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Ohmigosh! A big show with Big Jet!!

Okay, I didn’t take any pictures of the jets and planes with the iphone. Here are a few of the kids at the show. Greg has more and better pictures. He took over 3000 pictures of the air show along with a few of the kids. It will be a while before they are sorted through and on our photo website.

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I guess William heard me bragging on him about getting out of chair because on Wednesday, he wouldn’t do it! After providing encouragement, “C’mon, You can do it!”, he told me he needed help. “Help! Stuck Momma!” Now why does that have a familiar ring to it???

He still continues to improve despite the hesitancy on Wednesday.

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We’ve been having some connectivity problems with our Comcast connection. So here is a quick catch up with some iphone photos from the last couple of days.

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The day started out slowly and sped up. We enjoyed a nice breakfast at Shoneys once everyone was up and going. Then off to the zoo, theater, and wild evening of egg dying!

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We got William out of the house for the first time and he was thrilled. We went and ate at the Texas Roadhouse. William was pointing at everything and chatting in the van. He sat in his stroller instead of an high chair and was quite happy. They played ‘Jimmy Crack Corn’ and several of the servers danced in the aisle. Greg took MaryVic to watch although she was too shy to join in.

We went to Costco afterwards and grabbed a few things. Greg and I took turns carrying William some to shift his position around. He fell asleep in the stroller. Woke up when we put him the car and that was all the nap he took. Tried to get him and MaryVic to take a quiet time twice later in the day but no dice.

We took a nice walk down to the pond and fed the geese. William rode in the wagon again and enjoyed it. Greg posted pictures at our photo web site.

Greg had pointed out during lunch that the doctor said not to give William too much motrin since some studies had shown it inhibits bone growth. Mary Alice gave him some motrin around 10:30 and he didn’t get any more pain killers until bed time. He got really fussy later in the day.

I gave him the prescription pain killer at sponge bath time. He spat part of it out. I don’t know if it was lack of nap or that we missed a dose of pain killer but he screamed and fussed at bedtime. He kept yelling ‘stuck!’. I felt so bad for him. We wound up with him on his tummy on my chest when he finally went to sleep. Greg had to come and put me up on the bed. He tried to take W to the crib but he woke up screaming again. Greg got him arranged mostly next to me and so we slept. I think part of the reason he was waking was he was trying to turn over in his sleep and unable to

If I don’t get a word in now, I will never recover.

Despite everything Jeff has said, I still affirm that they are sitting around all day eating Bon Bons. Now, since I’m at work, I don’t have any proof, but I do know that there are NO Bon Bon’s in the house now.

I was able to get William into his car seat without having to get out a hacksaw. Britax has JUST enough strapping on the seat to make it work, but it wasn’t going to until the car seat was out of the car. The attachment plate on the back stays inside a plastic cover normally, but there is enough play in it and the tightening strap that I could make it work at it’s furtherest limits.

Of course, I had already figured out how to do this using my rappelling webbing, had already cut it and was trying to figure how much to attach to each side. We put William in the seat, and started to work the straps back through. He was extremely helpful to this process. Let me wiggle around, let me buckle this, unbuckle that. He was having a good time. In the end, I was able to get him strapped on down.

Today will be the real test, however, as that was with the seat out and able to be moved around. I think I’ve got it set now as long as no one pulls the adjustment strap when he’s not in the seat.

Setting up the house lighting has been both fun and frustrating. Each switch talks to the main controller via RF, but they are supposed to route through each other to form a mesh network. That actually works pretty well, but for some reason, a few of the switches don’t always respond back well. It gets them, but it takes a couple of tries.

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We are up and doing fine. Since the debacle of Wednesday night, William has gotten motrin during the day and the pain medicine at night. He has been able to sleep much better.

Poppa came up last night and both kids were thrilled to see him. William promptly let him know that he was ‘stuck’. He brought William two new toys and a little gift for Mary from friends in Arab. MaryVic ‘helped’ William open them. He is getting a bit possessive though and if he could hear her playing with the new baby boom box toy, he’d start fussing.

All is well, I was over my bug on Saturday. MaryVic is a little needy due to all the attention William has to have right now. Greg has been working on the light switches at the house and they are ‘automated’ to a degree. We can change them on and off from the computer. I have to say that the motion detector in the garage is pretty cool. It automatically turns the lights on when you walk in there.

What’s really funny about the new switches is that if the lights do go off, the first word out of the kids’ mouths is ‘Daddeee!” If he is around, William will start going ‘dark, dark, dark…’ until they are turned back on.

MaryVic has dance class then we’ll try taking William out to lunch and Costco for his first outing. We wanted to try going out to the library yesterday but it rained all day.

We’re trying to decide about MaryVic going to daycare while I’m home with William. I would just hate for her to come home with a bug and us get sick since flu season is still going on. We may try a day or two a week though and take a friends suggestion to take her straight to bath when she gets home.

