Goodbye 2010

As I sit here just hours away from the begining of a new year I can only wonder what is in store for the Wothers Family.

The boys have grown so much lately. Sometimes I just want to cuddle them and hold them forever. They are doing wonderful in school. They are even letting their teachers separate them for small parts of their day. Anyone who knows them knows that this is a BIG step for Joshua and Jared. Christmas was amazing. Watching them open presents and get so excited each and every time we saw Santa (another big step for them) was one of the best feelings out there.

Happy New Year from the Wothers Family

School

Summer has come to an end and School has started. Today marks the first day of fall and I can say if you look outside our window it sure does look like fall at our house. The leaves are EVERYWHERE. We can now play outside again without sweating and we love it.
The boys went back to school this week. They seemed to warm up nicely to their new teachers, classroom and even some new friends. They are going 2 days a week this year. I now have 6 hours kid free every week. What did I do with myself this past week, I tagged and tagged and tagged some more. My MOM's clothing sale is coming up soon and I swear that I will be done tagging and things will be separated in time for pre-sales the week of.

August

August is Birthday month for me. This year was a special year as I entered into my 30's. Dave planned a party with the help of his family and mine. I knew about a party but that was all. The details were a surprise. The boys had Sports Camp on Friday (my birthday) so Dave and I took them. While there I received texted messages from my sister Shelby telling me where she and my other sister Courtney were along their journey from NY to PA to help me celebrate my birthday. After camp we came home only to see that my Dad's truck was in my driveway not my sisters car. Dave said surprise, my dad was suppose to be a a training for the State but everyone LIED to me. It was a good lie and I loved having my Dad here for my special day and also for my party. We had a party on Saturday with my family and some of my closest friends. Thank you all for coming out to help me celebrate entering my 30's.

Joshua and Jared could not wait to help Mommy blow out the candles on her cake. Of course Grammy could not just buy a 3 and a 0. No she put 30 candles on my cake. Thanks Mom.





4 days and counting until we return to NY, this time for a wedding and a 1st Birthday party.

July

The Wothers family has not gone anywhere for vacation but we sure have been busy. Aunt Shelby graduated the end of June so we went to spend her special day with her. Then we went back up to be with her for her party. The boys are pretty good on long car rides as long as we have their favorite movies on hand.

1st Trip to the Beach

Dave finally had a day off. We decided to take a day trip to the beach. Now let me set the stage for you. The boys got a sandbox for their birthday. They were so excited, they got toys and buckets, sifters and shovels. Everything needed to play in a sandbox. This is how they play in their sandbox everyday, on the outside while sitting on a blanket.

I knew that the boys would probably sit on a blanket in order to play in the sand and that was ok with me. What I did not expect was the pure hatered for sand. They would walk from the blanket to the water with no problems but sitting in their chairs with sand on their feet was totally not ok with them. Jared spent most of the day sitting in his chair or on the blanket with his feet in the air. He was happy but did not like the sand.

Joshua was a little more daring. He did play in the sand (while sitting on a blanket) and was not so concerned about the sand being on his feet.All in all I think we had an ok day. Not the best but it sure could have gone worse.

They were much happier on the way home.

We will try it again.

Spring

Spring has hit and we are ready (kind of). Depending on the day the boys either love being outside and cry when it is time to go in or they hate it and cry when we try to take them out.

School is done so we will be looking for things to keep us busy. One of the boys favorite parts of school was going to the library and being able to pick out books to bring home and read. We are going to try and make a weekly visit to our local library so that they can continue to get books. The boys are also becoming very interested in their friends, they ask who is coming to play and when we will see certain friends again. Bring on the playdates.

We are officially big boys. Big boys bed-check and they love them. Big boy underwear-check and we are doing really well. An accident here and there but not to bad. Mommy and Daddy are so happy to not have to change diapers anymore. Although we now face different obstacles, making sure whereever we go we are near a potty, potty breaks in the middle of dinner, we having to go potty before we leave the house so we are now back to taking forever to get out of the house. I will take any of these situations instead of diapers though.

