Saturday, November 26, 2005

First Thanksgiving with Ty


Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
I hope that you all are well and enjoying lots of wonderful family time. It was a really good thankgiving with Ty, but Grandma B was too sick to come over, so that was a downer. But we had Becky over so that was a pleasant surprise. Ty was such a good boy sitting on Grandpa Lake's lap most of dinner...chewing on about 8 of his 10 fingers!!

Mommy cooked her first turkey and it was awesome! Really good, but that's expected because mommy can really cook well. Grandma Lake watched Ty as after dinner fun started with pool and poker in the basement. Uncle Jeremy and G'pa Lake were on teams and Mommy and Daddy were a team and the home field advantage proved fatal as they won 2 out of 3 games. But G'pa Lake won the poker tournament taking out mommy and daddy with a King/3 offsuit. Oh well...can't win them all!!

Uncle Gary came by too for Thanksgiving. He was funny because when he lifted Ty up Ty's eyes got real wide because Uncle Gary is so tall. Poor Uncle Gary had to wear sweats because his room mate washed his jeans in warm water....that's funny because there aren't too many clothes for an Uncle who's 6' 9"!!!

Ty is finally getting over his first cold. It's been over 4 weeks, but we have him on Amoxicillin. At first he was not going to take it and spit it out all over himself. That was not too fun, but now we are tricking him by putting it in his milk and he downs it like it's candy!! He is getting it out of his chest and can't wait till he can sleep back in his crib. He's had to sleep in his swing because with the drainage he chokes a lot.

Daddy is a big softy now because since Ty has come into his life, everytime he sees a baby born, he cries. Can't watch an Oprah episode that has a story about a baby without getting emotional. At night when it's Daddy's time to take care of him, when he wakes up he finds himself talking to him and making him smile, which just wakes him up more and makes it harder for him to get back to sleep. Which is way more important. But he is sleeping better and longer. One of these days he'll make it all the way through the night.

He did turn four months this past Tuesday. He's 18 1/2 pounds and 27 inches long. All smiles and loves EVERYBODY. Besides Mommy, he's the best thing that's ever happened to me. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and we'll talk to you soon.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Mommy's Birthday today!!!!


Hey guys,
Hope you are having a great week. It's Thursday, November 17th, 2005 and mommy turned 28 today!! But we really celebrated on Wednesday when we spent the day in Indy shopping at Keystone and Castleton Malls. Also, we visited Kittles and The Tile Shop before dinner at the Mongolian Grill. Ty slept most of the day, but when he was awake he was such a good little boy. We met Carter at Keystone who's parents had to MAYBE be 19. He was cute though and Ty was almost as big!!

This week has been pretty mild. Ty still has a little bit of his cold, but it's almost gone and we have our 4 month doctor visit coming up on Monday. A little bit of TMI...but we ran out of the 308 bags of frozen milk yesterday!! It's now all formula from here on out. Can we talk poop? Damn...scrape the bottom of Lake Freeman and all that silt....oh yeah...it's in his diaper man. Wow...

But not too much really new. He's really grabbing well and we have discovered a few tickle spots on him now. Armpits, under the chin and the old standard....belly. He loves to be held upside down for some reason. He must not have acid reflux yet. Chewing on his "Moo Chew" is a favorite. A bit over 18 pounds and not much hair. Nichole babysat for him on Tuesday while mommy was teaching dance and daddy was carrying his bowling team to victory over the number 1 team in our league. Oh yeah baby.

Stay tuned for future updates and have a great weekend...go boilers and make up for an awful season...stomp the hoosiers this Saturday.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

First cold last week


Hey gang
This is going to be short because I just screwed up and erased the post I have been doing for about an hour. Oh well. Anyway...the short of it is Ty got his first cold last Wednesday and in a panic attack when I thought he couldn't breathe we rushed him to the emergency room at 2 AM. It was a long night, but he passed all the tests and just the peace of mind was great. He's doing a lot better and still has some battles with the sniffles, but I hope by the weekend he'll be 100%.

He did help mom and dad out with some tree removal over the weekend. Grandma Lake supervised and Grandpa Lake, Uncle Jeremey, Mom and Dad all tried to tear up the front yard. It looks so much better now though.

Grandma B came over Monday night and helped out with the bath and actually put Ty down for bed, giving him his bottle and rocking him into dreamland. We are blessed with wonderful grandparents and great grandparents.

Ty's 3 month pictures came in and despite his enormous cuteness, we were able to resist buying another $800 worth of pictures...thank you mommy for being the voice of reason!! We love you!! Target photo lab...here we come.

Ok...hopefully I don't screw this up and you are able to read this. Have a great week and we'll let you know what's new in Ty's life soon.