had better be the last of the teeth. Then on Sunday he and Kace bonked heads and it resulted in this fat lip.

Then, for some reason the poor kid has been plagued with a wart virus. He gets them ALL OVER his body. They are just tiny little bumps, but they are so contagious and spread like CRAZY! So we have gone a couple of times to get them removed. The nurse puts on this numbing stuff on his skin and puts some tape over it. We have to wait an hour for the stuff to numb his skin, so we went to see A. Jessica at work. She gave Ty a sucker, actually two, to make it feel better. He gladly took them. More like grabbed them, but he did give her a kiss as payment, so that was nice.

Then we wait an hour, go back to the doctor's and he scraps off the warts with this sharp little tool. TY HATES IT! He screams, kicks, hits, etc etc. The nurse wasn't very nice this time, she said (in her most annoying voice), "Do you just cry and whine about everything, little guy?" I wanted to ask her if she wouldn't cry and fight if she was getting things scraped off of her body, but I didn't. Then the doc hurries and puts band-aids over all the little holes. He said there were probably 50-60 warts that he scraped and he is sure he missed some (great, so we get to do this AGAIN!).

My poor little boy.

PS Maybe in a few more days I can post something on BYU, I might be starting to get over it by then. THOSE LOSERS! How in the world do you throw 5 INT in one game, FUMBLE once and have tons of passes knocked down.....well maybe I'm not ready yet.

Lots of stuff

First of all it has been a LONG time since my last post for which I am very sorry. I have been meaning to do this for awhile, but of course never got around to it. A LOT has changed in my life over the past few weeks. The biggest change was that I was called to be YW President. When I was called in and the bishop asked me I would accept this call, I started crying and asked him if he was SURE about this. So he said he was, and here I am. This week was my first week and my first lesson. I think it went okay, but of course I forgot to remind the other girls (mia maid and beehive pres.) about BYC so me and the laurel pres went alone. OOPS! I guess I will eventually get the hang of it. Anyway, this is what I am feeling like these days. I know, I know, it is a really hot picture. I can't help it!

Also the other day we were getting Kace ready for school when I noticed that Tydon was outside on the deck in Nate's "spot" and he was holding himself. I then noticed his diaper right by the door. Sure enough there was Ty PEEING (or watering the rose bush as Nate says) just like his FATHER! AHHHHH, I had to call Nate right up and he LOVED it. Don't worry I am not ready to start potty training just because of this one incident.

One more thing, my sis-in-law Mel started this business. She is making tutus and onesies that are super cute so check it out! www.cuteobsessionsbymel.etsy.com.

Also Heidi made a very nice post about me as her sister so if you want to read all about ME check it out here. You may have to scroll down a few posts, but all of her posts are pretty entertaining, so you may like them. :)

Oh and RISE AND SHOUT for rivalry week. For the U fans out there, you know who you are, HARLINE IS STILL OPEN!!! and 4th and 18.....enough said haha

Trick or Treat

Kace was so excited for Halloween this year, which made it extra fun for me. Ty was also excited once he saw his costume. He would run to it and look at it and make superman sounds (a little different from the caveman sounds we are used to hearing, although he IS starting-finally-to say many more words so that is nice). We started out evening out by going trick or treating to people's houses. We went to some of the people in our ward that wouldn't be attending the trunk or treat. They really liked that.

Ty would do the 'wiggle dance' at each house and grab his pumpkin and run to the door. It was so funny :) They both learned that at the houses you can take almost a handfull of candy and at the trunk or treat you are limited to just one. Ty had a hard time grasping that concept and I ended up dragging him away from the 'trunks'.

Kace really wanted to say, "trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear" I can't believe that saying is still around. Don't worry he just said in the car and the next day at Great-grandma Andrew's. She informed him that she didn't think he would be able to get to her underwear!!

Overall we had a great time and of course got way TOO much candy. We spent the day yesterday dividing it into piles (candy bars, tootsie rolls, smarties, suckers, etc)-we have been busy or would have done it earlier. Kace informed me he didn't need my help this year and that he could do it himself. Oh, MAN I love the dividing into piles part.

I wasn't going to bring candy to the trunk or treat because I was feeling scroogish and just wanted to take the kids on their rounds and leave. BUT of course I started feeling guilty and went to the store at about 4:30 to get some candy. I am glad I did, because it seemed like a lot of people were having the same ideas (about not bringing candy and bringing their kids and leaving). Kace liked passing the candy out anyway.