FYI, there have never been any bon-bons in the house.

*yawn* Is that William crying? What time is it? Five a.m. William is really fussing this time so I scooped him up went on downstairs, changed him, set the timer for 2 hours, and held him until he fell asleep again. I dozed off too and woke when the alarm went off. Made another pillow station, changed him, started a cup of coffee, and set the timer again. We played for a while. He seemed okay so I didn’t give him any more pain medicine. Still didn’t want anything to eat but was thirsty.

MaryVic got up and played with her webkinz and on the computer. I found a website, http://www.hip-baby.org/entertainment.html, which gave me the idea for setting William up in a chair. He had a fit to be in it as soon as he saw it. The kids had some cereal and played some more. Mary is generally good around William but still give us small heart attacks playing around William. She has to be reminded that William is hurt and to be careful which I’m sure is going to be repeated many times over the next 6 weeks. She also is helpful and sweet at times which makes us so proud of her.

My mother comes to visit and check on the babies. They are thrilled to see her. We talk and play. Mom helps keep William entertained during tummy time which he doesn’t so much like as need. Maybe when he has built up the upper body strength to do more. Mom doesn’t try to lift him and seems amazed at the new level of care. Just when you have diaper changing down to an art, it goes to a multi step process, remove pad, diaper, wipe, new pad, diaper and fasten the pullup over it all.

William is very talkative and playful today. MaryVic demands her share of attention with Nana and is bouncing all over the place. While Nana is here, Greg runs out to try to find a bean bag and get a few things.

Greg returns with the hit of the day, Otters chicken tenders. I pull one apart and put on a plate for William. He sees it and grabs the plate. Starts chomping down on it. Nana runs and tears up another one for him. We are thrilled to finally see him eating. Mary tries to get away with eating only french fries and ketchup but everyone is wise to her and she has to eat some chicken too.

Our friends who kept Mary while we were at Vanderbilt stop by to check on us and have some new toys for William. They are wonderfully kind and the children are thrilled with the Little Einsteins toys. Mary tells them thank you and blows kisses to them. They both love the sliding toys to make music and Mary absconds with the character toys but William gets to keep Leo.

After lunch, Greg gets a call from his boss and Nana leaves. Mary and I wave bye to her and head inside. Just before Nana left we found a spot where our little black ant friends have intruded inside again so I have to clean that up. Greg finishes his call and relocates the kids upstairs so I clean, spray, and growl in private. We’ve had the house sprayed, sprayed it ourselves and these little home invaders keep coming.

The kids do enjoy the change of scenery though and play well upstairs. William falls asleep and I run out to Kroger. I wake him changing him when I return and it’s time for tummy time again. I have difficulty getting him situated and he fusses in pain. Greg comes and we are able to get him comfortable on a body pillow where he can see the tv and play. Mary runs downstairs with me to pick out some toys for William to play with while on his tummy.
Cheese sticks for dinner although William doesn’t seem hungry again. MaryVic tears around the room in circles. Obviously she is going to need some more activity on Monday. Finally we have to tell her to stop and she just skirts a time out for not minding. She does have one tantrum that night and cries for me. Unfortunately William is sitting in my lap eating so I can’t go get her and she left the room on her own accord. Greg goes and tells her to come back when she calms down, no one is mad at her, she is the one who left and is the one who can come back. She comes back, snuggles in at my side. All is well again.

I run baths for the kids. Start multiple trips up and downstairs trying to remember what all I need for bedtime. Greg puts William on the bed and I start his sponge bath. After I manage to get his shirt off which he was convinced was the best shirt ever and pouted about the removal, we had fun and he enjoyed the damp washcloth hat, practically washing his own hair. Once he was cleaned up and situated, I went and played with Mary who had gotten into her bath all on her own. Got her cleaned and out.

Baby snuggles, Mary to Greg and I’m snuggling William as best one can. Mary falls asleep first. William parties for a while. Greg gives him dose of pain medicine. Aunt Janie calls and while I’m talking with her, William is taking his hand “Up!” putting it on my shoulder, and “Wheee!” sliding it down over my chest. Momma playground. He tells me a story, not that I understand but it’s obvious something is being explained. We sing itsy bitsy spider and watch how it’s made, boat, clock, with lots of “wow!”s. Finally he is asleep.

We get him changed and into the crib. This night doesn’t go as smoothly as Saturday night. He wakes several times, crying. Greg gets up with him the first time and then I sit with him until he falls back asleep. One of the times I’m soothing William down I hear Mary’s footsteps and go back to bed to find her snuggled in next to Greg. Finally William really wakes up and is crying, “Up!”. I’m surprised that he is waking so much with the pain medicine. I don’t know what’s wrong and quickly toss things around on the guest bed. I pick him up and he lays his head on my shoulder and quiets. I get him on the guest bed and lay down with him. He snuggle in and falls asleep again. Finally I adjust and go back to sleep myself.