All about Ty

My very last baby seems to be hitting a whole lot of milestones at the same time. Last week he got his first two teeth, followed by him learning how to stand up without support. He is working very hard at taking his first steps but isn't quite brave enough. He still needs to be holding on to something for a wee bit of balance.

In the past few days he has also figured out how to use utensils. We give him a fork or spoon and he dips it into the food and tries to get it to his mouth. For the most part he still uses his hands though. Today I gave him spaghetti for lunch. He will not let me feed him anymore at all so I put the bowl down and gave him a fork with it. It started out well.....



Then after ten minutes of feeding himself you can just imagine what I had to clean up! Well between the spaghetti and the banana it was everywhere! He even managed to get it down his diaper. Hooch had a great time when he finally was done since he got to clean the floor.
Tyler has always been my smallest child....born three weeks early he never really caught up to what the other two were height and weight wise at the same point. Both Xander and Dylan outgrew their infant car carriers by 6 months, Xander actually grew out of his at 5 months. Tyler is still using his! Last week I finally ordered him a new one figuring he was almost out of the infant one so it was time. It came today....he looks so small in it!

Here is a picture of my baby the first time he was ever in that seat, as well as one from today, and him in his new car seat.

All about nothing.....

I really don't have much to talk about today.....pretty boring day around here. I went grocery shopping and I swear groceries have skyrocketed in price in the past few months. Bill did the groceries two weeks ago and I accused him of not being very thrifty when I saw how much he spent but I spent almost the same amount this week. Of course I did buy a full turkey as well as some new undershirts for Ty but it was still way too much! I think we will be taking the 2 hour drive to Timmins from now on to do our shopping at No Frills. We seem to save at least 100 - 150 dollars when we shop there for most of our stuff. The only place we have here is an Independent and I swear they are price gouging!

So that brings me to my clothes shopping for Ty.....Joe Fresh makes the BEST baby clothes. they are better quality than Walmart and cheaper. I can usually find clearance stuff at our grocery store since its a small town and bought a lot of clothes for Christmas for him there. Today I found their Organic cotton long sleeved body suits on for 1.98 a piece! And did I mention they are really cute too?

I tried to take some pics of the kids today and while trying to get some new pictures of Tyler Xander decided he needed to pose for the camera. So this is how I eventually had all three boys in the picture but as usual trying to get all three of them to look at the camera at the same time proved to be impossible. And since I had the camera out Xander thought I should take a picture of him and his new Lego creation which he was building. He LOVES to build with Duplo and thanks to Aunt Megen he as a big bucket full now.

Ahhh yes the only other thing I was told I had to mention since I forgot to yesterday...although it didn't really fit in with my toilet story. Ty FINALLY has teeth! On Thursday and Friday he cut his two bottom teeth. At almost 11 months old I thought for sure he would not have any teeth for his first birthday but I guess they decided to show up.

I have a toilet again! (may be TMI)

I know its been a week since I posted but I have a very good excuse........my septic tank has full and backing up into my bath tub. Now you may ask why I couldn't post because of this? Well I have had no bathtub since last Saturday which also means I couldn't take a shower. Which means I didn't leave the house.....buy batteries for camera, and therefore have no new pictures to share since the camera was dead. Good reason? I thought so, if only it wasn't true.

So my septic tank was finally emptied today after a backhoe had to come in to dig up the frozen ground to get to it. At first we weren't sure if it could be emptied, something about it being so old and needing replaced that they thought it may collapse. That didn't happen thank goodness or I would be homeless and looking for someplace to live. So the tank was emptied and the back hoe piles the dirt and snow back on top again and leaves. I go into the bathroom to see if the very full bathtub and toilet will drain (Can you say GROSS!!!) and off course knowing my luck....it doesn't.



So off we go again to figure out what the problem is. Well the guys come over with an industrial snake and try to snake it. That doesn't work, they leave come back with a shop vac suck all the water out of the toilet (Xander thought it was very disgusting that they were sucking up the poop) take the toilet off and try to snake again. Meanwhile the boys are in the living room wanting to know why there is a snake in our toilet and if that's why its broken!

So eventually after attaching a big ass drill bit to the end of the snake and driving it down the very frozen pipe it finally cleared. VOILA......I have a toilet again,and can take a shower. I feel much better now. :)


So that's why I haven't written in days. Too much information right? :)

I have two VERY different kids!

Its been and exciting weekend here ( at least for the kids). On Sunday Xander got to go ice skating for the first time. Dylan was supposed to go as well but once we got to Nana's house he decided it would be much better to stay inside where it was warm than go outside in the cold ice. There is an outdoor rink right beside Bills parents house so all we had to do was cross the yard and we were there. The only problem being was the 5 feet of snow in the yard.... I was literally up to my waist trying to get across the yard!

So Xander gets to the rink and in typical Xander fashion ventures out onto the ice with no fear at all. Bill on the other hand who had also strapped on a pair of skates was a different story. This was the first time Bill had skated since he was about 10 and even back then he didn't do it well. I kept boots on figuring I would have to pick both of them up off the ice! So Bill takes off out on to the ice does a little circle and seems to be okay...till it comes time to stop. I then find out he never did learn how to do that and he uses the boards to stop!

