Baby T

That's what Blake calls Tyler now and it's catching on with Chris and me.
Here is Ty's cute picture from last week. 7 months almost 8...time flies.

Picture Perfect

This morning we had a perfect moment that I wish I could freeze in time. Tyler woke me up promptly at 7 am. I slept good which has been a trend this weekend. Surprising since I've been sick. Anyway, I fed Ty and went downstairs to the darkness; flipped on the Christmas lights and enjoyed some time with Ty. I knew Blake would be waking up soon, so I decided to make waffles for breakfast. As I predicted Blake woke right up. We made waffles together while Jim Brickman Christmas music was playing in the background. We woke Daddy up to eat with us, and we all sat, ate, and enjoyed each other. I love moments like this and hope to have more of them.
Now its back to reality; loads of laundry and lots of cleaning to do.
Like I said, I was sick this weekend....so the house was too.

Burn II

Today Blake had his check up on his hand. Just so everyone knows the deal is off with Chris. Blake's blister popped the next day while Chris was at work, so I HAD to clean and bandage it up. It was horrible. And it's still horrible. I can't believe how bad it looks. And now it bleeds when we change the bandages. ugh.
Well, today we learned at his appointment that the burn was worse than they thought. It goes pretty deep into his hand, and it's right in the webbing by his thumb so it makes it a little worse. We spent most of our time today talking to the physical therapist. She said it was really important for us to stretch his wound at least 5 times a day for at least 5 minutes. She is also having us put a soft splint on when he sleeps to stretch it. Plus we need to change and clean his dressings twice a day. That is going to be quite a task for me, but it's important so I have to get some thick skin to deal with it.
We were also informed that this isn't going to be a quick healing thing....which I was hoping for. It will take a lot of time for this wound heal. They aren't sure if he'll need a skin graft, but we will hopefully know by next week. I don't think he will, but I thought it would be healed by next week too. I obviously don't know much.
So, I guess we'll be making more trips to the U burn center than I thought. I am very grateful that it is not infected and that it is healing as well as it should be. However, I still feel like a horrible Mom for letting this happen. Sometimes I just wish I could rewind and do things different!

Neighbor Gifts

Instead of giving neighbor gifts this year, a couple families organized a food drive in our neighborhood. I was SO glad that someone took the initiative in doing that this year. Neighbor gifts always seem like a hassle to me. Don't get me wrong, I love my neighbors and I am very grateful to have good people around me, but I feel like all we do is exchange some kind of homemade goodie, which usually ends up in the garbage. Anyone with me on that one?
Anyway, there is such need for food donations, that I was glad to put my money somewhere that would do some good. So, our Christmas activity for the day was gathering food to donate. The kids weren't really involved, but hopefully we planted some kind of seed that we were doing good.

3rd day of Christmas

We are doing the 25 days of Christmas at our house, not just 12. So on this 3rd day of Christmas the boys got to go to Grandpa's to see the train. Blake loves choo-choo's, so it was a real treat for him to play with Grandpa and the train.

We also went to the mall today. We saw Santa and waved, and then it was off to get pictures taken. I really wanted to get a picture of the boys together. I have yet to get one of them. I also wanted a picture of Ty since it's been a while since we got one of him. We were successful of getting one of Ty, and it is oh so cute! Can't wait to show it off. Hopefully that will be soon. Our lady at the photo shop was.....well, challenged. So I'll go back another day to edit and print the pictures.

Movie night

So tonight I thought it would be fun to have a Christmas movie night with Blake and Ty. Chris was off doing Elder's Quorum things, so it was just me and the boys. I wanted to put in Shrek the Halls to watch, seeing how Tyler inspired me at dinner....

I swear, he is the messiest eater!

...But we ended up watching Donald Duck's Christmas, which we've watched fifty times already, but Blake seems to always have the last word when it comes to TV. Ty had gone to bed early, but then woke up crying. I decided to turn off the movie and we got in the car and drove. It was another night of looking at Christmas lights. I'm so glad Blake likes looking at the lights, because driving Ty to sleep keeps me sane! Maybe we'll get to watch Shrek the Halls another night.

Christmas Lights

We kicked off our Christmas count down by going to Thanksgiving Point's Holiday Lights. It was fun to watch Blake's excitement with each set of lights. Tyler was excellent too. I thought he was asleep the whole time, but afterwards I saw his perky little face as he was trying to sit up and see everything too. If I would have known he was awake, I would have pulled him in the front seat with all of us.

Santa and his reindeer were there too, but we decided to see him another night. Can't wait!