Valentine's Weekend

Valentine's day was fun!  Lots of treats and love going around.  I made heart sugar cookies for Blake's class to decorate.  He had so much fun at school and came home wired.  He admitted to Eric that there were two cute girls in his class and then got embarrassed and started laughing/yelling at us because we were smiling.  We periodically ask him about girls and this was the first time he said they were cute.

 

Eric brought home some roses and chocolate for all of us.  I've never been given a box of chocolates before and I kind of liked it.  We went out to dinner at Qdobas.  They had a deal buy one entree get one free if you gave someone a kiss.  The day ended with some good wrestling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last time we were at Keri's we cut and sewed these hearts together.  Blake made the bottom one for his room.  Need to print more pictures to fill the frames!

 

 

Janie is 4!

Janie has been talking about her birthday all year.  She was so excited when she could say she was three and a half.  As February 5th came closer, she started praying to have a good birthday.   I think she had a pretty great day if I do say so myself. 

 

I wrote down things she said throughout the day:

 

When she woke up:  "I want to see how tall I can stand."

 

While getting dressed:  "And I still get to fit into my clothes!"

 

"This is my bester birthday because I'm four and I like four!"

 

"I wish I was a mom so I could blow balloons up."

 

During night family prayer: "Please help my next birthday to be fun. And help Blake's birthday to be fun."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I smile every time the kids play Just Dance on the Wii.  She gets into it.

 

 

 

 Janie chose Chili's for dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Janie is sweet and easy going.  She is very obedient and quick to listen--especially when getting ready to take Blake to school.  She hops right in the freezing car and waits for me to get everyone else in. 

 

We have some one-on-one time together while Ty naps every day.  We usually bake something or play a game like memory together.  If she finds too many matches in a row, she will purposefully miss and tell me that she is so that I can get that match.  (But then she pouts when I get too many in a row).  She is very kind and sharing.  Whenever she has a treat, she saves some for Blake, Ty, and Eric and willingly offers me some--even if she doesn't have much for herself.  She offers for me to lick her suckers.  She wants us to try something that tastes so delicious. 

 

The boys do bug her--especially Blake.  She is often screaming because of him.  But we are trying to teach her to come talk to us and we will help her instead of screaming her head off.  I say more than once every day to just ignore Blake (He really knows what to do and say to push her buttons).  Often in her prayers she prayers for Ty to stop screaming.  We are expecting a baby in July and I am hoping she gets a sister!  If not we will love another boy and then stick together.

Sunbeam

Janie has been dying to get into Primary.  With her birthday being in early February, she has been in nursery for awhile.  The second half of last year she did not like going to church.  She would whine in the morning asking not to go.  Last October she started asking how many more Sundays were left until she would be in primary.  Each Sunday on the way to church she would ask what her count down was.  One of her nursery leaders told me that she would excitedly announce how many more Sundays she had left until she was out of there.  And now that she is in primary she loves going to church each Sunday.

More Snow Days

Church was cancelled two weeks ago so I tried a new recipe of Baked Donuts.  They tasted like cinnamon rolls without the frosting but were good nonetheless. 

 

The next two days were also snow days.  My friend Lindsey invited us over and the kids had a picnic for lunch to help us remember warmer times.  There was even sun shining in through the windows.  The Parkers are our best friends here and we just found out they are moving in June.  We will miss them so much.

 

 

 

 

Poor Baby

Ty caught a bad stomach bug that lasted a full week.  It started last Saturday night when he started throwing up at midnight.  He threw up at least 10 times last Sunday and had the worst diarrhea.  He already has skinny little arms and legs so it made him look even thinner to me.  All week he continued to throw up, have diarrhea, and mid week he started to refuse food or drink.  He learned to say the word no to me as I offered him any food/treat that he wanted and he would say no to everything.  It was heartbreaking.  I had to distract him to get some food in him and that wasn't even successful. 

 

I gave Ty so many baths this week.  From the weather and all the cleaning my hands are so cracked and have been bleeding.  I did so many loads laundry.  One night I held him as he fell asleep.  He woke up and threw up all over my sweatshirt.  I washed it and later realized my fitbit was in the pocket and is now broken.

 

On Thursday he was so weak.  He took three naps and when he was awake would lay on me and whine and say "owie."  He wouldn't play in the basement or let me read him books--things he loves.  That night I bought a new flavor of pedialyte hoping that would help him drink it.  I woke him up to try to put some in his mouth with a syringe.  He took a few but was crying because he didn't like it.  And then he started throwing up a lot.  I lost it and started crying.  I was so worried about him and it felt like he was never going to get better.

 

My friend Stephanie came over to stay home while Blake and Janie slept, and Eric and I took Ty to the ER around 10p.m.  They said his vitals were ok so it was up to us if we wanted to give him an IV of fluids.  I hesitated because the doctors weren't telling me that it was necessary--but Eric told me we didn't come to the ER for a sip of apple juice--and he was right because our intention was to hydrate him.  So Ty got an IV and he did great.  He only cried for a few seconds and then just watched all the people around him.  Afterwards he perked right up and started drinking all his juice and water they offered him.  He started talking more which made me notice how much he hadn't been talking all week.  I was so glad. 

 

Saturday night he finally started acting like himself.  We formed a bad habit of watching a lot of shows this week.  Today he asked for E-I-E-I all day.  Blake and Janie were sweet to Ty and always covered him up with blankets to make him comfy for his shows.  I love how Janie is holding Ty's face and how she thinks that stripes on stripes automatically match.

 

This week helped me realize how much I love my little baby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't care about the mess because Ty was finally eating! 

It Won't Stop Snowing

 

 

 

 

These pictures were taken a few weeks ago.  It continues to snow.  This has been the most cold winter we've been here for.  Blake has already had five snow days from school.  Any more days of school that are cancelled have to be added to the last week of school in June.