Mother's Intuition

Mother's Intuition was spot on Wednesday morning when William woke up with watery red eyes. I thought he had Pink Eye, Adam thought I was being a big Mother Goose and shooed me off to work. When I picked him up at daycare I could tell it was worse and there was a sign up "two cases of pink eye in the room", so off to the urgent care clinic we went in the pouring rain.

Diagnosis confirmed, but of course the pharmacy in the same building was out of the eye drops so off we went in the rain to Walgreen's. William made a few friends dancing around Walgreen's while we waited for the Rx to be filled. A nice older lady was selling diabetes bars and was quite distracted from her selling as she was preoccupied making googly eyes at Will.

A big milestone was reached this weekend, William consented to having mittens put on and then kept them on for 5 minutes. Granted this was in the house, so not really when he needed them. Let's hope this translates to more cooperation on this front this winter. Last winter we just gave up and didn't even try after so many failed attempts and fits.

William scared Adam the other day when he started sorting his berries from his fruit salad into each berry type. Adam might have another type A personality on his hands :) I say the more the merrier!

We had a really nice visit down to see Laura, Andy, Donovan and Patrick down by Milwaukee yesterday. It was fun to see the boys play and William to learn new big boy games from Donovan (golf, train tables, etc). Thanks for the great food and conversation!

Funny things Will said this week and last:

"I no baby, I big boy"
"Green - Go, Red - Stop" (telling us how to drive already)
"It happened" (when I asked him how it happened that he was on the floor while we were wrestling)
"Bless You" followed by hilarious laughing (somehow sneezing and then saying bless you is super funny)
"No, porcupine" (after I tried telling him that our stick and straw figure on the piano was a hedgehog, I didn't even know he knew that word)

Pictures from this week.... (the hat remains a favorite)

Checking out car and watch web sites with Daddy on the IPad.

Something goofy happened to the file on this picture, but I thought it was still cute enough to post.

Amma and Appa S. brought us some nice presents from their trip out west and also a chair for William to watch Cars in. He was apprehensive at first by the sound of the beans and the fabric, but after they left he took to sitting in it. This was only after his moose stuffed animal decided to sit there first, guess Mr. Moose has a good feel for what is safe to sit on.

Choo-Choo

I thought the hat would be a struggle to get on and keep on like the overalls were, but William put it right on, at quite a cute angle too. He wanted nothing to do with the red handkerchief though and instead decided to pose with the fish bookend. He was a train conductor/engineer for Halloween. He did good tricker treating and enjoyed the candy!


What I got when I said "look up" as the shadow was blocking his face. I guess he took me literally.

Playing with the hat, glad it was a hit. Pretty cute too.

Demanding that Grandpa play "birds", aka Angry Birds, which both him and Adam are hooked on.
Happy Halloween!

Grandpa and Grandma Mc's Visit

We had a fun visit from Grandma and Grandpa Mc. We went to the park, to the Little Farmer, made tons of applesauce, and in general soaked up the attention. William learned that Grandpa is a goof ball and you have to watch him closely as he will put up the foot rest on the chair as soon as your back is turned. Even though you just gave him strict instructions to put it down. Grandma is good for reading books, building box towers and hiding farm animals.

Pictures from our trip to the apple orchard. Fun feeding the goats, picking apples and running around the hay and corn. We even saw llamas who had just gotten a hair cut. Will is such a repeater these days. So after I told him about the llamas and how they recently got their hair cut, he kept saying "llama hair cut" over and over again.






Thanks Mom and Dad for a great visit and for letting Adam and I get a little shopping in by ourselves.

Windy windy weather

We stayed in most of the weekend due to the blustery wind. Just made occasional trips outside to feed the birds, pick up sticks, go to the library, or check on the pumpkins out front. William had fun helping me make apple pies today, Will helped crank the apple peeler and yelled "done" each time an apple was done peeling. He also got into the flour and made a pretty good mess of his shirt.

Will is now 23 months old, where does the time go? He is talking in 2-3 word sentences, and likes to copy new words we say. He is still not much of a dancer (too much like his Dad I guess), as I can't get him to dance to Mickey's Hot Dog Dance no matter what I try. I hope the neighbors aren't watching me dancing to try to get my toddler to dance too.

William having fun with his play doh and concentrating very hard. Balls are his favorite shape, but we also make airplanes with a candy mold Chandra gave us, make snakes, as well as push the play doh into the letters on his chair Grandpa M made. He has the A and M down pat, but has trouble saying W even though he recognizes that his name starts with that letter.






On this little video, Will is making this funny sound, kind of like a DJ on a turn table. It cracks me up ever time he does it.