Bella and Thunder have turned 5. It is hard to believe that we have had them for 5 years. That means that Dave and I have been married for almost 5 years since we got B & T the week we came home from our honeymoon. WOW how time flies.

Happy Memorial Day.

Birthday Month

Birthday month started out with a great big thumbs down but ended with thumbs up. The beginning of the month started out with Joshua being sick. He had strep throat that we could just not get ahold of. 2 different rounds of antibiotics and what the Dr's think was a touch of Scarlet Fever. WOW, Mommy and Daddy were sure happy when that sickness went away.

The boys were a little spoiled this year when it came to celebrations for their Birthday. In total they had 5 events that revolved around them. A first for them was a their special day at school complete with cupcake cones. A friends/cousins party at Kehlers, a family party complete with a Mickey Mouse cake. Their actual birthday which landed them at the Circus and then an ice cream cake at church. We have ourselves some pretty special little boys.

Jared's favorite part of the Circus

Joshua's favorite part of the Circus

Our Birthday cake for our family party

All this and a visit from Aunt Shelby, Grandpa and Karen. Aunt Shelby stayed all week with us and did all kinds of fun stuff. We went to the Please Touch Museum, we went sledding and we played played played. When Grandpa and Karen got here we went to Pat's (the boys had their first taste of a REAL Cheesesteak).

All and all it was a busy but fun month. The boys have so many new toys to play with in and outside. We have a new Pirate Water Table, a sandbox, a 4 wheeler and more Sesame Street Knex sets to build. We are keeping ourselves very busy. We can't wait until we can take all our new toys into our backyard and set them up to play, for now we are playing with them in the house without the main ingredients (water and sand).

Thank you to everyone who was able to share in some part of our birthday celebrations and for those of you who could not we sure did miss you.

January

Happy New Year, just a little late. I am really going to try and update this blog on a more steady basis. Maybe the end of each month.
January started out well. The aftermath of Christmas and New Years was present until just a few days ago. We have just now started to put some of the new toys downstairs so we can begin to switch them out once a week or so.


Mid-January we took a turn for the bad in health. Joshua woke up one monring with a rash that the Drs told us that could have been due to something he ate. Ok we took that and dealt with it, that is until the next morning when he woke up with a fever. Off to the Drs we went only to find out Joshua had Strep Throat. He was put on antibiotics. 4 days later we ended up in the ER because we could not get Joshua's temp to drop and he now had a bump on his chest. We went to see the Dr the next morning, she told us the rash had turned to Scarlet Fever because even though he was on meds they were not doing their job and he body felt as though it was going untreated. We got a new antibiotic and it worked wonders. The bump went away and slowly but surely the rash is going away too.


January ended with the boys sleeping in their cribs with crib tents for the last time. It is time for big boy beds. We included them in the whole switching process, right up to helping Daddy bolt their dresser to the wall. They were very excited. I am writing this coming up on the completion of Day 1 and so far so good. The boys both slept in their own beds all night long. They even napped for 2 hours (a normal nap for them). It only took them 1/2 of talking before they fell asleep. One of the biggest thing for them is that they can touch again. Their cribs are side by side on one wall and they can reach through the slats and hold hands again. They did this before crib tents. So precious to go in and check on them and see them holding hands fast asleep.

Holidays

The Wothers Family was busy for the Holidays but we had so much fun.

Dave had to work night work for Thanksgiving but he was able to come and join us for a quick bite to eat before he left for the night.

Christmas was so much more fun this year than it has been in the past, the boys seemed to understand what was going on. We had a nice calm morning of opening presents, eating breakfast and then opening more presents and more presents. Dinner was at our house this year for Dave's side of the family. We had a great night with family. Saturday wasanother family day but with my mom's side of the family. Another great day and more presents.















Santa butts and the best present of all. Santa brought Mickey Mouse Choo Choo.