Cheering For My Children

I must say that the last two months have flown by – it’s like I blinked and it was February.

In December, Damon and I took Kylor to see Sesame Street Live – this was the second consecutive year we have taken him. He loved it so much that there was quite the meltdown when it was over as Kylor wanted to ‘see it again’! Hopefully we’ll have another opportunity in the future to take him to another show.

Quicker than we could have imagined the holidays were here…and then gone. As always, we had a wonderful time spent with family. We are so grateful for those in our lives – it makes time together that much sweeter. Although Christmas Day is a l-o-n-g day, traveling from house to house, we wouldn’t trade it for the world. The boys were certainly spoiled – but that’s okay. As Gramma use to put it, ‘if you are not spoiled, you are not loved’. Damon and Julie traveled to Fort Peck on December 26th for his cousin Katie’s wedding. It was my first time doing the ‘single-parent’ role, but sure enough, I survived.

Traditionally, I have a sleep-over with my niece Caprianna and nephew Carter on New Years Eve. 2009 wasn’t any different. After a nice dinner party at Aunt Susan’s house, we went home to crash for the evening. There was no ringing in the New Year on my part.

Our little (or should I say big) Kylor turned 3-years old in January! My ‘o’ my – where did my little baby go? We celebrated with an Elmo party! And a lot of red frosting! Kylor brings much love and entertainment to our lives. I can’t even count in a day how many times he says, ‘I love you so much’. On the flip side, when the little stinker gets angry, it’s pretty typical for us to hear things such as ‘you’re mean to me. I don’t love you anymore.’ Yes – the first few times I heard that, it was like a knife thru the heart, but that feeling was short-lived. These days, all it does is irritate me so I try and ignore him when he acts like that. Fortunately, within minutes of saying horrible things, he follows-up with ‘I love you so much’, in his sweet little voice. Ky loves to catch mommy and daddy saying ‘bad’ words. For example, the word ‘stupid’ is a bad word – if he hears something that we’ve not allowed him to say, he’ll tell us, ‘we don’t say that bad word – it’s not nice.’ He sure keeps us on our toes. Potting training is making a little progress. With constant nagging at home, he seems to be doing a little better. On an exciting note, Ky-man moved into a ‘big boy bed’ shortly after the first of the year. I was sure there would be some resistance, but thankfully, the transition went smoothly and he loves his new bed!

Kason continues to grow like a weed. He’s definitely a much bigger baby than Kylor ever was. I figured I’d be set for clothing as both Kylor and Kason were born in the winter months – about 1.5 months difference. But, recently, I went to pull out the next size clothes for Kason and found that Kylor was in summer clothes at that time! Towards the end of January, Kason developed a cold…which, unfortunately, turned into RSV – a repertory illness. What a scary ordeal for mom. After a couple weeks of nebulizer treatments, I’m happy to say he is healthy and recovered without a trip to the hospital.

After years of working on it, our basement is FINALLY finished and we are thoroughly enjoying living in it. For the time being, we’ve made one of the bedrooms into a ‘toy room’. There are times that we loose Kylor for hours in his toy room. He loves it. I’ve lost Damon to the family room – he glues himself to his extra-large TV. I find myself getting lonely upstairs. (Certainly never thought I’d feel that way).

Mid-February, I went back to work after a 12-week maternity leave. While it's bittersweet, I'm glad to be back. I've missed my job, co-workers and routine. Fortunately, Kason is a great little man like Ky is and he, too, loves going to Cheryl's.

Before I know it, I’ll be writing my February blog…until then…