We are looking forward to a visit from Grandpa (Happy Birthday today!) and Grandma M this week and then Grandma and Grandpa S in two weeks. Should be lots of fall fun to be had!

Fun, Fun, Fun

We have been having a lot of fun with this beautiful weather. Trips to the park, to the apple orchard, etc. If only it would last until Christmas, snow for Christmas and January then be back to spring. I don't think it will happen that way, so we are making the most of the weather while it is here.

We were at the mall the other weekend and walked through the antiques shop in the mall. I found the exact style dresser I was looking for to put in our spare bedroom. My parents had given me one that was similar to this, and it is in Will's room and has been the perfect size for his changing table and clothes. This one is a little taller with more drawers, but has the same simple design I like. And it fit perfectly under the shelf that my wonderful Grandfather made me years ago.


We have made quite a few trips to the park lately and William has gotten more into the slides and less into the garbage (still a couple trips, but not the whole time we are there). Checking out the tennis courts and running far away from Momma. It was the farthest I think I have let him be from me while I am watching him.

Clowning around with Daddy.

William and I went on a nature walk yesterday afternoon. There is a nice pond and walk way right by his daycare. We saw caterpillars, grasshoppers, geese, ducks, birds and had fun collecting wild flowers, pine cones, pine needles, and milk weed pods. It was a bit like herding a cat on a path, but we made it 1/4 away around the pond and then back to the car. Will only got tired the last 50 feet or so to the car, so perfect for me.Big boy on the slide all by himself!

Only shot I could get of him sitting still by the Mommy, Daddy and William pumpkins. I am on the look out for a small white gourd for Murphy, but haven't found one yet.

Getting out the broom and dust pan to sweep the hickory nuts. Our back yard is crazy covered in them. You feel like you are walking on marbles.

Silly William and his William pumpkin.

This morning we went to the Little Farmer for 50 minutes (all Adam could handle as it was busy as soon as it opened). Will had a good time picking apples, playing the the hay and corn play area, and feeding the goats. We will have to come again soon with the grandparents, and maybe we will leave Dad at home :)

Much better Friday

I took a half day on Friday and we went to the Zoo. William had more fun running around than he did looking at the animals, but it was a good time. Weather was a little windy and chilly but we made the most of it.

Ya just gotta love these two guys! They are too cute together.

William started running away from us and giggling. He had a great time doing it and gave his parents some good exercise.


Have a great weekend!

Rewind or Fast Forward Please!

Today was not a good day. I hope you find the humor in this, and I hope I will too ... tomorrow.

It started out with a really bad night sleep. Adam was recovering his sleep pattern after getting a really bad migraine and taking a nap on Saturday, so he tossed and turned for hours before finally giving up when Murphy started vommiting in the bedroom at 3am. Murphy had gotten his hair cut yesterday, so I am not sure if that fired him up and made him sick. So Adam headed for the living room while I tried to get back to sleep after cleaning up the bathroom and carpet. I pulled some sholder muscles lifting William and re-agrivated them this weekend, so I couldn't sleep through the pain, even with Advil in my system.

So I finally fell asleep at 5:45am only to have my alarm go off at 6am. I needed to get William into daycare today since Adam had SWAT training in the morning, so I had to wake Will up, which he REALLY didn' t appreciate. So dressing, eating breakfast and getting ready for daycare was much more challenging than usual with the tantrums he was throwing. I finally coaxed him into submission by giving him an airplane magnet (you never know what will work). I got him dropped off okay and drove into work despite cars going 40mph in the rain on the highway.

Then on my way into work my umbrella broke, half the way in so I got wet and was late for my 7:30 am meeting with my boss and his boss among others. Made it through 3 presentations I had to give, and a bunch of meetings. I picked Will up and things were starting to look up. He ate a good dinner, we played with play doh, we read books and he took a bath. I got him dressed in his PJs only to go into the bathroom and catch Murphy throwing up piles (literally inches high) of his half digested dinner.

William came in so I was trying to get him out of the bathroom and I stepped in a giant pile of dog vomit. Easing out of my soaked sock and barf edged pants I proceeded to clean up the mess with TP and flush it down the toilet. So guess what happens then, the toilet clogs! Some how I managed to keep William out of the bathroom long enough to clean up the rest of the floor and get the toilet uncloged. Will thought that cleaning up the floor with TP and then flushing it in the toilet was fun, so he proceeded to further reduce our TP roll with about 4 flushes till I was able to call quits to that too.

What else can possibly happen, or shouldn't I ask. Maybe I should just go crawl into bed and hope for the next day to come soon!