Well after 15 minutes Bill had given up because the skates were hurting his feet but Xander stayed out skating for about 45 minutes. Which surprised me since it was so cold out. He did quite well but I think a lot had to do with the fact that it was -22 outside. The ice was so cold that the skate blades were not melting when they cut the ice, and the ice was not slippery at all. Xander had a blast though and wants to go out again tomorrow!

Dylan is my inside kid...he hates the cold and if you ask him to go outside in it he will tell you "its feezen out here!" Today Dylan was a little bored since Xander had to go back to school so I asked him if he wanted to make brownies. Dylan loves to bake ( I think it has more to do with eating the stuff after!) so this was a good activity for him. I pretty much let him do it all himself since all he has to do is dump stuff in and give the bowl of the mixer a spin. He made the whole thing him self with very minimal help from me and was so proud of himself! He had to tell Xander all about it when he got home from school. The brownies actually turned out very good!

What boys can do with a box....

Well after months of debating Bill and I went and bought a new 42" plasma television today.We have been using a hand me down ancient 27" from my mother for a while now. We have a VERY small living room and one 27" TV and stand take up a lot of room so we opted for a flat screen plasma. So off we headed to Walmart today after a lot of research into what we were going to get. We get to the entertainment section and Bill takes one look at the 50" and thinks that we should get it instead! Well NO WAY!! We have a very small room and that wold just look silly in it. So after debating in the store for half an hour we decided on a 42" Samsung plasma. Well then of course we had to get it home ( we had taken a seat out of the van already). So off we go home after shopping around some more to find a good deal on a mounting wall hanger thingy. Now the fun begins.....

We have a very large and heavy aquarium stand in our living room that we needed to move into the playroom so we would have space to hang this TV. Wouldn't you know it but our siphon hose does not reach into the playroom! So after emptying the tank ( the bottom tank has been empty since it sprung a leak last month) and moving the whole stand into the playroom we then had to fill the 75 gallon tank with a bucket. This is after clearing the stand off re-arranging the toy room and literally turning both the living room and playroom UPSIDE DOWN!








So we filled the tank got the wall bracket on the wall and hung the TV........it was too high! So we take it off again and bill has to re-drill the wall mount in. And 20 minutes later.......we have a TV on the wall. We go to plug it in and now the cables are hanging everywhere, the living room and toy room are trashed, and Bill and the kids want to watch TV. Well Bill had to set up the DVD, VCR, satellite and all that fun stuff and that's when the boys found the box! Who knew a big old box could be hours worth of fun. All three of them were climbing in and out of the box having a blast. It is now almost 8 pm...the house is still trashed and Bill just wants to sit and watch his new television. So guess what I get to go do???? And I get to clean around the gigantic box!!!!



The wall hanger....the first time. Now there are a few extra holes.
Bill trying to hook it up, and it finally on the wall. I will show the finished product tomorrow after I clean up this mess!

Learning to walk

The other day I decided to pull out the ride on toy for Ty just to see if he was ready for it. Well he can't reach the ground with his feet when he sits on it so I think it might be while before he will be using it for that! The one we have has a handle on the back of the seat for pushing and he has discovered that he can walk behind it. Well once he learned he couldn't be stopped, he is going all over with it. It won't be long before he is going on his own. He barely holds on to it and gets himself going really well. Today he got himself stuck in a corner and couldn' t figure out how to get out. He sat there trying to lift it up and move it. It took about five minutes of being stuck before he gave up and came crawling back to me to try to get me to fix it for him!



I ventured out in the nice white snow today while Xander was at school to go to the grocery store and while we were there Dylan saw a little girl in a cart. He informed me that she was his sister! I tried to explain to him that he didn' t have a sister but he wouldn't hear of it. Then on the way home he was telling me that Makala and Charlie (both little girls that are Xanders age who we see occasionaly) were his sister as well. I once again tried to tell him that he didn't have a sister......finally he got the point. Then about 2 minutes later in the van he said to me " Mommy, Kala is my girlfriend not my sister" Well who knew he would be interested in girls at the age of 3 and a half! I think I will have to keep my eye on this one.

The things that thrill a 10 month old

Tyler has discovered a new fascination and it is all I can do to keep him in the same room as me. As soon as I turn around he is gone and heading towards the laundry room. He has decided he likes to watch the washing machine. We have a front loader and it has a very nice little window that is just the right height for him. He will sit there and stare into that little window for the entire 40 minutes its on if I would let him.
He takes a break every once in awhile to go munch on some dog food ( in the same room) or play in the dog water. Then he scoots over to the bathroom where his tub toys are easily accessible ( this keeps him out of the toilet, at least for now). Then when he hears a new noise come from the washer he crawls as quick as he can back to the window to see what is new and exciting. He LOVES to watch the bubbles during the wash cycle and tries to touch them! Then when it starts to spin he he tries to peak in the window with his little nose pressed up against the glass.
Who needs toys, I can just do laundry all day to keep him occupied! So now you all know for his first birthday in 2 months, buy him a washing machine!