I'm stuck at home today with strep throat! Oh, Monday. Why must you always be so bad? I could tell I had a sore throat coming on last night and sure enough, it was worse this morning when I woke up. I got ready for work and then ran by our Minor Medical office for what I was sure just the beginnings of a sinus infection (thank you crazy weather changes and high pollen count). I was very shocked when they told me it was strep! No work for me today.
I am trying to be productive anyway and at least get caught up on the blog, but I'm so sleepy from the shots and medicine that I keep drifting off to sleep! Here's hoping I can actually finish at least one post. :)
I thought one big round up of phone pics each month was a good idea but there are always so many to sort through at the end of the month. I am way too trigger happy when it comes to taking pictures! It's also hard to try to group them together in ways that make sense (other than just chronological), but I'll try. Here we go for March pictures!
Let's start with pictures of just my little dude since Big Sister usually steals his thunder. He has discovered the joy of emptying out cabinets and drawers, and he doesn't even care when he's been busted!
This is his version of an "orange peel" smile. He uses his paci instead!
I took these pictures because I was so proud of him for standing by himself for so long and then right after I took them, he took his first step! There were several witnesses too - Matt, his parents and I all saw it and clapped and cheered for him! He has done it several times since then, but no more than a step or two at a time.
On the first Sunday in March, we were the last to leave the sanctuary after church. This happens a lot because I like to visit too much. :) I had tried so hard to take Katie Wynn's picture that morning but she hadn't let me and then, as we were leaving, she ran down the aisle, sat down on the front steps and yelled "Cheese!" Of course I was way too far away for a good picture but oh well. Maybe one day she will walk down this same aisle to get married (and hopefully won't be running down it like she did this day!)
She is starting to catch on that when I tell her she has a new outfit that Mimi made to wear, I'm going to want to take her picture so we can send it to Mimi. She's almost come to expect it. :)
Here are more pictures from throughout the month of just Katie Wynn.
We still let the kids do quite a bit of jumping in their cribs before bedtime. Whatever it takes to wear them out!
Jumping in the crib always starts out fun for both of them but then at some point Thomas usually gets tackled for not jumping properly according to his sister and then he gets mad and wants out (plus he knows there's a bottle waiting on him) and then she gets mad that he gets out because she knows the end (aka bedtime) is near so we distract her by letting her read him a book while he drinks his bottle. There are nights when it is so sweet to watch them play together and other nights where it's just flat out exhausting!
Some nights Thomas gets too wound up during the jumping and book reading that he's difficult to rock to sleep. (Don't even get me started on the fact that yes, he has to be rocked to sleep. Every. Single. Night. I was way too spoiled with Katie Wynn who put herself to sleep every night.) On this particular night, at left, he squirmed and squirmed until he finally got out of my arms, opened the door himself, and just crawled away. I had a runaway baby while I just kept on rocking. Seriously, the dark and the sound machine nearly put me to sleep right away, why is it so hard for him??
Speaking of sleeping...remember how I said my birthday was not very good? It was like an infirmary in our house. In the morning, Thomas was the healthiest so we shipped him off to my parents' house. Matt and Katie Wynn slept the whole day away. I couldn't keep them awake for more than 20 minutes at a time!
Thomas developed a fever over the course of the day too so by that evening, Mom and I had the two babies at a minor medical place and my dad took Matt to the ER. It was a long night for us all; the guys didn't make it home until after 3am. Matt had what we guess was a migraine and they loaded him up with medicines that made him sleep for about 24 hours straight. In hindsight, we're blaming this weird solar storm that I read about for all the unexplained illnesses.
I can't even begin to tell you how happy I was to see these grins the next morning! (Or, 2.5 hours after I finally got to go to sleep!)
I did get a do-over dinner for my birthday that was very fun and yummy, so it was not really the worst birthday ever! And I got some cute photos of my kiddos before the birthday dinner and that's always a plus!
I love it when she tries to help me get him to smile. :)
I also love unexpected pictures like this where they have matching expressions and I realize how much they really do look alike despite their opposite coloring.
In keeping it real, sometimes this happens.
They let Uncle Nick take them for a wagon ride that night!
We have been so thankful to have some warmer weather this month (in between days of snow, so weird). We were able to cook out one night and blow bubbles. It was T-man's first experience with them and I think he loved 'em!
On warmer days, I've also been able to take the kids to the playground a couple times. It's right by Katie Wynn's daycare and is a great way to kill a little bit of time before dinner. It helps us survive the "witching hour!"
I thought she would like holding him going down the slide but that didn't go over well. He cried while she screamed "He's heavy! He's hurting me!"
The next time at the playground was a little more successful. I was able to put him down to sit and play some. (And he's wearing the same outfit, oops.) There was a curious little 5-ish year old girl there and we had this conversation: "What's his name?" "His name is Thomas!" "What's her name?" "She's Katie Wynn." "Oh, so he's Thomas Wynn?" I didn't even try to explain.
We got to do some swinging at a birthday party too which may have been another first for Thomas. I think they could both swing all day.
Can you believe baby Henry is already one?! Seems like I was just throwing this baby shower for him and helping plan his nursery. Doesn't he look precious in his Mint Tulip outfit and party hat? :)
Lala and Poppa (Matt's parents) came for a short weekend visit this month and I didn't take any pictures of them! The only ones I have are these from story time where we learned that Katie Wynn knows all the words to our new favorite Pete the Cat book after only having read it three nights. She pretty much read it aloud with Lala!
Speaking of story time, when the big kids are here, they always read to Katie Wynn. They either each pick a book to read or they tag-team one book, with one of them "narrating" and the other reading the voices. I think that's what they were doing this night when I snuck around the corner to take pictures.
The weekend Lala and Poppa were here, I tried to take Katie Wynn to her first Easter egg hunt of the year only to find when we arrived that it had been cancelled. (Because it was snowing...on the last weekend of March...after 70+ degree weather that week...oy.) We had a makeshift egg hunt in our living room instead.
Katie Wynn has taught her little brother how to splash in the bathtub. I'll be honest, it was cute and fun the first time. Now it's just a huge mess for me to clean up!
Poor Thomas is always the first to be taken out of the tub and it usually makes him mad. K-dub could sit in the tub and play all night if we let her...she doesn't even care if the water's all gone.
And that's all the phone pics for March. I made it through without falling asleep and still have maybe 3 minutes to spare before Matt and the kids walk in. :) I uploaded lots of other pictures today too so hopefully I'll get a few more posts done before I go out of town on Thursday. Fingers crossed. Oh, they're here now! Gotta run!